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What did I see stuck to a fly's butt?
2009-09-06, 9:30 PM #1
The other day, I swatted a house fly with an electric fly swatter, and I noticed what looked like a droplet of water next to the fly, where it landed. Upon lifting the fly onto the swatter to dispose of it, the "droplet" stayed there, stuck to the tip of its abdomen--apparently it was not liquid. My first thought was that it might be some kind of egg-related object, but that isn't what a housefly egg looks like. My google-fu has failed to bring me an answer.

Does anyone know what that thing was?
I'm just a little boy.
2009-09-06, 9:34 PM #2
without a photo i couldn't begin to try to figure it out
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2009-09-06, 9:43 PM #3
Unfortunately I didn't take a picture, but it's pretty easy to visualise: It looked like a drop of water, a bit smaller than a peppercorn, right on the tip of the abdomen.
It was completely clear and shiny, and had nothing inside it.
I'm just a little boy.
2009-09-06, 9:54 PM #4
Probably just some part of its intestins or whatever, the zapper thing really does make them go boom.
Nothing to see here, move along.
2009-09-06, 10:08 PM #5
Yeah, I was thinking "guts" too. Bleh. And what in the world is an "electric flyswatter"?
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2009-09-06, 10:14 PM #6
It is a lovely device resembling a tennis racquet. When a button is held down, the mesh is electrically charged, and anything that touches it gets zapped. It usually knocks flies out cold, but sometimes they hit the floor and just start spinning around really fast.
I'm just a little boy.
2009-09-06, 10:19 PM #7
i used to have one but it broke loved zapping flies right out of the air with it
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2009-09-07, 1:33 AM #8
That's ****ing awesome.
2009-09-07, 1:40 AM #9
the **** is this
2009-09-07, 1:49 AM #10
Be honest. You thought it was delicious.
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2009-09-07, 2:22 PM #11
Well, obviously
That's why I want to know what it was!
I'm just a little boy.
2009-09-07, 3:42 PM #12
Wow I'm behind on the times. I didn't realize there was such a thing as an electronic fly swatter.
2009-09-07, 4:00 PM #13
They've had them for years.

They're groovy.
nope.
2009-09-07, 7:02 PM #14
ElecTRIC, not elecTRONIC. :eng101: An ELECTRONIC fly swatter would have a little counter on it that incremented whenever you swatted a fly, so you could keep score.

2009-09-07, 7:21 PM #15
Suddenly I want an electronic fly swatter
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2009-09-07, 7:30 PM #16
I think an electronic fly swatter would seek out and swat flies for you, kind of like a roomba.
I'm just a little boy.
2009-09-07, 10:26 PM #17
And then, it would seek out YOU.
2009-09-08, 3:30 PM #18
Originally posted by The Mega-ZZTer:
ElecTRIC, not elecTRONIC. :eng101: An ELECTRONIC fly swatter would have a little counter on it that incremented whenever you swatted a fly, so you could keep score.


Ugh, damn my random bouts of dyslexia. Though, I would like an electronic fly swatter based on that idea...
2009-09-08, 3:55 PM #19
Nothing like sitting outside on a warm summer evening watching the bug zapper.
2009-09-08, 4:08 PM #20
I thought dyslexia was the swapping of letters, not the misuse of an entire word?
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2009-09-08, 4:36 PM #21
Originally posted by Roger Spruce:
I thought dyslexia was the swapping of letters, not the misuse of an entire word?


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2009-09-08, 4:43 PM #22
Chicken dinner?
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