> > When my dad was a young fire fighter, he and the other fire fighter jocks > sat around the fire station one summer on their 24 hour shift applying > large tissue wings to common house flies to improve their ability to fly. > When they got bored with that, they tried making one wing bigger than the > other so that the flies would travel in circles. Don't tell PETA. > > Nancy >
i had a friend whose dad was retired navy. he just puttered around the house all day while is wife worked, he always had a big garden and kept the house clean and cooked and was the funnest dad ever. He used to catch houseflies and put them inside a hollowed out walnut shell that he glued back together. Then he would put on pipe cleaner pig tail and legs and draw a little face and ears and he would shake it up and set it down on the table and the flies inside would be all stirred up and make the little "pig" hop. I adored him. My mom was always scornful of a man with so much time on his hands :) Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
