Flyville Civic Holiday

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Hi Guys!

When it comes to anthro bugs, it doesn't get much weirder than this!  It's a pack of fly paper, made by F. W. Briggs of Buffalo, New York, around 1915!  Briggs isn't particularly famous for anything and nobody knows who the artist behind this image is, but once you start looking at it, it kinda burns its way into your mind!  I mean, what's going on here?  There's this old bald guy and he's got some sort of fly jamboree happening where his hair used to be!  He seems pretty unhappy, which is understandable.  Take a closer look:  





If nothing else, all that fly action has to tickle!  I don't get why he doesn't just slap the heck out of those pests, but I guess that's where Briggs's fly paper comes to the rescue!  He can just plaster all that arsenic-soaked tissue on his scalp and all will be well! 

OK, I get it, this is the kinda thing that's not meant to be taken too literally.  But you gotta admit, this is still pretty darn strange! 

Alright guys!  I gotta, um, fly!  See you later!


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Comments

  1. Perfesser BearFebruary 18, 2021 at 4:22 PM

    Some flaky stuff, you bet! I would guess it was copy-written by the same folks who wrote the patent medicine advertisements.

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  2. Billy D BunnyFebruary 18, 2021 at 9:38 PM

    This bangs the right side of the Weird Meter. Bravo!

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    1. AndibiFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:20 PM

      Ha ha! Thanks! For whatever reason, the advertising and packaging of vermin poison has always been a bit over the top. I guess humor was used to counter the fact that people might be embarrassed to admit that they are plagued with such and that they must stoop to killing them.

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    2. Billy D BunnyFebruary 20, 2021 at 9:44 AM

      This stuff was 3 percent arsenic. A common murder method was to soak the paper in water and make tea or coffee out of it. Voila, inheritance!

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