On Dec 31, 8:32�pm, "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
> zxcvbob wrote:
> > Sheldon wrote:
> > > zxcvbob wrote:
> > >> Check your gmail. ?(IIRC, you don't check it very often,
> > >> like maybe once a month) :-)
>
> > > Did you send her a coupon for a can of the WD-40 version of Summer's
> > > Eve... and a carry permit application for a concealed personal sized
> > > Flit Gun! <G>
>
> > > Ahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .
>
> > No, but you're close. �("Flit Gun" as in the insecticide? �I haven't
> > heard that term in 20 or 30 years)
>
> "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" as the ubiquitous ad used to go...just heard it
> the other night on a local Chicago radio station that broadcasts OTR [Old -
> Time Radio].

Flit was popular from like 1930 (in teh UK too), smelled like diesel
with a twist... my father would come around each night during summer
and spray the screens... could be why I'm the way I yam. hehe