On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:19:29 -0700 (PDT), DaveS wrote:

On Aug 24, 3:16*am, wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:57:16 GMT, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

"Giles" wrote in message
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On Aug 19, 8:39 am, wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:02:52 -0700 (PDT), digitaldougb

wrote:

I'm looking for recommendations for a bug spray that's:
1) odorless as possible
2) not gooey or sticky
3) preferably doesn't have Deet (which eats my watch crystal)
4) lasts for a couple hours at least
5) and keeps as many types of bugs away as possible.

Hope that isn't asking too much?????
Thanks in advance...
Doug

If your only issue with DEET is your watch, my advice would be use the
DEET and
don't wear that watch (or get one with a mineral crystal). There are
dozens of
other "potions" out there that will keep a few pesky insects away for a
limited
time - everything from "Skin So Soft" (or however it's spelled - an Avon
lotion)
to citronella-based stuff to flower-based (it's some type of
chrysanthemum,
which general group is also the basis for some insecticides - do a Google
search
for products based on it), but in my considerable experience (I spend most
of my
time in areas that are full of various "flying biting critters"), DEET is
the
most readily available and effective.

A little trick - keep a small bottle (1-2 oz/25-50ml) of household ammonia
VERY
handy for gnat bites - if you get into a patch of them, simply rub some of
the
ammonia on the area with the bites...that "bite stick" stuff, at $5-6USD a
"tube" is nothing but ammonia...and for God's sake, don't carry it in a
Gatorade
bottle, a sippy box, Drambuie airliner, baby bottle, or anything that a
child
(or child-like adult) might remotely mistake for a container that once
held
consumable liquid, lest a child (or Louie) find it and guzzle it...or
worse, it
might get Dave, Bill, and Goatgang embroiled in a 413 post thread about
religion, responsibility, and pseudochemistry....

Good luck,
R

Idiot.

g.

hmmm. One gives advice, the other one contributes....what, exactly?? It's
starting to become obvious who the idiot is, and sadly, that conclusion is
being brought to the forefront by the writer himself.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Tom

Aw, he's just mad because Ken got to party with Barney Frank and he didn't...I
betcha there was plenty of Drambuie and sweet vermouth consumed at THAT little
shindig...

Beefcake - it's what was for dinner,
R- Hide quoted text -

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Richard
Come on now. The election is long past. You have some good insights
and I would like to hear your opinion, if you can speak freely, on
questions that many Americans still wonder about.

Oh, sure, no problem - it was all due to your being so coy...if you hadn't been
such a pricktease, all the world's problems would have been solved...

Let me try to put it delicately: Why did Bush surround himself with so
many allies/assistants/etc of, shall we say, "exotic tastes?" Like C.
Rove for example. Surely the Secret Service alerted the Prez or at
least COS Card that Rove was bringing male prostitutes into the White
House security areas. Surely the Prez knew something about the
security problems posed by the adulterous tastes of Cheney's chief
staffers. Who was responsible for selecting the WH military aide who
was a Cuban spy? Was that guy also involved intimately with the Rove
sex group? Was it AG Gonzales who finally got tired of the Secret
Service punting on this stuff and had the FBI roust out these folks?
Is there anything more than rumor that Cheney was extorting these
folks?

Um....OK...

Anyway, with time it should be possible to calmly shed some light on
these questions, for historical accuracy if for no other reason. Or do
we have to wait for the insider books?

Yeah, you gotta wait...but it'll be worth it when you hear about how the
_entire_ Republican delegation greased up in Crisco and KY and played cornhole
slip-n-slide in the Rose Garden while Cheney fired Hitler's shotgun over the
proceedings...


Dave
Truth Seeker
Wall Painter
Patriot

you forgot, "etc"...

HTH,
R