Homemade fan spinning over meat to keep flies away - GIF

**Jon** · Dec 3, 2018, 09:58 PM

Homemade fan spinning over meat to keep flies away.

Reminds me of:

1. Using fans to keep flies away in general. Works great.
2. One of multiple theories for why lime wedges are placed in the tops of beer bottles: to keep flies out.

**Toolmaker51** · Dec 4, 2018, 05:49 PM

I'm not happy with certain well-known south of the border beers. I keep flies out by not removing the cap...

**PJs** · Dec 6, 2018, 12:12 PM

Sitting by the Wind Sock fish on the road watching as the whirled fly's by.

All I want is Whirled Peas.

**Toolmaker51** · Dec 6, 2018, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by PJs

Sitting by the Wind Sock fish on the road watching as the whirled fly's by.

All I want is Whirled Peas.

The tangled mash-up "Sitting by the Dock of the Bay" reference is really good and a chuckle. 8 points.
Whirled Peas...seen bumper stickers as such. No points!

Now if I had this whirling fly thing, it'd have a little plane and banner advertising the bbq. Or maybe a farmer chasing chickens?

**PJs** · Dec 6, 2018, 07:21 PM

Never really needed points but thanks. I was thinking about making a bumper sticker from this but never did...

Homemade fan spinning over meat to keep flies away - GIF-whirled_ps.jpg

Then back when Persistence of Range was in vogue, I got extra points for pink orbs.

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But alas Glaucoma set in...

Homemade fan spinning over meat to keep flies away - GIF-eye_of_sphinxter2.png

Perhaps that will be me sitting in that chair one day...

**MarcV3la** · Dec 11, 2018, 03:43 AM

25 years ago in a open air market in Dakar, Senegal, I see a man cocking meat and her colleague with a giant hand fan shooing the vultures who try to eat the meat...