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I didn't know summer here would be so hard. I wore out three fly swatters, smacking flies that were the size of sparrows. I'd wallop them and they'd turn on me, roll up their sleeves and saunter away. So then I took to shooting them with beer, but they just opened their evil little maws and laughed at me. So I got a fly swatter-stun gun combo from the Soldier of Fortune Magazine and that did the trick. The smell of burning flies is not, however, to be recommended.

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