The Good News is that I’ve found 100% DEET …
By KBarton10 on Aug 18, 2011 in fly fishing humor
Naturally if I see a big splash of bright color and “Used by the Armed Forces,” I’m thinking Delta Force or Seal Team 6, and how the murmur in the parking lot will be all the fellows wishing theirs was extreme DEET, just like mine …
… then again, were I to round a darkened boulder come dusk to see a fellow angler crouched while applying a generous spritz to both hands, I might be thinking something else entirely …
Don | Aug 18, 2011 | Reply
Don’t ask, don’t tell…
The Chemical Underground | Aug 19, 2011 | Reply
The “Armed Forces” of which country — and how many of them actually survived application?
You’re not a seasoned marketing professional like I am (well, I play one on the Internet), so you simply don’t know the right questions to ask…
KBarton10 | Aug 19, 2011 | Reply
This is an Aussie concoction, and as their dollar is higher than ours, I don’t quibble.
Trout Underground | Aug 19, 2011 | Reply
So you’re placing your health in the hands of people who think Mad Max is simply a documentary chronicling everyday life on their roads?
People who have based their entire economy atop the words ‘G’day mate’?
Joe Eberle | Aug 19, 2011 | Reply
Some use DEET the way some women use cold cream. Others prefer strong drink. To each his own.
“The Pesticide Information Project of Cooperative Extension Offices of Cornell University states that ‘Everglades National Park employees having extensive DEET exposure were more likely to have insomnia, mood disturbances and impaired cognitive function than were lesser exposed co-workers’”.
Peter | Aug 20, 2011 | Reply
inDEET.
Sorry, so sorry.
I prefer strong drink, though. Cold cream always gives me the shivers….