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Using pennies to repel flies
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Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:38 pmby TwoAndAHalfCents
At one of the banks I stopped by after work today I had to wait while the teller was sorting through the pennies in her tray for the woman at her window. I thought that was a strange way to search for copper. But she wasn't looking for copper. The teller was pulling out the shiniest pennies for her. The woman wound up getting ten shiny zinc pennies in exchange for a dime. When I got to the window the teller told me that the woman wanted shiny new pennies to put out to keep flies away from her food. She had told the teller that the flies didn't like the shiny surface of the pennies. We both chuckled and I told the teller that I wanted some pennies too but only the old circulated ones and not the shiny new ones. She gathered up what she could and I ended up with $10 in customer wrapped rolls to sort.
I checked online this evening to see if there is any truth to the idea of repelling flies with pennies. Apparently some folks believe that bags of water with a few pennies inside provide a reflective surface that repels the flies. It's on the internet so it must be true.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/flies.asp
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:12 amby 68Camaro
That's a new one...
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:29 pmby silverflake
If our current leaders face was put on the penny, would it attract flies? Just wondering.
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:13 amby Tourney64
That lady must really have nice place with such a fly problem.
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:16 pmby Morsecode
Why not?
We have copper socks for increased circulation
http://www.tommiecopper.com/product/men ... calf-socksAnd copper for birth control (google it)
Copper is a miracle product
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:17 pmby AdamsSamoa
We always did this in Texas...
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:27 pmby 68Camaro
AdamsSamoa wrote:We always did this in Texas...
Really - how do you do it?
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:44 pmby AdamsSamoa
Zip lock baggies full of water with 5 or so shiny pennies. leave them out on the pic nick table. It is supposed to keep the flies away
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:06 pmby Tourney64
We need a mythbusters experiment.
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:06 pmby TwoAndAHalfCents
AdamsSamoa wrote:Zip lock baggies full of water with 5 or so shiny pennies. leave them out on the pic nick table. It is supposed to keep the flies away
Did it work? If so then Myth is... Confirmed.
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:07 amby reddirtcoins
Tourney64 wrote:We need a mythbusters experiment.
I agree...
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:38 amby slickeast
I saw a bag with water and pennies in it somewhere this week. I think mythbusters did it with just water. It didn't work
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:42 amby slickeast
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:43 amby AdamsSamoa
need the pennies...
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:31 amby silver
People love to believe in myths. The more mysterious the better.
ED
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:51 amby Shazbot57
silver wrote:People love to believe in myths. The more mysterious the better.
ED
That explains Obama!
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:48 pmby hobo finds
Shazbot57 wrote:silver wrote:People love to believe in myths. The more mysterious the better.
ED
That explains Obama!
It works I have a bag with water
AND Pennies and Obama has never come over here!
Re: Using pennies to repel flies
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Tue Sep 30, 2014 4:29 pmby Shazbot57
I'll have to try it!