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Friday, October 9, 2020

The Flies Have It

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For a disturbingly large number of people, the most fascinating thing about the recent Vice Presidential Debate occurred  when a large fly landed on Mike Pence's head and sat there for two hypnotic minutes. 

Pence seemed entirely unaware of the fly's presence despite the fact that it was putting on little skis and preparing for a downhill run across his snowy head of hair. Kamala Harris was definitely aware of the fly, and showed frustration at her inability to snap it up with her lizard-like projectile tongue owing to the stage's plexiglass barriers.

Okay, that part wasn't true. Probably. In reality, when Harris was asked following the debate if she'd ever had trouble with flies, she said "Well, I chipped a tooth once trying to open Willie Brown's."

But despite the amusing nature of this story, there is a growing undercurrent of suspicion that the incident wasn't as innocent as it seemed. Unnamed sources have spoken off the record to Stilton's Place and revealed that this was a deliberate and pre-planned attempt to embarrass Vice President Pence and that the man responsible had way, way too much time on his hands...

27 comments:

Pat Cummings said...

Happy to see you have your own supply of unnamed sources, Stilt!


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Do they reside at the bottom of your Clan MacGregor jug?

Mike aka Proof said...

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

Fish Out of Water said...

Cute cartoon. Given the news yesterday of Pelosi going on record she will attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment to try and oust President Trump (if we can't impeach and convict him we'll...), I was looking for a strip along the lines of Capitan Ahab, or Capitan Queeg.

Bobo the Hobo said...

This just goes to show VP Pence wouldn’t hurt a fly.

M. Mitchell Marmel said...

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.


-Ogden Nash

The fly, after a restful minute or two on Pence's coiff, went on about its business, leaving the unfortunate flea trapped in the stinking jungle located...well, good taste forfends.

Edam Wensleydale said...

@Fish: Queeg didn't have NEARLY as big a pair as Pelousy does, apparently, although they're both equally, well, nuts.

Fish Out of Water said...

@Edam Wensleydale: Yes, she's obsessed (as is the bill's sponsor, Raskin (Deranged, Md) but also crazy like a fox. What she proposes to submit to the House is a mechanism to bypass the impeachment/trial process, which didn't work out for her.

It is very, very dangerous and worthy of a SCOTUS challenge in the unlikely event this becomes law.

But the greater lesson is this is a preview of what is in store for the country should the democrats retain the House, retake the Senate and capture the Presidency: total obliteration/ suppression of conservative political opposition.

Fish Out of Water said...

@ MMM: Personally I'm partial to John Dunne's The Flea.

Fred Ciampi said...

Wasn't there a '50s movie called "The Fly"? Ah, I found it. 1958 with Vincent Price and others. Of course, this latest episode will get much more press. That particular fly is now more famous than Camelhair will ever be.

And WTF is pelosi up to ... again? Why doesn't she just do her job? (Rhetorical question). All she has done for the last four years is trying to overturn President Trump's victory.

Grrrrr, that's enough for now, if I say what I am feeling the FBI, CIA, NSA, BBQ and nine other agencies will be beating down my door. Leeme see, whare's my Clan McMoonshine??????

Jess said...

I think the fly didn't recognize the hyperbole, when they kept talking about how Pence would soon be standing near a large pile of feces. It stayed for the feast, and was severely disappointed.

TrickyRicky said...

I was always a fan of Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth...back in the day, as we say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oMdu0FqTX0

@Stilton-Great line about the chipped tooth. You crack me up!

Blick said...

Even Flies prefer Pence, Republicans, Truth, etc. to the alternative.

Anonymous said...

That was no fly. It was a CIA drone. Or maybe it was really a fly escaped from Kamaltoe's fly-paper like schnapper & was glad to get away.

Sortahwitte said...

That people wish to harm the fly,
Really makes me want to cry.
For if we do a thing so rash,
Who will cross-pollinate our trash?

Colby Muenster said...

The MSM's obsession flies in the face of legitimate journalism. Are there really people in this country who watch hours of "fly" coverage on CNN and get outraged by it? If so, do they get to (gasp!) vote? Scary, indeed.

Queeg... I can picture San Fran Nan sitting in the witness chair, rolling steel balls in her hand, and prattling on; "Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action." Her constant and repeated attempts to "get Trump" put her in the same nutcase category as Queeg IMHO.

Anonymous said...

Okay, I suppose I've been fortunate not to have heard her speak until the VP Debate, but now that I have, shama lama ding-dong Harris should have continued to duck close public scrutiny if at all serious about winning the election. Her eye rolling, smirking, and abrasive laugh, coupled with the proven lies, question ducking, and her own set of alternate facts entitlement should have converted any undecideds and Independents to straight ticket Republicans—if there were any left!

Fish Out of Water said...

@Colby: Believe you've provided Stilton with an idea for Monday's strip.

NVRick said...

I was reminded of that great old ditty:

(If you don't read to the end, the moral of the story is if you believe anything Kamala Harris says, you will swallow anything."

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird!

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that! She swallowed a cat!

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog!

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a goat;
She just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!

She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow;
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!

She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she’s dead

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse;

...She's dead, of course!

Kayakfish said...

Little fly upon the wall, have you any sense at all ? Can’t you see the wall’s been plastered, so get off the wall you dumb .... fly.

JustaJeepGuy said...


It's funny to me that Kamalatoe is being touted so highly now by the Demo_Rats--who never gave her more than 2% of their votes in the primaries. They rejected her then, but now she's all of a sudden presidential material?? (we all know Gropey Joe won't serve a full term) Heels-up Harris must have been really Willie-Brown-style active with the DNC.....

Rod said...

Tried to watch VP event but didn't last long enough to see the fly; which was the big Democrat news from the event so nothing was missed. I don't tolerate lies. Did like that Pence was sharp and standing up to it.

Rod said...

An afterthought in my opinion: As much as I dislike Barry Otero (who was also a traitor as POTUS) and later others of his type who have perfected the practice; I still think of the long earlier history of lies and deceit by politicians to have been somewhat controlled and even expected; and we still had ethical journalists to challenge & expose the worst.

But IMO the deliberate modern practice, which seems to have taught the entire nation to lie, was greatly expanded and brought to more recent generations by Bill Clinton; then turbocharged in government & financial practice by Hillary. In fact he may have learned it from her.

I can't abide a liar nor a thief; and now it seems "both" is more the expected norm than the exception. If that doesn't seem correct or common; put yourself in the place of an office of the law when they first respond to a potentially bad situation. What do you think think they've come to expect? And now it's the same in politics.

DougM said...

"Flies, Dan'l, flies!"
— Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

JustaJeepGuy said...


I didn't pay super-close attention in the '80s, but I saw that the msm didn't like President Ronald Reagan and they didn't like President George the first. What I DID notice is that they went all-out shilling for--and protecting--Slick Willie and every Demo_Rat candidate since. Barack Hussein was absolutely the news media's new messiah and if any of the news people had done their jobs we wouldn't have been stuck with that traitor for 4 years, let alone 8.

I've often said that the msm, though they wanted Hitlary to win, were actually kind of relieved she lost because they would have then had to spend yet another 4 years protecting Slick.

Linda Fox said...

Did Pence have his hair and makeup done at the event? If he didn't use his own people, then, yes, simple enough to put a fly-attracting substance on his hair.

But, perhaps not. We have enough actual, provable conspiracies, to waste time with maybes.

JeremyR said...

You don't think Horizontal Harris could swallow a horse? Take her to Tijuana and put her on stage.

JeremyR said...

She sings, look at me I'm a train
On my back I'm a train
I'm a train, I'm pullin train now.
Look at me
I'm going somewhere I'm a train
I'm a train I'm pullin train now.
It's been a hard on day
Yes it has been a hard on day
I'm a train I'm a chicky train now.