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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2007/10

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Completely off topic
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:20:54 -0400

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 21:59:55 -0400, Fred Jacobowitz
<fbjacobo@-----.net> wrote
> I need alot of people in order to answer a question - but first, the
> setup. I got one of those e-mails with helpful hints such as 'using
> cotton balls to pick up small glass slivers', etc. Well, one 'hint'
> said that putting a fabric softener sheet in your back pocket would
> repel mosquitos. Has anyone tried this? I'm a little hesitant to risk
> death by a thousand cu - uh -bites ;-) . However, I seem to be one of
> those people who gets VERY itchy when bitten by mosquitos, so maybe
> someone else has already tried this. Anyone? TIA.
>

As a professional skeptic, I scoffed at this idea, but empirical
evidence suggests that it works. My wife keeps a box in our travel
trailer, and when the mosquitoes are prolific, she'll attach them to our
clothes.

Another surprising mosquito repellent is Avon's Skin-So-Soft, and there
is even some laboratory research to back this up. It isn't as effective
as DEET, but it does work.

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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