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Flies deny they have no common sense

A spokesfly has hit out strongly at claims that flies lack basic common sense.


‘Look, we only live for a couple of weeks, a month tops, so the complete works of Shakespeare would be a push, but we have artists. Oh yeah. Brian, one of my siblings, made up a new buzzing sound. Who knows what else he might have invented if that spider hadn’t got him on Day 9? Taken too soon.


‘One of these days you humans will . . .’ splat ‘Ouch. One of these days you’ll appreciate . . ‘ splat ‘ Look, let me just get into the garden and I’ll show . . . .’ splat ‘Jesus Effing Christ that hurts. I wanted to show you . . . ‘ splat ‘Look, I don’t know why my head hurts like this. Could you turn me the right way up please? Oh great, here comes Brian’s spider’.



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