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<\/a><\/p>\nThe wonderful thing about the hat is the waves of schadenfreude that envelope you when the flies are stuck on the glue but keep flapping their wings trying to escape.\u00a0 The feeling of revenge is very sweet indeed.\u00a0 Currently I have eight deer fly and some random black flies and mosquitoes.<\/p>\n
I like to think as I walk around with the hat on that the flies recognize a cousin or a brother and experience horror and murderous anger and that that is what drives them to join their brethren on the Hat of Death.\u00a0 Notice the bits of vegetation on the hat.\u00a0 These occur when I stupidly walk under low hanging tree branches.\u00a0 Eventually the glue stops working and I break out a new strip and start the fun all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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