Slate has a history blog called the Vault.
Here are a very cool group of WWI posters which have a lot to say about the rural character of US soldiers bitd.
Its interesting to me that a lot of rural volunteers today would not recognize those smells since they are probably more likely to have come from a rural trailer park than a functioning farm.
Flypaper? How many will know what the fuck it is, much less how it smells. :facepalm:
Definitely out of date.
Flypaper? How many will know what the fuck it is, much less how it smells. :facepalm:
Definitely out of date.
I know what it is and what it smells like. But then I am out of date.
Sigh. I also must confess to being out of date. I definitely know what flypaper is and what it smells like.
Wait, do people really not know what flypaper is???
I know what it is, but only from cartoons.
No one spends time in horse stables anymore? Or in farmhouses, or dairy barns (the old-fashioned type), or ...
damn. If this is out of date we're in trouble. :(
It's gross. Back before we had indoor plumbing at the family lake cottage, we had half a dozen rolls of fly paper hanging down from the rafters, and flyswatters everywhere. Tons of flies. I also remember at least a few times being really sick there when I was a lad. Now with a septic system, the flies have vanished.
You can still buy "fly paper"... Home Depot and other stores have it for about $2.50