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<< HONOUR KILLING CONDEMNED ~ MAIN ~ VICTORY PREDICTED >>

THE FLY

Accountants working on-site during construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme in the 1950s faced uncommon dangers. The sign (“cleanliness for health”) warns of typhoid, snake bite, cancer, “the fly”, tick bite, diphtheria, spider bite, tuberculosis, and “apparent drowning”: 

More Snowy Mountains action here.

1. I suppose if you did die of “apparent drowning” it would be ruled “death by misadventure”

   Everytime I hear that term I immediately think of the “Road to….” movies with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and the ever beautiful Dorothy Lamour. Rrrrrwwwwwww.

   Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 05 18 at 12:40 PM • permalink



2. The sign . . . warns of typhoid, snake bite, cancer, “the fly”, tick bite, diphtheria, spider bite, tuberculosis, and “apparent drowning.

   Yeah, but I bet they got “casual-dress Fridays”.

   Posted by paco on 2006 05 18 at 12:44 PM • permalink



3. The sign (“cleanliness for health”) warns of ... “the fly”

   “Have you ever heard of insect politics?... That’s because insects don’t have politics.”

   Be afraid. Be very afraid.

   Posted by Dave S. on 2006 05 18 at 01:18 PM • permalink



4. The Fly, you say?  Which one?

   This one?  Or this one?

   Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 18 at 03:03 PM • permalink



5. The chap on the left looks like he’s taking it seriously. Looks like a bullet proof vest he’s got on.

   Posted by Wallace-Midland Texas on 2006 05 18 at 03:29 PM • permalink



6. Yeah, but I bet they got “casual-dress Fridays”.

   That picture was taken on “casual-dress Friday”.

   Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 05 18 at 03:33 PM • permalink



7. Does the guy on the left look like a very young version of Ted Kennedy?  Apparent drowning, just a coincidence, I presume.

   Posted by yojimbo on 2006 05 18 at 04:05 PM • permalink



8. My first thought about the guy on the left was “Conan O’Brien”.

   Posted by PW on 2006 05 18 at 04:25 PM • permalink



9. My gosh, if the accountants faced all that, just think what the construction workers had to go through!

   Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 05 18 at 07:37 PM • permalink



10. #7 if its Ted Kennedy, they better check them figures again

    Posted by larrikin on 2006 05 18 at 07:39 PM • permalink



11. Is that why I got itchy red marks on my neck? I thought it was the kiosk managers son giving me a hickie…

    it was the TB…

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 05 18 at 08:31 PM • permalink



12. An the poster doesn’t even mention the dozens of migrant workers killed by mummy curses and the numerouse cases of Lycanthropy

    Posted by Amos on 2006 05 18 at 11:14 PM • permalink



13. “What’s Peter’s doing in the river there, boy?”

    “Apparently drowning, sir”.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 05 19 at 12:02 AM • permalink



14. Yep. That’s a bullet proof vest alright.
    All Australian publc servants wore them then. Many still do.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 19 at 12:50 AM • permalink



15. Mind you, he only look like he’s taking it seriously because they couldn’t hide the camera in those days.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 19 at 12:52 AM • permalink



16. What are all of those strange and mysterious devices on the desk?  Intriguing.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 05 19 at 02:09 AM • permalink



17. The chap on the right has seriously hairy arms.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 19 at 03:21 AM • permalink



18. Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme

    Can I just say how much I love that?  Not a Plan, not a Project, but a Scheme.  It’s just so…RWDB-y

    Posted by Teemo on 2006 05 19 at 07:25 AM • permalink



19. Not a Plan, not a Project, but a Scheme.

    Ming would approve.

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 22 at 12:46 PM • permalink



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