The Rentokil "Hitman"
Rentokil.
What images does the name conjure up for you? What do you automatically start to think. Well, here is the biggest myth that needs banishing.
The company was started by a hitman:
Nope, it was started by a professor of entomology at Imperial College, London in 1924.
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy had been investigating ways to kill the deathwatch beetles that had infested Westminster Hall, (near Houses of Parliament). Lefroy and his assistant produced an anti-woodworm fluid called Ento-Kill Fluids.
Ento coming from the Latin name for insect, hence entomology and entomophagy.
In 1925 he tried to register the name Entokill, but it was not available so he chose Rentokil Limited instead.
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85 years is a long time – Congratulations
pest control is very necessary specially if you have an old house that is vulnerable to pest attacks-..
pest control is necessary specially if you have an expensive wooden home and if you are cultivating some plants :.;
I hope youre right about the show being fine w/out Michael. But Im skeptical. I really cant think of a show Ive ever liked that was good once a main character was gone. I can think of 3 shows I love (Andy Griffith, X-Files, and Northern Exposure) that were virtually unwatchable after someone left. But a great list of Michael Scott expertise nonetheless!