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i mean, its pretty obvious that it means bad but couldnt you use a different symbol related to bread? aaah forget it i'm just off to get one of those nice haddock-loaves... no? exactly!
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A fishbone was what I came up with when looking for "the opposite of a croissant".
It would be something that's still more or less food, but smelly and undesirable to eat without being offensive or too graphically complex. |
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It doesn't have anything to do with a bakery. Maybe it got dragged in from the halffishmonger next door; maybe it just symbolizes my desire for the out-of-place ideas that collect it to go away. |
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Amazingly, "halffishmonger.com" isn't taken. Nor is "halffishmongery.com"! |
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Like [Rods Tiger], I guess I always assumed it had something to do with "loaves and fishes". |
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UnaBubba, what is a 'Scat Poster'? and what makes you think that i am one? |
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Dammit' my secret identity revealed! |
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[i am actualy Peter Sealy in disguise] |
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What about the Japscat posters? Must we leave them out too? |
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<For those of you who are curious...you don't want to know. Really.> |
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scat poster!? I resent that! |
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fairly accurate, but there's no need to just come out and SAY it |
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I'm just contrary, heh heh. |
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<Scat post>Scooby-doo-by-bob-shebob-diddly-doo-wop-shebop!</scat post> |
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Perhaps moldy bread, instead of a fish? Nah, for two reasons: too hard to represent as a sketch/icon, and certain moldy bread turned out to be a Good Thing! (penicillin is a bread mold) |
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A fallen cake, though.... :) -- perfectly fitting for Ideas that fall flat! |
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(But imagine poor Jutta, doing a massive search-and-replace of "fishbone" with "fallen cake", through all the text in all the HB files on the server....) |
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jutta, you wrote: "A fishbone was what I came up with when looking for "the opposite of a croissant". It would be something that's still more or less food, but smelly and undesirable to eat...." Did you know that some fishbones are quite edible? Open up a can of mackerel some time (definitely smells fishy!), drain the liquid, and dump the rest onto a large plate. You will see mostly whole fish bodies (heads and tails and inner organs removed), including bones. But these bones are soft, chewable, and a good source of calcium. Doesn't taste as good as the fish, though -- and they disintegrate so easily it makes me wonder why the fish bothers to grow them! Perhaps I am missing something, such as some aspect of processing --cooking?-- during canning. |
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Anyway, I usually empty a can into a bowl, add a big glob of mayonaisse-based "sandwich relish", and mush/mix it up thoroughly, then eat with crackers. Could almost qualify as Hors D'Oeuvres, if the fish-odor was less intense. The bones are completely undetectable in that mixture, and I can always fix my breath after I'm done eating. |
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we always said fish was good for the brain. just try singing now, Vernon, for the complete effect. you given up smoking yet? |
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My dog eats the bones too, but she ain’t smart. |
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po, what does singing have to do with fish? (also, I have always been a complete nonsmoker). |
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It occurs to me to note that if the "fallen cake" notion was adopted, as suggested in a prior annotation, then the current vertical orientation of the vote-icons would probably have to be changed to horizontal (STACKED vertically, though, when more than one are displayed). Fortunately, a croissant looks the same, in either orientation. |
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singing livens up the mind too. I doubt that you need it though. |
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Vernon, what you describe is, to me, as inedible as pieces of arsenic laced concrete. |
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I'll grind your bones to make my bread! |
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You want fish? And here you have for this fishy idea... |
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I've found jutta's anno interesting. This qualifies as HB lore, so I'm not voting on it. |
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[po], [vernon], what does singing have to do with fish? |
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The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag |
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Gimme an F!
F!
Gimme an I!
I!
Gimme an S!
S!
Gimme an H!
H!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
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Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
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And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
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Country Joe McDonald and The Fish |
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I'm strangly relieved that it didn't come from loaves and fishes. |
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