Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
~ALBERT EINSTEIN~
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Gone Fishing Fishy story.
Alex had a terrible day fishing on the lake, sitting in the blazing sun all day without catching a single one. On his way home, he stopped at the fishmonger and ordered four rainbow trout. He told the fishmonger, 'Pick four large ones out and throw them at me, will you?'
'Why do you want me to throw them at you?' Asked the salesman?' So that I am able to tell my wife, in all honesty, that I caught them.' said Alex.
'Okay, but I suggest that you take the salmon.' Why's that? 'Because your wife came in earlier today and said that if you came by, I should tell you to take salmon. That's what she'd like for supper tonight', replied the fishmonger with a grin.
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'Do you really believe your husband when he tells you he goes fishing every weekend?' Asks Vicky's best friend, Myra.
'Why shouldn't I, Myra?' responds Vicky. 'Well, maybe he is having an affair?' comments Myra. 'No way,' laughs Vicky, 'he never comes home with any fish.'
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How to Get Really Smart
A customer at Stingray Fishmongers marvelled at the owner's quick wit and intelligence.
'Tell me, Simon, what makes you so smart?'
'I wouldn't share my secret with just anyone, 'Simon replies, lowering his voice so the other shoppers won't hear.' But since you're a good and faithful customer, I'll let you in on it. Fish heads. You eat enough of them, you'll be positively brilliant.'
'You sell them here?' the customer asks.
'Only $4 apiece', says Simon.
The customer buys three. A week later, he's back in the store complaining that the fish heads were disgusting and he isn't any smarter.
'You didn't eat enough, 'says Simon. The customer goes home with 20 more fish heads. Two weeks later, he's back and this time he's really angry.
'Hey, Simon, 'he complains, 'you're selling me fish heads for $4 a piece when I can buy the whole fish for $2. you're ripping me off!'
'You see?' says Simon, 'you're smarter already.'
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After a Tuesday fishing on the River Test, near Southampton in Southern England, Trevor is walking from the pier carrying two brown trout in a bucket.
He is approached by a Water Conservation Officer who asks him for his fishing license.
Trevor replies to the environmentalist, 'I was not fishing and I did not catch these brown trout, they are my pets. Every day I come down to the water and put these fish into the water and take them for a walk to the end of the pier and back. When I'm ready to go I whistle and they jump back into the bucket and we go home.
The officer, obviously, does not believe him and he reminds Trevor that it is illegal to fish without a license. The fisherman turns to the warden and says, 'If you don't believe me then watch, 'and he throws the trout back into the water.
The warden says, 'Now whistle to your fish and show me that they will jump out of the water and into the bucket.'
The fisherman turns to the officer and says, 'What fish?'
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Funny True Fishy StoryTish, the world's oldest known goldfish, was 43. In later life, Tish faded from his natural bright orange to a more distinguished silver. His owner said the secret of Tish's long life was not being overfed and being placed in the sun occasionally.
He was won at a funfair in Doncaster in 1956 and buried in a yoghurt pot in the garden of his owner's garden in Thirsk, Yorkshire, England in 1999.
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Terrible Fishy TaleJoan Higgins, aged 66, has been selling pets and fishing tackle for years from her shop in Sale, Manchester, England. Then one day an officer from the trading standards department decided to lure her into selling a goldfish to an underage boy.
The first point about this surreal case is that it does not seem unreasonable for a 14 year old to buy a goldfish. You can understand the police setting up 'sting' operations for shops selling cigarettes or booze to underage youths, but why are they wasting £20,000 on operations to trap shopkeepers selling goldfish?
So far, so bad - but it gets worse, the magistrate fined Mrs Higgins £1,000, presumably as an example to other shopkeepers. If you are struggling to believe the story up to this point, then you will be incredulous with the sting in the tail, 66 year old Mrs Higgins was told to wear an electronic tag and was made the subject of a curfew order normally reserved for violent repeat offenders. Why was it necessary in this case?
We wonder if Mr Iain Veitch, head of public protection at Trafford Council, is sane when he said: 'Let this conviction send out a message that we will not tolerate those who cause unnecessary suffering to animals. The council will always try to support pet and business owners so that they are able to care for their animals properly, but where they continually ignore the advice they are given, we will not hesitate to use our statutory powers.'
In case you are wondering, no animals were hurt in this true story; the goldfish was adopted by an animal welfare officer.
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Ten Interesting Trivial Fishy Facts
A biologist who studies fish is called an ichthyologist.
The most poisonous fish in the world is the Stone fish.
The more sardines that are placed in a can, the greater the profit as sardine oil costs more than the sardines.
Minnows have teeth in their stomach; the better to digest their food.
The sturgeon is considered the largest of all freshwater fish and have weighed in at 2,250 pounds.
All the sturgeon [the fish from which we get caviar] caught in British waters are property of Elizabeth II, Queen of England.
Atlantic salmon are able to leap as high as 15 feet.
The largest known fish in the sea is the whale shark. It weighs up to 20 tons and can grow to a length of 40 feet.
Fish can get seasick when kept aboard a rolling ship just as much as people.
The red fire-fish can fly and emits sounds like a crow.
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Five Short, Funny, and Surprising Fishy TalesWe have heard that when Dutchman Cor Stoop leaned over the side of his fishing boat, his false teeth fell into the North Sea. He never thought that he'd see them again. Apparently three months later another fisherman found the dentures inside the stomach of a cod.
A businessman who lost his mobile phone on a beach was amazed when it turned up - in the belly of a giant cod.[fisherman Glen Kerley said he'd found the phone in a 25lb fish.]
The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn, USA. The finder has remained anonymous.
A gold ring turned up inside the belly of a fish caught by an angler off Fort Victoria, near Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, UK.
Biologists at the University of Manchester, England, want help in cracking their "miracle" discovery of three fish inside a sealed egg. The group found the duck egg in a small pond on a field trip to the French Alps and noticed something moving inside it. When they cracked open the shell, three live minnows were inside. They have enlisted the help of other experts, but despite their extensive combined knowledge, the biologists admit they are "baffled".
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Ten Amusing Fishing Sayings and QuotesA bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work. - Author Unknown.
An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. - Author Unknown
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. - Babylonian Proverb
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. - A.K. Best
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. - Beatrice Cook
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. - Paul Schullery
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so that I could afford to hunt and fish. - Sam Snead
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. - Patrick F. McManus
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. - Zane Grey
Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. - Ed Zern
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. - Ernest Hemingway
The fisherman's golden rule: the one that got away is always bigger than the one you gotta weigh.
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Good morning everyboomie.
There's something fishy going on here.
The catch of the day in the diner is fish jokes. Read 'em while they're fresh.
If you think these are funny, you should have read the ones that got away.
Ok that's enough of that. I have Monday off, but they called me and asked me if I would work Tuesday, and take Thursday off instead, which I said I would do. I feel it's important to cooperate with their request, so I can continue getting the hours that I want.
The flood in our department, and me going part time, has set us back on our Spring resets. My replacement hasn't quite gotten a handle on things yet.
In short, not much gets done if I'm not there, so now I have to try and accomplish in 20 hours what I've been doing in 40.
Go team joe!
Have a happy day everyone.
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with accomplishing your work in half the time, Joe! Expectations like that are never easy. 
I guess that means no one will be taking it for a while anyway. 
Outlaw has a Vet appointment tomorrow morning. Nothing is working for his ear infection. He's had several cultures sent out (paid for by the vet) and even a special antibiotic the vet had compounded. 
Danish, Bacon Sandwiches, and BB Pancakes in the NC. 
Have an easy peasy day!
