BS: Why we should C&P & the talkin fish -NY

Subject: RE: BS: Why we should C&P & the talkin fish -NY
From: Bagpuss
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 07:52 AM

PS forgot to say you have to subscribe to the NYTimes to get the story.

Subject: RE: BS: Why we should C&P & the talkin fish -NY
From: Bagpuss
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 07:49 AM

link in the NYTimes

And the weblog I got the story from (neil gaiman )
has this to say about it

"A story I find disturbing only because they killed the carp. I mean, for heaven's sake.... Does no one read any fables any more? You're meant to marvel and then place the fish into a safe place, and take it to the king, not bonk it over the head and turn it into gefilte fish. And then it's brought before the king, and either it talks again or it doesn't. And if it talks it offers a little sage advice, and then it's put in a pool and looked after well until the end of its days, and it never talks again.

I find myself muttering "What do they teach them in these schools these days?" like the Professor in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: BS: Why we should C&P & the talkin fish -NY
From: InOBU
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 06:42 AM

PS for certain posts, like this, can we have a double BS prefix?
Larry ;-)

Subject: BS: Why we should C&P & the talkin fish -NY
From: InOBU
Date: 26 Mar 03 - 06:41 AM

Here was yours truely's humble self, posting a CD at our local postal shop. The propritoress asked if I listened to WBAI... or I mentioned I had just returned from the studio... well, says Helen... did you hear the story about the talking fish that spoke out agaisnt the war and then was killed. Not surprised that it was a WBAI story, I said I would look into it... well here we are, a Hasidic fish butcher clames to have heard a 20 pound carp warn of the folly of this war in relationship to the end of the world... but as I am not good at blue clickies, and cut and paste has come under qustion... you all will just have to look it up your selves! Too bad the carp was killed, we could have asked him how the dolphins felt about being drafted...
Larry