BS: The case of the missing sturgeon

Subject: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Flash Company
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 04:25 PM

Story in the paper today of a fisherman who caught a sturgeon, followed all the procedure of advising the Crown Office and was advised to 'Dispose of it as he thought fit'.
Part way through the auction at Plymouth, in came the cops to arrest everyone in sight. It is apparently an offence to sell a sturgeon.
Unfortunately, no-one seems to have told the Queen!
However, to add to the fun, when they came to take the fish as evidence, it had disappeared! Oops.
They are now threatening action against every one in sight.
I am off to Cornwall in the morning, but if Aine would like to take this one on as a Song Challenge, the story was in the Daily Mail.

FC

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 04:43 PM

Sounds fishy to me! Bob

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 05:04 PM

But was it a virgin sturgeon?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: open mike
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 05:06 PM

ahh--the Caveat of the Caviar...

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 05:23 PM

I thought there was a song already ... Brave S(t)ir John

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 06:26 PM

Sorry. I thought this was an Agatha Christie thread.

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: pdq
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 08:47 PM

...sounds like a case of Caviar Emptor...

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jun 04 - 11:02 PM

Ah, shit, I thought the doctor was missing.

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: LadyJean
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 01:33 AM

Somebody has to say this:
There's something fishy about the whole thing.

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 03:42 AM

Somebody already did!

Aloha,
Mark
(a pediatrician, not a s(t)urgeon)

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 06:05 AM

I think these antiquated laws about 'crown' property ought to have been abolished long ago along with serfdom & other feudalisms.

By what right do these individuals dictate what can/cannot be taken from the oceans & make ordinary fishers, hunters etc into criminals?

Comments?

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: gnomad
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 07:31 AM

Gentleman in question wasn't perchance the offspring of Sam Small was he? Apparently the royals aren't mad about sturgeon, but do like a kipper.

Sam's Sturgeon monologue was recorded by Stanley Holloway, attributed to Ashley-Sterne.

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 07:54 AM

I say What a Ca-viar!!

Had the Queen been Victoria, she would not have been amused!!

Where was the sturgeon caught? In Swansea (my home town- Sorry! City!

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 01:01 PM

Wonder if Spurgeon wrote anything on the subject or even his surgeon.
The thought of Spurgeons surgeon, burgeoned with a virgin sturgeon gives me palpitations.

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 02:10 PM

Should't it give you urgin's?

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 08:28 PM

If it does brucie then people need scourgin'
Be Blessed

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 05:49 PM

Was it sturgeon #16 in the Kennebec?

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: dianavan
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 06:14 PM

I'm urgin' for some sturgeon.

It was my favorite fish, especially smoked! Yummy eggs, too. But boy, are they ugly!

When I was a child, at the mouth of the Columbia River, they used to get caught in the tide pools at low tide. We used to torment the monsters with sticks. Great fun! They would glub, glub around and flip from side to side. We thought we were very brave.

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 07:26 PM

The point of contention seems to be that the fisherman was heeding a 14th century law which requires that fishermen give the crown first dibs on sturgeon, but that law has been made obsolete by a more recent law declaring the sturgeon a protected species and making its sale illegal.

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 08:39 PM

Virgin Sturgeon


Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: dianavan
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 03:24 AM

Funny song, nigel! Where is it from?

Subject: RE: BS: The case of the missing sturgeon
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 09:45 AM

This ditty has been rattling around pubs and private song parties for at least a century. But it's nice to see more verses.

I added a parallel verse to "When Jones Ale Was New" a while back which runs like this:

The next to come in was a virgin surgeon,
And she didn?t need any urging,
No, she didn?t need any urging
For to join with the jovial crew
And after she downed several whiskey ryes,
She took out her scalpel and held it high,
Saying "Who with me this night will lie?"
When Jones' Ale was new, me boys!
When Jones' Ale was new!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble