I recently ran into a story where there was a mention of someone breaking into "cold cmountains." Presumably there were other hills in the story that used to be mountains as well.
Fish fighting has been outlawed in most of the United States, though you can find a few backwoods places where you can watch a perch go up against a trout. Didn't the New York Times do an expose on this a few years ago?
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Of course, Dawson lived in Hastings, so it may well have been a fish fight.... there would have been plenty of ammunition available.
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"I can coelocanth hold your drink, serra!"
"Cod dammnit! You keep tarpon my constitution, I'll have to whale the tar from you."
"Raise your dux, sir. I'll conger you blue-gilled!"
{sound of clammy fish-on-fish action ensues}
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(Anonymous) 2009-09-19 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)~Megan
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At least until the aphasia hits.
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(raises his thumb to his nose) "humuhumunukunukuapuaa!"
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Mind you, I know some Oxonians for whom a fish-fight would be entirely in-character...
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More arguments should end this way.
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::runs::
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