New favorite typo

[truepenny]

"The meeting soon broke up into a series of fish-fights."
--The Piltdown Forgery, J. S. Weiner (Oxford UP 2003): p. 62, n. 23.

Comments

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

"I've haddock up to here!"

"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}

[(Anonymous)]

You, sir or ma'am or variation there-upon, are brilliant. And also frighteningly adept at creating fish-related puns.

~Megan

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

It's not my fault, really. I learned to read on dinosaur names. Nomenclature sticks to my brain when nothing else does.

At least until the aphasia hits.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

"Pilchards at dawn!"

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

"Dawn!? Have your wahoo light the candlefish!"

(raises his thumb to his nose) "humuhumunukunukuapuaa!"