October 14, 2007

  • Moesop's Fables

    I was just cruising through the dictionary. Oh, shush, I like looking at words. I always find something new, and today I found a gooder. (I also like doing funny things to words). I found the word remora. At first, I thought it was cremora and couldn't figure out how it got into the Rs...darn, fine print. It's a fish ! I'd never heard of it, and it sounded interesting, so I wanted to read some more about it. This is the conversation I had with myself.

    " So, where do you suppose that book on Fishes of the World is?.....Fish heads, fish heads, rolly-polly fish heads, eat 'em up, yum.....Well, now what ?.....It's not with the field guides...'course not, fish don't hang in fields hehehe..... Maybe it's.....oh you silly old crone, where the heck has your brain gone. You have a whole frickin' computer full of fishes !!!"

    So, I googled that little sucker and found out that's exactly what he is. A Sucker fish. He has this plate on his head that he uses to attach himself to other sea creatures, like sharks, and whales, and turtles. They've also been known to hitch a ride on a Carnival Cruise, or any other ship bound for warmer waters. Cultures that hunt turtles, sometimes use them by tying a rope to their tails, releasing them in a good area, until they suction on to some poor unsuspecting turtle. The poor schlub of a turtle just figures he's giving this lazy so and so a free ride, until they're both hauled onto the boat. Smaht! Oh, don't worry about the remora. He gets tossed back to do what remoras do best...sucker some one else. As for the turtle, well that is the cautionery part of this tale..."never pick-up hitchhikers !" And...keep a good thought when you're waxing your car.

    Now, THAT's a fish story.

Comments (13)

  • Cute. Sometimes it pays to have no point at all..lol.

  • When something in the water makes you tingle all over....that's a moray.

  • hehehe Remoras are cool

  • Well ,well not a lot of people know that! exept the fishermen and the turtles of course  

  • ryc- I don't have my tattoo stuff yet. I'm going back to the shop Saturday probably to try to buy/order some stuff.  I have lots of people eagerly awaiting tattoing so I have to get going! lol... I hope I can learn how pretty quick.  Just last night I had a friend over who just can't stop talking about what he wants me to tattoo on him. I think he has enough ideas to cover 3 people LOL

  • Do you remember that song, "The  Remorseful Remora"?

  • thanks for stopping by: I like how you write!

  • i love this!!

    hehe, you = good writer.

    i do that with words also. can't help myself. i get an idea, a word, look for it...find it, go further down with google, then end up who knows where, almost forgetting why i started out with that word.  ;)

  • Thanks for stopping by my site so that I would discover yours.  I thoroughly enjoy your ramblings.  I think our minds may work somewhat alike.    And I like to cruise the dictionary, too.  I figured I was surely the only one. 

    Good to meet you~

  • RYC - Come back and click on the word HERE.

  • RYC: Gave up after the sixth gold fish.Got a betta and he has lived for two days so far! WooHoo!!!!

  • My best friend from back home teases me about reading the dictionary and encyclopedias. I told her they're books and they are meant to be read.  She said, "I just don't think they're supposed to be read like novels", ROFL.  

    An update just for you, I finished packing...w00t.  The plane leaves tomorrow morning and sometime tomorrow night I'll be back in the U.S. of A.   The reason I can't stay at my place is because there's no furniture left in the house. I am going to get the water and lights turned on because were going to have some remodeling done but I don't really fancy camping in my house in November.  So were doing the three days here, five days there bit on our family and friends, because we agree about the fish and visitors adage.

  • ryc:  thanks for what you said. it means a lot. :)

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