Posted by Bone Ur on 11/25/07 06:12

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:51:54
GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:

>>>> Nah, though it is fairly true that all fish look alike to me.
>>>
>>> Speciesist! ;)
>>
>><grin>
>>
>> Like that word. 'Never been called that before and I've been called
>> a lot of things. But the fact is that fish just don't have any civil
>> rights. They also smell and swim with their own poop so is it any
>> wonder that people generally consider them repulsive except in a
>> frying pan? I personally don't have anything against fish per se,
>> but most of them are still wet behind the ears and being so basically
>> worthless doesn't particularly lead the higher life forms to generate
>> much thought about the subject one way or the other. Fish themselves
>> probably look at it as a sort of prolonged version of "War of the
>> Worlds" and realize their inadequacies are just part of their
>> miserable daily existence.
>
> Worthless? Worthless?! If it weren't for us, the world (well the
> oceans) would be crawling with groupers...and you know how bad that
> would be from seeing the Google variety all over usenet.

Well, I was grouping groupers into the same category; they are fish, too.
However, for _you_ to denigrate groupers is intra-phylum-discrimination.
Furthermore, I don't think all fish are equally worthless. Those cute
little colorful ones which reside in home aquariums can be relaxing in a
hypnotic way to the duller mind. But the big ones that eat people and
other fish I may want to eat serve little purpose to a progressive,
advanced society.

--
Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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