Wild Carp

[Graeme]

Went fishing yesterday with my son.

We caught a few of these. It was a good day.

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The farmer said the yellow colouring was because they are Wild Carp. I said, "Wild, the ones we caught were absolutely livid!"

With thanks to the Not the Nine O'Clock News Gorilla sketch

Graeme

[stuck]

...It was a good day...

Does that mean it didn't rain where you were, like it did in my part of the UK? Or is it just that, being a fisherman, rain doesn't have any impact on the quality of the day?

Ken

[Graeme]

It was the one day this week with no rain!

Fishing still works in the rain but the PVA bags are tricky! Astronomy is a non starter as you can imagine! Good job there's some snooker on. (Trump and Murphy in the Champion of Champions quarter finals on ITV4 tonight at 7:00)

Graeme

[stuck]

It was the one day this week with no rain!...

Lucky you!

We're hoping to see the sun tomorrow morning, and if we do, we'll head out for a walk.

Ken

[kdock]

My dad watched some guys fishing for carp. One of them dropped their wallet and a big old carp picked it up, dropped it near another carp, who in turn swam with it and dropped it near another carp. This went on for a while, until my dad turned to one of the fishermen and said "that's the first time I've ever seen carp to carp walleting."

[HansV]

[Graeme]

[GeoffW]

I think I spend too much time on cryptic crosswords (the simple kind however).

When I see "wild carp", I think it must be an anagram of carp. And then I think, "oh carp!".

[Graeme]

pc wilard is an anagram of wild carp if that helps?

Graeme

[GeoffW]

Or even clipward.

[ChrisGreaves]

Or even clipward.

Could be used. Could Be.
Suppose you were thinking of responding to a post about a fish and had decided to copy and paste a slice

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of the original post with a view to building a larger post, then you might say that the slice was clipward.
Of course, if wrapped in paper it would be clipward-bound.

But then, I already have enough jars if fish paste.

Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

With thanks to the Not the Nine O'Clock News Gorilla sketch

Graeme, Thanks indeed.
I had not seen this particular sketch before, but it rattled my brain a bit.

I have seen NTNON clips on YouTube, so I had a rough idea of the cast - some by name, some by facial features, but I was amazed at the 0m30s mark when I saw the "examination of fingers" and said "That's Rowan Atkinson".
How many times, say in Blackadder alone, has he examined his fingernails as a bit of "business" in dialogue.

But how deep can that particular way of implementing that common gesture have been for one to seize on it?

Is it true that no-one but Rowan Atkinson plays with his fingernails that way? The 0m59s mark corroborated the identity when the Gorilla first spoke; our brains seem to be wired to decode speech to reveal an identity. Necessary in the caveman days, I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the clip, thirty seconds of which has been enough to start the creaky old cog wheels spinning this day!
Cheers, Chris