Strangetown Extras: April Fish!

[strange_tomato]

Did you know that the practical joking element of April Fools Day was most likely started in France? In France (or French cultures, like in French Canada) the person being fooled is referred to as a poisson d'avril, or April fish. This originally had something to do with the zodiac, and the French traditionally celebrated April Fools Day by placing

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[madame_ugly]

*snort* Like Johnny's never had fish in his mouth. . .

[strange_tomato]

Had to be said, huh? *snicker*

Yeah, you have him there. I guess he doesn't consider that to be cheating on his vegetarian diet.

Oh, and have a nice dead fish! *places one on your back*

[madame_ugly]

Yeah, I like the cheap and easy jokes. (and I'd like to add "fish taco", just because it makes me laugh)

Ewww! *wipes fish juice from shirt* Great. Now I'm going to smell like Sea World. *slaps you upside the head with Shamu snack*

[strange_tomato]

Fish taco is a good one. *snicker* (Does anyone even really eat tacos with fish in them, though?)

*sticks a whole flatfish to the side of your face*

Take that!

[madame_ugly]

YES, people DO eat tacos with fish in them. My friend, Carl, is a big fan (and *snicker* he's gay, so I can't resist implying the dirty definition when he orders them).

*rubs slimey fish goo on your mouth*

Mmm, you love it!

[strange_tomato]

*snicker* That's great. You remind him that he's eating fish taco every time, eh? Carl must love that.

You've reminded me of a funny anecedote from my SO now. He was a set painter for a theatre festival one summer, and one of his fellow painters was this hippy-type, and a vegetarian. One day she said something about eating fish, and in a beautiful Freudian slip of the tongue, he remarked, "So you're one of those fish eating lesbians?" Everyone nearly died laughing, and they all called her a vag-etarian for the rest of the summer. *snort*

Ewww! Fish goo? (Could you possibly think of a grosser word than GOO?) How can I possibly up the ante on this?

*sprays fish spawn at you*

(Mmmm. Caviar...)

[madame_ugly]

I don't remind him of it every time, but I snicker Beavis-like.

Vag-itarian. *snort*

Ugh, fish spawn. Nasty.

[strange_tomato]

Heheh. Don't challenge me to a gross contest. You will lose. (And maybe it's because I grew up next to a beach, and ended up covered in the stuff a lot of the time, but fish spawn doesn't bother me at all.)

[madame_ugly]

The spawn itself isn't really that gross, it's the act of squeezing it out onto me, like some nasty reproductive toothpaste.

And it would smell bad. Really bad, like deep fried groundhog.

[pixelcurious]

Reproductive toothpaste. *snerk*

Why do I have the feeling that you know from experience just how deep fried groundhog smells?

[madame_ugly]

I know I've mentioned it before.

I have eaten deep fried groundhog (prepared by my VERY hillbilly gma--the lone gparent survivor, by the way)

[strange_tomato]

Children actually do that, you know. With capelin. And it is a little like shooting toothpaste, only not as thick. Pretty nasty if it gets on you.

[madame_ugly]

That's just nasty.

[strange_tomato]

It is pretty nasty. But when you have a beach full of capelin (they sometimes roll up onto the shore, leaving hundreds of dead ones on the beach), you can expect children to think of creative ways to use them.

I always preferred to just wade out into the (freezing cold) water and feel them around my feet. It was so weird when there were that many fish in one place.