Posted on 08/03/2025 1:42:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I like the pizza ones.
Goldfish are cute and goofy, and studies show they remember faces for up to 3 months so they’re like the Einsteins of the fish world. The only downside is the size of the tank needed to sustain them as they can live anywhere from 5 to 20 yrs.
As far as the quiz, my favorites are Shubunkin, common, and Comet, although the latter two require the larger tanks.
With proper care, goldfish can live 5-20 yrs. Most ppl don’t want to make the effort to keep them alive, especially since they’re so cheap, although the specialty ones can be quite expensive ($50 per fish!).
I buy them sometimes for bait.
The parmesan are good too.
Eat ‘em like popcorn. They smile back at me!
Still one of my favorite movies.
That was Poltergeist and she didn’t end up flushing the bird but burying it in their back yard.
When comedies were funny.
Yes-as I said, she was preparing to flush the unfortunate bird when her daughter caught her in the act, and after seeing the girl’s horrified face, Spielberg did a straight cut to the burial scene!
That was what made it so funny to me...:)
(That, and the Golden Retriever immediately trying to dig the dead bird up to either roll on it or eat it!)
As you recall, the movie opens with no credits or title, but with the National Anthem. My favorite version of the National Anthem is, and always has been, the version they play in the opening of the movie "Poltergeist".
(Probably because so many times in the early AM that is what I heard when I woke up to the sound of that when stations used to go off the air...)
Back at the beginning of the Eighties, I had just gotten out of the Navy recently had grown up as a military brat. When we went to the movie theater on the bases, they always played the National Anthem before the movie, and we had to stand up. When "Poltergeist" came out in the theaters, I went to see it. The movie starts with a pitch black screen with no letters or anything, and the Star Spangled Banner begins playing, so I rocket out of my seat and stand at attention. I am standing there in the dark, then the movie slowly becomes visible, and I realize I am the only one standing in this entire movie theater of people.
What was funny was...I was instantly puzzled and disoriented. "Why isn't anyone standing up?" Then after a split second I realized, they don't play the National Anthem before movies and civilians didn't stand in theaters for it even if it did. So I sat down, and the oddest thing happened...I was so uncomfortable sitting down when it was playing, that I partially rose and settled back in the seat once or twice...even though it was evident that the National Anthem was part of the movie. To the other theater-goers, I must have looked like a Jack-in-the-box, standing up and sitting down repeatedly...:)
What you wrote sounds about right...:)
Goldfish occupy a strange niche in our culture...almost a rite of being a child, and learning about both life and death through the abbreviated life cycles of these small creatures!
As you can tell, I don’t view them as much as cherished pets as I do a childhood initiation to the concepts of responsibility, musings on what existence is, and how my experience as a seven year old boy living in the great wide world has anything in common with a small living creature who sees the entire world through the glass walls of its fish bowl!
Wife uses gold fish to remove mosquito larva from her horse water tanks. Since she uses a tank heater during the winter her gold fish really do have a nice life.
As long as the water doesn’t freeze solid they will be fine.
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