Talking Fish Stuns New York [Tells workers- 'Account for yourself because the end is nigh']

BBC News ^ | March 16, 2003 | staff report

[ewing]

A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed.

Zalmen Rosen, from the Skver sect of Hasidic Jews, said co-worker Luis Nivelo, a Chistian, was about to kill the carp to be made into gelfilte fish in the City's New Square FIsh Market in January when it began shouting in Hebrew.

It said 'Tzaruch shemirah' and 'Hasof bah,' Mr. Rosen told the New York TImes newspaper.

It essentially means in Hebrew that everyone needs to account for themselves because the end is nigh.

[ewing]

Are they sure it wasn't Hillary asking for their vote?

[TaxRelief]

Someone is halucinating about their favorite Sopranos episode.

[angkor]

I was down at my boat today, and bass were jumping out of the river and shouting "Shalom."

Does that mean the end is near?

[ewing]

Or smoking something a little heavier than Malrboro Reds..

[BenLurkin]

Yeah, "sleeping with the fish" would be hard with a yacky one blabbing away like that.

[EggsAckley]

Fish Heads

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum

In the morning
Laughing, happy Fish Heads
In the evening
Floating in the soup

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum

Ask a Fish head
Anything you want to
They won't answer
They can't talk

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

I took a Fish head
Out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay
To get it in

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum

They can't play baseball
They don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers
They don't play drums

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum

Roly poly Fish heads
Are never seen drinking
Cappacino in Italian restaurants
With Oriental women...Yeah

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum

(Yummm)

Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum


Fish heads, Fish heads
Roly poly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yum
YEAH!

[Aracelis]

Interesting development just before Purim.

[ewing]

Give a man a talking fish he eats for a day, but when you teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime!

[BenLurkin]

Pall Mall longs baby, all the way to the nub!

[bcoffey]

That they killed the fish anyway shows you what those on the scene thought of the "story."

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

And whatever you do, never bet on or invest in any information a talking fish may give you. That's what got Pete Rose in trouble.

[BenLurkin]

Doesn't matter so long as they are jumping into you boat.

[Sparky760]

Okay, now wait a minute. A fish starts talking and what, they kill it.

[ewing]

Ill bet he was surprised when they chopped up Billy Bass!

[Willie Green]

Does that mean the end is near?

No, nothing to get excited about, it was just Billy Bass.

(Warning: offensively crude humor alert.)

[ewing]

The guy said he killed it out of reflex and had to go to the hospital later.

[stands2reason]

Maybe Bill Mumy can write another verse...

[shiva]

No biggie...some one saw Jesus's image on a tortilla.