Saturday 19 May 2012

A competition (something for the week-end)

Inspired by Broken Biro's blog today, and a game one of my sons played with his mobile (while "working"), I thought it might be fun to see how many book titles could be adapted to a fishy alternative. For example: The Cod Delusion, Prawn with the Wind. That kind of thing.

Any more ideas? There will be a winner, who will receive an accolade, (but sadly no prize).

18 comments:

  1. Do you know... I must have brain strain for I cannot, for the life of me, think of s single fishy thing to say! Apart from Roe, roe, roe your boat!!!! pathetic, eh?

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    1. Roe's a start, Pat. How about The Name of the Roes?

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  2. How about An Expensive Plaice to Die and Salmon's Lot :-) x

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  3. Peyton Plaice; Moll Flounders; The Rainbow (Trout) - think that's enough!

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    1. Excellent, Rosemary! I particularly like Moll Flounders!

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  4. Devil At My "Eels" instead of Devil At My Heels which is one of my favorite books! You should check it out. That is the only book that ever made me sit down and write a letter to the publisher.

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    1. I've never heard of the book, Kay. I will check it out.

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  5. How about The Hake's Progress, How Bream Was My Valley, The Codfather, Skate Expectations, Wind In The Minnows, Noddy And His Little Carp (oh dear) The Stickleback of Notre Dame, Down and Trout In Paris and London?

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    1. Brilliant, Joanna! You obviously have a way with fish!

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  6. Ha ha ha I love Joanna's "Codfather"! Can't think of anything witty there myself, probably partly because I am not that familiar with the English names for all those fish (I recognize them as fish names when I read them, but can't list them on my own).

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    1. Ok, Meike. Do a German one, and put us all to shame. (The only German fish I know is Forelle, and that's because of Schubert.)

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  7. Pollack! Can't think of a thing.

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  8. A pollack is a fish!!! Rhyming slang?!!

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