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Braincrumbs

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:37pm on 2004-01-26

While drifting off to sleep or while slowly waking up, I don't recall which:
D'Glenn: When a fish commits suicide, does it jump onto a bridge?
[livejournal.com profile] anniemal: I sometimes wonder whether you are mad.

Unrelated, much later, picturing two lines of people set up to do a contra dance, I was suddenly struck with the idea of a contra dance as a Turing machine.

(And I cannot possibly be the first person to think of that.)

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posted by [identity profile] speaker2animals.livejournal.com at 03:28pm on 2004-01-26
"When a fish commits suicide, does it jump onto a bridge?"

No... it goes to a pet store.
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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 11:15am on 2004-01-27
No, they get caught out of their river or farm pond, frightened, shipped, maybe sedated, maybe not, possibly chilled or overheated, exposed to pathogenic bacteria or protozoal parasites, possibly oxygen deprived,_THEN_they get to the pet shops, where, if they're lucky, someone experienced and interested can help. Some pet shops are ignorant and/or uncaring. Maybe most. But not all. And idiot minions are great for leaving the lids off of tanks so the fish can jump. (stories omitted)

Please condemn not all of those who try to bring joyful beasties into other's lives with eye to appropriateness. Fish included.

Forgive my defensiveness. Most pet stores are awful. By my standards. They're impossibly high. But I wouldn't put it past a crazed fish to jump onto a bridge, now that I think of them.
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