Not a CIDU as much as a question: $9 for a dozen worms? Is that accurate? Before I saw the caption, I thought the high price of the worms was going to be the joke: maybe they attract fish by dressing in drag and doing the hula?
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This Yahoo Answers question resulted in one answer of: “For saltwater, sandworms $7 a dozen and bloodworms $9 a dozen.”
Wow. I guess there’s good money to be made if you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty.
I would expect the price of worms to vary highly depending on A) the immediate supply and B) the immediate demand. Having never had any demand personally, I don’t have a feel for pricing specifics.
Apparently, there’s demand for worms. My dad lived in a town so tiny it had only one vending machine, and it sold live worms. The video/convenience/grocery/drugstore owner who lived above his shop got tired of people waking him up at 4 am to buy worms.
I’ve never seen the attraction of fishing, myself.
But, what about the man’s hands? Bloodworms are carnivorous, with copper jaws and venom. Are those worms hanging off his hands? Is that what he means by “dirty”?
” Are those worms hanging off his hands?”
My assumption is that he’s holding a cigarette, taking a smoke break, but there’s no telltale wisp of smoke, and it’s “muddied up” enough to say maybe he just has a finger that looks like that.
That’s just poor artwork of dirty hands and arms.
OK, but the joke is that here is a common conversational expression that turns out to be literal in this case…
Is this a bait-and-switch?
We used to just dig them up ourselves. I grew up in the suburbs, not the country, and they were ubiquitous.
For me, this is a CIDU. The guy has a fishing pole, so he’s obviously there to buy some bait. Why is the shop owner telling me about a business opportunity?
ranedeer: That seems reasonable to me. The owner isn’t necessarily offering fishing pole guy a job, he could just be chatting about his occupation. i.e. it’s a lazy day, and fishing pole guy has just asked “So, how do you like selling worms?”
It seemed to me the shop owner was attempting to lure the customer into buying into some shady deal.
Ir reminds me of the various junk-mail pitches promising success if you’re willing to do some work (i.e. “get your hands dirty”).
I think the live bait has chewed his hands to threads. The get your hands dirty comment is ironic since they’re dirty and also non existent.
“There’s good money to be made if you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty” is what you might expect people to say about being a plumber.
The joke here is that it’s applied to (high-priced) worms.
Maybe he’s trying to sell his shop to the fellow?