This is like the nightmare a year or so ago when we found out that Mary Worth makes her salmon thingummies with canned salmon.
I’ve no doubt those cans really are going upstream, but after a moment I considered the possibility those cans are headed downstream after having been processed upstream. Fish swim up, canned fish are sent back down.
Damn. I didn’t realize just posting that URL meant that the whole blinkin’ article would be transported here (“Ride a URL” ?). Apologies for the wasted bandwidth.
Assuming the canning process was done correctly, canned salmon should be much safer than fresh/frozen, which can go wrong in many ways.
@TedD & SB: when life gives you salmon, make canned salmon ;) !
@Shrug – I always liked Lafferty’s work, though I admit I didn’t understand a lot of it. Who needs spokelspucks, anyway?
@Shrug – Thanks! I was interested by the article, but kept thinking it would turn into the story. Even after following over to tumblr, it was unclear whether they put up the content.
Also of tangential interest, WP handled the formatting of the tumblr import better than when we try to do HTML markup within the WP comment. See how nice the block quotes come out!
Olivier, my mother would say When life gives you salmon, make lox.
The can do attitude explored in this comic is really inspirational. My only question is, as they get further upstream do the salmon get pinker in the can?
Warning: Contains bear on fish violence
Lived in British Columbia for a while. Driving past a river during spawning season stank as the carcasses of those salmon that made it up the river rotted after they reproduced and died.
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Makes me think of this:
This is what people who’ve never seen a real salmon imagine when you tell them that salmon swim upstream?
Also reminds me a little of one of my favorite R.A. Lafferty short stories, “Ride a Tin Can.”
This is like the nightmare a year or so ago when we found out that Mary Worth makes her salmon thingummies with canned salmon.
I’ve no doubt those cans really are going upstream, but after a moment I considered the possibility those cans are headed downstream after having been processed upstream. Fish swim up, canned fish are sent back down.
Damn. I didn’t realize just posting that URL meant that the whole blinkin’ article would be transported here (“Ride a URL” ?). Apologies for the wasted bandwidth.
Assuming the canning process was done correctly, canned salmon should be much safer than fresh/frozen, which can go wrong in many ways.
@TedD & SB: when life gives you salmon, make canned salmon ;) !
@Shrug – I always liked Lafferty’s work, though I admit I didn’t understand a lot of it. Who needs spokelspucks, anyway?
@Shrug – Thanks! I was interested by the article, but kept thinking it would turn into the story. Even after following over to tumblr, it was unclear whether they put up the content.
Also of tangential interest, WP handled the formatting of the tumblr import better than when we try to do HTML markup within the WP comment. See how nice the block quotes come out!
Olivier, my mother would say When life gives you salmon, make lox.
The can do attitude explored in this comic is really inspirational. My only question is, as they get further upstream do the salmon get pinker in the can?
Warning: Contains bear on fish violence
Lived in British Columbia for a while. Driving past a river during spawning season stank as the carcasses of those salmon that made it up the river rotted after they reproduced and died.