PLEASE READ THIS NOW!!! Keeping on topic, treating others with respect

Websters Defines " FISHY" as....

Webster Defines the word " FISHY" as creating doubt or suspicion: Questionable!!!

It is similar to " Fish Story" the traditional exaggeration by fishermen of the size of the fish almost caught, an extravgant or incredible story.

Now if you refer to someone as a FISHCAKE or a PHISH STICK then I could see it as a tease. Traderneil

 

Enter the twilight zone...

I probably shouldn't, but...

Huh?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

What are you talking about? < scratches head >

I guess that all the Christians had better remove the "fish" symbol from their cars.

Oh, this thread is going to be fun.

 

I shouldn't either, but.....

me again - I can still see you, but you are in the zone...... it almost looks at though there is a fish bowl (excuse the pun) of the players in this thread........... What does it say that I can see you???? Maybe I am coming over.....

 

Re: Chip Personal attacks are running on Your Site

I am a bit slow to the inter-workings of this site, who is your husband?? (Sorry, I will catch up soon).

 

Hi Kristie: You are true (gre)nobility in reminding me of something in this online version of "One Swam Over the Cuckoo's Nest"--the use of the term "mother" (apart from references to one's parent or the more exalted variety of nun) *does* have a wee bit of, um, abbreviated panache about it. The last real mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young, taught me that years ago.

Hi me again: It already is.

 

Uncle Jacko - I am not sure what you are saying, the criptic nature of your response, I am sure is intentional, but maybe a translation is necessary. (That is the most politically correct way of saying it - since I am behind being respectful in this forum).

Though, I am a bit intrigued by your respopnse!

 

Senior Member Calls Asiatic Woman "Fishwife"

Dear Kristi Yes Unle Janko Called Me a "Fishwife". I am Half Asiatic I find this very Disrespectful and Crude. Thanks for the Education on Degreeinfo.com What a "Service" and "Membership" Minoritieds and Africans BEWARE Mrs. J. Yuen-Clark R.N.

 

Re: Senior Member Calls Asiatic Woman "Fishwife"

Ummm.. as already pointed out the term fishwife was applied because you are a WIFE and your whole attitude has been fishy at best. Clark sounds much more white American than anything else, and that was all anyone here knew about you. If SRU misrepresented or mislead your husband, you would get alot further explaining that than making baseless attacks. I hope your husbands research is a bit more thorough than your own.

 

Hi Kristie:

It was a punplex: Grenoble/nobility, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest/One Swam Over the Cuckoo's Nest, (implied) Nurse Ratchet/Nurse Clark. Geddit?

Our charming interlocutrix used the term "mother" as part of her invective against all and sundry. There is a twelve-letter expletive of which mother is the first and often sufficiently employed half, often phonetically rendered "mutha"; I trust I need not spell it out further.

I used "panache" as a euphemism for, say, gall, abusiveness, or hypocrisy.

I have but one most minor bone to pick with you: my name is Janko, not Jacko; I believe that "Jacko" is a nickname employed by tabloids to refer to a popular singer currently in some legal trouble. He is not a Carpathian, and I cannot sing very well and prefer a sexual partner of voting age (and then some) and of the opposite sex, and that within the bonds of marriage. I trust this clarifies the matter.

My very best wishes to you in your doctoral study. I recall the diligence of your search when you were fishing (oops!) for a suitable grad school, and hope that Grenoble meets all your expectations.

For the benefit of our charming personage, who is desperately slandering me and this board as racist (a violation of the TOS, as if I cared), now because I called her a fishwife, here is a definition of fishwife found in an online dictionary, alongside its literal meaning of a female seller of fish, and deriving from the raucous and importunate cries used by fishmongers to hawk their wares:

"A woman regarded as coarse and shrewishly abusive."

Should she stop threatening, defaming, and belittling, stop using coarse language of her own choosing, not to mention ceasing to make the morally repugnant and deliberately inflammatory accusation of racism--in short, should she stop being a fishwife and stop piscine people off--the ocean of aquatic metaphor should surely soon run dry.

 

She's been banned for just that reason. I don't take kindly to being called a racist.

 

Nor I. Multumesc foarte mult (many t'anks), Bruce.

 

Re: Senior Member Calls Asiatic Woman "Fishwife"

My brother had a fishwife. She was a bit of a shrew too. However she was not at all asian. Now he has a normal wife and the former wife works for some telephone company calling people and bothering them to switch long distance companies I believe.

 

you can't fool me.

A shrew is a mammal and a fish is a... well, a fish. Shrews have fur and cute little whiskers. Fish don't have fur, and catfish whiskers aren't cute.

Of course, if "fishwife" means the wife of a fish, then all bets are off. "The Owl and the Pussycat" concerned a liaison between dissimilar species, and that one worked out pretty well.

So maybe you can fool me. G'night.

G

 

I apologiz for the typo - it was just that!

I still don't know whether to be offended or complimented, or maybe a mixture of both. That's OK, I read the book, and understand the puns, but, oh heck, over my head....... maybe I should go for a literature degree next.... thansk for helping generate the idea!!!

It seems this rather fascinating thread is coming to an end - until again!

 

Uncle J,
Sounds like you called her a liberal.

John

 

Mrs. Clark started ranting in a recent thread about SRU. I can't believe that she was a real person. I guess I should say I have a hard time believing that she wasn't putting on some kind of act.

 

Seems to me that treating others with respect should include only making claims about a position or a program which will be substantiated. Some here have made claims , but then they ignore appeals to provide evidence. IMO this is disrepectful.