I know that when you say a word over and over it starts to lose all meaning, but I was looking at the word FISH and it just seemed weird to me after staring at it for a few minutes. I guess that works with any word. Here, try it:

FISH

I got in a discussion with someone about fishing and told them I went back to Tennessee where my dad and I hit the TN River. I said, “We caught crappie, perch, smallmouth bass and a few largemouth bass. It was a lot of fishes.” To which he simply replied, “Fish”.

First of all, if I’m talking to you about fishing don’t get high-brow and start correcting my grammar. Don’t you think that’s a little weird when you’re talking to someone about dangling a hook in water tied to the end of a long piece of string and he’s worried about your grammar?

“Shut the fuck up and just listen to my fish tale! I’m trying to lie to you here!”

Secondly, “fish” is used (in addition to the singular) as the plural when speaking of a bunch of those creatures in a single species. “I am going to see how many Tuna fish I can cram in your chatterbox.”

To be technical, “fishes” is used as the plural when speaking of two or more fish species. “There are a lot of fishes in the sea. Dickhead.”

I’m talking about a hobby where the main actions are: cast, reel, spit…cast, reel, spit…cast, reel, buttscratch. Next time I’m going to make fun of your dangling participle.

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