Dead Fish

[The Grumpy Celt]

I need your input on which kind of dead fish to mail to someone.

Today I drove 1 ½ hours, one way, to a job interview only to discover they had forgotten me. I had the address of the place, but the building they were in did not have a visible street address and only a small sign bearing it name – so finding it was like finding a single piece of straw in a huge pile of needles. Then, upon arrival I am told the man I was too met with is out for the day and no one else was prepared to see me.

Tilapia, in being expensive, would represent the depths of my rage and loathing. However, they might not be worth it, so I might just send them a dead catfish.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Why not a clown fish?

 

[paradox42]

The point would be to send them something smelly and gross, correct? I'm not sure which fish smell worse than others when rotting, but I read somewhere that Hake pretty much turns to mush (rendering it useless for eating) which would make it a bee-yatch to clean up. You could also go with Halibut for the flatness, make it easier to mail.

Your situation reminds me of that Monty Python sketch from the first season, wherein Cleese makes Chapman do several crazy things during an ostensible interview for a management training course- only to tell him at the end that all the vacancies were filled weeks ago! I didn't know there were actually people who would do similar things in real life. Give 'em Hell, Hades, and the Abyss all at once!

 

[hanasays]

Sardines are pretty cheap, and exceptionally gross. On top of the smell, you can get them with the scales still on, and they have lots of tiny bones that stick to everything that touches them. They're also small, so that makes them easy to mail.

However, for sheer unparalleled wretchedness, NOTHING beats the smell of spoiled squid. Not the squid tentacles in the cans (calamari), I mean the actual cleaned pieces of flesh from the body. When it goes bad, it smells like a stray cat peed in a wet car full of rotting fish. It also exudes this disgusting liquid that isn't quite water, and is slimy and rubbery.

If I ever truly hated someone, I would send them rotten squid.

 

[Wycen]

Well, how about lutefisk?

I see a problem being that it'll arrive before it gets too stinky or perhaps be intercepted by a resposible post officer.

Just don't get in trouble

 

[Wycen]

Ok, so I'm watching a repeat of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel and it reminded me of a few things.

Can you get fermented shark? How about that fruit called durian?

 

[Verdande]

Wycen, that show is so awesome.

Also, I'd second the sardines thing. Those things are disgusting, and I'd imagine that their small individual size means that they'd decompose pretty quick and be nice and rotten by the time they get their mail.

 

[Aeolius]

"I took a fish head out to see a movie. Didn't have to pay to get it in."

 

[megamania]

send a dead fish..... LOL I must never get on your hate list....

 

[Knightfall]

Well, how about lutefisk?

I see a problem being that it'll arrive before it gets too stinky or perhaps be intercepted by a resposible post officer.

Just don't get in trouble

My step-father's brother-in-law left a lutefisk in his car once and forgot about it. I didn't smell it, but I heard the story.

Those fish are nasty!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk