On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:57:23 +0100, Roy Brown 
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>
>Yeah, makes me feel like small fry :-)
>
>But apart from the Swimming Upstream to Spawn song (Hold On, I'm Coming 
>by Salmon Dave), I'm all out of Salmonidae puns.
>
>And I used to have lox :-(
>
>Oh no, wait, there goes that fish with the fatwa against him - what's 
>his name? Oh yes, Salmon Rushdie...
>
>And that toxic lady jazz singer, Salmonella Fitzgerald....
>
> From Wikipedia, I find:-
>
>"In Irish mythology, a creature called the Salmon of Wisdom plays key 
>role in the tale known as The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn. The Salmon will 
>grant powers of knowledge to whoever eats it, and has been sought by the 
>poet Finn Eces for seven years. Finally Finn Eces catches the fish and 
>gives it to his young pupil, Fionn mac Cumhaill, to prepare it for him. 
>However, Fionn burns his thumb on the salmon's juices, and he 
>instinctively puts it in his mouth. As such, he inadvertently gains the 
>Salmon's wisdom."
>
>You can't help thinking, though, that he had heard someone speak of the 
>'wisdom of Solomon',  and being slightly deaf....
>

Roy,
Thereby hangs a tail...
There's something fishy going on here...
We need to scale down this thread...

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