HotPads Daily :: The Official Blog of HotPads.com

Bran Wilson and Brian Cereal

As Brian Wilson just wasn't made for these times,
cereal boxes just weren't made for plastic grocery bags.

Admit It

You save the best hangers for your favourite shirts.

Fish Joke(s)

Q: What did the fish say when it ran into the wall?

Detroit River Fish Enclosure, ca. 1890

A(s):

• "Give me a second to re-grouper"
• "Took that last turn at too sharp an angler!"
• "I thought there'd be a carp-al tunnel"
• "I'm such a dumb bass"
• "Didn't pike that one bit"
• "I'm seeing starfish!"
• "Tomorrow I'll be all black and bluefin"
• "What the halibut?!"
• "Gosh, that stingrays"
• "Now who's the clownfish?"
• "That didn't eel very good"
• "I've got a cod-awful migraine now"
• "I'm such a chum-p"
• "Feel like I've been hit with a hammerhead!"
• "Lucky I'm not a dead herring!"
• "That almost knocked me trout cold"
• "I had a shad feeling about this"
• "Reckon I'm between a rockfish and a hard place"
• "All the seahorses and all the fisher king's men...."
• "That's a far sight better than electric eel fence!"
• "Wouldn't be school without some hard knocks"
• "That's a scrod place to put a wall"
• "Next time I'd better bear a left, not barracuda"
• "Boy do I look like a suckerfish"
• "I hope minnowbody saw that"
• "Algae, that smarts!"
• "Maybe next time I should try to scale it"

All images public domain, thanks to our good friends
at the NOAA Photo Library Historic Image Collection.

Please add more possibilities in the comments.

An Herbaceous Proposal

Many passion-drenched issues were touched on in the months and weeks leading up to the elections that took place earlier in November.  There was one that, to these eyes, seemed to be passed over at every turn: the adoption of "broccoli" and "cauliflower" as official polar opposites of each other.

I would like to rectify that, however, by now making the following case: that these two items be added to what is colloquially known as "opposing sides of the Pong court", and will henceforth be considered in the same, useful canon with their fruited brethren "apples/oranges"; standing alongside other ESAs such as "night/day", "circle/square" and "sun/rain".