Amsterdam isn't on an island.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 11:40, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I had to explain to someone a while back that islands weren't floating.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 11:43, Reply)

One of my ex employees maintained that saveloys are made from fish.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 11:47, Reply)

That's fucking priceless!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 11:49, Reply)

genuinely?
did they have some basis for this? I mean, other than presumably assuming that the taxinomical structure of fish was based upon location in a chippy's hot cabinet?

"yeah, so your basic fish species, y'see, you've got cod, haddock, rock, then yer scampis and fishcakes, although I fink fishcakes might be crustyalsatians or summat, then yer saveloys. But I've heard saveloys have been really overfished, right?"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 11:51, Reply)

This makes me want fish and chips.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)

Me too.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 12:04, Reply)

Everyone knows that pies are fish
And onion rings.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 16 Sep 2011, 12:01, Reply)

pies might well be molluscs, as it goes.
shells and that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)

A gullible colleague allowed himself to be convinced that pepperoni was made out of peppers.

(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Fri 16 Sep 2011, 12:35, Reply)