<P>a fluke also is a nasty wormlike creature that gets in your liver and eats you alive from the inside.
<P> <B><I>Bill Gunter <jazzboard@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi listmates and also picky-picky Bill Hildebrandt!<BR><BR>I wrote:<BR><BR>". . . somehow I wound up playing washboard on a fluke."<BR><BR>to which Bill H. writ:<BR><BR>>Now, being an old salt-water fisherman, I know that a fluke is a sort of<BR>>sea-going flounder, which as most folk know is a very flat fish. What I'd<BR>>like to know is how it feels playing the washboard sitting on a flat fish?<BR><BR>If the flounder is still feeding at the bottom of the sea it would be damned <BR>uncomfortable! If, on the other hand, it was a halibut and it was lying on <BR>the deck of the boat where I had just hauled it in (a big one, about 5 feet <BR>long!) I'd probably be quite happy to sit on it and play a victory song to <BR>celebrate my catch.<BR><BR>However, this is all simply blather because the second definition in my <BR>dictionary for this word (fluke) is:<BR><BR>fluke2 n<BR><BR>1. something surprising or unexpected that happens by accident (informal)<BR><BR>So there you have it. If you want to play the washboard go fishing!<BR><BR>Respectfully submitted,<BR><BR>Bill "I caught my limit, too!" Gunter<BR>jazzboard@hotmail.com<BR><BR><BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. <BR>http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Dixielandjazz mailing list<BR>Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com<BR>http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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