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So kids, snap out of it! Get off the cell phones, get away from the computer, and mail someone a fish! Before it’s too late!
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My name is Matthew Xavier. I live in Minnesota, read books, and write software (for fun and profit).
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Many years ago at a friend's high school graduation, I spent an hour at a table with my brother and our band director. We were strange people. I ate one mint for half an hour, our band director made faces in his salad dressing, and my brother melted things in the decorative candle.
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May 8th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
OK, the only reference I know of mailing a fish is from “Animal Crossing” for the nintendo consoles, so I am _really_ curious what the context to that quote is.
May 8th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Car Talk is an NPR radio show on which two brothers take calls from people who have car-related problems and attempt to give advice. As part of each week’s show, they present a “puzzler” and solicit answers, always to be mailed in on something exotic (i.e. etched into the bezel of a 50-inch plasma television complete with surround speakers and VESA-compatible wall mount).
No one has actually sent anything they’ve asked for, but this week they listed some of the odd items they’ve actually received, including a dead fish (sealed in a plastic bag). The context of the quotation is them bemoaning that our generation communicates electronically, so pretty soon no one will be mailing weird stuff around anymore.