Fish are awesome.

August 8, 2007 4:04 PM

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posted by Effigy2000 (35 comments total)

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posted by team lowkey at 4:13 PM on August 8, 2007 [15 favorites]

Aww, it's a fishie!

Keep it out of my pants.
posted by loquacious at 4:19 PM on August 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

What an exquisite ascii fish you created Effigy2000 and a cool post too. Love the fishmouth part with Dory speaking whale in finding Nemo.

Adding to the awesome fishiness, brilliant illustrations of deep sea fish by Japanese artist (flapjax or somebody who reads Japanese please hope me fill in the name of the artist). And my own fish post, Frankenfish.
posted by nickyskye at 4:20 PM on August 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Is this like the elephant thing? but with fish?

Did quonsar arrange all this?

Is this a cabal thing?
posted by quin at 4:24 PM on August 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

My favorite MetaTalk comment.
posted by grouse at 4:36 PM on August 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

For the sake of Catholic MeFites, couldn't you have saved this for Friday?
posted by wendell at 4:36 PM on August 8, 2007

I think before my days are done...
posted by Wolfdog at 4:38 PM on August 8, 2007

I really like nickskye's links.

I just took a very, very brief scan of the website (it's not that well laid-out, but it appears the illustrator you linked to has worked for a variety of Japanese research institutions...
posted by KokuRyu at 4:40 PM on August 8, 2007

These are pretty appropriate to this post.
posted by KokuRyu at 4:43 PM on August 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Darn, scroll down...probably what grouse meant to link to.
posted by KokuRyu at 4:44 PM on August 8, 2007

E2k you could also apply ghoti as a tag.
posted by quin at 4:45 PM on August 8, 2007

You have reminded me that I really want to watch Finding Nemo again. :)

I have a special relationship with the Frankenfish movie, btw. I was in a captive audience watching that movie on a Turkish bus in 2005 (trust me, it sucks in all languages) & then last year I got hired to design cheesy aim gifs for a bunch of movies. Including? Honestly, what are the odds...
posted by miss lynnster at 4:47 PM on August 8, 2007

The fish at Southpark.
posted by nickyskye at 4:52 PM on August 8, 2007

A certain new Mefite might respond:

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posted by rob511 at 5:10 PM on August 8, 2007

Hello. good evening and welcome to the middle of the film.
posted by Devils Rancher at 5:19 PM on August 8, 2007

what do you call a fish with no i's?

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posted by ORthey at 5:19 PM on August 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

frank gehry fish
posted by vronsky at 5:23 PM on August 8, 2007

Well, that's quite the amazing site you found there, nickyskye! Asked my wife to try and find the illustrator's name, but alas, after looking through various pages there she was unable to find it. The name might be swimming about somewhere in the deepest depths of the watery website, but if so it's one of those curious names that rarely see the light of day, prefering to remain cloaked in mystery, down in the darkest, coldest regions of that vast and often inscrutable ocean we call the world wide web.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:24 PM on August 8, 2007

Oh, and Effigy2000, nice fishie post. I like fishies.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:25 PM on August 8, 2007

For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was seen of Captain Ahab.

The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed to be the only commanders of the ship; only they sometimes issued from the cabin with orders so sudden and peremptory, that after all it was plain they but commanded vicariously.

Yes, their supreme lord and dictator was there, though hitherto unseen by any eyes not permitted to penetrate into the now sacred retreat of the cabin...
posted by R. Mutt at 5:34 PM on August 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Obligatory now extinct stinky-hippie-phish.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 5:34 PM on August 8, 2007

Just ran across this today: First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch
posted by coffee and minarets at 6:04 PM on August 8, 2007

The Deep has some nice fish.
posted by tellurian at 6:33 PM on August 8, 2007

Well this blows my fish FPP out of the water!

/rimshot

I'm so sorry.
posted by SassHat at 6:51 PM on August 8, 2007

this thread is useless without ascii pants.
posted by quonsar at 6:57 PM on August 8, 2007

flapjax, Thanks for trying.

vronsky, loved those Frank Gehry fish. The lamp and origamic paper ones were marvelous! Cool.

quin, fascinating about ghoti, never knew that.

tellurian, Aww, that cute little Deep Dumbo octopus gets me every time.
posted by nickyskye at 7:05 PM on August 8, 2007

Can I throw in the Reddit Fish? It is SO Fish 2.0!
posted by wendell at 7:42 PM on August 8, 2007

Seeing this >(({°>, I thought first, not of fish, but of The Flaming Carrot.
posted by SPrintF at 8:07 PM on August 8, 2007

This kind of ascii art fish is actually used in Germany to answer a troll posting.

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posted by yoyo_nyc at 8:17 PM on August 8, 2007

So long, thanks for >o(((°>
posted by Webbster at 8:33 PM on August 8, 2007

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posted by azaner at 8:45 PM on August 8, 2007

This kind of ascii art fish is actually used in Germany to answer a troll posting.

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posted by nickyskye at 7:11 AM on August 9, 2007

ITYM >(..)< HTH
posted by mendel at 8:39 PM on August 9, 2007

Adam Gault's Lantern Fish

Do the Salmon Dance with Fatlip and the Chemical Bros.
posted by carsonb at 8:20 AM on August 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

excellent carsonb.
posted by vronsky at 12:22 PM on August 10, 2007