Comments on: Guess size doesn't matter.

Guess size doesn't matter.

miss lynnster — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:49:37 -0800

Pink Barbie fishing rod hooks record-breaking 21 pound catfish.

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:55:36 -0800

Heh. That's nothing compared to winning the olympic gold for archery with a Hello Kitty bow.

By: cashman

cashman — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:10:26 -0800

Yun Ok-Hee here is modelling a PINK bow, and a cartoon panda chest guard! I had thought putting the color pink on something would make it unusable. Shows what I know!

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:13:57 -0800

By: Justinian

Justinian — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:15:23 -0800

Artw: You mean like this?

By: Science!

Science! — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:18:02 -0800

Individual warriors will of course carry pink weapons themselves.

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:20:08 -0800

Seriously, look at the size of that fish. If that fishing rod wasn't pink it'd snap in seconds!

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:31:14 -0800

That's nothing. Of course, this is only a frigate, but you could apply the same paint job to a battlecruiser.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:36:50 -0800

Math is hard, let's go fishing!

By: netbros

netbros — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:53:54 -0800

The Ken rod is ideal for this.

By: [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:56:04 -0800

Shameful that he would take credit for his granddaughter's catch.

By: notashroom

notashroom — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:07:42 -0800

So does this mean that pink cockroaches would be the ultimate in indestructibility?

By: Morrigan

Morrigan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:28:20 -0800

Yeah, I know we're supposed to be all post-modern and amused but this as a news item still makes me sad.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:35:19 -0800

Shameful that he would take credit for his granddaughter's catch. You've never been fishing, have you? That thing's nearly as big as her- there's no way she could possibly have reeled it in.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:44:30 -0800

She would have had to have been strapped in like on sea fishing boats.

By: [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:58:24 -0800

You've never been fishing, have you? Now now, I was just being funny, no need to haul out the sass-can. Why, I spent more time fishing in my youth than than most people ever do in their lives. (Considering how much of that entailed simply standing/sitting around, I often wonder whether it was laziness that contributed to this being my sport of choice.)

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:23:24 -0800

They were originally going after rockfish, but once they after the first bite the rod was heard to exclaim "Bass is hard!" and automatically severed the line.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:26:59 -0800

"... but after the first bite," rather. And on non-preview, grapefruitmoon beat me to the joke, and better. *Slinks away*

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:43:12 -0800

Shameful that he would ~~take credit for his granddaughter's catch~~ pretend it was his granddaughter's rod.

By: DU

DU — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:06:55 -0800

That's nothing compared to winning the olympic gold for archery with a Hello Kitty bow. IHBT

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:07:24 -0800

Ironic follow-up on that story: they couldn't bring the fish home because it was too big to fit in the car.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:12:19 -0800

That's nothing. I once caught a 300 lb grouper with one of these poles.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:13:29 -0800

I was just being funny I see no evidence of that. :D

By: diogenes

diogenes — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:17:07 -0800

Do they really put 20 pound test on a Barbie fishing pole?

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:47:25 -0800

I don't have a witty comment, but this picture belongs in this thread, somehow.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:59:32 -0800

"Do they really put 20 pound test on a Barbie fishing pole?" actually I've found the cheaper the rod/reel, the higher pound test on it....

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:16:28 -0800

I had thought putting the color pink on something would make it unusable. Like, say, a superhero outfit?

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:24:59 -0800

BitterOldPunk, or, if you're Louis Mountbatten, a bunch of destroyers.

By: nudar

nudar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:58:54 -0800

Whenever I assemble my invincible army of deathtanks and kill-bots I'm going to have them all painted pink, in honor of the fishing rod and the bow, because it is clearly the strongest colour of them all! Not to mention clearly the fastest what you think you could take it on? didn't think so!

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:55:48 -0800

That thing's nearly as big as her- there's no way she could possibly have reeled it in. When I was a kid my little sister sometimes tagged along when we went fishing. My dad would tie a bit of line directly onto the last couple of feet of an old rod, throw a bobber onto the end of the line and she'd sit by the shore and occasionally catch a sunfish or a small perch. But one day she started shouting "Daddy, Daddy!" and when we looked she'd hooked a bass so large it was literally pulling her into the water. By the time my dad made it down to where my sister was, she was up to her waist in the pond. He grabbed the rod and pulled the bass out, but the unhappy ending to this fish story was that a few minutes later, when my sister was posing for a photo holding "her" bass, the damned thing flopped out of her hands and bounced down the bank into the water before the picture could be taken. Inconsolable, she was.

By: utsutsu

utsutsu — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:17:23 -0800

My niece (3 years old at the time) caught a fish with the same pole. Her dad helped her actually land it of course, but this was a HUGE fish for the spot... which is just off a pier at a marina down at our "lake".

By: OrangeDrink

OrangeDrink — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:18:32 -0800

Well, what do you expect from a girl who's sister is a skipper?

By: amarie

amarie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:11:12 -0800

Do they really put 20 pound test on a Barbie fishing pole? The original article I saw said it was 6 pound test, so I'm impressed that he landed it.

By: unregistered_animagus

unregistered_animagus — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:05:41 -0800

Fishpride v. Pinkshame... The war of emotion taking place on this guy's face is simply astounding. (here's one pic in particular via neatorama)

By: dmo

dmo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:08:01 -0800

another picture is here