gbinga said:
I didn't know carp were an invasive species.
Friend George,
He aint talkin' bout our carp. He iz talkin' bout the Asian carp. Our communist tv station iz runnin' a show on the invasion of them terrible critters. They jump up outta the water, mostly when they hear a prop in the water. One of 'em hit Lance in the head that day we went out fer him ta check hiz ole Johnson (the motor) 'n fer me ta check out my 30 pound canoe. He had jest begun ta open up the throttle when the carp begun ta jump. A big one (10-15 pounds), hit him square in the head. It shook him up 'n Lance iz a big fella.
Lance sez it hurt him, but he worried what if he had that throttle WFO? What if one of his grandkids had got hit in the head? A few months later in Lake Chicot, Arkansaw (jest cross the river frum where Jimmy W lived fer a spell), this young fella wuz bein' pulled on a innertube behind a speedboat. One of the Asian carp jumped up, hit him in the face, broke hiz jaw 'n knocked him out cold. Lucky someone in the speedboat seen it 'n went back quick before he drowned.
The tv show jest sez they been tryin' hard ta keep the Asian carp outta Lake Michigan. Our fish been hurt bad by this fish. Soon nobody will be able ta ride in a speedboat without a football helmet.....kinda like that time Jack Nicholson took off on the back of a motorcikle with Dennis Hopper 'n the Fonda boy.
regards
bearridge
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Xerxes: Brought peace.
