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Having recently received instructions to "post something interesting" I am issuing a challenge. In another thread, one full of puns about fish and dogs, I managed to pun "coelacanth." The challenge I propose is this: In order to extend our punmeister extraordinaire, could someone give TEd an even more awkward fish name to pun with?
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Well, i already mentioned the infamous candiru, which is ripe for 'pun'ishment.... just a suggestion.
and thanks, max, that'll suffice =)
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This looks like a job for FishonaBike! 
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a challenge?? how about humuhumunukunukuapuaa?!  (it's a small Hawaiian fish)
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Couple of New Hampshire entries fishing for puns :
Smelt,
Lobster,
and the ever popular : alewife.
wow
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Here in snowy Minnesota, I'm told it's eelpout season.
Eelpout. Kinda rolls off the tongue...
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Dear Fiberbabe: My dictionary says eelpout are marine. Are they, like the lamprey, something that got into Great Lakes via the Welland Canal into Lake Erie?
"About, about, in reel and rout the eelpout danced at night"
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Here on the borders of the Chesapeake we have a fish called the crappie. That should make for punny material.
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BYB, is a crappie a small fish, circular of body if you look at it sideways, very thin and flat, yellowish in colour with a touch of green? Grows to about size of your palm.
We have a nuisance fish called Crapais Soleil. Sounds too similar.
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My dictionary says another name for crappie is sunfish. They typically have a small round dark spot behind the eye.
They are also called bluegills. I have never eaten them, so cannot say whether they taste crappy or not.
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