Back before the invention of television, we had to make our own entertainment.
Alternative title: Cassius shot a manta just to watch it die.
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Watching the expiring throes of a red mullet, was, admittedly, a guilty pleasure; but what can we old-timers say? It was Saturday night prime-time entertainment.
ReplyDeleteI would still enjoy watching a mullet die, and not just a redhead's.
ReplyDeleteThey sit around watching a fish die when there is Peacock inna basket coming out? This is the decline and fall of the bleedin' empire all right.
ReplyDeleteWine ladies had see-through t-shirts, he noted.
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If you draw the Romans pulling the limbs off bugs you have to finish the drawing with a microscope, so OF COURSE a mullet.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Watching fish die is much more fun than looking at peacocks and topless ladies.
ReplyDeleteThey've gone to a lot of trouble to watch a mullet die. Why did nobody think to just go to a hockey game?
ReplyDeleteWhy did nobody think to just go to a hockey game?
ReplyDeleteThey don't have topless wine ladies at the hockey game - unless it's the playoffs.
So, instead, it's "Die, commie fish, die!!!"
I thought it was dorado (dolphin fish, mahi-mahi, whatever) that they would bring to town to watch die. It is a spectacular show. Florescent yellows and reds, electric blues, it's like a piscine aurora borealis that takes about 15 minutes after the death of the fish. (Sorry fish.)
ReplyDeleteDid they ever watch a Bouffant bite it or a Duck's Ass die?
ReplyDeleteThey don't have topless wine ladies at the hockey game
ReplyDeleteThen...what...have...I been watching...all...this...time?
Isn't this kid a little young to have meth mouth?
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