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[Gerry Seymour]

Good morning...it snowed... but just a dusting

It was 69F here at the beach this morning.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

so that beast actually exists?!
the 'fish monger' here is the Gordon fisherman....and Jimmy Dean is the butcher....

Yep. The term is used a bit loosely in this context, but it's a shop that sells only fresh seafood, locally caught. We picked up a fish I've never had before, and I've already forgotten the name - maybe trigger fish.

 

[granfire]

Yep. The term is used a bit loosely in this context, but it's a shop that sells only fresh seafood, locally caught. We picked up a fish I've never had before, and I've already forgotten the name - maybe trigger fish.

That is a fishmonger....

 

[Gerry Seymour]

That is a fishmonger....

It's my undestanding the term was originally for the individual (actually, "fishmonger" was the male term, with "fishwife" being the female term) selling it at a marketplace or dock (including those who sold to restaurants). Usage has loosened over time to include retail stores, who probably purchased it from a fishmonger.

 

[pdg]

It's my undestanding the term was originally for the individual (actually, "fishmonger" was the male term, with "fishwife" being the female term) selling it at a marketplace or dock (including those who sold to restaurants). Usage has loosened over time to include retail stores, who probably purchased it from a fishmonger.

The term is for the individual. Monger is basically "one who sells" - like an ironmonger...

What you visited is a "fishmonger's shop"

 

[AngryHobbit]

so that beast actually exists?!
the 'fish monger' here is the Gordon fisherman....and Jimmy Dean is the butcher....

Yes. It does exist. I only grumbled a little that we actually had to drive two miles to get there. At Holden Beach, I stayed at a place where the fishmonger was like a third of a mile down the road - you could pop over on foot and have a shrimp cocktail for breakfast.

 

[granfire]

It's my undestanding the term was originally for the individual (actually, "fishmonger" was the male term, with "fishwife" being the female term) selling it at a marketplace or dock (including those who sold to restaurants). Usage has loosened over time to include retail stores, who probably purchased it from a fishmonger.

now you are just splitting hair.....
the point being that in (most?) many part of the country the fish shop is the big box chain store that sells fish sticks in a box, maybe some frozen tilapia.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

I’d love to have a castle. Then teach junk Martial Arts there. We could call it McFortress.

That would actually be a great business strategy. We could all rent out a castle together, then teach our own martial arts in different rooms.

 

[granfire]

Yes. It does exist. I only grumbled a little that we actually had to drive two miles to get there. At Holden Beach, I stayed at a place where the fishmonger was like a third of a mile down the road - you could pop over on foot and have a shrimp cocktail for breakfast.

spoiled much?
I have to drive 5 hours to the coast for that!

 

[granfire]

That would actually be a great business strategy. We could all rent out a castle together, then teach our own martial arts in different rooms.

actually teach?
why not just send out the book and some DVDs, along with the belt, and trust they do the curriculum on their own time!

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

actually teach?
why not just send out the book and some DVDs, along with the belt, and trust they do the curriculum on their own time!

Then how am i going to show them my castle??
What i could do is use the castle as a place to offer a sales pitch for the videos...

 

[Xue Sheng]

Is it time to start complaining about the cold already?

That all depends on your definition of cold

Now THAT could get you a shun from me.

But then, where I am from, 'dusting' is a threat to the social order and promises complete pandemonium!

It was just an weather report and of little consequence in these here parts

It was 69F here at the beach this morning.

We don't have a beach

 

[Xue Sheng]

Xue before dealing with Microsoft

Xue after dealing with Microsoft

 

[Buka]

It was 69F here at the beach this morning.

It was 56F here on the mountain this morning.

 

[Buka]

Then how am i going to show them my castle??
What i could do is use the castle as a place to offer a sales pitch for the videos...

And t-shirts. We gotta sell t-shirts. Maybe castle hats.

 

[AngryHobbit]

spoiled much?
I have to drive 5 hours to the coast for that!

That's what we did. Drove 5 hours to the coast. We don't actually live here.

 

[AngryHobbit]

That would actually be a great business strategy. We could all rent out a castle together, then teach our own martial arts in different rooms.

Halls. Not rooms. If it's a castle - you've got halls.

 

[AngryHobbit]

We don't have a beach

We don't either. That's why we went TO it.

 

[AngryHobbit]

And t-shirts. We gotta sell t-shirts. Maybe castle hats.

T-shirts, hats, flip-flops, glasses, bags, custom-printed panty liners...

 

[Gerry Seymour]

now you are just splitting hair.....

I can be needlessly pedantic sometimes. Mea culpa.