Fish

[susan]

Thank you all for your responses.
Best,
Susan Dean Gilbert
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From: "lesa.dill" <lesa.dill at WKU.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: FWD: Fish


> It may be merely folk etymology, but I've heard "fresh fish" > "fish" as
in
> newly caught.  I don't know if "jail bait" works into that or not.
> Lesa Dill
>
> >===== Original Message From susan <mssmith at boone.net> =====
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: susan
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:47 AM
> >Subject: Fish
> >
> >
> >Any ideas on where the prison term "fish" for the new man on the
cell-block
> originated?
> >Thank you very much,
> >Susan Gilbert
>