Nice Turn of Phrase

[Doug Harris]

In an article in this morning's LA Times, Cosmologist Wendy
Freedman was discussing finding a certain kind of star called
'Cepheids'. She said:
"Early on, it was thought that we could never find Cepheids there.
They jumped out like fish."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-qa13-2009jun13,0,3896613.story
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That interesting phrase led me to google, where one of "about
529" hits for 'jump like fish' provided an interesting contextual
use of that phrase on the site http://www.ralphmag.org/DA/esl.html
-- subheaded "English Surely Latinized:
"We will sprinkle holy water on pronouns, make the
sign of the cross on past participles, _jump like fish_
from Lake Pátzcuaro on gerunds, pour tequila from
Jalisco on future perfects, say shoes and shit, grab a
cool verb and a pollo loco and dance on the walls like
chapulines."
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Now call me crazy, but I'd hardly like anticipating, never mind
considering perfect, a future with tequila poured all over it --
'specially if I'd been assigned 'shoes and shit' for some reason.
Still...
different folks like different strokes.
dh


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