Silly

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And Now For Something Completely Different.

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Synchronized fish or fun with magnets?
Fu Yandong, a Chinese magician has sparked outrage from animal rights groups with a trick in which he gets goldfish to swim in sync. They suspect that Fu uses magnets embedded inside the fish.

The trick involves six fish in a shallow tank on a covered table, who swim in formation at Fu's command.

Fu has so far refused to reveal the secret.

"My fish," he wrote on his microblog, are "living happily".

But his assurances have failed to quell the controversy.

In an open letter on Monday, 53 Chinese non-governmental organisations urged TV stations not to broadcast Fu's act in the future, and demanded the trick not be repeated during CCTV's Lantern Festival special.

The groups expressed fears the trick could lead to animals being tortured if viewers tried to copy it.

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Fish On Fridays. Fish Beer Does Winter.

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Winter from fishbeer on Vimeo.

I'm starting to feel sympathetic for our brethren stuck in the middle and eastern portions of our fair land. Didn't the Tzar and Stalin send people to the icy tundra for punishment? I hope your Siberian winter ends soon. Good luck and drink lots of bourbon.
Via Moldy Chum. see also fishbeer.

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Baby, It's Cold Outside.

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I need to get out of Dodge and high tail it over to a place where I won't suffer from frost bite on my hands when I go down to the beach. I was at Crissy yesterday contemplating a paddle, that lasted about a second as the cold Arctic breeze kissed my face. Yes, I know, some would say I'm a wimp. But let's face it folks, humans evolved in the tropics. (If you're a creationist, please don't email me.) We like warm weather, cold is not good for our bodies. Just walk around outside in the nude without a bottle of scotch in the middle of a "temperate" winter. Speaking of scotch, I've got to go. Baby, it's cold outside.