Comments on: there oughta be a law http://thisfish.com/there-oughta-be-a-law/ Found the bike. Not changing the title. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Katherine http://thisfish.com/there-oughta-be-a-law/#comment-3083 Katherine Tue, 02 Dec 2003 04:15:07 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=540#comment-3083 <p>Lately, the most annoying "toy" to my ears is the cellular phone. Particularly while on transit, the riders who insist on blabbing at 90 decibels their Christmas shopping lists and other inane crap. Yesterday this one woman annoyed the entire freaking bus by yelling into her cell phone. Someone started yelling at her and then the whole bus chimed in with shut-the-f-up-cell-phone-f-wad. It was music to my ears. <br /><br />P.S. A couple of years ago at our tacky gift exchange, someone gave someone a laughing fish wall plaque. It was cute.</p> Lately, the most annoying “toy” to my ears is the cellular phone. Particularly while on transit, the riders who insist on blabbing at 90 decibels their Christmas shopping lists and other inane crap. Yesterday this one woman annoyed the entire freaking bus by yelling into her cell phone. Someone started yelling at her and then the whole bus chimed in with shut-the-f-up-cell-phone-f-wad. It was music to my ears.

P.S. A couple of years ago at our tacky gift exchange, someone gave someone a laughing fish wall plaque. It was cute.

]]> By: Lex http://thisfish.com/there-oughta-be-a-law/#comment-3082 Lex Tue, 02 Dec 2003 03:56:14 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=540#comment-3082 <p>I like the baseball-bat idea. You could (note the conditional; this is not advice, just an observation) do it like John Belushi did Stephen Bishop's guitar in "Animal House": just smash the damn thing to pieces, hand the pieces back to the owner, shrug, say, "Sorry," and move on.</p><br /><br /><p>And my bro-in-law actually did give Big Mouth Billy Bass to my son. I hid it, then later destroyed it.</p><br /><br /><p>::Enters Bad Parent Hall of Fame::</p> I like the baseball-bat idea. You could (note the conditional; this is not advice, just an observation) do it like John Belushi did Stephen Bishop’s guitar in “Animal House”: just smash the damn thing to pieces, hand the pieces back to the owner, shrug, say, “Sorry,” and move on.

And my bro-in-law actually did give Big Mouth Billy Bass to my son. I hid it, then later destroyed it.

::Enters Bad Parent Hall of Fame::

]]> By: browniethoughts http://thisfish.com/there-oughta-be-a-law/#comment-3081 browniethoughts Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:32:39 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=540#comment-3081 <p>Act interested ask for your turn to tickle Elmo, flip him over take his batteries out and toss THEM over the balcony.</p> Act interested ask for your turn to tickle Elmo, flip him over take his batteries out and toss THEM over the balcony.

]]> By: me http://thisfish.com/there-oughta-be-a-law/#comment-3080 me Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:31:34 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=540#comment-3080 <p>Fish's favorite toy makes more of a vibrating sound :P</p> Fish’s favorite toy makes more of a vibrating sound :P

]]> By: Frankenstein http://thisfish.com/there-oughta-be-a-law/#comment-3079 Frankenstein Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:48:25 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=540#comment-3079 <p>I would perhaps suggest that you take your favorite toy into the office tomorrow.</p><br /><br /><p>And by favorite toy, I really mean a baseball bat to smash the tickle-me-elmo.</p> I would perhaps suggest that you take your favorite toy into the office tomorrow.

And by favorite toy, I really mean a baseball bat to smash the tickle-me-elmo.

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