>>btw, if the parrot fish had been discovered first, would a parrot be called a parrot-bird?)
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>>And would he be dead?
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>Well maybe ex-
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>"if you hadn't weighted down its swim bladder it would be floating belly-up by now!"
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>This goes for many fish: scorpion, lion, crocodile, et al.


No, no. You have to say: "It is not!"
Then I bump into the fish tank and say: "There! It moved!"

Terry!