"Guests are like fish: After 3 days they both stink."

When I was a kid and people still read newspapers, a birdcage lined with newspaper was a common metaphor writers used to describe how others sometimes treat their work.

When my parents and grandparents were kids, they wrapped fish in newspaper; different metaphor, same idea.

Arthur Treacher's Fish 'n Chips (a competitor to Long John Silver's) used to line their fish 'n chips baskets with food service paper printed like old newspaper. We tried to read the stories, but they were often cropped and nonsensical. Arthur Treacher's is still around >  but not near me.

How'd you like to be the writer that wrote for Aurthur Treacher's fish 'n chips basket liners? One way ticket to fish, no middleman to stop the news on it's way to it's a useful purpose.

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Click to enlarge: Here is a picture of Grandpa and Grandma Cairns (Thomas Cairns and Geneva Cairns) and grandchildren circa 1972. Grandchildren are: Dan Young (held by Grandpa), then L-R, Tom Tom, Carolee, Dee Dee, Linda, me, and Tom.

"Guests are like fish: After 3 days they both stink"
--Grandma Cairns (Geneva Cairns, née Bauer; my dad's mom; she was really very sweet and had a way of saying things like this without a hint of unkindness.)

[2013-06-13]

 

 

 

 

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