Strangetown Extras: April Fish!

[strangetomato]

Did you know that the practical joking element of April Fools Day was most likely started in France? In France (or French cultures, like in French Canada) the person being fooled is referred to as a poisson d'avril, or April fish. This originally had something to do with the zodiac, and the French traditionally celebrated April Fools Day by placing dead fish on the backs of their friends. (No, I'm not making this up!)

Fish fight!




Johnny: You're going down, Grunt!

Ripp: Ooooof!




Johnny: Oh, NICE! A direct hit!

Ripp: Owwww! Watch the face, Johnny!

Johnny: Fish in the face!




Ripp: I'll bet you'd fucking love that, huh, Johnny? A big face full of fish?

Johnny: Don't get it in my mouth! I'm a vegetarian!

Ripp: That doesn't count, John.




Johnny: Face your defeat, Ripp. You're no match for me.

Ripp: Yeah, you have all the fucking skills, Johnny. Nobody slings a fish around quite like you do.

Johnny: Good workout! Now I don't need to go for a jog.

Ripp: Why jog when you can play with giant fish?




Ripp: Another challenger, hey? You'll be sorry, Phi...

Ophelia: Oh, we'll see about that!

Ripp: *gets pummeled*




Ripp: You call that a fish slap?! You hit like a girl, Phi!

Ophelia: So do you!

Ripp: You'll pay for that remark!

Ophelia: Bring it on!




Ripp: It's easy to hit such a nice, round target!

Ophelia: Hey! Watch it!

Ripp: *thinking* Such a sweet, sweet target...




Ophelia: It's not THAT big!




Ripp: Nothing wrong with a little junk on the trunk, Phi. Nothing at all... *stares*

Ophelia: You're an April fool alright. Get your face out of there!

Ripp: This is my favourite day of the year. Fuckin' sweet...




Ophelia: You're in for it!

Ripp: Oh, that's right! Punish me.








Oh, and I almost forgot... the mod that turns your pillow fights into fish fights can be found here.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Nice. ^_^

Fish scales would have been so cool, but there's something sort of absurdly funny in its own right about hitting someone with a fish and having feathers shoot everywhere.

Oooh. A sneaky anchovy attack? How clever.

*holds out a sculpin*

That should frighten you away! (Be careful, though... they sting!)

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's cute! I think I caught one of those, once, when I was crabbing. Or it might have been a toadfish, which is similarly spiky and ugly-cute.

I hope you are not disappointed by my lack of fright.
*pelts you with smelts*

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

No, you must be mistaken. :P You couldn't have seen a sculpin if you thought it was cute... they're large(ish) and frightening, and they kick up hell when you pull them up from the deep. When we jig for codfish, we always pray not to pull one up. They're hard to get off the hook, with all the spikes and the stinging.

I'm not sure what she pulled up, but my aunt told me that she once pulled up something so hideously frightening that my grandfather took it and said, "Oh, that's the devil." And he was DEAD SERIOUS. Pop was the best. (All this fish talk makes me sentimental.)

*places an eel around your neck like a boa*

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Did you look at the picture? It's cute, dammit! :D

But they do sound frightening in the flesh. Or embedded in your flesh. The thing we caught was probably a toadfish. It was so long ago, I don't really remember what it looked like. But I remember how we caught it -- it latched onto some crab bait (a slightly rotten chicken neck) and didn't want to let go, even when we lifted it above the surface. Tenacious little bugger! And it looked like it belonged on the bottom of the ocean floor, with some luminescent dangly thing hanging over its massive jaws. Cute.

*beans you with a bream*