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First of all, fish are healthy creatures and make quite yummy dishes. One of the best meals I ever had involved a shark steak, a grill and a cold beer. You can dress fish dishes up with pasta, or salads and they are light and always appropriate. However, fish on pizza – not so welcome a sight for me.

But lets take fish out of water for a moment. Have you got a hold of it? Good. It might try to squiggle and get away from you. If you see it’s gills and mouth opening and closing, you might want to dunk it back in the water and give it a breath. Yes, that’s right – good. Now, on to the more interesting aspects of fish than just as a food source.

They’re cool to watch – Have you ever gone into a Dr’s office where there is a huge aquarium and tropical fish are all swimming around in their brightly colored bodies, gliding through the water so calm and serene? You actually start to feel soothed and a bit hypnotized. I could watch the little suckers for hours. The sound of the filters and pumps is also quite pleasant and makes you want to drift off to sleep…zzzzzzzzz…

What? Who? Oh, yes, we were discussing fish.

Another interesting thing about fish are they make awesome heroes – I see some of you making faces out there, but think about it. Hot, sexy hunky merman, saves a woman from drowning and it’s love at first scale. He has to decide if his love for the sea is greater than his love for a land-bound woman. Or there are other underwater heroes to admire - Patrick Duffy as the Man from Atlantis anyone? Then there are the water Gods. Poseidon comes to mind. How much fun is it to dream of taming a god and bringing down to a human level?

And the last reason, if fish are good enough for Douglas Adams, they’re good enough for me.  

(If you don’t know what I mean with that last line, you are not a true sci-fi geek.)

-Kate

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