Comments on: More Than He Can Chew

By: meowmix

meowmix — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:27:18 +0000

P.S.- I hope you guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’ll be disappearing for a few days - back on Monday.

By: meowmix

meowmix — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:15:11 +0000

My Dear RDW: That was more than I wanted to know about oscars and zebras. We ARE a close blogging group, but you really don’t have to share that much with me!

By: john roberts

john roberts — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:03:28 +0000

Sometimes you’re the Oscar, sometimes you’re the zebra.

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:59:17 +0000

Fill that tank with bass and trout. Zebra tetras? No wayâ€¦

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:35:14 +0000

Have you forgotten? Maintaining an aquarium is the equivelent of a part- time job!
Do you remember that one time our family was watching Jesse K.’s (500 or so) aquariums when he went to Mexico to help you and one fish became despondent and committed suicide by jumping out of the tank?
What’s up with that??
He didn’t even leave a note…

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:18:04 +0000

I work with a guy named Oscar. I don’t think he likes zebra fish.

By: cwinwc

cwinwc — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:19:14 +0000

I’ve been on “both sides” of the oscar.

By: TC

TC — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:33:51 +0000

A Poem I used on Sunday

Sometimes when you’re feeling important
Sometimes when your ego’s in bloom
Sometimes when you take it for granted
You’re the best qualified in the room

Sometime when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these simple instructions
And see how they humble your soul.

Take a bucket and fill it with water
Put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out, and the hole that’s remaining
Is a measure of how you’ll be missed.

You can splash all you want when you enter,
You may stir up the water galore;
But stop, and you find that in no time
It looks quite the same as before.

The moral in this quaint example
Is to do just the best that you can;
Be proud of yourself, but remember
There’s no indispensable man.

By: Stoogelover

Stoogelover — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:05:51 +0000

We had aquariums for a few years and enjoyed them very much … but they were a pain to keep clean. Loved the neon tetras as much as any. We had cannibalistic fish as well.

As to your point of blog: It usually is obvious to everyone else when we take on more than we can handle. The amusing part of it is that the one drowning in task will pretend he / she can handle it.