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1 hour ago, marled said:

But now I stop to bore the forum people. I have shown enough that I am a freak! ?

It's all good by me. :)

Your post raises many discussion points ... but thankfully for everyone else I've run out of steam for the day. :D

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21 hours ago, InstrEd said:

But the picture was only for illustrated purposes ?

<Sprachpolizei>

... for illustrat ed ion purposes.

FTFY ?

... or illustrative purposes, or illegitimate purposes, or illimitable, or illogical, or Illuminati, or illuminating, or illusionist, or even illustrious porpoises ...

just not illustrated.

Got it?

</Sprachpolizei>

(Entschuldigung, ich war mehr als acht Jahre Englischlehrer in Deutschland!)

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20 hours ago, InstrEd said:

I dolphin get it                                     ? 

 

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17 hours ago, craigb said:

Go fish.

Whilst doing some research into my family tree, in some parish church baptism records I came across a Mr & Mrs Fish who named their son George Dolphin Fish.  I guess zoology wasn't their strong point.

Amongst his siblings were two brothers: John Pilot Fish* and Salmon Fish. His sisters were more sensibly named: 

Sarah Fish, Rachel Elizabeth Fish and Ellen Sophia Fish

He was born in 1840. In 1863 he married Harriette Bird!

 

NB: They aren't relations of my mine.

 

 

* I wonder whether they were thinking of the pilot whale, which is, in fact, a species of dolphin.

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24 minutes ago, Wibbles said:

...  I came across a Mr & Mrs Fish who named their son George Dolphin Fish.  I guess zoology wasn't their strong point.

Amongst his siblings were two brothers: John Pilot Fish* and Salmon Fish.

* I wonder whether they were thinking of the pilot whale, which is, in fact, a species of dolphin.

Whoops, what a blunder!

As you say zoology was, perhaps, not their strong point.

Aren't pilot whales and dolphins, in fact air breathing mammals, not fish?

Whereas the salmon is, indeed, a fish.

(I've often thought, shouldn't zoology actually be spelled zooology, maybe hyphenated zoo-ology?)

Passing thoughts certainly can be illuminatingly illogical, leaving one feeling, somehow, ill-at-ease. Donchathink?

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