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What does Colin say?  "She's like a goldfish, each tour of the bowl a virgin experience." Colin Bateman, in novel Cycle of Violence

Nona the brit · Accepted Answer

There is a theory that fish have a memory of 6 seconds only, therefore it is not cruel to keep them in small bowls, as everytime they go round it is a brand new experience!

Jobb · Answer

thanks.  <h2></h2><h2></h2><h2></h2><h2></h2><h2></h2>===

Klavier · Answer

That myth was busted on a program on TV (Mythbusters), on discovery channel. (i)

MrPedantic · Answer

Hmm. Don't remember that one, Latin. What was it about?

MrP

CalifJim · Answer

Geez! You're hitting them out the park lately!!!

A real knee-slapper!

Klavier · Answer

Do you like that tv show MrP? Well, Adam and Jamie had to put several fish in a mini aquarium with several holes in it, the food was at the end of the aquarium and the fishes had to pass the holes. Finally they discovered, after one month, that the fish 'remembered' where the holes were, and where the food was, jeje, interesting...
I just try to help CJ, out of the boundaries of the grammar of course, jeje

Jobb · Answer

knee-slapper?

CalifJim · Answer

A remark that's so funny that it makes you laugh and slap your knee (or upper leg)! (American slang)

I don't know if that gesture is restricted to American culture.

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