Article: 179036 of talk.bizarre From: Benjamin Cox <thoth+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: Aruba Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 23:27:51 -0500 Organization: Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <0ire97200ioV0AZ0M0@andrew.cmu.edu> Status: O I was lamenting the fact that I had nothing to post for Fail To Suck Day, when I read the letter from my dad. He and my mom just got back from Aruba, where they went for a Thanksgiving vacation. In it, he says: Back to Aruba: I got attacked and bit by a fish. A little brown fellow the size and shape of a coin purse came out and threatened me and tried to stare me down. Actually, I suspect there were several of them working in shifts, but it was hard to tell because tropical fish of the same species tend to look pretty much identical. Anyway, I thought this was amusing, but he was apparently serious, because after about an hour of haranguing me in fish, he got his balls together and bit me on the hand. His mouth is only about an eighth of an inch wide, so he couldn't really bite me of course, and I only felt a little tickle on the back of my hand, but I was amused and rather admired the courage of the little guy. Must have taken some determination to make him try nipping a plug out of this huge, clumsy white-and-red strange fish like that. I don't think that I would have done it. I tried to congratulate him, but he hurried off to a hole in the coral to calm down, and I wasn't able to say much. __ Ben Cox thoth+@cmu.edu