On 10/9/2014 3:58 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>> On 10/8/2014 5:17 PM, Cherry wrote:
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>>> Your right in that it was my first time with catfish. Cornmeal I was
>>> brought with especially buttery polenta with lots of parmesan stirred
>>> in or poured on to a plate and topped with cinnamon sugar for
>>> breakfast. Never have I been served it raw anywhere in Europe. I was
>>> fully expecting to be served a piece of fish breaded in cornmeal,
>>> fried and golden looking.
>>>
>>> Cherry
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>> To be honest, that sure sounds like a goofy dish. Austin might have
>> gotten so trendy that they've passed through cool and arrived at silly.
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>> I used to take my little son across the street to fish in the dark and
>> foreboding waters of the Ala Wai canal. That place was filled with
>> tilapia. There's no way we could eat those fish but it was great fun
>> for the boy to catch fish out of the water.
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>> One day he was squatting on the landing looking at something in the
>> water. I guess his head was so heavy that he just tipped into the
>> water. When I looked into the water, he was rolled up into a ball and
>> just sank into the dark waters and disappeared. I ain't never seen a
>> boy do that before. My wife was going to jump in but I told her to
>> wait a few seconds. After a while he slowly reappeared and bobbed up
>> to the surface. It was the coolest thing ever. I grabbed him and
>> landed him. His eyes were wide open and that startled look reminded me
>> of the moment he was born.
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>> We took him home and hosed him down - the Ala Wai is famous for it's
>> really filthy, toxic, waters. Luckily, he came out fine and suffered
>> no ill effects. I think we stopped fishing there after that.
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> Oh my! I think I would have jumped in! What age was he then?
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That probably would not have been a wise thing to do. My guess is that
he would have been around 3 or 4. I think that he said that he did
remember the incident. That rolling into a ball stuff was totally off
the wall. My guess is that when you enter the water like that you just
spin and sink deeply and then slowly rise to the surface. That's what I
remember seeing. My guess is that he got memorized by a tilapia siren.