I really can't resist sharing this one.
Years ago I was on one of those day-trip fishing trips, where they take you a few miles out in the ocean, you drop a baited line, and wait. A so-called 'party boat' with no party on this trip.
I was with a friend and we were catching quite a few fish. Someone much younger than us, and further down the rail, hauled something in that was ugly. Plain ugly. Butt ugly. It was spiny and prickly, and motley brown, and looked like nothing you could keep, or want to. The younger fellow that caught it asked the mate what kind of fish it was. Neither my friend or I knew.
The mate looked at the young man, paused just a bit, asked him if he was married ("no") and told him it was the "mother-in-law fish."
When we got back to shore and home I asked another friend, who really was a fisherman, what the fish might have really been. He said it was a "hacklehead,' and yes they are quite ugly and nothing you'd keep.
This picture of an Australian spider was plucked off a Twitter tweet of a journalist in Brisbane, @lifeasinzy. The credits follow:
Habitat of the stunning banksia peacock spider, found only in Perth, is protected by 9 WLT refuges. Photo: B. Fremlin
If that spider were a witch doctor you'd have to get well, or die from a heart attack.
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