Give and man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish…

[gr8gonzo]

...by having him listen to early Marillion.

...and you'll feel slightly guilty when he is cited for fishing without a licence.

...and you'll need a deck of cards.

...and you'll first have to pursue an advanced degree in fish teaching at the School of Fish, oversleep the day of that vital third year exam and have to repeat the course that summer all while going into debt, then struggle to get a teaching position at said school, working your way up from Good Will Hunting to Alan Turing only to be underappreciated by your students, then disappear into a bottle for a few years and wake one morning in a puddle of wee and have an epiphany, go to the gym, do the 3 S's, get online, launch a fish teaching website and post seminars for a fee, go viral for that thing you said that one time, receive an influx of cash, blow it all on Nutella and a gelding named Ival Kutchykokov, find yourself in the hull of a cargo ship dodging your bookie's collections department, emerge on an isle somewhere in the Caribbean, lose your shoes to a determined crab, fall face first into the surf, howl in pain when a fish finds the nipple ring you don't remember getting, spring to your feet and discover a man eyeing you strangely while you remove the fish from your breast and wait for him to ask the inevitable question, "Can you teach me to fish?"

*Please note: I am on pain medication and don't even remember turning on my computer. "Humans" is pretty cool new sci fi show. My mouth tastes like pocket change.

[rogerg]

Can you share the meds?

[Brom]

Angling for comments?

[Trapezium Artist]

Well, I'm not going to wade in here and start casting about for ideas ...

[rogerg]

I think we've all been hooked.

[Mooncat]

Give and man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer all day

[Mordwin]

Give a fish a man and you probably have a confused fish...

Or a happy shark...

[Mikey]

What are you carping on about? I don't think your barb has me baited

[Trapezium Artist]

Get down off your perch, big man, and stop acting like a sprat.

[rogerg]

Are we finished?

[Trapezium Artist]

Are we finished?

Never! We're having a whale of a time!

(Yes, I know that it's only a cod fish, but there's porpoise to my madness ...  )

[JimD]

Yes, this thread keeps on going, must be turbot-charged! It's completely dace!

[Jem]

House points for everyone. 

[johninblack]

House points for everyone. 

What a carp post! No fish reference at all, tut, tut.

[rogerg]

heh