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looking for something else I found this :)

(pdfs and the search function are awesome, I can't believe how I managed without it before!)

Anyway we've all heard that expression:
Kettle of fish

This term is usually part of 'a fine kettle of fish', 'a pretty kettle of fish' etc, which mean 'a muddle or awkward state of affairs'. The expression 'a different kettle of fish' has, as seems fitting, a different meaning, which is 'an alternative; a different thing altogether'.
Check this out:
Now here was a pretty kettle of sandtrout! The Fremen didn't know what to make of Kynes. They knew who he was, of course. No man arrived on Arrakis without a full dossier finding its way into the Fremen strongholds. They knew him: he was an Imperial servant.
So the sandtrout is some sort of sandfish, and the expression going back to Old Earth found its way to Arrakis and adpated, like everything else had to adapt.


It's just a word but the lesson I learned from Frank's writing("minutiae") is that often the biggest meaning is found in the smallest detail :)
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Good catch!
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A Little Galach wrote:Good catch!
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Holy mackerel




But yeah, I agree, Frank Herbert's colloquialisms and little cultural references make it feel like there's 10,000 years of history behind the things he writes.
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Where is that quote from? I can't quite plaice it.
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Cod Emperor of Dune, presumably.

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Dune appendix
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Apjak wrote:Dune appendix
Appendix I: Ecology of Dune
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Freakzilla wrote:
Apjak wrote:Dune appendix
Appendix I: Ecology of Dune
Neither of those posts include fish puns - sort it out.

(You can have some time to mullet over if you like.)




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DuneFishUK wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:
Apjak wrote:Dune appendix
Appendix I: Ecology of Dune
Neither of those posts include fish puns - sort it out.

(You can have some time to mullet over if you like.)




(oh, and cheers :))
Puns make me eel.
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I've really haddock up to here with you lot! :twisted:
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That's a halibut thing to say.
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Koi vey, enough already!

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You people need kelp.
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Harwood's the one needs kelp. He thinks Machine Crusade was a reel page-tuna.
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Spice is the worm's gonads.
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This thread has sunk to the lowest of depths, it's like living with bottom feeders. :twisted:

This thread is Le Fin.
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