It's a Fishy Story!

[Michael Alexander]

I bought fresh snoek and harders from a fisherman that came down from Luderitz, and they looked good..ANyhow yesterday a contigent of police turned up demanding to know where we got the fish from, as theMinistry of FIsheries had fishnets across the river, and some bright person went down there and cut up all their nets and stole their fish.... anyhow after we explained to them that snoek swim in the sea and not the river.... and that they should check the fishermans permit at the gates, they would see that the fish was legal.... now the big question is.... why would the fisheries dept be spanning nets across the river?

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

why would the fisheries dept be spanning nets across the river?

Thats to prevent Diamonds flowing from the Oranje in to the sea LOL

Or is it preventing fresh water fish swimming to saltwater or vice versa.

Hony soit qui mal i pense

[SandyB]

@ Georg .. you  of  languages ..

Hony soit qui mal i pense    ???

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Sounds to me like something about an upset tummy  (gippo guts)  -  he he he

[Cherry (Alcock)]

Yay Wikipedia!
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" sometimes rendered as "Honi soit quy mal y pense", "Hony soyt qe mal y pense", "Hony soyt ke mal y pense", "Honni soit qui mal y pense", "Hony soyt qui mal pence" and various other phoneticizations, is the motto of the English chivalric Order of the Garter. It is also written at the end of the manuscript Sir Gawain and the Green Knight but it appears to have been a later addition.[1] Its translation is "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it"[2] or "Evil be to him who evil thinks"[3] from Old French.

This statement supposedly originated when King Edward III was dancing with the Countess of Salisbury. Her garter slipped down to her ankle, causing those around her to respond with sniggers at her humiliation. In an act of chivalry Edward placed the garter around his own leg, saying "Honi soit qui mal y pense", and the phrase later became the motto of the Order.

It may be understood as 'A scoundrel, who thinks badly by it', or 'Shame on him, who suspects illicit motivation'. Nowadays it is also used to express a slightly ironic sentiment about seemingly, but not explicitly related statements or events. Examples might be a story containing a double entendre, in which the teller 'warns' against the licentious interpretation. It can also be used to point out, by ironically denying, the actual relation of actions. If a politician were to argue the national benefit of a government program - which would happen to bring great investments to a particular county; the county where that politician happens to hail from: Then you'd be 'a scoundrel' to think anything but the 'national benefit' was the true motivation.

The phrase was quoted by Judge Goodwill Banner to Roy Hobbs near the finale of "The Natural."

[SandyB]

 @  Cherry  ... Phew ! that proves the blonde is just  from the box that says ' natural "  well done wikipedia  girl .. Oh by the way  Chubby Charlie coming  around for his  dose of  No 7  "natural"   from  the box on friday night .. care to join us  ??.. he  misses you ..

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Thanks for that Cherry!

I must be evil minded, for I laughed at her highnes's predicament  -  oh and I can just see that thing around the King's leg!  Sheez -  I'm still laughing!

[Malcolm Bertoni]

Hi

How about: "You filthy rotten evil thinking scoundrel"


Malcolm

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Now you´ve got it wrapped up, happy now Sandy ???

Its a saying still used in Europe today, directly translated:

Honest be whou thinks bad

Babel translater says: Hony is which badly thinks

[Carl Wrbka]

And what exactly has all this got to do with stolen fish?

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

And what exactly has all this got to do with stolen fish?

You must figur that out yourself 

[Malcolm Bertoni]

What fish?

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Nemo.

[Chris Macpherson]

snoek

[Michael Alexander]

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