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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (573163)5/8/2004 3:57:08 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
. A fish rots from the head down.

Actually not. The proper metaphor would point to the masses of people who do not participate in our democracy....for whatever reasons.

"Not according to David Groman, a fish pathologist at Atlantic Veterinary College, which is part of the University of Prince Edward Island, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Groman may not be the Quincy of fish (he's not a forensic fish pathologist), but he does make it his business to know how and why fish die. Which means that he knows how and why fish rot.

Groman found time between his fish autopsies to comment on the rotting-fish metaphor. "I don't know where that proverb comes from," says Gromon. "But it's a poor metaphor. And, I must say, it's biologically incorrect. When a fish rots, the organs in the gut go first. If you can't tell that a fish is rotting by the smell of it, you'll sure know when you cut it open and everything pours out -- when all the internal tissue loses its integrity and turns into liquid."

NOW APOLOGIZE TO GW.
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