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Or in the words of Moby Dick's Ishmael, "I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me".
by lou1306 4y ago
Or in the words of Moby Dick's Ishmael, "I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me".
- blenderdt 4y agoBut that assumes Jonah's fish was a whale. But we don't know. But it might have been a whale: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/12/whale-mouth-lobster-diver-humpback-cape-cod https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/12/whale-mouth-...
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoIt also misses the fact that Jonah didn’t speak modern English and so he couldn’t talk about “fish”.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoBut as QI fans know, There's no such thing as a fish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish > For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish