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New Stickers for 2020

by John Cole|  June 15, 20209:14 pm| 93 Comments

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New stickers for the car came:

New Stickers for 2020

Replacing:

New Stickers for 2020 1

I picked up a monkfish filet that was so beautiful I gasped when I saw it. Super excited to cook that tomorrow.

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  1. 1.

    cain

    June 15, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    My employer has made Juneteenth a paid holiday for all of us going forward as part of celebrating and respecting justice and equality. They also encouraged us to use our platform to fight inequality.

    Not only do they pay me well, they have been stellar in managing our anxieties and fears during these times. These are the people who took my offer, and added $50k to it as a return offer. I tried to tell them that they were doing this whole negotiating thing wrong but said that I was worth it. Damn.

  2. 2.

    cintibud

    June 15, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Hi, I just posted a comment to the dead Ornate thread that is also awaiting moderation as well as being totally out of context anyplace else. I hope Cheryl at least sees it. Help please?

  3. 3.

    cain

    June 15, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    I want a sticker “All Lives Matter when Black Matter” or “When Black Lives Matter, then All Lives Really Matter”

  4. 4.

    cain

    June 15, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    @cintibud:

    It’s dead Jim, just put it on here and call it good.

  5. 5.

    cain

    June 15, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    I took the day off today, thinking I would get my cabinet lights installed. I never got to it. :( Thank goodness friday is off!

  6. 6.

    Martin

    June 15, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    I picked up a monkfish filet that was so beautiful I gasped when I saw it.

    Jesus fuck, man. How were you ever a republican?

  7. 7.

    ant

    June 15, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    wow you put that on your car in West Virginia?

    Don’t let that CRV run low on oil John, or you’ll stretch out the timing chain from the heat. Costs about 800 to replace it.

  8. 8.

    Sure Lurkalot

    June 15, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    I don’t do bumper stickers, not even an innocuous one a dear departed friend had made: What’s Wrong With Having a Great Society?”

    But I do love monkfish.  Back when we could shop a lot, I always talked it up at the fish counter, but most people took one look at it (even filleted, it is a pretty ugly fish) and passed.  I’m going to go find some soon!

  9. 9.

    dexwood

    June 15, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    I’d rather see Make Racists Ashamed Again. Like your sticker though because racists need to be called out.

  10. 10.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 15, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @Martin:

    Hahahahahaha

  11. 11.

    BruceFromOhio

    June 15, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    Ah, good old Ohio, setting the standard once again.

  12. 12.

    oatler.

    June 15, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    https://crooksandliars.com/2020/06/families-two-black-men-found-publicly

  13. 13.

    Juju

    June 15, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    You want to eat that type of fish that looks like Ted Cruz?

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    June 15, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    Republican congressman Tom Rice, who refused to wear a face mask on the House floor 2 weeks ago just announced he has coronavirus.https://t.co/Fbunnc3GG8— Bill Maxwell ? ByeDon2020 (@Bill_Maxwell_) June 15, 2020

  15. 15.

    James E Powell

    June 15, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @dexwood:

    Agree with that. I’d also like the press/media to be afraid to cover for racists and bigots with euphemisms like heartland or “values voters” or economically anxious or whatever they intended to use this time around.

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 15, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    Drive the racists back under the rocks from which they slimed out from under.

    Too long for a bumper sticker, of course.  John’s sticker does the trick with fewer words.

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    June 15, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    @cintibud: I just approved your comment.  No idea whether Cheryl will see it or not.

  18. 18.

    Jeffro

    June 15, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    I’m sticking with my “BYEDON 2020” stickers

  19. 19.

    TaMara (HFG)

    June 15, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    Okay, I just looked up monkfish and realized we used to catch them deep-sea fishing and throw them back. Scariest looking thing ever. I was like 12-13 at the time.

    I didn’t know you could eat them….

  20. 20.

    rikyrah

    June 15, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    ?????

    Next time you challenge a 50-year-old professor to a shooting challenge, better make sure she isn't a former WNBA player first ? https://t.co/5lmEzTXhdr pic.twitter.com/ooR2beeNCC— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 15, 2020

  21. 21.

    BruceFromOhio

    June 15, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @rikyrah: okay, that’s awesome. I love her expression at the end!

  22. 22.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    June 15, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    Renewed protests in Louisville with blocked traffic, pepperballs and flash bangs.

    About 1000 people knelt in the street, arms up – LMPD backed off.

    It was a powerful moment.

  23. 23.

    PsiFighter37

    June 15, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    John, I hope you have an easy way to fix all the key marks your car doors are going to sustain in various parking lots.

  24. 24.

    kindness

    June 15, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    I’d be happy if the haters just went back to the shadows.  It sucks seeing/hearing ’em.

  25. 25.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    June 15, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    @ant:

    wow you put that on your car in West Virginia?

    John didn’t say that he was going to put them on his car.

    They’ll look great on his Republican County Chairman’s car bumper, though.

  26. 26.

    dexwood

    June 15, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    @kindness: Not me. I want to know who and what I’m dealing with. Let me know you’re an asshole up front.

  27. 27.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    June 15, 2020 at 10:00 pm

  28. 28.

    ThresherK

    June 15, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @rikyrah: Rhetorically, who is Rice? It seems every R congresscritter I’ve never heard of is worse than the median R congresscritter.

    I first noticed it with Ginny Fox, and It’s never failed me since. They have a deeeeep bench of mediocrity.

  29. 29.

    Kent

    June 15, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    Monkfish?   Not a bad choice. It’s what some of the New England and mid-Atlantic fishing fleets are catching now that they have wiped out most of the cod and haddock:  https://fishchoice.com/buying-guide/monkfish

    But no one really knows much about them.  They are a really deep water fish.

  30. 30.

    geg6

    June 15, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Love that! ???

  31. 31.

    chopper

    June 15, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    love monkfish, but i made the mistake of telling the wife once when i made it and she googled a picture of it.  never again.

  32. 32.

    cintibud"

    June 15, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    @WaterGirl: Thanks!

  33. 33.

    cintibud

    June 15, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    @WaterGirl: Thanks. Apparently the quote that I couldn’t find after typing it went after my name. Fixed it now

  34. 34.

    Chetan Murthy

    June 15, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @rikyrah: Well, the kid -was- her nephew, after all.  He just wanted to see his auntie show off, eh.

  35. 35.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 15, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @rikyrah:

    My homegirl needs to dance, rikyrah, she needs to dance!

    And lyrics?

    Who needs to know the damn lyrics, raise your voice and sing!

  36. 36.

    Dan B

    June 15, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot: I scored Sturgeon yesterday.  My partner’s family had a schooner they brought from California and moored on the Columbia for a few months.  Sturgeon swam around the moorage.  I don’t tell him that his dinner is Sturgeon, ie: Scary bumpy, whiskered, monster.

  37. 37.

    Fair Economist

    June 15, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    @Kent:

    But no one really knows much about them. They are a really deep water fish.

    Unfortunately that’s probably bad for sustainability like with orange roughy. Things happen slowly in the deep.

  38. 38.

    Sure Lurkalot

    June 15, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    You can wrap the tails with prosciutto and grill.   Or cur into 3/4” medallions, dust with flour and pan fry. Monkfish does have a sweetish taste and texture similar to lobster. It’s horribly underrated!

  39. 39.

    Luciamia

    June 15, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    Monkfish. They call it the”poor man’s lobster. ”  Can’t agree. I mean, I !like it. But it’s not lobster.

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 15, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    Not really a fan of the “Any Functioning Adult 2020” sticker.

  41. 41.

    Patricia Kayden

    June 15, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    There’s no doubt today’s SCOTUS ruling is a major victory for LGBTQ rights.To achieve full equality in the workplace, we must fill in the gaps.Here’s what the ruling changes — and what it doesn’t change. https://t.co/dpZDT0RZ84— ACLU (@ACLU) June 16, 2020

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    June 15, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    @Luciamia:

    I seem to recall reading somewhere that there was a time when lobster was the poor man’s seafood.

  43. 43.

    rikyrah

    June 15, 2020 at 11:08 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: awe ???

  44. 44.

    H.E.Wolf

    June 15, 2020 at 11:08 pm

    I am tired wanting them to think
    about right and wrong.
    I want them to fear.
    I want them to feel fear now. I want them
    to know
    that there is always a time
    there is always a time to make right
    what is wrong,
    there is always a time
    for retribution
    and that time
    is beginning.

    [final lines of a poem by Susan Griffin, published in 1970: “I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman”]

  45. 45.

    John Revolta

    June 15, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    @rikyrah: Dayum. Nothin’ but net

  46. 46.

    H.E.Wolf

    June 15, 2020 at 11:10 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I seem to recall reading somewhere that there was a time when lobster was the poor man’s seafood.

    And salmon likewise, in the Pacific Northwest.

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    June 15, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: Back before all the big and little dam projects cut off so much of their habitat. Development didn’t help, but choking the streams really killed the small runs.

  48. 48.

    Kent

    June 15, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: Also oysters

  49. 49.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 15, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    @Yutsano:

    And we’re just beginning to undo the terrible damage that has been done.

    Hope things are better in your world as well.

    @Kent:

    Good point and the oyster farms on Humboldt Bay are a multi-million dollar industry and I still find a good reason why anyone eats them. But hey, they have an oyster festival and everything.

  50. 50.

    Jeffro

    June 15, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    @Amir Khalid: seriously!  Like, who would look at those things and go, “mmm mmm…can’t wait to um, take a bite out of OUCH one of OUCH these delectable OUCH creatures from the OUCH depths of the sea!”

    Many “delicacies” cause me to wonder just how sane our ancestors were…

  51. 51.

    Martin

    June 15, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Yeah, it was. A few reasons why:

    1. Lobsters were all over the damn place and were easy to catch, making them cheap. They’re not as common any longer.
    2. They don’t keep well – they go bad within hours, unless you can keep them alive (not that easy). The tradition in new england was to cook them at the dock. They still do that – and it’s still the best way to eat lobster, as more of a street food. Transporting them to the city was expensive – way more expensive than caching the damn thing – you needed ice, and you needed immediate transportation and logistics, which didn’t exist until fairly recently. And even a lot of the recent stuff is pretty low-tech. NYC restaurants still buy truffles out of the back of a handful of vans that drive around the city supplying restaurants – handled daily.
    3. So, because it was difficult, it became in demand by wealthy people, sort of a veblan good, as a way of advertising that you could afford to eat this utterly impractical thing.

    But lobster in new england can be pretty damn cheap. it was many years ago but my dad and I took a trip up the new england coast up into Canada and we made a point to eat as much lobster as possible. 2 meals a day was easy, just by swinging by the docks and they’d point you to a boat that just came in. You could get a cooked half kilo lobster for about $3 then. Maybe $6-$8 now. But you have to spend time down by the docks with the noisy seagulls and working class guys and the smell of chum. Or you could avoid those things and pay $40 more in the city.

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 15, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    @Kent: They are uuuuuuugly!

    (I am fishshaming!  Shame on those ugly fish!

  53. 53.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 15, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Many “delicacies” cause me to wonder just how sane our ancestors were…

    It wasn’t about sanity, motherfuckers were hungry.

  54. 54.

    James E Powell

    June 15, 2020 at 11:22 pm

    The last time I had a bumper sticker on my car it said “CARTER AGAIN”

  55. 55.

    Jeffro

    June 15, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    Meanwhile, one would think this story has some legs, as they say: What Has The trumpov Administration Done with a Half Trillion Dollars?

    Shipped most of it to Moscow?

    Sent it to its corporate crony buddies, minus a 10/20/50% cut for ‘dark money’ campaign groups?

    Had EVERYTHING in trumpov tower re-plated in gold?

    Why. Can’t. They. Just. Tell Us. Who. Got. Bailed Out?

    Compare and contrast to the Great Recession bailouts and President Obama’s/VP Biden’s disclosures and oversight, national snooze media!

  56. 56.

    Jeffro

    June 15, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I’d eat a lot of grass and tree bark before it would occur to me to toss a lobster into a pot, crack it open, etc etc.

    And don’t even get me started on crabs.  Or snails.

  57. 57.

    BobTX

    June 15, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    Hey – not meant to sound judgy or scolding.  *Please* just read this as an ecologist who has studied this stuff trying to pass on some info to a crowd that I think might be receptive and also share enough concern about the environment to act on it.  I probably wouldn’t even bother on another site:

    Monkfish is primarily caught through an insanely destructive form of bottom scrape-trawling that destroys huge swaths of slow-growing undersea coral beds.  Any given meal’s-worth of monkfish represents a creepily large area of underwater habitat destroyed and impacted for decades, for a lot of species that call these habitats their homes.

    Here’s one quick link so you don’t think I’m talking out my rear: https://news.mongabay.com/2014/05/trawling-destructive-fishing-method-is-turning-seafloors-to-deserts/    – “Deep-sea trawling is currently carried out along large sectors of the oceans,” write the authors, “and it appears to have severe consequences on deep-sea sediment dynamics at a global scale.”

    Again, *really* not trying to guilt or scold, just to inform anyone interested.  There are a lot of other great-to-eat fish species that are fine to eat.  My favorite, for instance, is wild salmon (it’s well-managed, but not farmed salmon).  Also line-caught mahi-mahi (they mature super quickly).  I should also add: lobster itself is pretty well-managed.  There’s going to be some problems with climate change coming to a head for the lobster industry, but personal consumption of them isn’t the problem at all.  Same goes for other New England shellfish.

  58. 58.

    Calouste

    June 15, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: I remember reading a story that servants in London in the mid 19th century were complaining about too much salmon on the menu. Of course within decades there was no salmon left in the Thames.

  59. 59.

    Martin

    June 15, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    @Jeffro: i’m always impressed that one day somebody was so hungry that they decided ‘I’m going to eat that‘. And their buddies saw that they didn’t die and a new recipe was added to the list.

  60. 60.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 15, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    Rush Limbaugh’s caustic dying ass calls for the armed white boys who claimed they would stand up to the big bad government brought out a group in New Mexico. Someone got shot and several others were arrested.

  61. 61.

    Jeffro

    June 15, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    @Martin: had to be the Neanderthal equivalent of “hold my beer”

    Before there was even beer!

  62. 62.

    BQuimby

    June 15, 2020 at 11:32 pm

    Just ordered this:  https://www.etsy.com/listing/682676371/fuck-trump-flip-flops-with-sand-imprint

  63. 63.

    Another Scott

    June 15, 2020 at 11:36 pm

    Off all the bad polling numbers for Trump his fall among seniors is the most important. They move slowly in polling and are not real swingy once they make their mind up. Without seniors going GOP the Congressional losses could be historic downballot. Everything is in play.
    — Ben Tribbett (@notlarrysabato) June 16, 2020

    (Emphasis added.)

    Make it so!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  64. 64.

    opiejeanne

    June 15, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: In the San Francisco bay way back when, the farms adjacent to the water used to pull thousands of crabs from the water and plow them into the dirt, as a fertilizer.

  65. 65.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 15, 2020 at 11:39 pm

    you never know about people and food….

    Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany· Nov 8, 2012
    FUN FACT: @dominos is wayyyy better than any NYC pizza

    Domino’s Pizza @dominos
    Replying to@kayleighmcenany
    That’s one heck of a compliment! Thanks for the love! #WEAPPRECIATEIT!

    Before I saw that date, i thought “that’s one helluva a combination of micro targeting and cultural resentment politics”

  66. 66.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 15, 2020 at 11:39 pm

    @Jeffro: Sorry Jeffro, that information is Classified.

  67. 67.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 15, 2020 at 11:41 pm

    @Another Scott: Who could have predicted that telling seniors to fuck off and literally die would dampen their support for Trump and the GOP.

  68. 68.

    neldob

    June 15, 2020 at 11:41 pm

    I saw a truck with 12 bumper stickers: Make America Hate Again, Vote for Scumbag, We Don’t Care About Your Fucking Wall, Throw the Rascal Out, Corruption/Collusion, Separating families; Good for Nazis Bad for America, Donald, Putin wants you: Bring your knee pads, Impeachment? It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, etc. etc. Brought little twinklings to my heart. or something.

  69. 69.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 15, 2020 at 11:42 pm

    Developing story in Albuquerque

  70. 70.

    NotMax

    June 15, 2020 at 11:42 pm

    @James E Powell

    Last time I adhered anything to the bumper of my car it was my CB license number.

  71. 71.

    Calouste

    June 15, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Same with “regional specialties”.  You get pretty creative if the only thing you have is say seafood and rice seven days a week.

  72. 72.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    June 15, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    Just came across a Twitter video of this lone protester in Bethel, Kentucky getting verbally harassed by a swarm of Maga fools.  He gets punched in back of head while standing next to a cop and nothing Fucking happens.  Kid eventually gets an escort out by police.  Scary.  It ends with a USA USA chant., ugh.  I’d link if I had any clue how.

  73. 73.

    NotMax

    June 15, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Only if by “wayyyy better” she means “not in the same food group.”

    //

  74. 74.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 15, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Ann:

    Gun-toting Trump supporters attack George Floyd protesters in rural Ohio town

  75. 75.

    opiejeanne

    June 15, 2020 at 11:49 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Isn’t that where the statue of that conquistador was due to be removed, that Cheryl wrote a post about earlier today?

  76. 76.

    patrick II

    June 15, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    So, I live in a downstairs condo — apt #2.  At about 10:45 p.m. the doorbell rings.   Who could be calling? I go to the door and look at where the masks are usually kept.  For some reason, my wife had moved them.  I open the door a crack.  There is a 70-year-old lady standing with a pizza — and no mask.  I hadn’t ordered a pizza.

    Me: What do you want?

    Unmasked Old Pizza Lady: You ordered a pizza.

    Me: No, I didn’t.

    UOPL:  Your number 2?

    Me: Yes, but I didn’t order a pizza.

    She looks down at her order.

    UOPL:  It says right here, number 2.

    Me:  It’s probably for my upstairs neighbor, number 3.  (They sometimes have pizza delivered).

    UOPL, balefully looking up the stairs and then back at me:  No, number 2, it says right here.

    She holds up the order for me to see the number.  I can’t see it.

    Me: No, really, I didn’t order a pizza.  Try upstairs.

    Another unhappy look up the stairway.  Just then my sharp-eared upstairs neighbor opens the door.

    Upstairs neighbor lady:  Hey! up here!

    I closed the door.

    Poor old lady.  It’s sad a 70-year-old is delivering pizza. I hope my neighbor came down to get it.  I wish the UOPL  was wearing a mask.

  77. 77.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    June 15, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes.  Thank you. Maybe I could figure it out on my Mac.  Phone. No chance.

  78. 78.

    Anotherlurker

    June 15, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    @Kent: Hi Kent, I am formally an East Coast fisherman/SCUBA Diver and general fish nerd.

    The Monkfish (AKA Goosfish) is a shallow water member for the Anglerfish family.  When I was a wee lad, we would occasionally find them washed up on L.I. Sound beaches.   I have also seen them while diving N.E. Atlantic shipwrecks, in 90′ to 130′.

    There are 2 species in shallow water on the East Coast, Lophius Americanus and Lophius Gastrophysus (AKA Black Fin Goosfish) ranging from Maine and the Maritimes to the Gulf and the Caribbean.

    There are species in the N.W. and the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

  79. 79.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 15, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Ann: I don’t even like to post from my phone. My paws and stubby digits need large keyboards

  80. 80.

    dirge

    June 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    @Martin: 

    I recall reading that back when household service arrangements typically included room & board, it was common in New England to include a provision in the contract limiting the number of lobster meals per week, since otherwise employers might not provide anything else.

    So yes, only became a luxury food after they stopped washing up on shore by the ton.

  81. 81.

    cain

    June 16, 2020 at 12:00 am

    @Another Scott:

    The best part is that – it will be hard to ratfuck when the seniors are against them.. that means no matter what election shenanigans are out there it will be hard when seniors don’t show up.

    Of course, they could make up ballots – anything is possible with these assholes.

  82. 82.

    M31

    June 16, 2020 at 12:00 am

    Julia Child described the monkfish as like a tadpole the size of a baby grand piano

  83. 83.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 16, 2020 at 12:09 am

    @opiejeanne:

    Yes

  84. 84.

    Origuy

    June 16, 2020 at 12:11 am

    The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch lists monkfish aka goosefish as a “Good Alternative“.  In other words, it’s not the most sustainable, but it’s not an endangered species.

  85. 85.

    Kent

    June 16, 2020 at 12:22 am

    @Anotherlurker:

    @Kent: Hi Kent, I am formally an East Coast fisherman/SCUBA Diver and general fish nerd.

    The Monkfish (AKA Goosfish) is a shallow water member for the Anglerfish family.  When I was a wee lad, we would occasionally find them washed up on L.I. Sound beaches.   I have also seen them while diving N.E. Atlantic shipwrecks, in 90′ to 130′.

    There are 2 species in shallow water on the East Coast, Lophius Americanus and Lophius Gastrophysus (AKA Black Fin Goosfish) ranging from Maine and the Maritimes to the Gulf and the Caribbean.

    There are species in the N.W. and the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

    Interesting.  Just looking at them I assumed they were deep water.  I spend a decade working for NOAA fisheries in Alaska and before that did observer work on Bering Sea fisheries.  I would occasionally find angler fish coming up in really deep sea pollock trawls, but never shallow water.  I can get very nerdy about Alaska fisheries but my knowledge of Atlantic fisheries is extremely scant

    I did hundreds and hundreds of dives in SE Alaska, both shipwreck and recreational diving and never once saw an angler fish in shallow water.   So that must be an Atlantic thing.

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    June 16, 2020 at 12:23 am

    “Whaddaya do with a monkfish? Bake it? Poach it?”

    “No, silly, it’s a friar.”

  87. 87.

    BobTX

    June 16, 2020 at 12:31 am

    My previous comment didn’t make it.  I included a link to an article – I don’t know if that’s kosher and prevented it from getting published or something.  I’m here to read often, but I’m an incredibly rare commenter.

    Super not trying to be scolding or shaming, just passing info as an ecologist that used to meet with a whole lab full of fish biologists (my jam is amphibians), including someone who studied this:

    Monkfish are primarily caught by super destructive bottom trawling – it destroys very slow-growing sea bottom habitat that takes decades or more to recover.  A given meal’s worth of monkfish represents a very large area of such habitat destroyed.

    Search “Impacts of bottom trawling on deep-coral ecosystems of seamounts are long-lasting” for an example of research into this.

    Again, really not trying to be judgy or annoying.  I love wild caught salmon (well managed) and mahi-mahi (caught correctly – they mature super quickly).  Also, US lobster is well-managed.  It’s going to have increasing climate change problems, but consumer purchasing of lobster isn’t harming populations.  Same goes for most New England shellfish.

  88. 88.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    June 16, 2020 at 12:31 am

    I’d buy this bumper sticker if I could find it (and I don’t even own a car!)

    TRUMP LIES
    EVERY DAMN DAY

  89. 89.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 16, 2020 at 12:40 am

    @M31:

    A fish in monk’s clothing. The woman was brilliant.

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    June 16, 2020 at 12:57 am

    Late entry on the U.S. history of lobster.

    In the 19th century, the poor lobster still suffers from a widespread negative stigma. Essayist John Rowan explains in one of his works […] that when you find empty lobster shells outside of a house, it’s often “a sign of poverty and degradation.” How kind. In 1836, the B&M company (Burnham & Morrill) no longer knows what to do with the lobster surplus in Maine and Massachusetts. They are the first to make it a canned good, and succeed in commercializing the product outside of the United States. But even if it gets made over through this novel mode of conservation, it is still held in low esteem and is sold for a fifth of the cost of a can of “Boston baked beans.” Source

  91. 91.

    trnc

    June 16, 2020 at 1:01 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany· Nov 8, 2012
    FUN FACT: @dominos is wayyyy better than any NYC pizza

    Wasn’t that around the time high school kids working there were putting cheese up the their noses before putting on the pizza, and people were saying the crust tasted like cardboard?

  92. 92.

    Another Scott

    June 16, 2020 at 1:19 am

    Think about how much toilet paper you'd save if you just never went to the bathroom again. https://t.co/Eg4l5zTLYi

    — LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 16, 2020

    See no evil toilet paper…

    Cheers,
    Scott

  93. 93.

    WaterGirl

    June 16, 2020 at 8:35 am

    @BobTX: Your first comment has to be manually approved, then once you have been approved, your comments go through without manual intervention.

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