Today's GN report describes the fish as being the size of a dinner plate and yet weighing in at half a tonne. Adult males can reach weights of a whole metric tonne, apparently.
Deliciously, the online version of the story also maintains the fish to be the size of a dinner plate.
Let's see how long that lasts...
UPDATE
Goofed. As Nick points out in the comments, the article reads dinner plate SHAPED not SIZED and so that means I screwed up in a big way... It's just a stupid Sunfish and is not in fact one of the densest materials known to man, or a SNAFU by GN and so the egg has quite proverbially hit the fan and is now heading my way at a speed of knots.
Poste in haste, regret at leisure...
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12 comments:
Alex, the article refers to the fish as dinner plate-shaped, not -sized.
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Even so, surely "round" or "circular" would have sufficed. Unless there is a typical shape of dinner plates that is so intricate that it can only be described by comparison.
If it had been teapot-shaped, that would have been different.
And much more amusing.
had anyone from GN (or the fishermen for that matter) bothered to visit either the Atlantis OR Dubai Mall, they wouldve gotten it right the first time.
atlantis even has a half blind sun fish - who tore out its eye.
McNabb: never wrong for long
Gulf News 1, blogger type 0...
"Poste in haste, regret at leisure..."
wahahaha! love that! :)
Nick, to err is human, to forgive is a divine blog right!
dang! helluva ugly fish there Alex.
You're version still sounds more interesting, even though not true. :-)
Imagine that, a sunfish as one of the densest materials on earth!
OK rosh, I forgive you.
An approximately oval dinner plate is normal enough, but a plate with a big pair of wings is unusual to say the least!
Maybe you can use these as handles whilst slurping gravy?
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