Tell A Fish In
Comments: 1 - Date: October 31st, 2006 - Categories: Uncategorized
The origin of the television:
Back in the days when the country folk went out in their wooden boats and fished on the lake side, they would sit for hours on end listening to water and waiting for the fish. They didn’t have cell fones, they didn’t have computors or radeohs, they just had their voice and a wooden pole. Now their was a legendary fisherman by the names of Cotia Squiggles, and no one, I mean no one could challenge this man in the water his equipment was made from a new stick every day, and he used a coconut as his hook. But he still caught bigger and more numerous fish than anyone. Legend began to grow, and people began to talk, telling stories of how he convinced the fish to actually sit in the half coconut while he pulled them up. They called him fish-talker, now this aint aqua man, and this aint the submariner, this guy didn’t use foney sonar to talk to the creatures, he used good spirit and faith. He knew the fish would listen and he knew they would understand, and people starting saying that he simply told the fish to get in the coconut, others tried and others failed. It seemed Cotia’s hypnotic ways could not be mimicked, Watching him lift a coconut out of the water swarming with fish was a sight to behold.
But Cotia became a story, and soon story turned to myth, and myth to a folk tale. So about 100 years late fisherman began to use the term “tell a fish in”, when the day was hard an the catch was little. But almost as a joke now “why don’t you tell a fish in, like old Cotia†they would say, “just tell it go in and it’ll follow your instructions”, “hahaha, I wish I could just hypnotize people into doing that you know, Son sit in that chair all day don’t go out an cause any trouble.
Now some time after this A box with moving pictures hit the united states with a bang, and soon people kids everyone were hypnotized to their couches and chairs, cause the moving box was telling them to stay put and stay tuned. The fishermen community began to talk about how this reminded them of how Cotia used to tell the fish to stay put, and how the moving box was telling people to stay put. So they used the old line “tell a fish in” as the name for this new product. But the Market decided that was too old fashioned so they combined it all into one word that sounded the same, coining the phrase television. And to this day you could say that Cotia is telling human fish all over the globe to get in to their coconuts of a couch and get comfortable while he catches them and puts all sorts of advertisements and seasoning onto them. The television is fishin’ for customers, will you be caught or will you swim free?
Tell a Fish in
By: Mr Walnut
P.S. Nonnotter has been known to love coconuts… and television