Rainbow Shark sounds cool. Sharks are classified as a fish so it counts.
edit: removed photo. Realized you’re supposed to go off name alone. If interested in seeing what it looks like just look it up on Wikipedia. It does look real pretty.
@Rueki they are cool…of course they (and the various other fresh water aquarium fish in the pet stores called “shark”) aren’t actually sharks… They’re more closely related to danios (zebrafish) and Rasboras than they are sharks.
@Rueki But a real disappointment if you’re expecting rainbow coloring. Maybe there’s an actual rainbow variant, but every one I’ve ever seen/owned is just black & red.
My favorite clownfish trivia. All clownfish are born male but turn female if there are no females. That means Marlin would have turned into a girl in finding Nemo.
Patagonian Toothfish. Some very clever marketing specialists realized that the fish were actually fairly good, and in massive supply, but terribly represented on a menu by the uggo name. They gave ol P. Toothy a rebrand, a more attractive initial price. added a lil hype and a pinch of manufactured scarcity, and boom, now Chilean Sea Bass is on every swanky seafood restaurant menu.
I wonder if that business model would work in other industries…?
@cinoclav idk. When you are just adding fish as a separate word at the end… Clownfish and cuttlefish are both actual words/fish. You seem to like swedish enough to link it to fish when the two are unrelated. And you either only like them because of the product not the name or you must really like swedish. If I said American fish…
Clowns are weird and creepy. I guess some people might like them.
@chienfou@cinoclav well it’s not a fish. If there was a cuddle fish. I would be ok with that equating to me liking cuddles. Clowns are a hard nope. I’m pretty indifferent on cuttling
Rainbow Shark sounds cool. Sharks are classified as a fish so it counts.
edit: removed photo. Realized you’re supposed to go off name alone. If interested in seeing what it looks like just look it up on Wikipedia. It does look real pretty.
@Rueki they are cool…of course they (and the various other fresh water aquarium fish in the pet stores called “shark”) aren’t actually sharks… They’re more closely related to danios (zebrafish) and Rasboras than they are sharks.
@OnionSoup @Rueki true but then you meet a full on bull shark in a river in Illinois and…
Yeah yeah not “aquarium” sized
@Rueki But a real disappointment if you’re expecting rainbow coloring. Maybe there’s an actual rainbow variant, but every one I’ve ever seen/owned is just black & red.
My favorite clownfish trivia. All clownfish are born male but turn female if there are no females. That means Marlin would have turned into a girl in finding Nemo.
@show_the_maw
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/very-short-book-excerpt/361616/
Patagonian toothfish
Aka Chilean Sea Bass
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_toothfish
Narwhalaby from under down
Slippery Dick
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_dick
@Euniceandrich
which, counterintuitively is NOT what they make spotted dick with…
@chienfou @Euniceandrich
Mmmm. Skewer that bad boy on a grill.
Wash it down with some cold Griesedieck.
/giphy dont forget to vote.
@er1c
sarcastic fringehead
@er1c @phendrick
@chienfou @er1c @phendrick Fantastic!!!
“Get off my lawn…err, sand!”
Not fish… But some fun named invertebrate aquatic life:
Sexy Shrimp
Turbo Snails
Chocolate Chip Starfish.
Catfish, of course.
They’re purrrrrfect, right?
@Tadlem43 I had a bulldog catfish once.
I loved how bulldog catfish is four animal names crammed into one. Bull-Dog-Cat-Fish.
@Tadlem43
@Tadlem43 That is what I had come here to say. How could they have left that off the list considering the cat focus of this place?
@narfcake @Tadlem43
That kitty looks scared!
@Kyeh Well it is bigger than the cat – and look at what smaller ones can do already:
@narfcake Awwwww…
Do anglerfish need fishing licenses?
@phendrick
Those guys are some bad-ass fishies!
@chienfou @phendrick
@chienfou @mike808 That one looks a lot more docile.
The blobfish of course
Marlin of course.
Crappie.
up vote for @pufferfishy
with an honorable mention to those that came with Joe McDonald
@chienfou I’d like to thank the members of the academy…
Chocolate Starfish
snook
Obese dragonfish
@sillyheathen That thing looks like a @koolhandjoe creation.
@Kidsandliz @Koolhandjoe
/image humuhumunukunukuapua’a
@mike808 of course you pick this one
/giphy Hawaii guy
@mike808 But can you say it?
/image axolotl
@mike808 Oh how cute! Someone should make a stuffed toy like this. lol
@mike808 @Tadlem43 Not to be confused with this:
/image axeolotl
@mike808 @Tadlem43 Not really a fish, but a salamander …
@Kyeh @mike808 lol I love it! lol
Patagonian Toothfish. Some very clever marketing specialists realized that the fish were actually fairly good, and in massive supply, but terribly represented on a menu by the uggo name. They gave ol P. Toothy a rebrand, a more attractive initial price. added a lil hype and a pinch of manufactured scarcity, and boom, now Chilean Sea Bass is on every swanky seafood restaurant menu.
I wonder if that business model would work in other industries…?
@rogerbacon Canola Oil
@rockblossom @rogerbacon
diamonds
@rogerbacon Hmm sounds like what meh already did with the
fukufukoirkBlowfish. I’m not going to try giphy.
@mehcuda67
/giphy blowfish
@mehcuda67 I was coming here to say this!!!
scrod
/giphy scrod
@sammydog01 Old joke:
Tourist: “Where can you get scrod around here?”
TaxiDriver: “I’ve been asked that a lot before, but never in the pluperfect!”
@phendrick @sammydog01
Part of the joke relies upon it being set in Boston.
Today, it works with an Uber or Lyft driver.
Bearded Clam???
Slippery Dick
Cyclopteridae, commonly known as the Lumpsucker.
The Bony-Eared Assfish! And yes, it is very real.
@PooltoyWolf Movies. Shake dat bony-eared azz.
@mike808 @PooltoyWolf “Smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any living vertibrate” sounds like a lovely insult.
@blaineg @mike808 It is pretty good, isn’t it?
@blaineg @PooltoyWolf
I wouldn’t know what a bony-eared assfish tastes like.
Swedish. Seriously, how is it 6:36 pm EST and this hasn’t been said yet?
@cinoclav I mean per the criteria you just like things with swedish in the name
@unksol That’s not what it says at all. That’s like saying people just like clowns and cuttles.
@cinoclav idk. When you are just adding fish as a separate word at the end… Clownfish and cuttlefish are both actual words/fish. You seem to like swedish enough to link it to fish when the two are unrelated. And you either only like them because of the product not the name or you must really like swedish. If I said American fish…
Clowns are weird and creepy. I guess some people might like them.
Idk about people liking to cuttle.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuttle
I’d prefer cuddle but I can’t just say cuddle fish
@cinoclav @unksol
and yet… you just did!
@cinoclav @unksol
Well, I think he was pointing out that the question was “but only based on the name.”
@chienfou @cinoclav well it’s not a fish. If there was a cuddle fish. I would be ok with that equating to me liking cuddles. Clowns are a hard nope. I’m pretty indifferent on cuttling
@unksol You try too hard.
I like tuna.
@er1c ‘You can tune a piano…’
@compunaut @er1c
… but you can’t tuna fish.
–REO Speedwagon
@compunaut
/giphy ha ha ha
@chienfou @compunaut @er1c
@blaineg @compunaut @er1c
Exactly!
Mullet
@galewarning
Save some for the rest of us, bro.
Wanda.
@PocketBrain It’s the leg warmers, isn’t it?
