250 on Fish

What are the best "250 words on fish?"
That is the assignment, today, boys and girls. Remember your Five "W's" and the KISS rule.
You don't remember? Well, I'll give them to you again. In any expository writing (I'll explain "expository" in a minute), answer Who? What? When? Where? and Why? Expository is explaining something.

KISS is "Keep it simple, Stupid," but it's not nice to call someone stupid, so I won't. Keep it simple, Sweetheart.

So far we haven't said a word about fish. We have said 88 words about everything BUT fish.
So let's get to it -- 161 words about fish:

A "fish," according to Webster's Dictionary, is to quote:

(a) an aquatic animal or (b) any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated.

-- 160 now -- and I haven't really told you what I , myself think of fish. I will soon be over and out of words. So I had really better get to it now.

The thing about it is you may not care a WHIT about WHAT I think of fish. I'd bet money on that. I give you what I KNOW about fish.

• I know it has always made me sad whenever a pet fish in my care has died.
• I know I won't ever catch one, because I can't do worms.

Cross-posted at Southwest Blogger
My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about the Secretary of State.
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