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Question from 5-year-old granddaughter:
“Do you know the slimiest creature on earth?”
Thinks: Sleazebag Guy where I worked in the 1970s — antediluvian 1970s attitudes. But don’t cross swords with women who work in a 1970s lab — scant safety regs, access to electric shock devices, indelible ink, and nasty chemicals. Sleazebag Guy came to regret knowing us.
“I might have met him.”
“Are you thinking of the Atlantic hagfish?”
“Er… no”
“A hagfish can make a bucketful of slime in one minute. That’s slimy.”
Thinks: sounds nicer than Sleazebag Guy.
“I’m thinking of a slimier one.”
“Mine’s got an amnesty day.”
“OK, you win.”
Thinks: who’d want amnesty for mine?
Fish Amnesty Day — even for hagfish — 4th Saturday in September.
Originally published in The Daily Cuppa.