Comments on: Fish House parade

By: MelSkunk

MelSkunk — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:06:00 +0000

Whoops at that circa 2005 website link :/

By: Lana Johnson

Lana Johnson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:12:00 +0000

I’m from Aitkin Minnesota (AHS Class of ’96).

While I hated the Fishhouse parade as a kid, I’ve gone with my mother a couple of times since moving away…and it is AWESOME. By awesome I actually do mean AWESOME. I know civic pride when I see it, kids.

To the Manitoban above: They’re fish houses. Not ice houses, not ice shacks…fish houses. When I was a little kid, I thought it was so nice that people put them on the lakes to give the fish a place to live when the water turned to ice. Little did I know they’re primarily for beer drinking.

By: buddy66

buddy66 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:22:00 +0000

We Michiganians used to call the ”ice houses” ice shanties. Leave it to Minnesotans to gussy up the place.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:50:00 +0000

To be fair, “Fiberglass Muskie” is a much better band name than “Canvas Walleye”.

By: Unanimous Cowherd

Unanimous Cowherd — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:43:00 +0000

Oh cripes. That’s not a fiberglass muskie, it’s a canvas walleye. I’ll turn in my Minnesotan card, and slink off to Iowa.

By: Unanimous Cowherd

Unanimous Cowherd — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Oh Minnesota. This makes me both proud of and horrified by my home state, in equal measure. Nobody knows how to spell up der, ya know, but how can ya get upset at the yokels when dey hook a giant fiberglass muskie on top of a snow cat and parade down main street? Just look at it. It almost makes me weep. You betcha. Let’s go ice fishin’!

By: Jenonymous

Jenonymous — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:33:00 +0000

If I ever form my own band, I am calling it Fish House Parade.

That is all.

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:58:00 +0000

“This year, however, the arrival of Thanksgiving has not really coincided with the arrival of thick snow and solid lake ice.”

Better get used to it. Pretty soon the arrival of New Years won’t be any indicator of ice thickness either. In Ontario the ice fishing industry is down to about a third of what it was and is probably headed for extinction.

By: irksome

irksome — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:33:00 +0000

This gives me a great idea for my next meth lab.

By: kartwaffles

kartwaffles — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:29:00 +0000

To: Art
Maybe the message was addressed to many fish in the pail? Not to _all_ of the fish, just “many” of them. Although, I’m not really sure what was meant about their going to jail.

By: noah django

noah django — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:47:00 +0000

obligatory

By: dentalchicken

dentalchicken — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:19:00 +0000

Dear Mr Pail,

Please excuse my misstep in titling the missive regarding your jail time. I was drunk.

Thanks.

By: Stephen O

Stephen O — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:19:00 +0000

Oh god! This reminds me so much of rural Manitoba. Do people really call them “Ice Houses” though (that seems so formal?) I’ve been ice fishing plenty of times and have only ever heard of them as “ice shacks.” Everyone has to experience ice fishing at least once in their life.

The weirdness of sitting in pitch dark and completely soundless shack, warming up your extremities with a little stove and starting down a sometimes blindingly bright hole for a few hours at time never escapes me. It is a bit like sensory deprivation chamber in a way, you can feel yourself slowly go mad.

By: Chris Burch

Chris Burch — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:56:00 +0000

The Fish House Parade rocks. Some of us enjoy looking for the most outrageous spelling and grammar peculiarities. But quietly, because we respect people who can drink the amount of beer required to put one of those babies together.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:44:00 +0000

Fish tank!

By: scifijazznik

scifijazznik — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:38:00 +0000

To many fish in the pale
Your goin to fale

I do envy the quad-track fish tractor.

By: Art

Art — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:25:00 +0000

“Too”

Not, “to” :)

By: RufusTheGreat

RufusTheGreat — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:22:00 +0000

They left the “R” out of groin.