Saturday, June 10, 2006

Les poisson

I've heard of people going door-to-door fundraising for charities, selling chocolate covered almonds, Girl Guide cookies and magazine subscriptions*.

But I've never heard of anyone knocking on doors asking, "Would you be interested in purchasing some freshly-packed salmon, Maam?".

Poor guy driving around in a stinky truck in the rain, with his fresh fish becoming less fresh by the second.

(Fish picture courtesy of The Photographer's extensive collection.)


Perhaps his marketing strategy would be more effective if he started singing, "Les poisson, les poisson, how I love les poisson. First I line them all up, then I chop of their heads..." the moment people opened their doors.

*I spent a summer selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door. My boss made me a fake id so i didn't have to stay in the hotel with the girls who liked to spend Friday nights crocheting.

**from The Little Mermaid when the chef is preparing dinner before he tries to kill Sebastian

2 comments:

Jen said...

I've had the offer of salmon at my door too. Bizzare. Another odd one I had was cherries.

geeksters said...

I didn't say the picture was ugly; I said the fish was hideous. And he is. In school didn't they teach you that it's quite possible to take nice pictures of unattractive subjects?

By the way, isn't that fish one of the hippo-poop-eating fish from the Calgary zoo? Gross.