"Dick the Fish" is dead

[screech-owl]

17 year old goldfish dies, couldn’t swim

The 17-year-old goldfish, whose illness prompted letters of sympathy worldwide, died Tuesday following the morning rush at his home, Sky Port Restaurant near Schenectady.

My favorite line -

…“We’re not ‘flush’ people,” (diner co-owner Mary Ann) Parker told the Albany Times Union. “Even at home, I don’t flush any of my fish. I have a place I call ‘Golden Gills.’ It’s part of the flower garden.”

Mebe I’ll have cooked peas instead of talapia for dinner, in his memory.

[irkenDoom]

I read about Dick on another forum that the SO reads. This makes me sad.