Or so said this talking fish.
He sold the talking fish?
And just why is it that you find it hard to believe that a 'Carp might be learned in the Tanakh, Manny? 
(We really need a “ducks and runs” smiley! :))
Damn, you beat me to it. Can you believe this was on the front page of the Times this morning? You’d think it’d be buried in the back pages of the Daily News, along with the ketchup-stain-in-the-shape-of-the-Virgin-Mary articles.
“…a carp like that, you don’t eat all at once!”
Hmm… strong market interest among Jewish people in talking fish.
Astro gets busy writing up design patent for “Cantor Carp” the talking-singing Hebrew Fish" using existing “Billy Bass” technology.
But what should it say? What should it sing? A mitzvah? Yiddish folk music? So many decisions.
Heh.
“He looked around to see if the voice had come from the slop sink, the other room or the shop’s cat.”
Can’t blame the guy. I mean, if a cat is speaking Hebrew, that’s an entirely different matter. Happens all the time. 
I can’t tell you how happy I am with this story. To see an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale reported in the New York Times has just absolutely made my day. I can tell from the transliterations that the fish was speaking Hebrew with a Yiddish accent, too, which makes me even happier.
It’s a beautiful sunny day, the snow is melting, the Giants are about to play a spring training game, and possessed fish are telling us to repent in Hebrew on the front page of the New York Times. This day rules.
Good shabbas!
Ann, Ann!
Come! quick as you can!
There’s a fish that talks
In the frying-pan.
Out of the fat,
As clear as glass,
He put up his mouth
And moaned ‘Alas!’
Oh, most mournful,
‘Alas, alack!’
Then turned to his sizzling,
And sank him back
– Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
I personally think this is a load of crappie. It could be real, but I trout it. Salmon is pulling your leg, manny. Once you see this story for what it is, you’ll be singing a different tuna. Of course it’s easy for me to say perched on my high horse.
Come on, Hamlet, I think you’re floundering. Bassically, this story is about a carp that stopped being koi and showed its superior schooling. I don’t think that’s fishy at all; I think it takes a lot of guts to swim against the current and make that kind of statement. This fish should be lauded, given a plaice in history; instead it’s tossed off the scales of justice with nary a second glance. That’s eely unfair.
So true – It was, after all, only trying to save their soles! 
Crab. Now they’re starting with the puns already.
Herring those jokes made my skin crawl.
Oh, they’re just doing it for the halibut.
Didn’t I see this on the Simpsons? “Knife goes in, guts come out…”
Not to cast any aspersions on what’s been said, or to open up a new can of worms, but how does a baited question like this differ from trolling? Or should we just pull a tarpon it and forget it, instead of floundering around with it?
I better reel this one in before it gets out of hand.
The OP sounds surprised that he sold the carp. I’m not surprised that he sold it, just surprised that he didn’t charge more for it. Some people would pay a lot of money to eat “holy carp.”
Regarding the puns:
“FIN.”
Thank you.
I think all youse guys should clam up. Or am I just being shellfish?
I agree. Cut the puns; I’m getting a haddock.
Can we get back to the OP?
I think the NYT swallowed that fish story hook, line, and sinker.
D’oh!!!
Maybe I’m just a sucker, but I believe it was a true Act of Cod.