# Jewfish

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewfish/80431>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 8, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewfish/80431 "2001-09-08T20:09:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewfish/80431/1 "2001-09-08T20:09:14Z")

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This fish has been renamed by some groups as the “goliath grouper” or something like that. Don’t know how long before everyone else adopts that.

Odd that it has that name. They don’t look particularly like any Jews that I’ve ever known (either in person, or celebrities). They do have a certain resemblance to actors like Charles Laughton, Thayer David, and maybe Vincent Gardenia.

(A similar event happend a few years ago, when the squawfish was rename the pikeminnow.)

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**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewfish/80431/2 "2001-09-08T20:15:25Z")

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Similar to renaming place names through the US Geological Survey. Modern sensibilities have renamed “Nigger Bill Canyon” to Negro Bill Canyon in the state of Utah.

Another area there was/is called “Mollies Nipple” I’m not sure what it’s officially called now. “Squaw Peak” is another suspect designation. It’s not easy to have official names changed, either.

“Chinks Peak” has been renamed as well. Hang on to those old topos if you’re an unreconstructed knuckle dragging neanderthal, I suppose.

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**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewfish/80431/3 "2001-09-08T20:37:59Z")

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One fish  
Two fish  
Trafe fish  
Jew fish.  
;j

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewfish/80431/4 "2001-09-08T22:15:31Z")

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I have to hit you now, Dave.