Just saw a story on tonight’s news about flooding in Washington state. It included video of salmon swimming in the shallow water across the highway.
So I proposed the above question (the thread title) to my wife, who couldn’t come up with a punchline. I’m leaving it to you to complete the (not so) obvious joke here.
This happens every time there’s heavy rain and the Skokomish River floods its banks. Here’s a picture of some chum salmon probably trying to get across Highway 101.
He was following the flounder!
I neglected to provide a punch line. Here goes…
To get to the fin-ish line.
I like BoBettie’s much better.
Because the chicken was going the other way?
Because he’s the chicken of the sea?
No, that’s tuna.
I got nothing.
To visit skid roe?
Dingdingding! We have a winner!
Alternately:
Because that’s where the cavi are.
Get it? Cavi are. Caviar.
You’re all overthinking this. The salmon crossed the road just for the halibut.
To get to the cream cheese?
They’re on their way to visit the tree octopi.
Because it fell in love with an eel.
What can you do? That’s a moray.
Or because the fish was under a nighttime singing spell. You’ve heard of it.
Salmon Chanting Evening
I think he was trying to get to a wet trout to hit SkipMagic upside the head with.
[sub]I HATE people who are good at puns[/sub]
To escape a fatwah. (Salmon Rushdie, that is.)
If I had two pet salmon I’d name one ‘Ella’ and the other one ‘Rushdie’.
To get to the other tide.
Daniel
D’oh! I didn’t see jjimm’s post before mine. (I didn’t preview.)
Oooo! Nice, everyone!
Salmon Chanting Evening…damn, that’s good…
Someone caught his eye.