Thursday, April 22, 2010

inoing

The process by which the Alaskan Chinook Salmon maneuver their powerful bodies through narrow spaces between submerged rocks while making their way upstream to spawn.

"The low water level in the local streams have narrowed the spaces between submerged rocks and inflicted many injuries on Chinook salmon during inoing. (NYT, 1992)

There is newly discovered reciprocal process called "outoing," which is the return trip to the sea taken by those salmon who chucked the whole spawning thing mid-way upstream and chose to remain childless.

5 comments:

  1. Excellent detail -- I'm convinced.

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  2. You guys crack me up. I just realized I never see captchas at my own site. I'll have to go find them somewhere else. But you've both set the bar so high I might have to limbo under it.

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  3. Yours is the only site I go to now that uses them. I guess when you go to the lake, I'll get to take a vacation, too.

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  4. If you like, I'll post some without definitions and you can edit the post to add one.

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  5. I only started using captcha when I started getting a bunch of spam (although it didn't stop it all, surprisingly). There are other sites I go to that use it so I should see enough - no need to set them up for me. :)

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