Single? Male? Thirties?

7 Responses to Single? Male? Thirties?

1. Jason Arnopp says:

   May 30, 2008 at 9:35 am

   I’ve never understood the expression “shooting fish in a barrel”. I imagine it’d still be quite difficult. Maybe I’m imagining one of those big fat barrels that people fall into in cartoons. Still, for the sake of clarity, I would prefer something like, “shooting a cow in a barrel.”

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2. Piers says:

   May 30, 2008 at 9:40 am

   Surely a barrel large enough to hold a cow would cease to be a barrel?

   So the phrase should actually be: “Like shooting a cow in a vat.”

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3. Jason Arnopp says:

   May 30, 2008 at 9:59 am

   I’ll buy that for a dollar!

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4. Phill Barron says:

   May 30, 2008 at 2:15 pm

   Jason, I think your confusion comes from the lack of a proper plural for fish. If it was shooting *A* fish in a barrel, then it would be quite difficult. Shooting into a barrel full of fish, so full there’s no room for water, would be quite easy.

   Unless you had a really small bullet or were blind or the gun exploded in your face or something.

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5. Piers says:

   May 30, 2008 at 2:43 pm

   Perhaps it’s actually a very small fish – an anchovy perhaps – placed into the barrel of your gun before firing.

   In which case even blindness and small bullets wouldn’t save our piscine pal.

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6. Phill Barron says:

   May 30, 2008 at 2:46 pm

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-MpXCMcIs

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7. Rob says:

   May 30, 2008 at 2:52 pm

   So it’s nothing to do with getting the lead singer from Marillion to sit in a barrel while you do some target practice then?

   Shame.

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