First the beginning of the story:
Like many of his ilk, Malcolm Tent
was a fisherman given to exaggeration.
One day he had an experience he was sure no one would believe so he
never told anyone the story until he told it to me. Now I will tell it to you.
It seems Mal was out in his boat
fishing for carp one day. The fishing
was good, and he was reeling them in. As
he was removing a big one from his hook, he pricked the end of his finger,
which started to bleed a little. Mal
reached into his pocket for his handkerchief.
As he pulled it out, his wallet fell out of the pocket, over the side of
the boat, and began to sink out of sight before he could grab it.
Mal groaned, but he hardly had a
second to comprehend the accident when a fish came to the surface with the
wallet balanced on its nose. Soon another
fish came to the surface, and like a pair of seals with a ball at the zoo, they
flipped the wallet around in a game of catch, and finally back into the boat.
Mal gave up fishing and
exaggerating after that. And he only
once described how he became the only human being ever to see ….
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A copy of Blood Tango to the first person to guess the ending and
write it in the comments below.
This is a great idea. My copy of Blood Tango arrived last week.
ReplyDeleteSteph
S, Thanks! I hope you enjoy the book. Give a guess at the punch line anyway. If you win, I will send the book to whomever you say.
ReplyDeleteThis is driving me crazy. Carp, wallet, money, toss, catch, fish, hook... Now, I'm going to spend the long weekend trying to figure out the pun (even though I am of course ineligible). I'm reminded of the line in the movie MASTER AND COMMANDER: "He who would pun would pick a pocket."
ReplyDeleteS, Who says you are ineligible?
ReplyDeleteMy brain, which is incapable of punning. Have begged for help via tweet.
ReplyDeleteTo see... two carp playing catch with a wallet. No, that isn't particularly clever. Um... Anyway here I go to buy a copy of Blood Tango. I hear it's a corker.
ReplyDeleteKeep going! You are getting close. When I kid, playing games, we would have said, "You are getting warm, very warm. You are getting hot!" But today does not seem like a day when you would be happy to hear that. At least not in the Big Baking Apple!
ReplyDeleteYou folks are way above my I.Q. capability in the heat of boiling Manhattan! I look forward to cheering for the winner! tjstraw
ReplyDeleteEver to see… a purse between two fish… carp returning a wet wallet… a lost wallet bouncing between carp… arghhh…
ReplyDeleteI'm REALLY glad I have a signed copy already, because I adore puns ... but this one has me stumped!
ReplyDeleteBy the way ... you all REALLY REALLY want this book. It's fabulous.
Hint: the phrase begins "carp to...."
DeleteHint number 2: the third word is "carp..."
ReplyDeleteI'll try... the only carp I know is carpe diem.... tjs
ReplyDeleteAnd all I can think of is a carp to carp money transfer. ARGGH!
ReplyDeleteAnnamaria, you are a clever clogs and I'm feeling distinctly lacking here.
Steph
I hope everyone appreciates my never ending willingness to humiliate myself here.
ReplyDeleteHow about "a carp to carp toss?"
Steph
Getting very close. The first letter of the PUNch line is "w."
ReplyDeleteOops. The LAST WORD BEGINS WITH "W.
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