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zander
Registered: May 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 117
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Quote: Motorcycling is another basket of fish altogether
I always thought fish came in kettles. 
I don't know if it's the same all over the UK, but where I am you can cycle along canal towpaths, you just need a licence.
Nicely observed shot by the way.
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Dayo
Registered: April 2007
Location: Bahrain
Posts: 447
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You need baskets when you have a lot of them to handle.
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zander
Registered: May 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 117
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Fair enough, if you can find a basket big enough.
Quote: KENTLE, n. (L. centum.) In commerce, a hundred pounds in weight; as a kentle of fish. (It is written and pronounced also quintal.)
Quote: Newfoundland, that kettle of fish was a corruption of quintal of fish, a measure either of 100 pounds or a hundredweight. This is possible, since quintal was also known in the forms kintal and kentle in Newfoundland and New England, the last of which could easily have been misheard as kettle. It canâ??�?�¶?�??�¥t be ruled out as a possibility, since the quintal was the usual way of measuring fish catches. Against it is the important point that the idiom kettle of fish seems to have been known first in Britain but that kentle is an American form.
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Dayo
Registered: April 2007
Location: Bahrain
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Now I know. I had thought kettle was used in place of pot. Shows what misassumptions one has.
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zander
Registered: May 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 117
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Quote: I had thought kettle was used in place of pot.
So did I until I went looking. Every day's a school day.
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Ransom
Registered: May 2007
Location: Just West of the Pond in SC
Posts: 109
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Great composition and angle for this one.. It pays to have a bit of patience and let the shot come to you!!! ;-)...
As for Kettle/Kentle..? I'm confused!!!!!!
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zander
Registered: May 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 117
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One explanation for the term " a kettle of fish" is that the word kettle is a corruption of the word kentle which is a measure of weight used for fish. 1 hundred weight of fish = 1 kentle.
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zander
Registered: May 2007
Location: UK
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I bet when Dayo took this picture that it would lead to a discussion on the terms used for weighing fish. 
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