Brevity by Dan Thompson for December 11, 2022

When I hear the word Scord I think of a joke I heard, the punchline is “This is the first time I heard that question in the first person progressive”.

Any fresher you’ll get scrod eggs, might be good?

If the fish can sing, don’t eat it! Worth WAY more alive than dead. Hopefully it isn’t like Michigan J. Frog from Looney Tunes though.

OK, guys… I figured out the joke.

I admit… some Googling was required.

We’re apparently meant to notice that the fish is (sort of) wearing the blue & turquoise costume and blonde braided hairdo of “Elsa,” from Disney’s animated film, “Frozen”.

In that movie, Elsa sings a song called “Let It Go”, which the Elsa-fish is also singing.

Ergo, the customer wonders if it’s really fresh, because it’s from Frozen.

Hilarity thus ensues.

The fact that she’s a scrod is merely a red herring.

(Lame pun admittedly intended. Sorry.)

You’re welcome.

I worked at a school when Frozen came out, so I heard that song more times than my brain could process. Thus, I instantly knew where this joke was going. Not sure that’s a good thing.

Cold fish never bothered it anyway…

I heard he couldn’t carry a tuna, tho.

Sounds a little hoki.

Many of us with children and grandchildren (now teenagers and on to other irritating interests) wished for several years that they would just “let it go.”

BTW, “scrod” is not a specific fish, but a way of cooking fish. It comes from the Anglo-Cornish dialect word scraw: Fish are scrawed by cutting them flatly open and then slightly sprinkling them with salt and pepper. Not exactly onomatopoetic or mimetic or enticing in any way.

As opposed to frozen scrod?