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09-02-2005, 06:57 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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|  eh... it's fair season again well as we all know, fall is in the air.. whats that mean to fish? lots of goldfish being won at local fairs. I hate this because i cringe as i see the punk teenagers (tho im a teenager myself) walking around with multable bags of goldfish as they run around swinging them... i always think to myself, do they relize they now have a responcibility? do they have a 10gallon tank to put them in?(remember, thats the "rule of thumb" for goldfish) do they have fish food? ill never forget the day i ran into a guy i went to school with, and he started wacking his goldfish bag on a curb as i pleaded with him if i could have the goldie... i told him i will but it in my pond and give it a happy long life... he just chuckled at me as he continued to beat up his fish, he then held up the back and said "now do you want him" the fish was now half dead, gills still moving but laying on the bottom of the bag on his side  i think that tramatized me... i also once saw a dead goldfish on the ground at a fair... does "winning" goldfish bother anyone elce?
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09-02-2005, 07:18 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: I currently lodge in a house with my Jack Russell pup, Boosh.
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|  OMG! Yes - it does. Where i'm from we don't do that though - it's not a tradition to give out goldfish, it may even be illegal, i'm not sure, never seen it though AND i go to nearly every fair! (love the rides, wheeee). I think it is disgusting! I would've smacked that guy down on the kerb! Stupid, ignorant people. Pfft!
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09-02-2005, 08:15 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: May 2005 Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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| humm thats odd, its a big crazy in pa... almost ever fair is bound to have ATLEAST 1 "win a goldfish" stand... the most common game is paying a dollar and getting a bucket of 10 pin-pong balls and throw them to try to make it into these little fish bowls lined up, however many you get in, is how many fish you get... i see that some people are very good, or play the game several times (carring lots of bags around)... i think it must be illigal where your from, because if a very popular game!
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09-02-2005, 09:20 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Pennsylvania
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| guppo i reccomend the bloomsburg fair... its always fun.. im going this year the wife took off the week of the fair so me the wife and kids will all be going ... they got all kinds of stuff at that fair .. including the monster trucks here is the link to the official website. i only live like 15 minutes from this place .. http://www.bloomsburgfair.com/
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09-02-2005, 09:24 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Florissant, MO
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| They do it here. You go to the LFS and there are a ton of folk with half dead goldfish in a plastic bag who only want a bowl...a small bowl.
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09-03-2005, 07:53 AM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Nottingham, UK
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| well we have goldfish all the time, one of my friends won one once, but i took it off her and put it in my pond, it's still there today.
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09-03-2005, 08:14 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: jacksonville fla.
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| yes that is how i got started but to tell you the truth the only place i see that anymore is the out of the way fiar like at the churches and it is nice hear there teens out that are creing |
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