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I stepped on a flounder once.

That is all.

When I read that one of your teachers was one of the Plaster Casters….I thought of a completely different bunch of folks from the 60’s, and wondered how in the hell they were Art teachers…

Well, I can’t speak to your flounder, but I DID see a Badger with a swinging cod on another board…….

I stepped on a flounder once.

I hope it didn’t hurt your sole.

While working at the original Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, we found an old mirror that was original to the castle. It has lovely plaster-cast decoration all around it, very ornate. It was, naturally, a haunted mirror. Must have been all the natural history it witnessed in that cursed castle in Florida!

I’m still looking for my plaice in the sun………..

That’s a mighty fine plaice you got there Stoaty. It reminds me of another fish though – scamp.

Scamp is a fish from the Gulf O’Mexico and it is absolutely delicious. Like the flatfish, scamp undergo a change as they mature as well. This one is kind of unusual: all scamp are born female, but those that survive to complete maturity graduate with the advanced degree of maleness. Isn’t that neat?

[…] S. Weasel “a woman’s plaice is in the kitchen.” […]

I knew a girl long ago who was a plaster caster. She was an artist, of sorts.

I learn something here about art all the time.

Who knew, cement art?

Please, do go on about cement. 🙂

Wasn’t by any chance called Cynthia, was she, jwpaine? 😉

It’s just that a lot of the external ornamentation we think is carving is actually artfully cast cement, Allen. They can do amazing and fabulous things with aggregates.

Speaking of amazing and fabulous things, did you know most flatfish are born with eyes on either side of their heads, and one eye breaks loose and migrates by the time they reach adulthood? It’s twoo.

Also, apparently, some species always end up on their left sides, some on their right, and some could go either way.

If you know what I mean.

OT, but it’s ladies day at the races.

Or maybe it’s NOT off-topic, seein’ as how we’re into going both ways.

I don’t recall her name, UB, but I do remember that she was a professional ecdysiast in Jacksonville, Florida, back in the 70s. Prior to meeting her, my only knowledge of plaster casters was a reference to it in Shel Silverstein’s “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball.”

Now you’re in Blighty, you owe it to yourself to order plaice the next time you’re in the chip shop. It makes a wonderful change from cod/haddock/halibut.

For battered flatfish with pommes frites, you would have to go a long way to top the turbot ‘n’ chips my mother ordered on a daytrip to Boulogne when I was a kid. It wasn’t turbot, it was a turbot, about a foot on a side. She scoffed the lot, greedy devil.

Phew, I thought I was the only one with a plaster cast critter at home. Mine is of a dead rattlesnake. I keep it under the couch.

also, I like Paddington.

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I left this here to note a bit of sweasel.com trivia (no, it is NOT all trivia). This here plaice is the only color photo ever to run on the front page of sweasel.com. Because it depicts a white object, I didn’t notice that I hadn’t black-and-whiterized it.

Look for the little brown fleck on the fish’s upper lip.

Cool.

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