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On Pious Fish

03/08/11
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I was watching the Red Sox v Indians game when something rather extraordinary happened… Asdrubal hit his second homer of the game, but it wasn’t exactly clear what had happened for a few minutes.

As spectacular as the play was, and as tense as the few minutes before it was called were, something else stood out. As the home run is declared one of the commentators exclaims, very clearly, “HOLY MACKEREL!”.

This led me on a little Google adventure, which amongst other things revealed to me that…

“The Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, also known simply as the Sacred Cod, is a carving of a codfish that hangs in the House of Representatives chamber of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts. The Sacred Cod measures 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m) long, is carved out of a solid piece of pine,[1] and symbolizes the importance of the fishing industry to Massachusetts.[2] There have been a total of three Sacred Cods, the latest of which was carved in 1784 and presented to the House later that year by the Boston merchant John Rowe.

America is weird.

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