Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 29, 2013

Where I come from, too. But maybe the kid mispronounced it, making the other kids think he was referring to a personal problem. It’s a little unclear to me.

A contagious personal problem!

The biggest problem with ice shanties is that you have to use dish instead of cable…

Down South where we talk without an accent and correctly, it is pronounced “Crap-pee”

No, the motivation isn’t prestige. It’s the satisfaction that comes from personal accomplishment, knowing you got those fish yourself, and no one gave a crappie.

Crappie, Croppie, Speck, Speckled Bass, Slab Sides, all the same fish. Tasty too. :)

ice fishing, a form of self abuse.

this is why you do not go ice fishing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jkBMUNacQ

It’s easier to buy a bag of it at 7-11

In Louisiana we call them Sacalait (sock-ah-lay). I think it means Milk Fish for the white meat.

Drag all that equipment out onto Ford Lake. Drill a hole, sit on an overturned bucket for several hours watching a fishing pole wedged into the ice! Hmm… what am I missing here?I’d rather have needles in my eyes!

may not sound appetizing but them’s good eatin’

Blame Thomas Crapper.

Went ice fishing once, took me forever to chop the hole big enough for the boat.

No prestige, and he’s too young to drink beer. At least he caught something.

In Kentucky, we pronounced it properly: croppie.

Well, however you pronounce it, Rod Crappie will catch the most of them.

I have lived in IN, MO, MS, TX, NV, and IL I have visited every state west of the MS except for the nothernmost tier. I have always heard it pronounced phonetically, ie. as it’s spelled.

Tastes similar to tilapia.

Around here (NE Ohio) that particular kind of fish is pronounced “croppy,” but I don’t know if thats a regional pronounciation or not. Frazz is located in Michigan, supposedly.

Garrison Keillor attributes the general success of Lake Wobegon marriages to ice fishing – it gives husband and wife some time without each other.

Pronouncing “crappie” as “croppie” sounds like pronouncing “Uranus” as “U’-ran-us” (accent on the U).

This coming from a cartoonist who thinks putting on spandex and a goofy helmet and then going out and obstructing traffic adds to one’s prestige.

Robert Tompsett: Not around here. That ecological niche is held by catfish (also good eating), gar, and carp. Crappie are such top-feeders you can see them breaking the surface on occasion.