One benefit of leaving the comment threads open is that sometimes a long-dead post gets a surge of new activity. Over the past month, I’ve noticed a few new comments on a 2004 post featuring this photo…
…which is, according to Snopes, probably real in the sense that it’s not Photoshopped — though it’s probably not a catfish, and the fishermen may not even be American. (Imagine!)
I originally used the image because it bears an uncanny resemblance to the final incarnation of Edward in Big Fish.1
- Which I’ve now ruined for people who haven’t seen the movie. Did that deserve a spoiler warning? It’s hard to say where the line is once a movie’s been on DVD for a while. ↩