Three parodies of reports of a personal object (watch, ring, etc.) found in a fish by the person who had lost it.
B. A. Botkin, ed., A Treasury of American Anecdotes (New York: Random House, 1957), 266, citing Jacob Richman, Jewish Wit and Wisdom (New York: Pardes Publishing House, 1952), 316.
Ernie Kovacs (writer), Wallace Wood (artist), “Strangely Believe It!”, MAD magazine #37, vol. 1, no. 37, Jan. 1958, p. 34. “PETER J. EVERSHAM, Owner Of A Fish Store In BROOKLYN, N.Y. LOST HIS SPECTACLES OVERBOARD DURING AN OCEAN VOYAGE IN 1951. FOUR YEARS LATER, WHILE CUTTING OPEN A FISH, PETER FELT HIS KNIFE STRIKE SOMETHING HARD. It was his thumb.”
“Believe It Or NUTS!” This Magazine Is Crazy, vol. 3, no. 4, Feb. 1958, p. 32.
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