Carl Bloch, Danish
“Well, I Have To Hand It To You, Ernie. That’s a New One On Me. Getting Catfished By An Actual Catfish,” 1880
Oil on panel
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/// Gunnar’s cousin, Knud, is a curmudgeon.
Always seething and in a high dudgeon.
Now they’re Two Old Men Sitting
in the Shadow, unwitting
that one’s head will soon meet with a bludgeon.
/// Gunnar’d lent to Knud two cords of wood.
Its return, he assumed, understood.
So when Knud still resisted,
this time Gunnar insisted.
Knud hissed, “You’ll get it… you’ll get it good!”
“Be reasonable, Valdemar, we’re fishermen. How are we going to catch anything if you keep cutting up our fishnets to make stockings?”