Fish Out of Water
Dr. Tom Lessl of the University of Georgia studies Speech Communication. For three years he studied the fish outlines that people put on their cards. Well, more precisely he studied why people put the fish outlines on their cars, and he especially wanted to know about those who displayed the legged Darwin and evolution fish. He left surveys whenever he spotted one. You can read some of their responses in this news item on the study. Quickly after Darwin came the Truth fish devouring the Darwin fish, and the dead, legs up Darwin fish. Many other parodies followed. As the NY Times put it: “While natural selection drives biological change, the evolution of car fish seems to have been driven by ideological one-upsmanship at first, and then by market forces and irrepressible silliness. The newest species is the Sushi fish, a truly odd symbolic development in which the fish actually represents a fish.” (buy ’em here, another fishy article)