Fishin’ for compliments

Ice fishin' for compliments

You’re wondering where this is all going, aren’t you?  “Is Kathy fishin’ for compliments?” you’re thinking.  “What cheek!  Shame on her!   Hope she doesn’t catch any today.” 

OK, maybe you’re hoping I catch my limit today, as in lake trout.  You can keep five around here as long as they are 15″ long.  If it’s a Northern Pike compliment, you can keep two. 

If you catch a burbot–also known as a lawyer–it’s open season.  No limits on compliments there, although some folks can’t bring themselves to eat ’em. Some folks call them lawyers because they are eel-like, slimy and crooked.

Summer fishin' for compliments

Truly, folks, I’m not really fishin’ for compliments. 

But you could be.

If you decide to play along with an exciting new photo contest.  Karma (over there at Karma’s When I Feel Like It Blog) features photo hunts most months.  October’s photo hunt is for idioms.

You don’t hunt idioms with bows and arrows.  Nope, not with muskets or guns.  You hunt with your camera and your noggin’.

First you come up with an idiom.  Everyone knows what an idiom is, right?  It’s like the saying “Fishing for Compliments.”  They are a set or more of ordinary words which mean something different from the literal meanings of the individual words.

Click here for an entire list.  You don’t want to click?  OK, here are some easy ones:  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  (Take a pic of a bird in a hand, or two birds in a bush.)  A picture paints a thousand words.  (Words in a book?  A picture with lots of words in it?  A collage?)  A taste of your own medicine.  (A photo of someone taking medicine with an awful look on her face.)

 

Karma’s photo hunt requires three photo-idioms.  You post them on your blog.  You go to her blog and provide a link.  You entertain us all with your creative ideas!

 

(My fishin’ blog is not really going to be a winner because I foiled the rules.  I think Karma wants us to choose three different idioms illustrated by three different photos.  But I know you will choose to follow the rules because–well, you know, compliments will follow your entry.)

 

Here are some blogging friends who have already posted their entries:

 

Michaela over there at the Daily Click.

 

Carol coming to you from Wanderings of an Elusive Mind.

 

Amy-Lynn from Nova Scotia at Flandrum Hill with Idioms Inspired by Nature.

 

Sybil from Eastern Passage Passage who is a photo hunt “challenge virgin” and begs us to be gentle with her–although, darn it, she did a great job!

 

Scott Thomas who created Idioms in Disney.  Cool, huh?

 

There may be more idiom-entries from my fellow blogger-friends, but these were the only ones I could find this morning.  Readers, if you’ve provided an entry, be sure to put your link in my comments (as well as on Karma’s page.)

 

Lovin' the compliment--errr, I mean fish--itself

The deadline is October 31st.  That’s Halloween. You have until Monday to participate.

Thanks, everyone, who chooses to fish.  I mean hunt.  I mean play.  Hope you get lots of compliments–or at least have lots of fun!