too good a story to keep to myself-

[Mr. Sandman]

As a boy, fishing from a boat in a bay in eastern Long Island, I hooked a cow. Not a big bass but a real cow. This cow was dead and bleached out a pale white. I thought I had a record fish and started the boat and got up to it boatside and saw the pale bovine. What a let down. It was huge though...several hundred #s.