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May 7, 2007 Big Fish, Follow Up

One benefit of leaving the comment threads open is that sometimes a long-dead post gets a surge of new activity. Over the past month, I’ve noticed a few new comments on a [2004 post](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2004/a-very-very-big-fish) featuring this photo…

big fish

…which is, according to [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catfish.asp), probably real in the sense that it’s not Photoshopped — though it’s probably not a catfish, and the fishermen may not even be American. (Imagine!)

I originally used the image because it bears an uncanny resemblance to the final incarnation of Edward in [Big Fish](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/).Which I’ve now ruined for people who haven’t seen the movie. Did that deserve a spoiler warning? It’s hard to say where the line is once a movie’s been on DVD for a while.

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