Pop Culture Frenzy, Round 56

Welcome once again to Pop Culture Frenzy.  Something's happened, that has happened before, to the Norway salmon farm industry causing the price of salmon to go way up.

What happened?
Molly?

A group of owls swooped

down and ate them?

 

 

 

Hostmaster:  incorrect.  Fun fact.  A group of owls is called a parliament.

What happened to the salmon?

Cyndi?

 

 

 

 

 



Global warming.  Their environment

is too hot for them to survive.

 

 

 

This is a salmon farm.  Surely

the farmer controls the environment.

 

 

Hostmaster:  actually this salmon farm is not what most consider a farm.  It's a little netted area in the ocean where people are permitted to raise salmon.  The problem they are having is apparently due to overcrowding.

Back to our question.

Fluffy?

 

 

 

 

Fish rustlers came along in a boat

 and took the salmon?

 

 

Hostmaster:  incorrect.  Here's another fun fact.  You'd think a group of salmon might be a school.  It's not.  Apparently a school is a generic group of  fish.  A group of salmon is called a salmon.

Our question.

Bryan?

 

 

 

  The overcrowding caused the

salmon to go berserk.

They broke into rival salmons.

The resulting gang, er, salmon

war wiped them out.

 

Hostmaster:  incorrect.

Molly?

 

 

 

Sharks ate them?

 

 

 

 

What are these salmon farm nets made of?

  And what is a group of sharks called?

 

 

Hostmaster:  groups of sharks are called lots of things: gam, grind, pod, shiver...

 

 

 

 

 They should hire

guard dolphins

to protect the salmon!

 

 

 

 

I know this one!  A

group of dolphins is

a pod.

 

 

 

Hostmaster:  you guys are never going to get this round's question.  The answer is lice.

 

A group of lice is called...?

Hostmaster:  a flock.  Anyway.   The sea lice are abundant and they are chewing on the salmon.  Here's something for Cyndi.  A study suggests that man made climate change may have caused a raise in temperatures, helping the flocks of lice to thrive.

That figures.

Hostmaster:  the study also suggests that failure to dump pesticides on the lice in a timely manner caused the lice population to swell.

 

You OK, Cyndi?

Oh, give her a moment. 

She's throwing up.

 

Whoa, Cyndi.  I figured you

for someone who skips breakfast, 

or at most, eats one of those thimble

sized containers of yogurt.

Boy, was I wrong! 

 

It's too bad salmon

don't eat lice off of

each other like

baboons do.

 

 

Hostmaster:  they're thinking of putting in some smaller fish to eat the lice.

 

 

 

 

Hope there's room in the crowded

salmon net farm for a school!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know, Hostmaster.

This was not a Pop Culture

question.

 

 

 

Hostmaster:  very astute, puke breath.  Looks like you forgot whose in charge here.  The sponsors named the show but I run it.  And in case you forgot, I'm not amiable to anything remotely resembling criticism.  If you are unhappy here, I'm sure Bryan can find an able partner to replace you.

 

 

 

 

 

Uh, Hostmaster?

Last week after that second accidental

kitchen fire, my owners surrendered

me to a pound.  Cyndi adopted me.

 

 

 

 

Hostmaster:  it would be rude to laugh here, wouldn't it?

 

 

 

 

Yes.

I'll meet you in the

parking lot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

So ends this round.

Here's an article about the flock

 of lice attacking the salmon of salmon,

 the study that made Cyndi vomit

 is contained therein.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Round  56

Fluffy/Molly   23

Bryan/Cyndi    21