Fishermans Poem? Or something of the sort.

[hoggs222]

Can anybody tell me this? I remember something that we had on the wall at the cabin.....It went something like this.

Howyadoin?

Gottacouple.

Watchyausin?

Gobbaworms. (???)

Beenherewhile?

Couplehours.

Fishinondabottom?

Rightondabottom.

Something, something (I can't remember)

(Possibly more)

OK Seeya

Guluck.

Anybody else know what I'm talking about?

[njsimonson]

Hoggs -

We used to have a wooden plaque somewhere in my house with the same thing on it. I know there's a phrase..."whatchacatchin?" "bassncarp" but that's about all I remember of it.

[schweady]

This was a printed promotion given out by the Jim Beam folks in the late 50s or early 60s and is one of the treasures I salvaged from my late father's woodworking shop. Still hangs in my garage and I smile whenever I look at it and think about how how many times I've been on one side or the other of a very similar conversation:

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When Fishermen Meet

"Hiyamac"

"Lobuddy"

"Binearlong?"

"Coplours"

"Cetchanenny?"

"Goddafew"

"Kindarthay?"

"Bassencarp"

"Ennysizetoom?"

"Cuplapowns"

"Hittinhard?"

"Sordalike"

"Wahchoozin?"

"Gobbawurms"

"Fishanonaboddum?"

"Rydononaboddum"

"Whatchadrinkin?"

"Jugajimbeam"

"Igoddago"

"Tubad"

"Seeyaroun"

"Yeahtakideezy"

"Guluk."

COMPLIMENTS OF:

"THE JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO."

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I remember studying it from the first years I could read, and for the longest time I was amused by the very last line because I had always interpreted the last "Guluk" not as "Good Luck" but as a swallowing sound being made by this "friend" who had stopped by to chat and then made off with his buddy's jug of Jim Beam.