I think the concept is dead-on. (I was one who discussed T-shirt on CD the other night) But the orignal poem reads properly in a statement-by-statement basis. Reflowing it disturbs that. So, the new version is not as good as the original--cuter, but not as good of a read.

Ideas: manipulate the font and other artistic effects as well. Don't break a statement, using effect to tie them together when needed. That should work everywhere except the croak in the fin, which has to be separated in space. Perhaps tie it together with color?

The % nicely becomes the eye.

If the fish were facing the other way, then the #! line could become a fishing pole, with a line drawn over the text.

—John

In reply to Re: Fish Dinner, Revisited... by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Fish Dinner, Revisited... by suaveant

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