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The name copi is a nod to how “copious” the fish are, officials said in a statement, copious being a generous description of the way the invasive fish have overrun Midwestern waterways. The trick has been to get people in the U.S. to try Asian carp, fish that are eaten in other parts of the world but not so much stateside.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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They didn’t think this name through. The mind easily jumps from copi to crappy.
Your joke was pre-empted a long, long ago by a real fish some downstaters take at least some pride in catching sounding like your version but spelled as “crappie.”
When’s the last time you went to the store and bought Carp?
That’s what I thought.
More government intervention in the name of ecosystem protection. What could go wrong?
If you’ve eaten a whaler sandwich at Burger King, you’ve eaten carp!