If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- If you doubt your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch a newspaper to test its abilities, a sarcastic way to question authenticity.
- In plain terms
- Ask your salmon to fetch a newspaper to prove it’s wild.
- What can you take from it?
- Question claims with absurd tests.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we verify authenticity without absurd tests?
Another view
The test is obviously impossible, making the point purely comedic.
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