F.I.S.H.

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This article is about a student performance group. There is also an interest house named F.I.S.H. House.

The Carleton Juggling F.I.S.H. is an eccentric group of Carleton students who enjoy riding unicycles, juggling fire, and throwing things at one another. Their performances are often characterized by a group of people materializing and beginning to toss objects skyward.

In Winter Term 2004, the F.I.S.H. submitted a video titled "The Real Carleton F.I.S.H." to DVD Fest. While the video failed to win a cash award, it did receive plentiful applause and made it to the final three choices for the Critic's Choice Award, selected by the audience.

While rumors abound as to the true meaning of the acronym "F.I.S.H.," this information is withheld from everyone except F.I.S.H. club officers and Junior/Senior jugglers.

The unofficial motto of the group is "When in doubt, left hand double." This rather odd slogan refers to a technique used when passing clubs among multiple jugglers, and originated in 2001 or 2002. While practicing improvised club passing, F.I.S.H. members learned that during complex improvised passing sequences a juggler could buy him or herself some time to think by lobbing up a double-flip pass from their left hand, thereby possibly saving the pattern.

F.I.S.H. Budget Requests

F.I.S.H. has a history of submitting interesting budget requests to the Carleton Student Association. It began in 1993 with the infamous "dingdong fest" request in which, in addition to requestion $90,000 for the use of Steven Lewis as an emcee, F.I.S.H. requested $9 for a dingdong fest. Rumor has it that this request backed up the budget committee for no less than 45 minutes, though was ultimately rejected. (One must take note that the budget committee did, indeed, supply $40,000 for Steven Lewis to emcee on the following conditions: "He must come to every practice and learn to juggle. Their final show must feature Steven Lewis juggling Schiller, Gail Lewis, and Chris Hilberg, while singing 'Achey-Breaky Heart.'"

Previous budget requests include:

• 1993: $90,000 for Steven Lewis to emcee a show, $9 for a dingdong fest.
• 1994: $25M for a C-130 starlifter and runway built on Carleton campus to facilitate travel to St. Olaf to practice with them, $9 for another dingdong fest.
• 1995: $125,000 for a Tilt-A-Whirl amusement park ride to make for more entertaining performances, $9 for yet another dingdong fest.
• 1996: $16,000 for a giraffe, $9 for a - you guessed it - dingdong fest.
• 1997: $183,000 for a Monster Truck to balance upon the chin. No dingdong fest.
• 2000: $3.4M for the Russian space station to for zero-gravity juggling research.
• 2001: $2.4M for an advertising budget.
• 2003: $80M for a study of cold fusion in order light the F.I.S.H. torches in cold temperatures.
• 2004: $12,3000 for "Flapping FISH Out of Water Project" the Trampoline-Aided People-Juggling Spring Performance.

External Links

• Carleton Juggling F.I.S.H. - Official site
• Watch "The Real Carleton F.I.S.H." at the DVD Fest 2004 site