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Fish Fly

At the ninth annual Flora-Bama Interstate Mullet Toss, held recently on the Gull Coast beach where Florida meets Alabama, mullets weren't the only fish out of water. As men and women of all ages and abilities lined up to see how far they could fling dead fish (Timbo Parker, 21, of Bay Minette, Ala., won the men's open division with a toss of 163'6"), Dorothy Jones of Houston—a Stanford alumna, an accomplished guitarist and a veterinarian—was placing third in the Miss Mullet contest. A newcomer to the event, Jones was asked whether animal health-care professionals such as herself consider fish tossing to be in good taste.

"Good question," she replied. "I'll have to mull it over."