a whale is not a fish. a whale is not a fish. not a fish!

I heard the dumbest conversation ever at FIT the other day. Two girls were waiting for the elevator, and one opened her beverage and discovered a "fun fact" inside the cap.

"It says that the whale shark is the largest fish and it weighs two tons. That's impossible!"

"Why?"

"A fish can't weigh ten thousand pounds!"

I turned back. "Um ... a ton is just 2,000 pounds," I said.

"Oh, thanks," she said. Then to her friend: "A fish can't weigh four thousand pounds!"

The friend said "I think it can. I mean, a whale is a fish, and it's pretty big."