Mayne Reid, who peppered his outdoor adventures with the Latinate names of plants and animals, to Roosevelt's eccentric, fish-loving uncle, Robert B. Roosevelt, a pioneering ichthyologist, a crusader against overfishing, and a womanizer who presented his conquests with green gloves (which gives a whole new meaning to going green).
While Hollywood has favoured putting unlikely bedfellows together in crime capers, some of the best British pairings – think Withnail and I – simply put two eccentrics into the same fish bowl.
Their variety is highly eccentric (a book about fishing, a children's story illustrated by his daughter, a collection of poems), but among them are a couple of mini-memoirs of genuine value, one about his first race for state senator and the other about his rural childhood.
A restaurant dedicated to tinned fish may seem eccentric, but, despite what Arrocet believes, we are not complete strangers to high-end – and beautifully designed – canned products in this country.
Two composers independently uttered cries from the heart last week, one in the grandeur of a Park Lane hotel, the other in the muggy heat of an eccentric "Tudorbethan" cinema in a Suffolk fishing village.
But those looking for an eccentric attraction head straight for Scarborough, a fish and chips restaurant on the beach; alongside it are two holiday caravans for rent, which Anglophile owner Param Dhillon claims are the only ones in Malaysia.
The soundtrack 'voice talents', except for Alan Rickman as a villainous pilot fish and Terry Jones as the eccentric ichthyologist Professor MacKrill (geddit?), are all American, and 'Check it out, we're all fish, isn't that cool?' is a fairly typical line.
So, a self-indulgent gourmet road trip with some funny moments, a gritty fly-on-a-gavver-station film, a chilling drama, a charming documentary about some eccentrics, and a happy Geordie with a very big fish.
Determined to make a better life, she moves the two of them back to her hometown — Unalakleet, Alaska, a small fishing village where much of her quirky and eccentric family still lives.
Balcombe's wish for joy to the fishes (a plural he prefers to "fish," the better to mark them as individuals) may seem eccentric to readers who look into the eyes of a sea bass and see nothing.
Straight-laced businesswoman Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) finds she is a fish out of water when she attends her other half's eccentric family's Christmas celebration – let the laughs begin.
