the pl*co myth

[davo]

PLECO. you will often find the aforementioned generic term referred to as pl*co in a number of places. This censorship arose from a cyber-superstition centering around a number of unexplained pleco deaths. Essentially when a given pleco was discussed via internet like a forum, the unfortunate individual fish perished. Fishkeepers being the superstitious lot that they are adopted the textual equivalent of coded whispering by referring to their beloved plecos as pl*cos to stop the curse.

Now what i want to know, is how long has this been going for, and how have i never heard of it? has anyone else?

 

[Honda12]

Not till now. I use pleco and my are fine, crap it just died.

 

[davo]

Not till now. I use pleco and my are fine, crap it just died.

lol. i was just scrounging around trying to find a pic of that L025 from the sao felix, and came across this thing twice

 

[skinless]

another old faq site like thekrib has emails from like 96-98(?) with pl*co everywhere.
i was actually thinking about that awhile back, how its not really used here. what a joke.

 

[M|L]

 

[USMCtanker]

i have now im scared

 

[davo]

of course it is. unless you meant that i just made it up

 

[WyldFya]

I've heard of that before, and that was from quite a while ago. Kind of like how some people now believe if you name a fish it will die. superstitions can run wildly out of control.

 

[M|L]

of course it is. unless you meant that i just made it up

lol

this "myth" has been going on forever.

I don't believe in it, that's why I said,

 

[WyldFya]

obviously for those that did know about it, we don't believe in it. ooh or maybe we do...