Wild sardines, corn on the cob inspire two questions

From July 31,2012:

Could you please translate the label on a can of sardines I had for lunch? It said, in part, “wild caught in managed fisheries.” What does that mean?

First of all, “wild” means that every day, brave fishermen armed only with pistols loaded with blanks, whips and chairs and wearing nifty sardine-tamer circus hats go to sea to master the wild sardines. Sardines that will do anything to save themselves and their families. Sardines with nothing to lose.

OK, not really.

It just means that those sardines you were lunching on — until they were captured and killed and packed in oil or whatever and canned — were carefree and doing whatever it is sardines do when they are left alone to mind their own sardine business.

“Managed fisheries” means the sardines were nabbed in waters in which certain national or international entities set quotas or other rules about just how many sardines might be caught or how they might be caught. The rules are meant to make sure the sardine populations are sustainable.

When eating corn on the cob, what does it mean if you eat the rows from left to right or around? At dinner with friends, I noticed some ate the corn around, which I thought was unusual. I always considered it appropriate to eat two or three rows from left to right.

You know, just when I start to wonder if you people have finally run out of questions that might charitably be called unusual, you bounce right back.

As Sherlock Holmes once said to Dr. Watson, you scintillate.

Anyway, what do you mean “what does it mean” how somebody eats his corn? Do you think it signifies a psychological disturbance or political leaning?

What in the world possible difference could it make to you or anyone else how you eat your corn?

Personally, I’m a left-to-right man, but if somebody wants to eat his corn vertically — round and round — it’s no skin off any of my body parts.