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Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34284363
Apparently a later post in the same eel series!

English Eel-Rents: 10th-17th Centuries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34284363 - Jan 2023 (12 comments)

The Good Housekeeping Eel of Approval
I follow the Surprised Eel Historian, PhD on Mastodon [1]. You want eels? He's got eels...

[1] https://historians.social/@greenleejw

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FYI: A stick of eels is 25 eels. A bind is 10 sticks.
The only thing I know is that most eels were imported from Hungary by hovercraft. It explains why sticks of eels were particularly expensive, and the reason why hovercrafts feature so prominently in English-Hungarian communication.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34222248

English as She Is Spoke (1884) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221879 - Jan 2023 (136 comments)

Hence "my hovercraft is full of eels"?
As per https://youtu.be/k_Gn6a3WbYw?t=46