Pelham: "Lol... just be sure you gut this one and cut its head off before you take it home to feed to the cat."
It's in the well known nature of Lost Causers: they just love to do their little touch-down victory dances even when they've been pushed into their own end-zone.
But if you like fishing analogies, then let's say Moby Dick has just eaten our "fisherman" and his rowboat, mainly because -- rather than fishing or rowing out of the way -- our guy just stood there pointing, and saying: "stupid, stupid, stupid... ".
;-)
I have no idea what that was supposed to mean and I doubt that BroJoe does either. It’s just more of the habitual post-modern yankee attempt to denigrate even when it makes no sense.
Good humor is missing from their character, but then it notably was from the deracinated puritans that were the first yankees. So I suppose it’s to be expected.
I think Uncle Remus had that in mind when he spun the story about avoiding the tarbaby.