Retired educator Raymond Stone swears the catfish joke came from Rep. Wayland Spruill.
Stone, who worked for the N.C. Association of Educators in the 1950s, said he recalls the Bertie County Democrat telling the joke frequently.
"He was a great big bald-headed potbellied man who could stand on the floor and wax poetic about the rippling waters of the Chowan River," Stone told Dome. "That was always the thing — 'Hold still, little catfish.' I can hear him right now saying that."
Stone said he could not recall Rep. Cutlar Moore making the joke, as previously reported in Dome.
But he said that regardless, Spruill was a "bigger character" than Moore.
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