The other problem is how the scales get stuck in your beard.
I'm going to tell you a dirty joke, but first I need to teach you some linguistics.

In English, there are two constructions where you tack an adjective onto the end of a sentence. The first is called the resultative, because the adjective tells you what the result of the sentence is:

The lake froze solid.
They pounded the metal flat.
She drank the bottle dry.

The second is called the depictive. The difference is, it doesn't tell you about the outcome of an action, it tells you what things are like during it.

He ran across the field naked.
Don't drive drunk.

There are lots of these out there. But the classic example for some reason, the absolute number-one most popular example of a depictive, is:

I ate the fish raw.

The cool thing, if you're a linguist, is that most of the time these constructions are completely unambiguous. That's surprising — on the face of it, there's nothing obvious in the grammar telling us that the lake became solid and the streaker started out naked, rather than vice versa, and yet we just know that's what those sentences mean. So there are people who study these two constructions to try to figure out how the disambiguation works.

The cooler thing, at least for those of you waiting for the dirty joke, is that EAT X RAW is one of those rare examples that can be ambiguous. I don't think you're supposed to notice the second meaning — I'm pretty sure nobody intends to get up in front of a roomful of people and talk about fellating fish until they're sore. But once you have noticed it, it makes it very difficult to sit through lectures on the subject with a straight face.