What’s a ‘Mr. Pinchy’?
It’s a magical crawdad that grants wishes. It’s a high level fishing drop in WoW.
The Magical Crawdad is one of the rarest pets in wow. Its a rarespawn of a rarespawn like the disgusting oozeling.
The item which spawns a Magical Crawdad is Mr Pinchy. Mr Pinchy is an item you fish 3 specific areas in Terrokar Forest (mostly Skettis). You need maxed fishing + the best lure + a solid rod to not miss. It has about 1/500 chance of dropping. Mr Pinchy has 3 charges, 1 charge usable every 2 days. Each charge can give you 1 of 5 things: potions, benevolent mr pinchy (guardian, temporary), angry mr pinchy (you get attacked - very funny to do in instances), a temporary buff or the rare coveted magical crawdad pet. It took 5 Mr Pinchies to get my magical crawdad pet. The upside is I made a fucking fortune selling the fish I caught trying to get Mr Pinchies.
The oozeling is similar in how you kill oozes in certain high level areas like Felwood for a rare bag. The bag has a rare chance in itself of dropping an oozeling.
Why do you ask?
Zero implied it might be funny. That answer was informative, but not hilariously incoherent like I was led to believe.
Note to self: Level fishing.
That’s what REALLY brought it on, actually.
My Warlock on Dragonblight is half a level away from 60 at this point, so I spent part of yesterday getting Fishing to 300. Which took for-freaking-ever. Started chatting with Zero to break the monotony of it all, and that’s where mention of Mr. Pinchy came in…
I was still expecting more of a ‘RAAAAAAAARGGHGH’ answer, though.
Fishing makes great food for cooking and can be highly profitable. You would’ve gotten a very angry response had I not gotten my Magical Crawdad. At some point, people were competing with me for the fishing nodes and that really pissed me off. The alliance I can kill. The horde I couldn’t despite very much wanting to. I remember once someone brought an alliance over to kill me to get my fishing node. The sunday fishing contest is fucking ridiculous.
Stuff like that is pretty much why I gravitated towards playing on a normal server.
That Crawdad/Mr. Pinchy stuff sounds like more trouble than it’s worth, so I’ll probably not put much effort into that. Though I shall be using Fishing as a source for money.
You’ve all been indoctrinated into the WoW machine!
I can’t help but add on that Wrath of the Lich King looks lame compared to BC right now.
For some reason, I just had an image of the octogenarians down at the pier here trying to stab each other with their canes and rods over fishing spots. Amusing I must say.
I still love my Mr. Wiggles <3
And Fishing is le SNORE; it’s what killed FFXI for me so I refuse to touch it in WoW.
Plus you can’t use savory delights while shapeshifted 
:kissy:
Well I joined WoW WITH BC, so Wrath would be the first addition of new content to my own experiences…
Though looking at what was added in BC, and seeing what’s coming in Wrath, I can see where you’re coming from. But, I expect there’ll be more new features announced later. And maybe we’ll get new races in the expansion after Wrath (I was disappointed when I first learned that you couldn’t create a Pandaran). Assuming all the skills will get another 75 point increase, there’ll be a metric crapton of new recipes, patterns, ores, and all that good crafty stuff coming.
I’ve also been waiting for a chance to smack Arthas around since finishing The Frozen Throne. Though whether or not I’ll get a chance to myself is another story…
Well, it says something when Blizzard is too lazy to make the first preview a cinematic. 
I never bothered much with cooking/fishing.
Or First-Aid…
Then again, I only got up to 39-Warlock… Is cooking really that great higher on? Something I might keep in mind when I get my account back.
I certainly hope that crawdad does something cool.
Our first server event where I play was actually to award heaps upon heaps of wealth and loot to whoever caught it first. Every high-level on the server was in those fishing nodes, fighting. It was exceedingly brutal.
I didn’t win, but two other guys and I got awarded a Crawdad by a GM for just fucking killing the Paladin who did get it pretty much the very second he announced it.