On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:34:56 -0600, Pangur Ban <Whistleblower@att.net>
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Michael Gray expressed precisely :

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:09:22 -0600, Pangur Ban <Whistleblower@att.net>
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Michael Gray expressed precisely :

Dolphins, Dogs and Dogger boots.
Just thort I'd share this animal tale:
My ***** and I went to our "private" river-mouth beach today,
to get her away from the heat with a paddle and a swim.
Bloody awful weather.
100/100 I call it.
"Darwin Weather" is another common term 'round these here parts.
100F temps and 100% humidi-titty.
The ***** actually caught two fish today!
(And ate them. I knew I starved her for some reason.)
But.. a bottle-nosed dolphin turned up in the shallows, not a dozen
yards away!

Did you hear it click or squeak or make any noise?? To be so close to a
wild dolphin!!!! *sigh*

Not this time, but I have on other "encounters of the first kind"!
It actually came to within 10 feet of me, but the water was too
shallow for it to get any closer.
At other times at this beach, I have had several of them come and
check me over, one bumping my jeans with its snout. (Probably telling
me to get out of it's house!)

Such an experience would have been one of my all-time highs!! I've
petted a shark (in the NO aquarium, no less) - but one of the top
experiences on my HOPE-FORs is to touch a wild dolphin.

Wild?
It was only mildly upset, I think!

I have never "patted" a shark, (unless you count handling them whilst
catching them).
When I was a lad, and the Aldinga Reef was still teeming with life,
(it is just sterile rock now),

I used to snorkel off the edge, and
watch the sharks gently ambling around.
I made sure to not get too close.
More than several people have been "taken" by white pointers off this
beach.
(Rodney Fox is a famous example of one who survived.)
Amongst the sharks there were huge white pointers at times, although
they are now quite rare, but mainly smaller (10 foot or so) reef
sharks, and lot's-o sting rays.
I think that I may be excused from refraining to pat them.

So, you have done something that I am not likely to ever do!

And scared the crapper out of the dog!!

My animal, rather than do a cartoon-like "up in the air" and rotate
skidaddle, (as she used to do), she tried to chase and catch the
dolphin!
I nearly fell down in the water laughing!
When my ***** got too close to the dolphin,
flipper prodded her with it's beak and my ***** backed orf, big time!
:D

How funny!!!!!

She chased him up the beach and in the water for 200 metres or so.
I'm sure that the dolphin was having fun as well.

Aren't they known for their play???

They are no good at billiards.
Oh, you mean Shakespeare!
"The Tempest", perhaps?
(I said that on porpoise.)

GROAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-Z

Or maybe 12th Night, Act one, scene two:
<Captain>
"True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you and those poor number saved with you
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,
Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
So long as I could see."

http://www.dhsdesigns.com/antique-garden-appointments.cfm/hurl/id=91

Are you going to buy it for me?!
How very thoughtful.
Ship it to my home address, please.

Although Arion was supposed, (by the Lesbians, for one thing), to be a
fully grown man at the time of "The Dolphin Incident".
(Taht would make a great title for one of those brick shaped novels
that you get in airport departure stores, where the authour's name is
in bigger print than the title.)
SUSAN HOW-WITCH
The Dolphin Incident

Or maybe even Henry Sixth, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 4
<Talbot>
"Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan!
It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.
Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:
Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,
Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,
And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.

I understand the emotion of that promise!!

Convey me Salisbury into his tent,
And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare!
<Alarum. Exeunt>"

('enery the 5th has so many references to dolphins that it doesn't
bear thinking about, wot, with Sir Guichard Dolphin, and Dauphin
spelled as dolphin in the original folios)

LOL! I always wondered about the Frogs and the fishes!

I am confident that your are more than familiar with such trivia.

I do my best....

The Dogger boots in the title is a reference to my dogger boots,
(not unsurprisingly), which got thoroughly soaked in sea water, thus
rendering them both wet, crusty, cracked and salt logged.
I am going to have to feed them with lots'o'oil tomorrow to resurrect
them.
A small price to pay for a priceless experience!
My ***** is now dried, and has a ring of salt around her,
much like ring that you find around a bath.
The End.