Three-year-old Yang Yang kisses a beluga whale during a publicity photo shoot at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World, located in China's eastern Shandong Province, on June 2, 2007.
Lol! You're probably right, Mike. We think it's cute but the whale is probably thinking, "I hate humans. And I really hate this tank and the things they make me do for my supper."
What about the poor kid, chucked into near-freezing water for the photo-op? I mean, it's arctic marine life, safe bet they keep the water a wee bit on the chilly side. But given the Chinese attitude on population control, maybe it's not much of a stretch.
WHAT is wrong with you people? Does that Beluga look distressed? NO! He looks like Marcia Cross.
Furthermore, there is lots of anecdotal evidence that whales and other maritime mammals are often friendly to humans. Maybe not the Orca, but dolphins have been known to save human lives (my step-father included). Didn't you watch Flipper?!
Anyway, they'd be smarter to let us rot, given what we do to them, but I'd trade places that kid faster than he could start to piss in the pool.
Sorry, Kissyface. I can't help myself. I would point out, however, what seems obvious from close study of the photo--the whale is gnawing Yang Yang's nose off.
And so Yang-Yang reciprocates. I would would eat both their noses, they're so cute.
My step-father, not my father-father. He grew up in Honolulu, was out swimming one day, and was encircled by a shark. A dolphin chased the predator away. The funny thing is, Joe never saw it, but everybody on the beach did.
the Waterbaby and I both feel there is a bond of some sort between the dolphins and us, and the Orcas ttoo! We submitted a few names for the Belugas at Shedds in Chicago last year...one of them being "Snezhinsk" which is Russian for Snowflake. we didn't win, but damn., we had some good ones!
You know where old Chefs and Sturgeons wind up? Answer tomorrow!
I think I've said too much already. A girl can't lay down all her cards at once. Good thing my deck goes higher than 52. I wish I were a guy so I could pee anywhere I wanted while standing up. That's real power. I'd like to meet the following: My great-great grandparents, the N. Oklahoma ones, not the Swiss gentry. My woebegone friendship with Adam G. The man who's going to be with me till we're retired to the porch swing sucking on glycerine tablets, and who still reads to me at night, while I rub his feet. My ambitions with commitment and discipline. The characters from old David Lee Roth videos. Hot carb on carb action. That fucker who keeps trying to take the bbq, in a dark alley, satan's minions, lilliputians, nigglers, pifflers, piddlers, snake-oil peddlers, cripples, do-gooders, truth-seekers, sweethearts, wandering minstrels, interlopers, robber barons, saints, sinners, people who snort and guffaw, holler and whoop, tender tender people with good hearts, and all my fat little babies. I like BUTTER! And Vitamin Z!
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That poor whale.
Lol! You're probably right, Mike. We think it's cute but the whale is probably thinking, "I hate humans. And I really hate this tank and the things they make me do for my supper."
What about the poor kid, chucked into near-freezing water for the photo-op? I mean, it's arctic marine life, safe bet they keep the water a wee bit on the chilly side. But given the Chinese attitude on population control, maybe it's not much of a stretch.
WHAT is wrong with you people? Does that Beluga look distressed? NO! He looks like Marcia Cross.
Furthermore, there is lots of anecdotal evidence that whales and other maritime mammals are often friendly to humans. Maybe not the Orca, but dolphins have been known to save human lives (my step-father included). Didn't you watch Flipper?!
Anyway, they'd be smarter to let us rot, given what we do to them, but I'd trade places that kid faster than he could start to piss in the pool.
Sorry, Kissyface. I can't help myself. I would point out, however, what seems obvious from close study of the photo--the whale is gnawing Yang Yang's nose off.
P.S. Your father was saved by a dolphin?
And so Yang-Yang reciprocates. I would would eat both their noses, they're so cute.
My step-father, not my father-father. He grew up in Honolulu, was out swimming one day, and was encircled by a shark. A dolphin chased the predator away. The funny thing is, Joe never saw it, but everybody on the beach did.
He was an interesting fellow. I wrote about him at length a year ago in March.
those whales were on the Lword
the Waterbaby and I both feel there is a bond of some sort between the dolphins and us, and the Orcas ttoo!
We submitted a few names for the Belugas at Shedds in Chicago last year...one of them being "Snezhinsk" which is Russian for Snowflake. we didn't win, but damn., we had some good ones!
You know where old Chefs and Sturgeons wind up?
Answer tomorrow!
oK f you really want to know...
they wind up on "Lumpfish Row"!
Steve - forgive me, I don't get it.
O SHEESH.... SKID ROW...
LUMPFISH ROE...
I BETTER STICK TO COOKING AND DISPENSE WITH WRITING JOKES!
I CAN'T WAIT TO SE "RATATOULLIE"...SURE TO BE FULL OF CUINARY HUMOR AND GREAT SHOTS OF KITCHENS...
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