>> ^Mcboinkens:
How is whaling still legal? This is sickening.
Commercial whaling IS illegal.
Japanese don't call it whaling!
All of their ships have huge RESEARCH letters painted on them. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Nisshin_Maru.jpg
The Japanese fleet consists of a factory ship, two spotter vessels, and three harpoon boats. The whalers say that lethal research is needed to accurately measure the whale population, health, and response to global warming and is essential for the sustainable management of the world's cetacean stocks. Australia and New Zealand have started a non-lethal whale research program to show that the Japanese lethal research program is no longer necessary. Sea Shepherd and other environmental groups dispute the Japanese statement of research "as a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned." Meat from the hunt is available at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market and Japanese restaurants.

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*harpoons

MAN THE HARPOONS!!

Upvote for Doctor Ahab! Arrr, there be the Great White Whale! Give the harpoon to Finger Boy! He won't miss! Arrr!

Just me, or was he making jokes about the kid. As a doctor, he should know they probably hardwire to the brain as double pinkys, the last two fingers would probably move together, basically making everything the doctor said HARDER to do.

I love the humor this kind of stuff leads to. But why stop at spelling? I've got a doozy with a dangling modifier and a homonym here from my part of the country: In an otherwise well-written article by Karen Solomon (San Francisco Chronicle, 26 sept 2007, page F3) comes the lovely paragraph

"The whole point is to enhance the parenting experience," agrees
Pri Pri co-owner Kei Cano-Katsunuma, mother of a 4-year-old
expecting her second child in December. "I wanted a place where I
could feel comfortable if the baby started whaling."

I don't think I'd *ever* be comfortable if a baby had a harpoon gun.
And when did the 4-year-old have her first child?

This wasn't someone who speaks English as a second language who just needed to stem the flood of requests for the unavailable chicken; this was a journalist whose entire job revolves around communication. I don't mean to sound picky, really. This person made my day. I might even suspect she did it on purpose...

That video was like wallowing in cave filled with bat shit. Fuck you, Eric, you fucking piece of homo licking asshat. Every night from now on I will pray before I go to bed that your mother is harpooned by some faggy fisherman who think she's a whale. You're a douchebag, you're father was a douchebag, and your kids would be douchebags if you had any fucking nuts. Sucks that they were bitten off by an AIDS infested eskimo.

And by the way... FAAAAAAAAAKEEEE!!!!!

Dude got harpooned!

Even goofy comedy like my Harpoon Man post just gets ignored.