If you see a dolphin an’ that, don’t go, “Oh, it’s friendly.”Originally Posted by AdamG
If you see a dolphin an’ that, don’t go, “Oh, it’s friendly.”
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
Hey Matt,
All jokes aside, our USN marine mammal program at approx. $750,000 for a week is, in addition to being expensive, works.
An oceanographic survey while more precise, may not render the same results.
Have to see a team once to actually believe it.
Last edited by Stan; 04-18-2014 at 04:29 PM.
If you want to blend in, take the bus
Oh, I don’t doubt it for a second. I just like the Gervais clip.
There must be something about the word “dolphin” that makes people tune out. I met a marine biologist once who told me he “conducts research on charismatic marine megafauna.” I asked him what that meant, and he said, “I work with dolphins. Usually people don’t want to admit they don’t know what ‘charismatic marine megafauna’ are, and they just shake their heads and look impressed. But if I tell them ‘dolphins’ straight away they don’t take me seriously.”
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
Admittedly, had I not been part of the program for several years as a translator, I would not have had the slightest clue what megafauna meant
Happy Good Friday, and Easter too !
Regards, Stan
Oh, I don’t doubt it for a second. I just like the Gervais clip.
There must be something about the word “dolphin” that makes people tune out. I met a marine biologist once who told me he “conducts research on charismatic marine megafauna.” I asked him what that meant, and he said, “I work with dolphins. Usually people don’t want to admit they don’t know what ‘charismatic marine megafauna’ are, and they just shake their heads and look impressed. But if I tell them ‘dolphins’ straight away they don’t take me seriously.”
If you want to blend in, take the bus
Thanks, and to you, too! During my stints in Latin America I got used to Good Friday being the holiday, so that’s a good thing to hear today.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
Yep, all of Europe is off today. I may in fact be the only Roman Catholic in Estonia and working
If you want to blend in, take the bus
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-americ...141812435.htmlThe tense East-West standoff in Ukraine could reach a new level of escalation: underwater. According to a report from the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the United States Navy's marine mammal unit will be deployed to the Black Sea this summer, where American dolphins and sea lions could find themselves nose-to-nose with their Russian counterparts.
The paper reports that according to a statement by Tom LaPuzza, spokesman for the US Navy's marine mammals program, twenty dolphins and ten sea lions will be in the Black Sea for one-to-two weeks this summer, conducting NATO exercises in a body of water that is traditionally been dominated by the Russian navy.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
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