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Flipper

Donna

awwwwwh, Roxy, I'm so sorry concerning your dealing with a bug......and please forgive poor Michael concerning the "skiff".....poor baby......delusional, you know.

Totally awesome, Donna! I remember Flipper!!! Couldn't lipread it, though....

reikimerlot said on

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>Donna

You are right of course ; ).

In the actual episode, they edited it so it seemed that Flipper was saying..

"..Come Quick....Bud is in trouble with the skiff out on the Coral Barrier....and there's pirates!!

According to the biography written by Flipper's last trainer and most trusted confidant, Flipper in his last two seasons of the show would perform totally off script. Usually long winded but inspired environmental rants. Something about melts ice and toxins. No matter what Flipper said the producers wove into this Lassy shctick when final edit came out for the episode.

Long story short, Flipper quit over creative differences in the production of the show. That gig had legs too: it was good for another three to five seasons easy. After Flipper quit, the show went thru and awkward and unsuccessful period of Flipper stand ins. The show tanked before the end of that season.

Michael,

Hi.

Otter, actually. But, who's counting. And, I'm not sure I would ever have gotten to Flipper. Never watched the first minute of it. Now, there was a George C. Scott movie I sat thru quite some years ago (though I do not brag about it): The day of the Dolphin". Don't recall the plot (if there was one). lol

Cheers (more trivia questions invited),

RC

Ms. Roxanne,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- sorry to hear you are not feeling well (and have to go to work to boot)

- I hope it is not fleas (or worse, cooties!)

bagl

- feel better soon!

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Dear RC,

yYeah, it's hard to translate dolphin phonetically. The pronounciatory cadence is so much faster than other mammals speech. If you slow it down it sounds just like otter though.

Speaking of otter's ; a while back they had a show on PBS where they visited this 70-ish German woman who lives alone deep in Amazon the rainforest. Nice jungle crib too. She has a stair case from her hut all the way down and into the rainforest river running thru her 'backyard'. She also runs a one woman jungle otter rescue out of her hut. The jungle otter also known as the Giant Otter.

They showed her going swimming with her teeming horde of about 8 giant otters. These guys are big and playful. Their heads are as large as a big dog. She nearly got knocked ass over tea kettle down the stairs to the river when the word got out it was Mom-swim time.

So the german otter mom is gently swimming about in this pure rainforest mangrovy river with the massive otters all vying for her attention. It looked like all play. But the under water shots showed that the giant otters were at all times keeping a two tiered defensive perimeter around mom. The river is teeming with piranhas which she of course was well aware of. Big ones too. Crappies from hell on steroids.

Come to find out the piranhas are shite scared of the giant otters. And they only do that 'piranha thing' under certain easily recognizable conditions. Usually the fearsome piranha really is just a jungle crappie with a Steven Tyler smile come to find out.

namaste,
Arati

arati,

Hi,

Yes, it seems piranhas are only guided to attack at certain times (like when it is Hollywood enough to try and garner a bunch of attention). I saw the giant otter show recently myself. Otters the size of small cougars. Now there is a power animal. LOL

Cheers,

RC

Dear RC,

Yes they were quite cool.

Was that the same show where they also featured the retired biologist and his wife who took in two giant otters? They kept them at home and tried to raise them like dogs. For the otters pond he half buried a canoe in the backyard. Part way thru the segment I'm thinking this guy is a real ninny. Then at the end they had to get rid of the otter pair prematurely because his management tactics were so half baked.

Namaste,
Arati

arati,

Hi,

The show I saw on A&E or PBS or?? was essentially about the woman who lived out in the amaozon basin somewhere and there was a young biologist guy who was helping her locate some of the otters that she had raised and released into the wild. In one segment she and local villagers are teaching young otters the proper way to eat piranhas and other fish - head first. One of those Amazon River eco-cruises might be really cool. Ill have to look into it.

Cheers,

RC

Ah, Mr. Firekeeper,

Thanks for the sympathy. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself for a while there.

Rock On!
Ms. Roxanne

Sympathy and a low blow, too, with the fleas. Hope you're feeling better, Roxy.

Michael and R.C....you gents come up with some awesome stuff.

Almost makes me wish I had some telly stations.

ponderings,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- it is nice to see that you are able to kid around with us as we are with Ms. Roxanne

>:-}}

- Ms. Roxanne and I have been friends here for quite some time >:-}} and.....it was she who mentioned about the bug with which she is afflicted, afterall

bagl, bagl, bagl

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

I thought it was cute and quick! Meant no harm, my sweet friend. Oh, and Firekeeper....were you able to find that energy book okay? I'd be very interested on your thoughts on it.

All this talk about fleas makes me want to take my leg, and scratch my ear.

Rock On!
Roxy

Ms. Roxanne,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- well??? Go for it!!!

- bagl, bagl, bagl

- do we need to send powder???

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Oh, Roxy....I laughed so hard at this.....thank you....

I use to eat dog pellets when i was a kid. Eventually, I had to stop because I kept falling off the couch when I tried to lick my ...

(I'm not being serious)

lizardking said on

>I use to eat dog pellets when i was a kid. Eventually, I had to stop because I kept falling off the couch when I tried to lick my ...
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>(I'm not being serious)

Thank the maker!

Some people do you know...

lk,

Hi,

I'm glad you didn't need to be fitted with a plexiglass stomach. LOL

Cheers,

RC

lizardking said on

>I use to eat dog pellets when i was a kid. Eventually, I had to stop because I kept falling off the couch when I tried to lick my ...

Dear lizardking,

My Iguana had that once. He turned up all unsteady and bockety on his feet one day. It was calcium deficiency come to find out. He got a shot from the vet as was right as rain.

Also as far as couch snacks are concerned monkey pellets are the nutritional treat of choice for omnivore lizards. One softens them up with a bit of juice and it's better than a fresh scone I hear. Of course nowadays one has to avoid monkey pellets from China.

Namaste,
Michael

Michael,

Hi,

I, among others, would say that there any number of things imported from China one might be better off avoiding. And, with my pedaling skills retuned I would also suggest avoiding petroleum products as much as possible; whether imported or domestic. The oil companies, here and abroad, are squeezing us for everything we are worth. The only way to fight back is to buy as little of their poison producing combustibles as possible.

Cheers (Sunday drives used to be economical entertainment),

RC

Otoharo!

RC, you remind me of the information about what preceeds the coming of the big shift. By the time it gets here, we will not have petroleum products and will need self powered travel. We will also likely have to learn what natural plants are edible. Being able to grow one's own food is desireable, and root plants are safer as winds will be so feirce.

finality