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Eco-headline of the year:

Whale found deep in Amazon jungle

Posted by Tim B. on 11/18/2007 at 11:17 AM

  1. Better would have been, “Polar bear found deep in Amazon jungle”.

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 11 18 at 11:23 AM • permalink

  2. The whale ran aground earlier this week but after being freed with the help of vets and biologists it disappeared shortly afterwards.

    Probably devoured by piranhas.

    Posted by paco on 2007 11 18 at 11:25 AM • permalink

  3. Nope - the Polar Bear!

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 11 18 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  4. What’s Michael Moore doing in Brazil?

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 11 18 at 11:44 AM • permalink

  5. #4 T_R_JS

    I’ll bet we really don’t want to know…

    =^O

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 18 at 12:07 PM • permalink

  6. That whale’s not stupid.  When it’s whale hunting season, who’s going to think to look for one in the Amazon?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 11 18 at 12:11 PM • permalink

  7. Whales can live in trees, being mammals.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 11 18 at 12:12 PM • permalink

  8. You know who to blame.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 11 18 at 12:20 PM • permalink

  9. Maybe Al Gore got lost on his trip to find more Chilean Sea Bass?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 11 18 at 12:23 PM • permalink

  10. Whales are common in that neck of the woods.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 11 18 at 12:30 PM • permalink

  11. #10
    lol

    Posted by missred on 2007 11 18 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  12. Whale found deep in Amazon jungle

    the Amazon jungle?

    I knew we shouldn’t have subcontracted the clearance work out to the Pillage And Chop Organisation

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 18 at 12:38 PM • permalink

  13. Hmmmmmm. I’m not a savvy world traveler, but is this really news? Looks like more than 80 thousand whales can be found in the Amazon.

    Posted by GPE on 2007 11 18 at 12:46 PM • permalink

  14. Off to play some flog...golf. Later dudes and dudettes.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 11 18 at 01:00 PM • permalink

  15. Do you “play” golf, or “commit” golf El Cid?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 11 18 at 01:04 PM • permalink

  16. Actually, even more exciting than finding whales in the Amazon, is finding them in the desert.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 11 18 at 01:04 PM • permalink

  17. #16, Rebecca,
    those kind of whales eat minnows for a late night snack

    Posted by missred on 2007 11 18 at 01:06 PM • permalink

  18. el cid,
    a good day of flogging beats a bad day of golfing?

    Posted by missred on 2007 11 18 at 01:08 PM • permalink

  19. OT: Idiot on radio just declared that Al Gore will save us from the Apocalypse.

    I hope said idiot doesn’t have children.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 11 18 at 04:34 PM • permalink

  20. 4, 9 - my pick was Kim Beazley.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 18 at 04:38 PM • permalink

  21. Mmmmm.  Toucan.

    Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 11 18 at 05:42 PM • permalink

  22. Without a pith helmet?

    They’ll never learn.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2007 11 18 at 05:44 PM • permalink

  23. Speaking o’ whales, arrest this babe!

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 18 at 05:49 PM • permalink

  24. ;’;’;’’ ;’;’ ;’
    Margos

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 11 18 at 06:14 PM • permalink

  25. The BBC today commenting on why the Japanese should suspend their whale hunt this year:

    Question:
    Wales are under a lot of pressure from…?

    Answer:
    Glooball Warmening (sssshhhh)

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 11 18 at 06:23 PM • permalink

  26. Big deal. Whales have even been found on the moon.

    Posted by Latino on 2007 11 18 at 06:44 PM • permalink

  27. And then it just ‘disappeared’. How convenient.

    Posted by Skeptimus on 2007 11 18 at 06:57 PM • permalink

  28. Is it just me, or are whales overrated?  Big ole useless sacks o crap lolling about in the ocean.  When you’ve seen one you’ve seen ‘em all. Someone tried to sell me a whale watching holiday: It looked like it would be very relaxing for the first half hour, but after that you’d be wishing you were in Vegas.

    Posted by Big Jim on 2007 11 18 at 07:32 PM • permalink

  29. wronwright!

    Posted by Achillea on 2007 11 18 at 07:55 PM • permalink

  30. Assome one said, “speaking of whales”...(no, not a typo) Theo Spark

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 11 18 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  31. Margo’s Maid: I was wondering what happened to Eyebrow Waif on H&A.

    I reckon Clive got it right about the whales.  Were they swimming around waving “Save England” placards when the Nazis were bombing?  Like fuck they were.  Save the plankton!

    Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 11 18 at 08:28 PM • permalink

  32. #10
    That’d be the red-crowned blubber-brained killer whale or di sinistra orca.

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 18 at 09:49 PM • permalink

  33. #23
    Margo’s she’s a pretty little girl.

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 18 at 09:53 PM • permalink

  34. #31
    Craig Mc, secret confession. Me too. Good for a laugh. H&A I mean. In the dead space between 7 and 7:30. Sometimes.

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 18 at 09:56 PM • permalink

  35. O/T someone just emailed this to me. OMG! Time warp back to the late 70s.
    Should be a law against it!

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 18 at 10:05 PM • permalink

  36. #35 omg is right, Kae
    lol

    Posted by missred on 2007 11 18 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  37. Not shabby at all.  Couldn’t act the skin off a custard tart, but she’s cute.

    Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 11 18 at 10:26 PM • permalink

  38. #35 Kae, I’m scared.

    They’re not bringing that terrifying stuff back are they?!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 11 18 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  39. #35 - It helps to explain the Punk breakout anyhow. I’d stick a safety pin through my nose too, if that’s what it took to avoid wearing that stuff.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 18 at 10:53 PM • permalink

  40. #35: But where is all the facial hair so popular in that era?

    Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 11 18 at 11:13 PM • permalink

  41. Kae: I only watch it when I visit my nieces and they’re watching it.  Which they do religiously.

    Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 11 18 at 11:15 PM • permalink

  42. Well, I’ve been seeing 70s hair a lot lately on the college kids in town.  That bizarre feathery mop guys used to wear.

    Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 11 19 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  43. they say animals can sense impending disasters like earthquakes… apparently the whale sensed the impending global flooding and wanted to stake its claim before some snooty dolphins came in and ruined the neighborhood.

    (hi everybody)

    Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 11 19 at 01:14 AM • permalink

  44. #35 kae

    Your wacky link made me briefly consider the possibility that I didn’t look totally cool as a pre-teen, in my multi-colored-sweater-vests, dating from around 1976 to 1979.

    But then I thought, “Hey!, I was super-cool in my sweater-vests!”

    Oh yeah’, back on topic.

    Da’ whale got da’ jungle-feaver!

    Posted by Thomas on 2007 11 19 at 01:54 AM • permalink

  45. Colonel ‘;;’;’;’‘;’;

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 11 19 at 02:05 AM • permalink

  46. Bye Everyone!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 11 19 at 02:05 AM • permalink

  47. In a related news item:
    The Japanese Amazon Whaling Fleet is on it’s way back to Japan, having fulfilled their quota for that region.

    Posted by jaycee1953 on 2007 11 19 at 03:18 AM • permalink

  48. #44
    Thomas
    Friend who sent it to me and I discussed the coolness (or otherwise) of our jumpsuits…
    We agreed. Cool then, most un-cool now.

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 19 at 04:29 AM • permalink

  49. And I thought Amanda Vanstone was Australian ambassador to Italy.

    Shows you what I know.

    Posted by Shourik1 on 2007 11 19 at 05:19 AM • permalink

  50. Rosie O’Donnel’s skinny dipping in Brazil?  That might definitely create an Oedipus moment!

    Posted by Pat Patterson on 2007 11 19 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  51. #35. kae,

    These clothes were not only stylish, but they were made out of the original polyester fabric that weighed a ton and didn’t breathe. This was to protect your precious bodily fluids.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 11 19 at 07:31 AM • permalink

  52. #51
    Yeah, I was there…
    I hated the heavy poly stuff.
    Someone bought me an Osti dress… never wore it. Yuck!

    Posted by kae on 2007 11 19 at 07:33 AM • permalink

  53. It is the second time this week in Brazil that a lost animal has been spotted in an unexpected location.

    Now how the hell do they know that the animal was lost?  What if it decided it wanted to see something of the world besides blue water, for instance?  Just because they didn’t expect to see a whale in that particular location doesn’t mean the thing was lost.  These humans think they are the center of the universe, deciding where everything is supposed to be.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 11 19 at 07:33 AM • permalink

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