Ode To Ady Gil

But they're sooooo cute...

melville...one of my pantheon of gods with a small 'g' had much to say on these baleinic matters...one para of his i committed to memory lo these severals of decades past is as follows...

"but even so amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being do i myself still forever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwavering woe revolve around me, deep down and deep inland there i still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy."

'"it's better to sleep with a drunken christian than a rabid environmentalist."

I like the look of seals because they look just like my beagle.

Of course my beagle serves no purpose beyond decoration and something to talk at when nobody else is home.

Can't
wait for the video game.
"Hunting Shonan Maru's ". A game that sets right the worlds anti-human hordes.

OT But write to THE TIMES (the real one) and explain why you want to study at the University of East Anglia :-)

http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/01/climategate-boosts-uea-applications.html

I like how the whalers hosed down those dirty stinkin' hippies, just like the apes hosing down Charlton Heston in The Planet of the Apes.

john begley at January 11, 2010 8:55 PM

Is there such a phrase as "multiple subjunctive" Oh wish that there were such sentiment, you who are fit only to feast and entertain yourselves upon the residue of thy superiors, in the heart of literate men, nay women also, that could possibly hope to aspire to the very zenith of bad writing.

john begley at January 11, 2010 8:55 PM

Is there such a phrase as "multiple subjunctive" Oh wish that there were such sentiment, you who are fit only to feast and entertain yourselves upon the residue of thy superiors, in the heart of literate men, nay women also, that could possibly hope to aspire to the very zenith of bad writing.

john begley at January 11, 2010 8:55 PM

Is there such a phrase as "multiple subjunctive" Oh wish that there were such sentiment, you who are fit only to feast and entertain yourselves upon the residue of thy superiors, in the heart of literate men, nay women also, that could possibly hope to aspire to the very zenith of bad writing.

Apologies for multi-posts, Kate. mea Culpa. New machine 'n all. Grovel.

Oh, that that mighty Archon, Inferior of Gods, but mightier than man, Robert, Of Ottawa, hath screwed his chance of immortality by these herebefore multiple posts of the same wordings. How the mighty have fallen before their very weaknesses, the desire, nay, urge and destiny, to post multiple times. But, had it only been on different themes rather than the robotic repetition of a post twice gone wild!

Hah! Suvch is the sum of mortal mkan!

Kate and Captain Ahab's shared sentiments, "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale." :-)

Well, Kate, if you hate seals so much, you might want to replace the Orca jpeg with this video clip

The Great Whites are magnificent.

As much as I enjoy this, I don't really hate whales.
~Kate

Greenpiecers hate polar bears more than they like whales.

As dwindling sea ice makes it harder for polar bears to hunt seals, the carcasses of bowhead whales left over from traditional Inupiat harvests may help sustain the endangered predators. Analysis of blood taken from polar bears living along the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast confirms that bowhead whales average up to 18% of a bear's fall and winter diet.
FROM:
http://www.currentresults.com/Wildlife/Endangered-Species/Endangered-Mammals/traditional-706212.php

It is my opinion that the Japanese are the direct ancestors of the Inupiat and, as such, have just as much right to harvest whales.

Went to Marine Land once.

Saw the little kids feeding the nice whale. Saw the size of the nice whale. Saw the size of the nice whale's mouth filled with nice shiny white teeth. Compared same to the little kid with the herring.

Perfect fit my friends. One bite, no chewing.

Don't let your kid feed the whale.

After watching the video shot from the MV Bob Barker,(animal rights activist/serial lecher),it does look like the Japanese ship deliberately rammed the losers,and I'm OK with that. If someone is trying to disable my ship that far from help,it is time to take the gloves off and allow them the opportunity to enter the food chain.Some may say that the larger ship couldn't possibly out-manouevre the smaller faster one,but I disagree.The Japanese had an experienced man at the controls,while the others may have been taking turns at the wheel,everyone being equal and all.

Incidentally, I think this new video here confirms the hippies drove their own boat under the bow of the Japanese ship.

Good thinking, hippies.

Perhaps the Japanese could be invited as guests to this year's seal hunt.

Alas, there are no good guys in this scenario. Both side are assholes.

Seals are not cute. In fact they are among the
ugliest critters I've ever seen. Even baby seals have only
one photogenic angle.

God invented seals to feed polar bears and orcas
and to provide sealskin coats for human beings.

Yes, I think the Japanese should get their priorities straight and hunt seals.

If you like maguro (tuna) sashimi, you will loooove kujira (whale) sashimi. I had some in Japan about 10 years ago, for research purposes of course.

Imagine life without tenderloin...this is what a ban on whale meat would be like.

sorry bob....but i do wax lyrical about the whale...btw you got hiccups or sumpin....?

reminds me of delivering a sailboat to san diego from port angeles....once i got out into the big stuff rolling in all the way from Japan i looked 'for'ard' as we say(asperges mei bob)and saw a pod of killer whales about a 1/4 of a mile off charging OUT of the face of the incoming wave(30 footers i believe)straight for me and my frail barky....it was then bob that i prayed to and established a personal one on one relationship with the God of whales...

anway bob...i think you want to say the NADIR of bad writing rather than the "zenith of bad writing'..

hope i've helped....bob.

btw bob..you can call me Ishmael in any further correspondence.

Well, actually, I was thinking that the Japanese could be on hand at the seal hunt in case Greenpeace shows up.

TG it's just more Sea Sheppard wreckage, for a moment there I thought Ottawa purchased more "art" to pollute the urban landscape with.

Just the same maybe Richmond will snag it up and make the wreck a fountain center piece maybe place it next to "miss mao".

i call bullshit halfwise

i was on the beach in Gibraltar and subsisted on tinned whalemeat for a week....it's fecking loathsome .......of course this was before i established a personal one on one relationship with the godhead of whales(see above)....NOW i would meekly chew my whalemeat and offer thanksgiving to Neptune the architect who made all things in the sea...

To bad the good guys didn't sink the terrorist seashepard or whatever they call there scow.

The comment section in the first link (the one with the poem) is hilarious. There were a couple of comments from greenies, then a long string of really funny digs.

As much as I dislike some of Greenpeace's antics, I do wish people would stop killing whales. At least until such time as we need to. Greenpeace used to inspire people to join the cause. Now they just turn most people off.

dagnabbit....them Japs shoulda harpooned them dirty commie hippie greenos....hooked them and flensed them and rendered them down and canned the bastards for sale as seal bait...

Hatred, hatred, and more hatred. Ho-hum.

All so terribly predictable.

Tinned bully beef does not equal grilled Alberta AAA prime rib even though both come from cows.

Market opportunities for Japanese entrepreneurs.
I'd buy a whaleskin coat if the Japs would sell me one, especially if it had baby seal teeth for buttons and a polar bear fur collar.

Hatred, hatred, and more hatred.
~marquis

I like Japs.
I even bought a car from them.

If all the whales were gone from the seas, I'd continue to encounter them the same way I've always encountered them, in pictures and movies.

Why people care if whales went the way of the dinosaurs is a mystery to me.
(not really but, really you've got to be joking)

Maybe the very last dinosaur was eaten by a polar bear.

Seals. The manure of the sea. Via whale.

marquis
whales don't hate seals. they are hungry

John Begley, I have no idea what it takes to put whale meat in a can. Someone probably has to cook it. Maybe it is as appealing as Argentinian corned beef. My condolences for whatever caused you to have to subsist on a loathsome gaggable at Gib.

But (raw) whale sashimi is a whole 'nother world. The Japanese know their stuff. I was honoured to share in it that day in Kushiro (SW coast of Hokkaido).

gaaa. SE coast of Hokkaido, not SW. Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu.

Christopher Paolini, fantasy/science fiction author is just a kid but he said"if you have to chose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds."

Like I said earlier, these millionaire eco-warriors exist in part because our governments are unwilling to do the job of protecting the oceans.

When foreign vessels used to fish what little was left off the east coast of Canada, our response was to huff and puff and send a small rusty boat with a tiny motor to challenge them. What a joke.

The eco-warriors fill the void left by our own indifference to the damage being done to the ocean, and then we complain about them.

Not very logical I'm afraid.

I suspect many of the people cheering the Shepherds are doing so while eating their tuna sushi...not very logical either.

From what I read they paid 2 mill or so for the boat less than a year ago. Throwing good money after bad is priceless.

They need to fire the captain of the speedboat too.

But libs make no mistakes, just ask Harry Reid.

The eco-warriors fill the void left by our own indifference to the damage being done to the ocean, and then we complain about them.
Not very logical I'm afraid.
~TJ

Twenty mile limit to sovereign coastal waters and our navy does catch & release with real pirates.

Have you ever petted a whale?
Me neither.

Nuff said.

Robin must have been at the helm of the BatBoat. Drove her right in front of the Japanese dudes. Now "he's just a bob-bob-bobbin' along...."

Ba-dum. Sorry...

Save the whales, except for Paul Watson!

Well, the Orca is the largest member of the dolphin family, so not really a whale. Still, I'm torn. I don't like Greenpeace, but I feel sad for whales that have kicked around by man for so long. Thank heavens for the environmentalists we discovered petroleum, right????

Littering environmentalists....schadenfraude!

F**kyou whales and dolphins.

From the boys that brought you Manbearpig

http://tvshack.net/tv/South_Park/season_13/episode_11/a:318053/

I like whales, not to eat or anything like that, seeing the killer whales chase seals on the beach and eat them looks good to me. (youtube)

I especially enjoyed seeing that Blue Whale singing "Louis Louis" into the microphone in an early "The Far Side"

Thank heavens for the environmentalists we discovered petroleum, right????
~Erik Larsen

Too true, and right!
(assuming you meant the environmentalists should thank heaven we discovered petrol which spared whales from being a primary source of oil, rather than that we should thank heaven for environmentalists because they somehow were instrumental in the discovery of petroleum)

I'm into my cups, Eric Larsen, so maybe I'm comprehending poorly here.

Actually all the arguments about who ran into who is irrelevant. The crazies showed only one ensign---the jolly roger----marking them as pirates---subject to swift maritime justice----hanging the survivors from the yard arm.
The indonesians interdict many peirates in the Malacca straits----bring none ashore---and practice a form of catch and release.....no repeat offenders.

edit:
.........ARE irrelevant.
........many pirates in.....

Oz, that's exactly what I meant, the first one! :-)

Now, call me sentimental, but I think that we shouldn't kill whales for food, so I wish the Japanese would stop their "research". I'm all over eating other animals, but for some reason, eating a whale would rub me the wrong way. Thanks john begley for letting me know I'm not missing anything!!

The crazies showed only one ensign---the jolly roger...
~sasquatch

Looks to me like the crazies got a good rogering...
Jolly good.