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la anaconda de chocolatee Nov 8 2007, 01:58 PM Post #121
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oh yeah! That is right! her name is Reba too! lol I still forget the other one's name.
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Dolphins save surfer from becoming shark’s bait
A pod of bottlenose dolphins helped protect the severely injured boarder

By Mike Celizic
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updated 8:57 a.m. CT, Thurs., Nov. 8, 2007

Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark — a monster great white that came out of nowhere — had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone.

That’s when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him to get to shore, where quick first aid provided by a friend saved his life.

“Truly a miracle,” Endris told TODAY’s Natalie Morales on Thursday.

The attack occurred on Tuesday, Aug. 28, just before 11 a.m. at Marina State Park off Monterey, Calif., where the 24-year-old owner of Monterey Aquarium Services had gone with friends for a day of the sport they love. Nearly four months later, Endris, who is still undergoing physical therapy to repair muscle damage suffered during the attack, is back in the water and on his board in the same spot where he almost lost his life.

“[It] came out of nowhere. There’s no warning at all.

Maybe I saw him a quarter second before it hit me. But no warning. It was just a giant shark,” Endris said. “It just shows you what a perfect predator they really are.”

The shark, estimated at 12 to 15 feet long, hit him first as Endris was sitting on his surfboard, but couldn’t get its monster jaws around both surfer and surfboard. “The second time, he came down and clamped on my torso — sandwiched my board and my torso in his mouth,” Endris said.

That attack shredded his back, literally peeling the skin back, he said, “like a banana peel.” But because Endris’ stomach was pressed to the surfboard, his intestines and internal organs were protected.

The third time, the shark tried to swallow Endris’ right leg, and he said that was actually a good thing, because the shark’s grip anchored him while he kicked the beast in the head and snout with his left leg until it let go.

The dolphins, which had been cavorting in the surf all along, showed up then. They circled him, keeping the shark at bay, and enabled Endris to get back on his board and catch a wave to the shore.

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No one knows why dolphins protect humans, but stories of the marine mammals rescuing humans go back to ancient Greece, according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.

A year ago in New Zealand, the group reports, four lifeguards were saved from sharks in the same way Endris was — by dolphins forming a protective ring.

Though horribly wounded, Endris said he didn’t think he was going to die. “Actually, it never crossed my mind,” he told Morales.

It did, though, cross the minds of others on the beach, including some lifeguards who told his friend, Brian Simpson, that Endris wasn’t going to make it.

Simpson is an X-ray technician in a hospital trauma center, and he’d seen badly injured people before. He had seen Endris coming in and knew he was hurt.

“I was expecting him to have leg injuries,” he told Morales. “It was a lot worse than I was expecting.”

Blood was pumping out of the leg, which had been bitten to the bone, and Endris, who lost half his blood, was ashen white. To stop the blood loss, Simpson used his surf leash as a tourniquet, which probably saved his life.

“Thanks to this guy,” Endris said, referring to Simpson, who sat next to him in the TODAY studio, “once I got to the beach, he was calming me down and keeping me from losing more blood by telling me to slow my breathing and really just be calm. They wouldn’t let me look at my wounds at all, which really helped.

A medivac helicopter took him to a hospital, where a surgeon had to first figure out what went where before putting him back together.

“It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle,” Endris said.

Six weeks later, he was well enough to go surfing again, and the place he went was back to Marina State Park. It wasn’t easy to go back in the water.

“You really have to face your fears,” he told Morales. “I’m a surfer at heart, and that’s not something I can give up real easily. It was hard. But it was something you have to do.”

The shark went on its way, protected inside the waters of the park, which is a marine wildlife refuge. Endris wouldn’t want it any other way.

“I wouldn’t want to go after the shark anyway,” he said. “We’re in his realm, not the other way around.”
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Dolphins are such fantastic and majestic creatures, who are highly intelligent as well. I love them.
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Auntie Maine Nov 8 2007, 08:40 PM Post #124
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They are wonderful.i have always wanted to swim with them.I have yet to see them here but then again i never really go far out to sea.
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I want to swim with them too, but I've heard stories they can try to get frisky with humans! In a sexual way!
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I have a dolphin tattoo! :rocks
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Auntie Maine Nov 8 2007, 09:44 PM Post #127
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I have read that too Jesse.

Jane my co-worker Michelle has two dolphins making a circle on her lower back.
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Julesy Nov 8 2007, 10:56 PM Post #128
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I remember my mum made me watch DAY OF THE DOLPHIN.
ever since then I thought they were awesome.

ALPHA and BETA :clap
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Mafia 'commandments' found

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 8, 10:44 PM ET

ROME - Thou shalt be faithful to the Mafia.
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Italian police said Thursday they have found a list of 10 commandments for mobsters in a house near Palermo, where a top Mafia boss was arrested this week.

Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who had been on the run since 1993, was vying to become the next "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, according to Italian investigators. He was apprehended Monday by police raiding a house in the countryside outside Palermo, the Sicilian capital.

The list was found among his coded notes about the administration of Cosa Nostra that were delivered by Lo Piccolo's aides.

Police in Palermo said that the list opened with a preamble that said: "I swear to be faithful to Cosa Nostra. Should I betray, my flesh will burn." Under the category "Rights and Duty" were the 10 entries, meant to be a sort of users' manual for the good mobster.

The list was typewritten in uppercase letters, police said.

Italian newspaper La Repubblica published a photo of what it said was the list, under the headline: "The Godfather's Ten Commandments."

The list bars mobsters from hanging out in bars, from befriending police and being late for appointments. It also bars them from "taking possession of money that belong to others or other families."

How to treat women also features in the decalogue.

"You shall not look at wives of our friends," says one entry. "You shall respect your wife," says another. However, the Mafia comes first, as the fifth "commandment" orders a mobster to "be available for Cosa Nostra at any moment, even if your wife is about to give birth."

The last part of the list sets out application rules, saying that those who have a very bad behavior and no moral values cannot join.

Investigators believe that the 65-year-old Lo Piccolo could have eventually emerged from a power struggle as the Mafia's new top boss following the capture of Bernardo Provenzano, the reputed No. 1 of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. Provenzano was arrested on a farm near Corleone, Sicily, in April 2006, after more than 40 years on the run.



you have to have strong moral values to be in the mafia? I love it! :ha :ha :ha :ha :ha
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Auntie Maine Nov 9 2007, 01:22 PM Post #130
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I just read that too.
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I can't understand how the Mafia can take itself so seriously in this day and age.
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everyone wants to and is trying to be a gansta. So overdone. How do they even have any power anymore?
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An Indian man has married a dog in a Hindu ceremony in hopes that it will repair the curse placed on him for murdering 2 dogs. 15 years ago Mr. Selvakumar stoned 2 dogs to death while they were doing sex to each other and hung their bodies from a tree.

After that happened he lost hearing in one of his ears and his hands and legs became paralyzed. Curse of the bitch!

An astrologer told Mr. Selvakumar that he must marry a dog to cure the curse. He took the astrologer's advice and married Selvi. She was a stray dog and now she's known as Mrs. Selvakumar.

Mr. Selvakumar thinks he will cure the curse by marrying Selvie. Selvie knows otherwise and will make him pay! Look at her face. She's a street hustler if I ever saw one. Bitch is going to be the most demanding wife ever! "Massage my paws! Get me a milk bone! Scratch my butt hole! Put on Lassie!"

He has know idea what he's gotten himself into. Selvie is the hottest bitch ever and will make him pay for hurting her dog friends! Revenge is a real bitch...named Selvie.
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What I want to know is he going to fuck that dog? :huh
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lol! at least they treat thier wives with respect in between beatings for not making the pasta sauce to thier liking!

:ha

Oh and I heard of the dog marriage on Stern this morning. LOL!

thats what you get for stoning innocent animals fucker. gnarly hands!
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[size=14]DOES EVERY MO FO THING HAVE TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT?[/size]

Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women Wed Nov 14, 11:04 PM ET



SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.

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Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.

One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute.

"Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.

"We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph.

"Leave Santa alone."

A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.



fucking ridiculous!

At least the JOLLY GREEN GIANT still say HO HO HO...GREEN GIANT!
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Well Santa is actually talking about himself. He gives to everyone after all.
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Ha! Santa's a big fat ho! :clap

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Here's the same story told Dlisted style!

Christmas is ruined! In Sydney, Australia anyway.

In Sydney, Santa Claus was told that he isn't allowed to use the phrase "HO HO HO" anymore. Recruitment firms have told Santa to say "HA HA HA" insteads, because "HO HO HO" is offensive to women.

One recruitment first said that they didn't ban the phrase and that it's up to Santa.

Fuck that shit! Santey Claus should say "CUNT CUNT CUNT" just to spite them!

Most kids don't know what the hell "HO" means, unless their mom or dad is one, then they should be used to hearing it.

Wait...Santey works for a temp agency? I'm confused. I thought he was self-employed? Wait...are you telling me Santey is not real? WHAT?! Shit, I gotta run to the post box and fish out my letter to the North Pole before some postal worker gets a laugh out of the 12-inch dildo I have on my list.

HO HO HO!
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my letter to the North Pole



Hey the red nappied 'ho lives in Finland at Korvatunturi not in the North Pole! Grrrrr
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