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2003-12-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2003-12-15 9:07:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He's free now....

Lets see.. a Whale is a SEA Creature who lives in the OCEAN (you know... where there is a lot of salt water...).

So you bury him on LAND. To be pooped on by cows....

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-12-15 9:20:58 AM|| 2003-12-15 9:20:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Can you imagine the size of this hole to accomodate a six-ton beastie? And then the animal is going to rot away and leave a trench there as the hole collapses in (unless they found a nice sturdy coffin that would fit a six ton orca). What a waste of time and money.

Posted by Dar 2003-12-15 11:06:39 AM|| 2003-12-15 11:06:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 From Scrappleface:
10-Year Quest to 'Free Willy' Finally Succeeds
(2003-12-13) -- A decade-long, multimillion dollar effort to 'Free Willy' has finally succeeded.

The beloved movie star killer whale, whose real name was Keiko, captured the hearts and minds of the global community as environmentalists attempted to mimic the finale of the movie by returning the captive orca to his natural environment.

"We're happy to announce that Keiko died this week of pneumonia off the coast of Norway," said a spokesman for the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation. "Although we were never able to break his co-dependency on humans we have finally succeeded in getting him to behave a bit like a wild orca again. Just like so many of his oceangoing brethren, Keiko stopped breathing and became food for scavengers. It was an intensely natural thing for a whale to do. It's really a triumph of science and human compassion."

Future donations to the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation will go toward an effort to return the Disney star, Nemo, to the wild.

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-15 11:22:29 AM|| 2003-12-15 11:22:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Keiko means Lucky One in Japanese. Sadly his luck ran out. It's a sad day, no!

Posted by Lucky 2003-12-15 12:40:40 PM|| 2003-12-15 12:40:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Buried in a pasture. That's an inoffensive way of saying he was rendered into fertilizer and sold to an area farmer.

Posted by BH 2003-12-15 3:04:16 PM|| 2003-12-15 3:04:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 FREE WILLIE! FREE WILLIE! FREE WILLIE!
FREE WILLIE HORTON! FREE WILLIE HORTON! FREE WILLIE HORTON!

FREE LUNCH! FREE LUNCH! FREE LUNCH!

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-15 6:33:52 PM|| 2003-12-15 6:33:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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