"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
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Gilligan wrote:
The guy was Jacko in khaki. Any respectable Australian would distance
himself from this publicity hound. Remember him feeding his infant son to
the crocodile?
I thought that was Capt Rob. But seriously, Gilligan, you have to admit
that Irwin has gone out in a highly individualist style. There has only
been one previously confirmed fatality from stingrays in Australia prior
to this, and one possible. Crocodiles on the other hand are eating
somebody quite frequently now.


The irony has parallels:

"Struck down
By the sword of a hero, let me fall--
Steel in my heart, and laughter on my lips!"
Yes, I said that once. How Fate loves a jest!--
Behold me ambushed-- taken in the rear--
My battlefield a gutter-- my noble foe
A lacky, with a log of wood! ..."