Animal Planet?

Intense - better than "Deadliest Catch" in some ways.

Highly recommended.

"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
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Animal Planet?

Intense - better than "Deadliest Catch" in some ways.

Highly recommended.

Nope...watching the Jr Hockey semi-final.
Right now the Ontario Hockey champs are tied with the Quebec champs and will
head into overtime to decide who gets to play the Western Team for the
Memorial Cup.

"Don White" wrote in message
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"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
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Animal Planet?

Intense - better than "Deadliest Catch" in some ways.

Highly recommended.

Nope...watching the Jr Hockey semi-final.
Right now the Ontario Hockey champs are tied with the Quebec champs and
will head into overtime to decide who gets to play the Western Team for
the Memorial Cup.


Please let us know how it turns out. I don't think that game is on
DirecTV....or Dish, or cable.

--Mike

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
Animal Planet?

Intense - better than "Deadliest Catch" in some ways.

Highly recommended.

I LOVE watching Whale Wars. It is one of the funniest shows on TV
today. It reminds me of what you would get if the Keystone Kops and
Animal House had a baby. The crew has no idea what they are doing.
The crew can NEVER remember to put the phone in the inflatable. They
forget to turn on the phone so the captain can't communicate with them.
They have all of this expensive equipment, and completely
inexperienced volunteers trying to use it, so they end up breaking it.

The captain (who does not actually have a license to captain a ship)
places a bullet in his jacket and pretends that the whaling boats tried
to shot him, but he was saved because he the bullet passed through a
Kevlar vest. but was stopped by an anti-whaling medal he was wearing.
Yeah right. Out in the middle of the ocean, he is wearing a Kevlar vest
for safety, but he doesn't think it is necessary for any of his crew to
have a Kevlar vest.

The only problem is, while it is like watching slapstick, It is sad,
that such a serious issue is being handled by such bumbling idiots.
Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepard summed up his philosophy in
the following sentence " “If you do not know an answer, a fact, or a
statistic, ... make it up on the spot and deliver the information
confidently and without hesitation"

Paul Watson was on the board of Greenpeace, and was voted off the board
by all of the other board members due to his strong opposition of
Greenpeace's commitment to nonviolence. Costa Rica charged him with
seven charges of attempted murder due to his actions against shark
fishing off their coast. He was convicted in absentia by Norway on
charges of attempting to sink a small shipping boat off of Norway. As
you saw last night, he has actually rammed other ships in the Antarctic
Ocean.
..
Paul Watson will end up hurting or killing some of these young
volunteers who are looking for an adventure and as a way to reduce the
slaughter of whales. I (and most other environmental movements) don't
think his tactics will be effective in reducing the number of whales
killed, but will actually hurt the environmental movement.

Ok, tirade off.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
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On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:09:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
Animal Planet?

Intense - better than "Deadliest Catch" in some ways.

Highly recommended.

I LOVE watching Whale Wars. It is one of the funniest shows on TV
today. It reminds me of what you would get if the Keystone Kops and
Animal House had a baby. The crew has no idea what they are doing.
The crew can NEVER remember to put the phone in the inflatable. They
forget to turn on the phone so the captain can't communicate with them.
They have all of this expensive equipment, and completely
inexperienced volunteers trying to use it, so they end up breaking it.

The captain (who does not actually have a license to captain a ship)
places a bullet in his jacket and pretends that the whaling boats tried
to shot him, but he was saved because he the bullet passed through a
Kevlar vest. but was stopped by an anti-whaling medal he was wearing.
Yeah right. Out in the middle of the ocean, he is wearing a Kevlar vest
for safety, but he doesn't think it is necessary for any of his crew to
have a Kevlar vest.

The only problem is, while it is like watching slapstick, It is sad,
that such a serious issue is being handled by such bumbling idiots.
Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepard summed up his philosophy in
the following sentence " “If you do not know an answer, a fact, or a
statistic, ... make it up on the spot and deliver the information
confidently and without hesitation"

Paul Watson was on the board of Greenpeace, and was voted off the board
by all of the other board members due to his strong opposition of
Greenpeace's commitment to nonviolence. Costa Rica charged him with
seven charges of attempted murder due to his actions against shark
fishing off their coast. He was convicted in absentia by Norway on
charges of attempting to sink a small shipping boat off of Norway. As
you saw last night, he has actually rammed other ships in the Antarctic
Ocean.
.
Paul Watson will end up hurting or killing some of these young
volunteers who are looking for an adventure and as a way to reduce the
slaughter of whales. I (and most other environmental movements) don't
think his tactics will be effective in reducing the number of whales
killed, but will actually hurt the environmental movement.

Ok, tirade off.

That was a pretty good one, though. Maybe you should do that more
often.

How about one on our lack of nuclear energy?
--

John H

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson

John H wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:09:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
Animal Planet?

Intense - better than "Deadliest Catch" in some ways.

Highly recommended.
I LOVE watching Whale Wars. It is one of the funniest shows on TV
today. It reminds me of what you would get if the Keystone Kops and
Animal House had a baby. The crew has no idea what they are doing.
The crew can NEVER remember to put the phone in the inflatable. They
forget to turn on the phone so the captain can't communicate with them.
They have all of this expensive equipment, and completely
inexperienced volunteers trying to use it, so they end up breaking it.

The captain (who does not actually have a license to captain a ship)
places a bullet in his jacket and pretends that the whaling boats tried
to shot him, but he was saved because he the bullet passed through a
Kevlar vest. but was stopped by an anti-whaling medal he was wearing.
Yeah right. Out in the middle of the ocean, he is wearing a Kevlar vest
for safety, but he doesn't think it is necessary for any of his crew to
have a Kevlar vest.

The only problem is, while it is like watching slapstick, It is sad,
that such a serious issue is being handled by such bumbling idiots.
Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepard summed up his philosophy in
the following sentence " “If you do not know an answer, a fact, or a
statistic, ... make it up on the spot and deliver the information
confidently and without hesitation"

Paul Watson was on the board of Greenpeace, and was voted off the board
by all of the other board members due to his strong opposition of
Greenpeace's commitment to nonviolence. Costa Rica charged him with
seven charges of attempted murder due to his actions against shark
fishing off their coast. He was convicted in absentia by Norway on
charges of attempting to sink a small shipping boat off of Norway. As
you saw last night, he has actually rammed other ships in the Antarctic
Ocean.
.
Paul Watson will end up hurting or killing some of these young
volunteers who are looking for an adventure and as a way to reduce the
slaughter of whales. I (and most other environmental movements) don't
think his tactics will be effective in reducing the number of whales
killed, but will actually hurt the environmental movement.

Ok, tirade off.

That was a pretty good one, though. Maybe you should do that more
often.

How about one on our lack of nuclear energy?
--

John H

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson

Don't get me started on that issue. Too often we allow emotions to
overrule logic. N.E. would have reduce our carbon foot print, reduced
acid rain and the resulting problems, and provided us with better
leverage in negotiating the cost of oil and gas from OPEC.

And I know a little Red Barn in Maryland were we could have dump all the
spent nuclear waste.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in
no way are to be considered flaws or defects

On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:09:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:


I LOVE watching Whale Wars. It is one of the funniest shows on TV
today. It reminds me of what you would get if the Keystone Kops and
Animal House had a baby. The crew has no idea what they are doing.
The crew can NEVER remember to put the phone in the inflatable. They
forget to turn on the phone so the captain can't communicate with them.
They have all of this expensive equipment, and completely
inexperienced volunteers trying to use it, so they end up breaking it.

I couldn't have said it better - what a bunch of maroons..

The thing is, you can't help but get sucked into watching - it's like
waiting for "The Big One" at Daytona - you just know something is
going to happen that not only defies all safety rules and procedures,
but will eventually end up with somebody getting killed.

Last night was really funny - the "Captain" is sound asleep while
there is an emergency going on and the dumbass First Mate has no clue
as to what to do - they go wake up the "Captain" and he says - "Handle
it the best you can".

Some Captain. :)

Then one of the Bridge Officers steps up, takes charge and makes a
decision to do a rescue search by grid square and after the boat is
recovered is demoted to - I don't know, deck hand or something because
the other Bridge Officers were ****ed - but they couldn't do anything,
the Captain didn't do anything and four of their members were lost.

Oh yeah - the radios. Do they ever use the radios? Do they even know
how to turn them on? Or remember to take them?

It's a freak show of the best kind - the dumb leading the dumber.

On Sat, 23 May 2009 20:17:02 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:09:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:


I LOVE watching Whale Wars. It is one of the funniest shows on TV
today. It reminds me of what you would get if the Keystone Kops and
Animal House had a baby. The crew has no idea what they are doing.
The crew can NEVER remember to put the phone in the inflatable. They
forget to turn on the phone so the captain can't communicate with them.
They have all of this expensive equipment, and completely
inexperienced volunteers trying to use it, so they end up breaking it.

I couldn't have said it better - what a bunch of maroons..

See the one where they launched a crewed Zodiac underway?
Boat flipped and dumped them all into the icy water.
The mate who was supervising that was like "Hey, not my fault."
Same episode somebody dinged the chopper blade with something,
grounding it.
Only waterbound thing funnier is watching that water logger yell and
cuss as he guides himself to disaster.

--Vic

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:09:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

I LOVE watching Whale Wars. It is one of the funniest shows on TV
today. It reminds me of what you would get if the Keystone Kops and
Animal House had a baby. The crew has no idea what they are doing.
The crew can NEVER remember to put the phone in the inflatable. They
forget to turn on the phone so the captain can't communicate with them.
They have all of this expensive equipment, and completely
inexperienced volunteers trying to use it, so they end up breaking it.

I couldn't have said it better - what a bunch of maroons..

The thing is, you can't help but get sucked into watching - it's like
waiting for "The Big One" at Daytona - you just know something is
going to happen that not only defies all safety rules and procedures,
but will eventually end up with somebody getting killed.

Last night was really funny - the "Captain" is sound asleep while
there is an emergency going on and the dumbass First Mate has no clue
as to what to do - they go wake up the "Captain" and he says - "Handle
it the best you can".

Some Captain. :)

Then one of the Bridge Officers steps up, takes charge and makes a
decision to do a rescue search by grid square and after the boat is
recovered is demoted to - I don't know, deck hand or something because
the other Bridge Officers were ****ed - but they couldn't do anything,
the Captain didn't do anything and four of their members were lost.

Oh yeah - the radios. Do they ever use the radios? Do they even know
how to turn them on? Or remember to take them?

It's a freak show of the best kind - the dumb leading the dumber.

I'll bet they have the audience in mind when they plan out the show, right?

:)

On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:27:52 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 23 May 2009 20:17:02 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Sat, 23 May 2009 07:09:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:


I LOVE watching Whale Wars. It is one of the funniest shows on TV
today. It reminds me of what you would get if the Keystone Kops and
Animal House had a baby. The crew has no idea what they are doing.
The crew can NEVER remember to put the phone in the inflatable. They
forget to turn on the phone so the captain can't communicate with them.
They have all of this expensive equipment, and completely
inexperienced volunteers trying to use it, so they end up breaking it.

I couldn't have said it better - what a bunch of maroons..

See the one where they launched a crewed Zodiac underway?
Boat flipped and dumped them all into the icy water.
The mate who was supervising that was like "Hey, not my fault."

Didn't see that one - I happened to stumble across the show last night
while channel surfing. I was just absoutely fascinated at the total
ineptitude of this bunch of yahoos.

There seem to be a couple of - I guess - reasonable people onboard at
Bridge Officers, but the First and Second mates are complete morons. I
mean seriously - launching a Zodiac at sunset to "attack" a whaling
ship ten/twelve miles away with stink bombs? In the South Polar Sea.
At night. Brilliant.

Oh, and the best part? They got lost. :) Never turned their radios
on.

And they had to call the Japanese ship for help.

The one they were going to attack.

It was Keystone Kops at Sea.

Same episode somebody dinged the chopper blade with something,
grounding it.
Only waterbound thing funnier is watching that water logger yell and
cuss as he guides himself to disaster.

Never saw that one either.