[Ramius]

Great Whites have been found along the coastlines of California all the way to Alaska. . .

What the? Found ONCE in a hundred years... but that's sorta like saying that Tornados have been spotted in Alaska. Yeesh. yahknow, journalists should have more than a third grade edyucashun.

[Corin Stormhands]

What the? Found ONCE in a hundred years...

Yep, remember the "Summer of the Shark?." All the news reports of how many shark attacks there were? Media hype. There were fewer attacks that year than most years. About half a dozen. Then 9/11 took the sharks out of the headlines.

Governor of Virginia even set up a "Shark Task Force" like there was anything he could do about it.

You don't want to be attacked by sharks?

• don't wear shiny jewelry
• don't pee in the water
• don't swim at dawn
• don't swim at dusk
• don't go in the water with an open wound
• wimmin don't go in the water if it's "that time"
• if you see the birds hovering that means there's fish. don't swim there.

Do that and you'll most likely be okay. The sharks are out there on the sand bars, but if you swim during the heat of the day, they're not active. The attacks that happened in Virginia and North Carolina that year both happened at 6:00 p.m.

NOTE: If the lifeguard is off the stand, it means it's time to get out of the water.

[Fedora]

There seems to be some uncertainty over where Whites range. Some sites I'm finding say they don't like cold water, but others say they do, which is what I've heard elsewhere. They (like orcas) seem to show up where seals are, which is why there's so many around San Francisco. In any case even if Whites may be scarce by you, there's other friends for Ruthy to play with :)

Gigantic Secrets Of Sixgill Sharks

Mystery surrounds sixgills, Puget Sound's largest resident sharks at an average of 7 to 9 feet long. . ."Imagine catching that on a rod and reel," said Bargmann as the crew raised a 630-pound shark out of the water. As it turned out, the 11-footer was the largest of 45 fish tagged that day in Colvos Passage. Many weighed several hundred pounds, but most were considerably smaller. Despite their size, sixgills are docile creatures. They don't attack people.

See, they don't attack people, Ruthy? Now don't you feel like you want to go swimming with 'em?--don't they look cute and cuddly? :)

[HairOfTheDog]

Broadcast News is on at 8:30...

Dad, you want me to choose my words so carefully and then you just throw a word like 'obsessive' at me. Now, unless I'm wrong and ...please correct me if I am, 'obsession' is practically a psychiatric term... concerning people who don't have anything else but the object of their obsession -- who can't stop and do anything else. Well, Here I am stopping to tell you this. Okay? So would you please try and be a little more precise instead of calling a person something like 'obsessive.'