[nickcarraway]

This tortoise survived London being shelled?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It’s a miracle!

[beaversmom]

Go Adolf!

[concerned about politics]

The couple's grandson took Adolf, who is thought to be at least 100 years old, indoors but for the following month the reptile showed no sign of life.

We have a large semi-aquatic turtle. (Nasty thing. Our daughter brought it home from a friends house when she was 5. She's now in her 20's).
It hibernates during the winter. I don't know what kind of turtle Adolf was, or if it would hibernate, but maybe that's what happened?

[x]

The Millers had been told Adolf was found in a crater caused by one of Hitler's bombs in 1942.

How do we actually know the turtle was anti-Nazi -- and not some testudinal Rudolf Hess parachuted in by the enemy?

[tumblindice]

Dolf turtled-up, just restin’ ‘e was—pinin’ fer the fjords, mos’ likely.
Pullin’ a Yertle, yah? A daft old tortoise, reg’lar gaffer ‘e is. Blimey.

And they say we can’t speak English. Heh.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

There’s a lot of furor over this hibernating turtle.

The tortoise wouldn’t turn turtle for the Nazis.

Built-in fuhrerbunker.

[JimRed]

Took a verrry long nap, is all!

[Sherman Logan]

A tortoise recently died in an Aussie zoo that was estimated to be well over 250 years old. He had been a pet of the 18th century British general Clive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwaita