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Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 7

Posted on 08/18/2003 8:07:45 PM PDT by Mo1



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To: Mo1
That's why Lake Michigan is so lovely.....the only great white is the wave tops breaking over on a windy day.
301 posted on 08/21/2003 1:40:24 PM PDT by Windshark (......when catpuppy gets better, he can self-marinate again..........:-)
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To: Canadian Outrage
well maybe

Har de har har.....I know, you'd just have to peek so you could talk about it!

302 posted on 08/21/2003 1:41:41 PM PDT by Windshark (......when catpuppy gets better, he can self-marinate again..........:-)
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To: Windshark
After all, even sharks have a conscience

Sometimes...

(not quite) My Shark Story.

A friend of mine, let's call him Chuck, who is somewhat crazy, tells this story. Knowing him I believe it!

One day, Chuck was out diving with friends off Davenport, about half way between Half Moon Bay, and Santa Cruz CA.

He was swimming along, minding his own business, trying out his new $80 flippers. A seal grabbed one of his flippers. Annoyed, he kicked his foot up to shake the seal loose. This flipped HIM up under what he describes as a boxcar with fins. His "seal" was a Great White Shark!

The shark didn't like the taste of rubber and spit out the fin. He boosted for the surface stuck his head up and said "HELP!" Head back down, look for shark. Head up: "SHARK!" At this point he sees everybody on the boat franticly running to and fro. He and the boat manage to get together.

Later he found out that some local fishermen were in the habit of cleaning their catch in that area.

Soooo, the shark came up beside the boat looking for a handout. Finding none it then swam off in his direction. His friends said it was as long as the boat, 12 feet.

OK, now fast forward a month and a half. Chuck is visiting friends in San Diego, They go out for a dive. There are Basking Sharks, a harmless filter feeder, in the area. So his friend who knows about the earlier dive says, "Hey, Chuck! Wanna swim with the sharks?"

Slow Learner Chuck says "Sure!"

Soon, he's in the water. He sticks his head up and can see the dorsal fin of a shark approaching him. Oh goody! Dunks his head and looks. The water is too murky. Head up. Fin still coming. Head down, too murky. Then...

Out of the gloom a mouth "big enough for me to stand up in in any direction" suddenly appears.

His friend says it was the funniest thing he ever saw. Chuck came straight up out of the water, walked 10 feet across the surface before he sank back down...

303 posted on 08/21/2003 1:41:56 PM PDT by null and void
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To: catpuppy
Wetsuits make you look like a floundering seal.

How dumb can you get!

Floriduh voters?

304 posted on 08/21/2003 1:43:29 PM PDT by Windshark (......when catpuppy gets better, he can self-marinate again..........:-)
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To: Windshark
"for more dating advice, no doubt....."

Prentice, is that you?

305 posted on 08/21/2003 1:44:36 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: Windshark; null and void
After all, even sharks have a conscience......sometimes. Heheheh.....

It's not the sharks Nully and I fear, it's the harpoons.

So9

306 posted on 08/21/2003 1:53:10 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (A Goldwater Republican)
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To: null and void
Good one!

Those things are even scarier than Darkchylde....who is scared of minion reversal syndrome....and rightfully so....

I think I told my one and only shark story a hundred or so threads back, but it bears (for pup) repeating.

I was 17, it was a beautiful surf morning in Rhode Island. I had brought a friend along who had never surfed before and wanted to learn. We had just paddled out to the break and were there with just a couple of others. I'm trying to jockey my board for the right place to catch the waves when I looked about 25 feet out where a wave was forming. they get thinner as they are about to break and the sun light was making a beautiful show through the back of the waves.

12' shadow with a dorsal fin pops up behind this wave. I calmly turn to this guy Tom and tell him I think I saw a shark...look at the waves over there as they form out there. Sure enough....12 footer with dorsal fin re-appears!

I'm feeling safe on my surfboard, I bring my feet and hands out of the water and sit on the board....Tom...

He panicks....starts yelling shark! and proceeds to fall off his board and splash around like a dying walrus (he was, um...er...an inviting target)in the water.

I keep telling him to calm down, he keeps floundering, trying to get on his board and keeps falling off!

I would have laughed if the situation wasn't so dire.

Anyway....I never saw one again, and Tom never went out in the ocean again to my knowlege....

307 posted on 08/21/2003 2:03:35 PM PDT by Windshark (......when catpuppy gets better, he can self-marinate again..........:-)
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To: sweetliberty
Moi?

Shhhhhh......and no, I wasn't banned!

308 posted on 08/21/2003 2:04:42 PM PDT by Windshark (......when catpuppy gets better, he can self-marinate again..........:-)
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To: Servant of the Nine
It's not the sharks Nully and I fear, it's the harpoons.

Amen. A shark we could eat...

309 posted on 08/21/2003 2:21:19 PM PDT by null and void
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To: Windshark
You?


310 posted on 08/21/2003 2:24:33 PM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
A re-done proverb for today's thread:

Inviting targets shouldn't throw blood in the water......

311 posted on 08/21/2003 2:25:29 PM PDT by Windshark (......sharks have feelings too..........:-)
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To: null and void
OMG! Perfect flashback. Perfect......

It wasn't that close.....but it looked just like that! Further away, water was clearer, the shark was turned opposite left to right.

Thank God we had longer boards then.....

312 posted on 08/21/2003 2:30:37 PM PDT by Windshark (......sharks have feelings too.......feelings of great hunger...:-)
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To: sweetliberty
If you need a good laugh and some hope...

Go read Ann Coulter's latest article @ WorldNetDaily.

She's a treat. Her lines are so devstating.

313 posted on 08/21/2003 2:34:48 PM PDT by Windshark (......sharks have feelings too.......feelings of great hunger...:-)
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To: Windshark
devastating
314 posted on 08/21/2003 2:40:06 PM PDT by Windshark (......sharks have feelings too.......feelings of great hunger...:-)
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To: null and void
Ooooo.....cool picture.
315 posted on 08/21/2003 3:02:51 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: Windshark
Ann is always a treat. How I wish I could think on my feet the way that girl does. Of course, it's probably just as well that I can't. My sarcastic mouth gets me in enough trouble as it is.

So why the name change? (I like it, by the way).

As to dating advice, funny you should mention that. The guy I met in Colorado last year wants to see me again. Only took him 9 months!

316 posted on 08/21/2003 3:06:20 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: sweetliberty
It even gets worse.

Lake and Wind are related and it can get oh so confusing.

Concerning the 9 months later date......see, our advice worked......;-)

This could be a looooong courtship. He'll propose when you're both 85 at this rate....

317 posted on 08/21/2003 3:13:57 PM PDT by Windshark (......sharks have feelings too.......feelings of great hunger...:-)
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To: Windshark
"He'll propose when you're both 85 at this rate...."

Hehe....well, nobody could accuse us of rushing into anything. He asked me to meet him in Las Vagas the end of October. I told him I'd think about it.

318 posted on 08/21/2003 3:22:47 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: sweetliberty
Sounds a bit racy, sweets.....

LL and I will offer to chaperone.....for a fee of course...but only in January at the big builder's convention.....

hot double date to see Celine.....heheheh.....

319 posted on 08/21/2003 3:29:08 PM PDT by Windshark (......sharks have feelings too.......feelings of great hunger...:-)
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To: Windshark
Hehe....nice offer, but his vacation is the end of October and beginning of November. Works for me too, IF I decide to go. I'm not worried about him. He's a perfect gentleman.
320 posted on 08/21/2003 3:47:09 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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