Posted on 07/29/2004 9:33:18 PM PDT by kattracks
Yes, but she added that the Hamster was never "quite right" after Kerry saved him.
That is the real moral to this story.
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In an attempt to calm a sobbing 9 year old I attempted to bring the poor little fellow back to life.
The amazing thing is, the little guy did twitch back to life, even though my attempt was purely for show. To this day my daughter (now 21) believes that Daddy saved her hamster's life.
Hilarious
(from an earlier post of mine)
To think my dad felt so bad when he accidently squashed a hamster when it ran under the television. Now if he had only given it CPR, it probably would have been okay. LOL!
I'm with you. This story is a load of crap. It smells " a little fishy."
;o)
LOL!
..."Did my sister tell you the hamster story?" Alex asks. When the girls were young and at the shore, their March 11, 2004
'We are out there as a team'
With different styles, John Kerry's daughters take his message to young voters
Boston Globe
By Bella English
..."incredibly overzealous golden retriever" knocked their hamster cage off the dock. Down into the depths went the cage, with Licorice the hamster inside. Their father jumped into a rowboat and fished the cage out of the water with an oar. "I have a very distinctive image of my father trying to resuscitate the hamster," Alex says, laughing. "He put his finger on its [chest] and revived him. Licorice came back to life, but he didn't function the same way as before the swim." ...
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/news/news_2004_0311c.html
Mouth to mouth with a hamster....what if it were a gerbil?
OOOPS!
March 11, 2004
'We are out there as a team'
With different styles, John Kerry's daughters take his message to young voters
Boston Globe
By Bella English
..."Did my sister tell you the hamster story?" Alex asks. When the girls were young and at the shore, their "incredibly overzealous golden retriever" knocked their hamster cage off the dock. Down into the depths went the cage, with Licorice the hamster inside. Their father jumped into a rowboat and fished the cage out of the water with an oar. "I have a very distinctive image of my father trying to resuscitate the hamster," Alex says, laughing. "He put his finger on its [chest] and revived him. Licorice came back to life, but he didn't function the same way as before the swim."...
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/news/news_2004_0311c.html
It's ashame Ted Kennedy didn't do the same to Mary Jo.
1) Never did go for the saggy look.
2) Prefer the 'road less traveled'.
But you are welcome to a different opinion. Just remember - no soldier goes into battle without his helmet. And some hotels will rent by the hour...suspect Alexandra knows their locations.
Rush had me laughing out loud today while i was working out. Not just with the Mighty Mouse theme, but he also said something about how of course Ted Kennedy would have dove into the water too to save the hamster.
This story gets more colorful the more it's told, just like his Viet Nam record. Below an excerpt from today's NYT and an older story from the Dallas Morning News. Compare both to the 3/11/04 Boston Globe version. First account says he "grabbed an oar", next account he "jumped into a rowboat", and now the NYTimes state "The man known for pulling a drowning soldier from the Mekong River in the Vietnam War had also dived off a dock to save a hamster."
...The man known for pulling a drowning soldier from the Mekong River in the Vietnam War had also dived off a dock to save a hamster named Licorice from what the elder sister, Alexandra, called "a watery doom," even administering CPR. ...
http://nytimes.com/2004/07/30/politics/campaign/30scene.html
Hehehehehe....I like hanging out with friends who aren't attracted to the women who attract me...they make better wingmen!
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