Shark week

Arya Stark · 08-11-2013, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Bart: My favourite shark is the tiger shark. What about you Milhouse?
Milhouse: The nurse shark... I mean... (cue getting beaten up by Jimbo et al)

That's funny, I was actually going to say the Nurse Shark for the simple fact that I can pet it at the aquarium.

Also I like big sharks. Maybe you'll remember which one I'm thinking of, bob, but I love the one in the program where they were trying to put a camera on its fin! Not the one where they stalk it, but another one where it was just a painless clip... Do you remember that one? It was SOOOO much bigger than the boat!

LoathsomePete · 08-12-2013, 09:35 AM

I was reading something on Cracked today about that Megalodon documentary causing some controversy for idiots thinking it's true. Discovery or Animal Planet did something a little while ago with a fake mermaid documentary, but these things also seem to get the highest ratings so I can't really begrudge the network for milking them.

As for my favorite shark, I'm with bob, I've always liked makos, or at least ever since I saw Deep Blue Sea and was more frightened of them than the great whites from the Jaws series.

In a side note, who's everyone's favorite street shark? Mine's Big Slammu the Whale Shark.

The Batlord · 08-12-2013, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

In a side note, who's everyone's favorite street shark? Mine's Big Slammu the Whale Shark.

Oh god, I'd forgotten about that. Wasn't that just a ripoff of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? I even remember there being a part on the pilot where their Designated Human Friend asked if they wanted pizza and they all replied that pizza sucked and demanded hamburgers.

LoathsomePete · 08-12-2013, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Oh god, I'd forgotten about that. Wasn't that just a ripoff of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? I even remember there being a part on the pilot where their Designated Human Friend asked if they wanted pizza and they all replied that pizza sucked and demanded hamburgers.

Yes, it actually has the distinction of being the last attempt at making the TMNT lightning strike twice as Power Rangers aired a year before and that kind of took over the throne kid culture wise. To be fair though just about every animated kids show from like 1988-1994 was a TMNT knockoff. Remember Stone Protectors? Trollified TMNT.

bob. · 08-12-2013, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Arya Stark

That's funny, I was actually going to say the Nurse Shark for the simple fact that I can pet it at the aquarium.

Also I like big sharks. Maybe you'll remember which one I'm thinking of, bob, but I love the one in the program where they were trying to put a camera on its fin! Not the one where they stalk it, but another one where it was just a painless clip... Do you remember that one? It was SOOOO much bigger than the boat!

yeah the one with the Australian dread lock guy

which is probably why you told me not to try the drinking game with that episode

....that was a Great White

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

As for my favorite shark, I'm with bob, I've always liked makos, or at least ever since I saw Deep Blue Sea and was more frightened of them than the great whites from the Jaws series.

In a side note, who's everyone's favorite street shark? Mine's Big Slammu the Whale Shark.

i totally forgot about Deep Blue Sea....best speech ever given by Samuel L Jackson

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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

Its really a big shame that sharks in general have been maligned by utter nonsense and fear mongering. In the Ocean they're truly a beautiful thing to watch. I've certainly seen my share both diving in Mexico and Surfing throughout California. In general its tended to be Tigers, Lemons and plenty of Nurse Sharks. I've never encountered one that would even keep interest after discovering I was human. I think the only danger is the diminishing of their food source. In California its typically seen as a Northern California issue but a few spots i've frequented in So-Cal most notably Solana Beach recently have been sites where people have died due to injuries. The closest i've ever been was a diving trip with my father as a teen. We were diving a reef in baja and came up on a school of hammerheads that exceeded 20 sharks. Was amazing to watch but my balls were in my stomach the entire time. If I were to die from injuries due to a shark I would consider it an honor, one of the most majestic things on the planet.

the beach in question about the rouge shark is Surf Beach...fascinating that a surfer died there after a brutal shark attack and exactly two years later on the same day another died.....Fred stay away from this beach next year

if i saw a school of Hammerheads i think i would just die....i was going to mention that Discovery just finished an amazing series called North America....i think it was the 2nd episode and they were talking about the Black Fin migration to the gulf in Florida......the show this high shot and there are thousands of sharks in the water....they pan back just a little and you see the beach is literally feet away from these sharks.....and then you see this gigantic fish.....there to feed on the already large black fins.....it was a Hammerhead and it was simply amazing.....

so my personal favorite scene from this years shark week

first off notice that the shark immediately went for the floatation device not the cage itself or an attempt to taste whats inside the cage.....in the full show you know that this is the first time that guy ever got into the water with a shark...let alone an aggressive 18 foot one....he does say NEVER again

FRED HALE SR. · 08-12-2013, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

yeah the one with the Australian dread lock guy

which is probably why you told me not to try the drinking game with that episode

....that was a Great White

i totally forgot about Deep Blue Sea....best speech ever given by Samuel L Jackson

the beach in question about the rouge shark is Surf Beach...fascinating that a surfer died there after a brutal shark attack and exactly two years later on the same day another died.....Fred stay away from this beach next year

if i saw a school of Hammerheads i think i would just die....i was going to mention that Discovery just finished an amazing series called North America....i think it was the 2nd episode and they were talking about the Black Fin migration to the gulf in Florida......the show this high shot and there are thousands of sharks in the water....they pan back just a little and you see the beach is literally feet away from these sharks.....and then you see this gigantic fish.....there to feed on the already large black fins.....it was a Hammerhead and it was simply amazing.....

so my personal favorite scene from this years shark week

first off notice that the shark immediately went for the floatation device not the cage itself or an attempt to taste whats inside the cage.....in the full show you know that this is the first time that guy ever got into the water with a shark...let alone an aggressive 18 foot one....he does say NEVER again

I was referring to the college kid from Santa Barbara. I watched the episode briefly with the rogue shark. Maybe hes developing a taste for humans. I guess i'll find out.

I've been surfing since 89, so I think i'm safe but statistics will catch up with you sometimes. We have the hammerhead footage on an old 8 mm reel to reel. I occassionally bust it out to make sure its still visible, gonna have to convert it to the digital age at some point. Gonna hit Baja next summer with my pop, gonna be his last trip he says before retiring from it at 72. Hes been a real inspiration for my love of the water.

08-12-2013, 09:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	I was reading something on Cracked today about that Megalodon documentary causing some controversy for idiots thinking it's true. Discovery or Animal Planet did something a little while ago with a fake mermaid documentary, but these things also seem to get the highest ratings so I can't really begrudge the network for milking them. As for my favorite shark, I'm with bob, I've always liked makos, or at least ever since I saw Deep Blue Sea and was more frightened of them than the great whites from the Jaws series. In a side note, who's everyone's favorite street shark? Mine's Big Slammu the Whale Shark. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too