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World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« on: December 15, 2006, 04:57:27 am »
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/14/china.dolphins.ap/index.html

Did they use the "Bao Xishun" signal to call him, or was he already in China on Herder-business?

What I'm saying is-- did they seriously say "This is a job for... BAO XISHUN!" and then go and get him? Because that really entertains me for some reason.
Also, reaching into a dolphin's stomach.

edit: also, shouldn't "World's tallest man saves plastic eating dolphins" be "plastic-eating?" Otherwise I am getting "The World's Tallest Man preserves Plastic by Eating Dolphins."

and, I mean, what? Do they mean he doesn't have to use his credit card?
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2006, 05:03:04 am »
One of my great disappointments was realizing that I was gonna top out around 6'6".

I had hoped I was gonna be tall enough where I would be able to get by on freakish height alone.

Like... as a professional wrestler or as a circus freak or basketball player or something.

I wanna get by on something intrinsic about myself that requires no further effort.

Is that so wrong?
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2006, 05:34:37 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on December 15, 2006, 05:03:04 am
One of my great disappointments was realizing that I was gonna top out around 6'6".

I had hoped I was gonna be tall enough where I would be able to get by on freakish height alone.

Like... as a professional wrestler or as a circus freak or basketball player or something.

I wanna get by on something intrinsic about myself that requires no further effort.

Is that so wrong?

It worked for John Holmes, why not you?
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2006, 07:51:53 am »
damn, 6'6 is hell of tall. I'm shooting for 6', and I might make it (if I grow like half an inch more.)
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2006, 08:36:04 am »
That's the thing, though.

It's tall enough for people to say "hey, Mike, you're hell of tall."

But I can't, like, sit in a tent and charge people ten bucks to see how tall I am.

The world owes me a living just for being, you see. I just haven't found the proper mechanism and... like... when young, I had hoped being tall would be it.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2006, 08:37:11 am »
I always prayed for 5'6". It didn't happen. My disappointment is like the empty, bitter Tristan and Isolde ocean.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2006, 09:04:46 am »
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I always prayed for 5'6". It didn't happen. My disappointment is like the empty, bitter Tristan and Isolde ocean.

I once read a comic book about the Knights of the Round Table being reincarnated... into our future. Not even like, now? Their future? Our future. Laser guns, flying cars, the whole deal. Not even full-on reincarnation, they just "jump" into a bunch of fully-grown adults. For some reason.

And what ends up keeping Tristan and Isolde apart in the Laser-Gun Future is...

They both end up women.

I dunno, the gender politics of comic books just boggle my mind, sometimes.

Japanese comics, even more so.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2006, 11:36:03 am »
England is mine, and it owes me a living.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2006, 01:16:44 pm »
I was confused by this headline when it was given without the 'plastic-eating' because of this other much sadder Chinese dolphin news at the same time:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/ap_on_sc/china_dolphin_extinction

I was all, wait, the scientists couldn't find them but then the world's tallest man somehow did?  But, no such luck.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2006, 02:56:33 pm »
What's up with the world's tallest man being from China?  Doesn't that strike anyone else as a little ironic?
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2006, 02:50:42 am »
Nah.  Billion people over there, figures they're gonna have some tall dudes.

For the large-talent-pool reason alone, China should excel at just about every team sport in the Olympics.  I dread the day they start a hockey program--out of a billion people, you gotta figure there's at least 20 dudes who can skate like motherfuckers.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2006, 04:35:27 am »
But will they also love to fight?
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2006, 04:48:02 am »
I just got the strangest vision of three Chinese guys wearing horn-rim glasses and playing with their slot cars.  The Han Son brothers.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2006, 07:21:48 am »
Quote from: Choopernickel on December 18, 2006, 04:35:27 am
But will they also love to fight?

According to the law of Hong Kong Action, they will love to fight just for the heck of it/to regain lost honor.
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Re: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2006, 06:15:18 pm »
Like a lot of other short guys, I think the first thing I notice about someone is their height.  Anyone over 6'3 or so fits into a category of "freakishly tall".  One of the drawbacks of pro basketball in my opinion is that it seems to be more of a spectacle of the physically bizzare than an athletic contest.
There was a point when I was 11 or 12 that I grew 2 inches in 6 months, and I was thinking "here I go".  I was looking forward to growth pains, ravenous appetite, knocking my forehead on the door frame, etc.  I shot up to 5'7" - and there I have remained for 25 years.  I held out some hope until I was 24 (apparently that's when the last growth plate closes - in the jaw of all places). I guess there's some consolation in being unusually short - I don't blend in with all the mopes between 5'9 and 5'11.  Probably that's a coping mechanism though.  I know when I watch football, lacrosse, or hockey that if I see someone on the roster around my height I'll root for him, even if he's on the visitor's team.  Actually, one of the reasons I really love playing lacrosse is that there is a place for short guys in that sport - I wish I had discovered it while I was still in Jr High, rather than my 2nd year of college.
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