remember when you were like 8 years old and took your real life shark jaw to the living room in a box marked "fragile: do not touch" to watch hours and hours of non-stop shark shows on the discovery channel? i don't get to do that anymore. sigh... don't they realize that i'm a guy and i need to watch tv shows about sharks? duh.
ok, so maybe i've already learned a lot about sharks, the shows that i have watched actually seem a bit lame, maybe shark appeal has kind of lost a bit of it's edge so many years as jaws: the revenge. still, check out the pic of this tiger shark taken on the north shore. holy crap!i've only seen sharks in real life (minus aquariums) in the ocean twice... once when i was snorkeling in waimea bay when i was a kid, there was actually a school of small hammerheads (very small, probably babies), but i was so freaked, i bolted for shore... but then of course, i still wanted to go back out and see them again. i've caught sharks at waimea bay too... one was a two foot long hammerhead and the other was maybe a 3.5 foot silky shark. the only other time i saw sharks in the ocean was when i was surfing a few years ago at white plains, they were way out pretty far from me though, i saw splashing and a bunch of birds circling overhead, and then i saw some white tipped fins flashing in and out of the water and i bolted again! haha, looked like they were feeding on something so that time i did NOT get back in the water.
cool pic yeah? what is it? a barracuda about to chomp down on some akule or something? as a kid i was probably more scared of barracudas than sharks, because with sharks, man you know what you're getting and you know that if a shark's gonna come at you, well then it's gonna come at you and you'll see it and then perhaps you're screwed, but those damn barracuda can be anywhere, and i've swam with them in HUGE schools (like in waimea bay) and they just look nasty and disgruntled. bleh. sharks, on the other hand, are way cool. they do kickboxing too, see?
oh, by the way, new poll... if a shark bit off any one of your body parts, which one would you sacrifice? of course, "none" is not an option during shark week... so i'd probably pick "a single leg" because i'd say legs are more easily replaced than arms or hands (you could get a pretty good prosthetic leg nowdays and wouldn't have to worry too much about fine motor control), and since we come with two feet, i'd like to keep at least one of them intact, and surgeons could probably make a stump look presentable, but i'm thinking that trying to reconstruct your ass would be pretty nasty looking. what do you think?
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