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Whale Wars Live Thread (Season 3, Episode 8)
Animal Planet ^ | July 30,2010 | Animal Planet/Sea Shepherd/Pan_Yan

Posted on 07/30/2010 4:03:52 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

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To: freedumb2003

I had to watch last week’s episode on rerun. No cable in the tent last Friday night.

It was 95 degrees at bed time. There was not much sleeping either.


21 posted on 07/30/2010 5:34:04 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: freedumb2003

I don’t know the show Eureka, but the other show you mentioned is deservedly only good for 80’s trivia night.


22 posted on 07/30/2010 5:35:50 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: freedumb2003
Was that guy in the movie, The Stand?

Looks like the guy who kept on saying, My life for you.

23 posted on 07/30/2010 5:38:23 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Pan_Yan
I don’t know the show Eureka

OMG, you are missing a treat! It is on SyFy and is about a town that has super-duper geniuses who are pushing the edge of science -- basically light years ahead of what we are using now but what could be used any day. The main character is an average Joe who is more clever than the rest of the town is are smart and spends every episode saving the town from the latest invention which will destroy the world/solar system/universe/etc.

It is funny (extremely at times), yet serious (extremely at times) -- one of the best shows ever.

And the main characters are all extremely good looking ;)

24 posted on 07/30/2010 5:41:35 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
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To: freedumb2003
I just checked on Amazon and Max Headroom is coming out on DVD on August 10th. Woohoo!
25 posted on 07/30/2010 5:41:35 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Icebergs are cool. I became a Bluenose back in 1992.


26 posted on 07/30/2010 5:42:20 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

They claim to have saved hundreds of whales despite almost zero contact with the fleet for most of the season.

I haven’t seen anything effective from them the last two seasons IMO.


27 posted on 07/30/2010 5:43:30 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: mware; freedumb2003

Matt Frewer was in The Stand. He also did a ton of voice stuff for Disney including being in Aladdin and Hercules.


28 posted on 07/30/2010 5:47:27 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: A CA Guy

White House math. “Whales created or saved.”


29 posted on 07/30/2010 5:48:27 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: KarlInOhio

>>I just checked on Amazon and Max Headroom is coming out on DVD on August 10th. Woohoo!<<

GOTTA get it.

20 minutes until the Ponytailed Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight.

I suspect their “Revenge” will backfire like everything else they do.

Paul Watson ain’t no Khan Noonien Singh.


30 posted on 07/30/2010 5:49:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
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To: Pan_Yan; A CA Guy

>>White House math. “Whales created or saved.”<<

Another OMG moment — I am LOL here!


31 posted on 07/30/2010 5:51:03 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
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To: freedumb2003
They claim to have cost the Japanese 40 million and to have SAVED all these whales.

I think they are well meaning idiots.

Strike that, make that well meaning ineffective idiots.

Didn't they claim the captain got shot and saved by a badge under the vest like some old western movie last year?

I can't imagine how bad they all smell. I think that is the real reason behind the Japanese water canons? SHOWER...

32 posted on 07/30/2010 5:55:04 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Pan_Yan; All
Don't underestimate Paul Watson. Behind the idiot's face lies a master manipulator willing to take advantage of the vulnerable. Case in point Mr. Bethune, an odd mix of a seemingly competent man who is capable of making some horrible decisions. (Someone I know says decision-making and judgment skills are centered in the frontal lobes of the brain.)

"Okay, by a show of hands, who wants to go board a whale ship full of Japanese sailors and try to arrest their captain? Okay, Dave, Mike, Susie, Ed, Nigel, Ian, Roger, Tom, Ellen, Teresa, Cara, Tiffany... Anyone else? [Looking in Bethune's general direction]

And then the guy has the gall to come out and say that five months in a Japanese slammer is worth it if it saves a couple of whales.

Next time put your own fat ass on the line, Watson, instead of taking advantage of a guy who at least has some bushido about him.

33 posted on 07/30/2010 6:06:56 PM PDT by OKSooner ("Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life." - Coach John Wooden)
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To: Pan_Yan

I am on the side of the Whales, but I have met several of the crew on the Sea Shepherd and I can tell you, they are all arrogant jerks.

I would like to be placed on your ping list.... in hopes of being in on the happy talk after these drooling fools are finally sunk.


34 posted on 07/30/2010 6:10:20 PM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012....)
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To: OKSooner

To be fair, Bethune was all for trying to board the Japanese ship and Watson was not on the same ship where this was being planned. However, you are correct about him being a manipulator and showman. He has raised millions of dollars and gotten international acclaim. He talked Discovery into this show. But he is by no means a commander. He repeatedly shows that he is completely unable to make decisions when the heat is on.


35 posted on 07/30/2010 6:16:08 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan
"To be fair, Bethune was all for trying to board the Japanese ship..."

Yes, exactly - once it was suggested by that Hammarstadt character and all the other hippies started acting like it was a good idea. I think it was a setup that took Bethune's irrational propensity for fearlessness into account and appealed to his masculinity and his pride, what with it being his boat that was sunk.

It was a convenient way to get rid of him. Can't have anyone showing up "Admiral" Watson, y'know... :)

36 posted on 07/30/2010 6:23:06 PM PDT by OKSooner ("Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life." - Coach John Wooden)
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To: Pan_Yan

Please add me to the list!


37 posted on 07/30/2010 6:29:49 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot ( Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: Gator113; FortWorthPatriot

You’ve been added. Welcome aboard. I like whales, but I’m not against whaling. I look at whales as a natural resource that should be managed wisely much like deer, trees and oil.

Hippies, however, are not a natural resource. They are like black mold. They devalue anything they touch. Except black mold isn’t stupid enough to get itself killed.


38 posted on 07/30/2010 6:40:12 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle o Rum!

Argh! please add me to the list!

P-{>


39 posted on 07/30/2010 6:41:42 PM PDT by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: left that other site

Welcome aboard!


40 posted on 07/30/2010 6:44:24 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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