I Love this Pic of him with a Beautiful Kitty:
Posted on 01/21/2007 9:31:51 AM PST by mom4kittys
I hope she's lying. (The good kind of lie - to throw people off the track.)
Only she knows for sure, but somehow listening to her talk about it, I don't think she was lying. She has her two children to think about, and their son is only still a toddler. Bindi is going on nine and she is a remarkably mature kid for her age. But she is still only a kid. On Larry King, she said she won't watch her dad's last show (the one being aired tonight) until she's ready. She's an amazing eight-year-old. She isn't a beauty, but she is something much more. She's very much her father's daughter.
You've made snarky comments about the Irwins before on this forum.
It was the show he was filming when he died--it is not the video of his actual death, which has been destroyed according to Terri Irwin.
Steve Irwin made hundreds of television shows--pray, enlighten us why showing this particular episode is "tasteless". I'm pretty sure you cannot.
Green doesn't suit you very well.
It was the children who were on my mind, too. Steve always said to keep filming if he were attacked. Bindi knows that.
Even though Steve's partner John said, after seeing it, that he couldn't watch it again and doesn't want anyone else to see it, the actual cameraman said it stops before anything "gruesome" can be seen, because he dropped the camera to go help Steve.
According to those early accounts, it only shows Steve pulling the barb out and then losing consciousness. To the people who loved him and were close to him, that's horrendous. In the larger scheme of things, it might have been something instructional about sting ray attacks, such as what not to do.
I'm with Bindi, though, as far as her not wanting to see this last special. He had gone off to film the sting ray segment for *her* show, so that might be part of her thinking. I have a video my dad made, narrating places he liked to go, in the weeks before he died suddenly and I have never been able to watch it in 18 years, yet my mom got great comfort looking at it over and over.
To each, his or her own.
To bad you didn't get to see that Larry King show this week. You would have enjoyed it, and it would have spoken to many of the concerns you mentioned here.
Terri said that every morning at breakfast, she and her children watch some of Steve's old tapes from his earlier shows. I'm sure it's her way of keeping their dad alive for the kids, especially their little boy [whom Steve called Bob and Terri calls Robert :) ]. She said that it's hard for her to watch the new special too, because that's the way she last saw her husband. But the older tapes are fun for them to watch together as a family.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/14/lkl.01.html
Here is the transcript from the Larry King Live show featuring Terri & Bindi Irwin.
Did you watch the 30 minute show after Ocean's Dealiest? It was a fun tribute to Steve. Very funny when the gorilla was smooching on Steve!
I Love this Pic of him with a Beautiful Kitty:
I'm off to bed now, but I just have to say that my heart has been broken all over again. Steve had so much more to learn and share with us, it's just such a loss. He was such a rare talent - yet in such a humble man.
Godspeed.
Thanks for that update. I really don't know what is on TV. I hardly watch it.
I saw a comment from Steve Irwin's father that firmly said he was going to have that tape destroyed too.
Such a conceit. No, woman, you apparently have not got a "healthy realism" about the place of animals in the universe. If you were able to step out a couple of light years, let alone a few billion, you would not even be able to see Earth without a telescope.
Earth is one small planet revolving around one ordinary star in a galaxy of billions of stars. And our Milky Way is but one ordinary galaxy in a universe of uncounted billions of galaxies. You don't have a clue about the place any living thing on this planet has in the universe.
From your statement, I assume you have a religious belief about the matter, but that is not the same thing as empirical knowledge.
Thank you for the headsup, which I spotted just in time to watch. I'm grateful to Discovery Channel for simulcasting, since I don't have Animal Planet on my cable lineup.
Sandwiched between 2 airings of Ocean's Deadliest was an interview segment originally aired on 20 June of last year in which all the Irwins and their closest friends participated. Steve gave deeply personal statements, not holding much back, really. I cherish the memories.
I know that however "tame" an animal might seem, many animals can also kill. See Siegfried and Roy...
I have a friend who make films about the ocean and ocean animals. My healthy realism reflects her view as well, and those of the people she works with.
Animals can kill, but the most wanton killer on the planet walks on two legs and is supposedly civilized.
Pu-leeze. That is ridiculous, IMO.
Ridiculous? What other species on the planet kills it's own kind in the millions?
Let me know when an animal cures a disease or puts a man on the moon.
You use a common technique around here: switch the subject when you can't refute the original point. Sorry. Not interested in your new line of argument.
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