| Feb-24-15 | | Whitehat1963: Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing. |
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| Feb-24-15 | | Whitehat1963: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. 'Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent, huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like 'ol squares in battle like uh, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark goes to the nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, Bosun's Mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. |
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| Feb-24-15 | | Whitehat1963: Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity. |
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Feb-25-15
 | | OhioChessFan: Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him. |
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| Jul-07-15 | | RookFile: The chief thinks we're going to need a bigger boat. |
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| Oct-26-21 | | RookFile: Adieu and a adieu to ye fair spanish ladies. |
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Feb-25-25
 | | offramp: However, in Europe the name is <not> pronounced <QUINT>. Walloons say the name as, <KIN>. Dutch people say <CHCHvinn>. Yeah, try that. Tomorrow I am holding a <Jaws Marathon>, <JAWS I, II, III & IV>. I'll listen out for the name <Chchchvvinnnn'(t)>. |
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Feb-25-25
 | | WannaBe: <offramp> Are you going to follow that with Sharknado movies? |
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Feb-27-25
| | offramp: Halfway through <Jaws IV> I had some kind of breakdown. Next time I'll try the Sharknado night. |
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| Feb-27-25 | | stone free or die: Sharks on planes!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-... |
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Feb-27-25
| | offramp: I'm going to have a <User: whiteshark - nado> nite!! |
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| Feb-28-25 | | stone free or die: The Mighty Quin(t):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXD... |
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