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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
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 Posted - 01/07/2005 : 08:33:22
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(I didn't want to distract the Tsunami thread from the charity aspects)
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=647317
KHAO LAK, Thailand (Reuters) - Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves. "I was surprised because the elephants had never cried before," mahout Dang Salangam said on Sunday on Khao Lak beach at the eight-elephant business offering rides to tourists.
The elephants started trumpeting -- in a way Dang, 36, and his wife Kulada, 24, said could only be described as crying -- at first light, about the time an earthquake measured at a magnitude of 9.0 cracked open the sea bed off Indonesia's Sumatra island.
The elephants soon calmed down. But they started wailing again about an hour later and this time they could not be comforted despite their mahouts' attempts at reassurance. "The elephants didn't believe the mahouts. They just kept running for the hill," said Wit Aniwat, 24, who takes the money from tourists and helps them on to the back of elephants from a sturdy wooden platform.
Those with tourists aboard headed for the jungle-clad hill behind the resort beach where at least 3,800 people, more than half of them foreigners, would soon be killed. The elephants that were not working broke their hefty chains.
"Then we saw the big wave coming and we started running," Wit said.
Around a dozen tourists were also running towards the hill from the Khao Lak Merlin Resort, one of a line of hotels strung along the 10 km (6-mile) beach especially popular with Scandinavians and Germans.
"The mahouts managed to turn the elephants to lift the tourists onto their backs," Kulada said.
She used her hands to describe how the huge beasts used their trunks to pluck the foreigners from the ground and deposit them on their backs. The elephants charged up the hill through the jungle, then stopped.
The tsunami drove up to 1 km (1,000 yards) inshore from the gently sloping beach which had been so safe for children it made Khao Lak an ideal place for a family holiday. But it stopped short of where the elephants stood.
On Sunday, the elephants were back at work giving rides to the tourists on whom the area depends.
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Lon the Fisherman has wooden legs, but real feet. |
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 08:37:59
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An elephant killed my brother.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2005 : 08:40:08
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A moose once bit my sister. But I like mooses all the same.
Think I'll go find some dirt on foxes now...
Lon the Fisherman has wooden legs, but real feet. |
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 08:48:09
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eye for an eye
tooth for a tooth
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2005 : 09:02:03
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(that's a good Nick Cave and the bad seeds song, but I'm not going to go any easier on you for it)
hmm, here's an incriminating photo of one cavorting with a member of a pungent, eye-watering, and digusting species:
And another of one cavorting with a lascivious inebriated member of an insane species:
I'm sure I'll find more soon. I just need a little more time as foxes are notoriously sly.
Lon the Fisherman has wooden legs, but real feet. |
Edited by - apl4eris on 01/07/2005 09:04:44 |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 09:10:04
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i got bit by an ostrich once
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 09:12:06
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apl, i know what were you doing last summer:
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1688 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2005 : 09:12:45
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haha, gotcha!
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2005 : 09:18:59
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I don't look anything like that! I'm only 31 and don't have wrinkles yet.
Lon the Fisherman has wooden legs, but real feet. |
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 09:22:07
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For a moment the scatwoman in that pic looked like Celine Dion. Poor elephant.
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Edited by - offerw on 01/07/2005 09:22:44 |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 09:26:27
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quote:
Originally posted by Monsieur
haha, gotcha!
I will show you fear in a handful of dust
Every creature poops. Even foxes.
But foxes don't save tourists from tsunamis, they just sit around and act like cute drunken lascivious reprobates.
They're like the Robert Downey Jr. of the animal kingdom.
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 05:45:21
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quote:
Originally posted by apl4eris
quote:
Originally posted by Monsieur
haha, gotcha!
I will show you fear in a handful of dust
Every creature poops. Even foxes.
But foxes don't save tourists from tsunamis, they just sit around and act like cute drunken lascivious reprobates.
They're like the Robert Downey Jr. of the animal kingdom.
Lon the Fisherman has wooden legs, but real feet.
Wasn't Randolph Carter saved by a bunch of foxes who took him to the moon in one of those insane Lovecraft's tales?
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The King Of Karaoke
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 12:27:32
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If we all remember what happened to those dolphins that saved the swimmers lives two months ago, we should be very worried for these elephants lives.
As far as Celine Dion goes, I think "elephant poop lady" would be a more suitable career for her.
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Edited by - The King Of Karaoke on 01/08/2005 13:35:00 |
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 12:33:15
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Elephant poop lady has her thumb disturbingly angled towards the poop.
Her face shows disgust, that thumb shows she's loving it.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
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Posted - 01/08/2005 : 13:26:55
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That photo doesn´t look real.
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