Too bad, I liked his enthusiastic approach to nature television.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
I'm speechless. I liked him a lot.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Wow. That's just so...unexpected that I halfway didn't believe it at first - I thought it had to be some bizarre rumor or prank.
I liked him a lot too. And this:
quote: It is believed his American-born wife Terri is trekking on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania and is yet to be told of her husband's death.
is so sad. I really hope someone reaches her soon so she doesn't find out from some random headline. Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
You know, to put it quite bluntly, that really sucks. He was awesome. Actually, he still is awesome. I'm pretty bummed about this.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Of all the things that could have killed him, a harmless stingray did him in? Freaky.
He was pretty endearing in his own special way, I have to admit. It's so sad for his wife and little kid--she won't even find out until she gets back from Tasmania, according to that article. That would be awful.
The article linked to a really nice obituary. Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
For what it's worth, CNN reports his family has been notified.
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
Wow. He was one of those guys you were always saying something like this would happen to, but never actually thought it would.
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
My entire family used to watch his show before switching channels to watch Iron Chef, Sunday nights. Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Poor guy, and his poor family.
I think he'd have been an awesome dad if had time to impart his enthusiasm and zest for life on his son.
We can say though, that he lived life to the fullest, and he was out there chasing his dreams all around the world. Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Wow, this is the crappiest news ever. I cannot believe this. I loved Steve Irwin. Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
This is really weird - it does seem so unbelievable.
The news here is saying that the police have contacted his wife.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
That obit is nice.
I liked him, too. Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
I know it doesn't make up for anything, but at least he died while doing what he loved to do. I liked the way his enthusiasm could interest you in whatever subject he was talking about.
I shall miss his presence. Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
He was a neverending fountain of cheer, and he will be sorely missed.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but the first thing I thought is, "I hope at least he died wrastling with a crock or something." Pretty close.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
I'm gonna miss that man.
How many people can say they immortalized a phrase? Irwin did it at least twice. If I hear "crocodile hunter" or "Croikey!" I know who I think of.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I feel so bad for his kids.
And sorry that he didn't stop the extreme risk-taking behaviors and have a lot more time with them.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
I'm sorry, but for all the "I can't believe this happened" responses on this thread, I just gotta say my first reaction was: "Well we all knew this was gonna happen!"
The guy took risks. He obviously worked very hard both to educate the world about various creatures and habitats, and also to help preserve those creatures and habitats. Those are valuable endeavors. But for all the "don't do this at home" kind of stunts he pulled, you just knew one of them was going to get him.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Well KQ, any way you slice it, his eventuall death was going to be called ironic. If he had died a natural death, then people would have commented on it the same way they'll blame him for dying doing what made him special. Its pretty sad, but its the cookie he chose to crumble for himself.
Edit: and not that I was dying to be the first to hint that he had it coming, because nobody has it coming no matter what, in my opinion.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:I'm sorry, but for all the "I can't believe this happened" responses on this thread, I just gotta say my first reaction was: "Well we all knew this was gonna happen!"
Death by stingray is a freak accident, whether you are Steve Irwin or Just Some Guy. It's nearly impossible to get killed by a stingray.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
quote:Originally posted by Glenn Arnold: I'm sorry, but for all the "I can't believe this happened" responses on this thread, I just gotta say my first reaction was: "Well we all knew this was gonna happen!"
The guy took risks. He obviously worked very hard both to educate the world about various creatures and habitats, and also to help preserve those creatures and habitats. Those are valuable endeavors. But for all the "don't do this at home" kind of stunts he pulled, you just knew one of them was going to get him.
My thoughts exactly. I wish it hadn't happened, but I'm hardly surprised.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
A drink for the man who did the impossible! Dying while doing something you love, that's gotta count for something. And no, I'm not being sarcastic about this. Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
So it's not the general category of freak accident that's surprising, but the specific category of freak accident?
Just Some Guy doesn't go around pulling crocodiles' tails. For that matter, Irwin was so used to pulling crocodile tails that it was pretty safe.. for him. But in addition to working with crocs and any other dangerous animal that may have become routine for him, he also went out of his way to deal with increasingly exotic and dangerous species.
As far as how dangerous stingrays are, I remember reading an article in National Geographic about fishing for Pirhannas in South America. The local fishermen waded around in the water with the pirhannas, which didn't really scare them. What scared them was the fresh water stingrays.
From reading up a little from the net, it sounds like stingrays have a real capacity for causing damage. The fact that he got hit in the chest rather than the leg is probably all it took to kill him.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I've swum in the ocean with stingrays, petted them, and fed them. The biggest danger is if you acidentally step on one, because they blend with the ground, and get stung--in the leg. A barb going into someone's chest (and heart, apparently) is pretty dang unheard of.
(Now, I'd never encountered freshwater stingrays; I don't know if they're more dangerous or something.)
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
One of the articles at Yahoo News said Steve is only the third known stingray fatality in Australia.
I plan on donating to his wildlife fund at Wildlife Warriors once the traffic dies down and I can load the page.
RIP, Steveo.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
His death is the third ever stingray death in Australia.
I'd say that ranks as a freak accident.
(And by that token, swimming with sting rays is a lot less extreme risk-taking then say, driving a car down a freeway.)
{Edit - yeah, or what Avidreader said. Also, I don't know if there is any difference between salt or freshwater stingrays - but this was in the ocean, so would have been saltwater.)
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I feel so bad for his kids.
And sorry that he didn't stop the extreme risk-taking behaviors and have a lot more time with them.
Thats pretty obtuse of you to say, Steve died filming a side project that he was doing WITH his daughter:
"This morning Steve decided to shoot a couple of segments for a new TV show that he's doing with his daughter Bindi, and with the cameramen went out onto the reef ... to film a segment on stingrays."
Doing a documentary on reefs is HARDLY one of his more life threatening endevours. Reading that he was "Gored to death" by a sting ray was just so impossible to me I had to read the specifics before I would believe it.
The chances of that sting ray rearing its sting at that moment and into that part of Steve is just very unlucky, how unlucky? I would say the chances are akin to a wasp flying up your nose, crawling its way up to your brain and chewing on brain tissue until your dead.
Reading this news really makes me sad, I will probably be thinking about Steve all day, but I'd like to think he is probably with his dad, and they both think it halarious that he went out that way. Honestly think about Steve telling you how he died, can you see him saying, "I can't believe I let that bloke get me like that, it just shows you that when you are with animals, they will try to defend themselves and you need to give them the distance and respect they deserve!"
Goodbye Steve, thanks for the good memories, and for bringing the world of animals to a new generation.
[ September 04, 2006, 02:06 PM: Message edited by: BlackBlade ]
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Well Said, BlackBlade.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Coud not have said it better, Blackblade. Bravo, bravo.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Steve was a loon, in an amusing sort of way.
I remember one New Years' we were looking for something on TV to watch, and that was the only thing on. Watching him poke crocodiles with his bare hands and all, I remember joking "this is the type of guy that will hunt for great white sharks in the middle of the ocean, aboard a 4' aluminum dingy with a lump of meat the size of his leg."
Funny enough, two shows later in to the marathon, he did just that.
What's a bigger shame is that apparently the only footage the media can come up with is watching him dance his newborn child in front of a 10' crocodile. Give the guy some respect, will ya?
Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :
This might be freaky, but it was Steve Irwin who was chattering in the background the last time I saw my grandmother in the nursing home before she died. He's always been associated with really awful, depressing memories for me; several other lonely folks in the home were staring blankly has he yelled about crocodiles on TV. It was so surreal; I haven't been able to watch or listen to him since that day.
I'm sad for his family but this bizarre death somehow fits with my already distorted impressions of him.
Posted by Samarkand (Member # 8379) on :
I've personally swum over wild stingrays, and believe me, cautious as I am, the possibility of one somehow managing to sting me in the chest and THROUGH the heart - I don't know if such an idea as ever ocurred to anyone before. Except maybe someone giving a speech on how harmless they are and being like, "Well, I suppose if one somehow managed to get you directly in the heart you might die, but that's never gonna happen."
And as to being more afraid of the stingrays, that may have been because getting stung results in a sincere, if temporary, desire for death. It HURTS. A little one got me on the foot on the Gulf Coast, and yowza.
Anyway, Steve Irwin did take a lot of risks, but the manner of death is pretty bizarre. I'll miss seeing him around, he loved life so much.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
I just saw him yesterday on TV for a Subway commercial so I was thinking about him.
Wonder if they will pull his ads now?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I may be obtuse.
But I don't hang out with sting rays.
I liked Steve Irwin.
But I couldn't watch him because every time he got near an animal, I would start thinking of his little kids and how bad it would be if he died.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Everything entails risks. Heck, many of his activities, given his experience and training, are likely less risky than some of the activities you engage in (such as driving or being driven anywhere). This almost certainly was, given the small number of incidents among the vast numbers of people who dive around reefs.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Okay, I'll just leave this thread now.
You all have fun.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
Rest in peace, Steve.
--j_k edited this post because his point became irrelevent
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
The irreverent headlines make me a little twitchy - 'Hunter Killed by Fish' (in manner of 'Man Bites Dog'). It sounds funny, but it's not.
Very sad. Poor kids.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Farewell to one of the more entertaining whackjobs in recent memory. He'll be missed Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
kq, I know you said you left, but just in case you're still reading, I wonder - do you think it's wrong of my husband to go to work every day? He's in two of the most dangerous professions there are - firefighting and construction.
I absolutely accept the fact that he may one day die doing his job. I don't want him to quit doing it, though, because it's who he is. Steve Irwin was born to do what he did. He was raised by a father who did the same thing and the man had an enormous passion for wildlife and for letting the public see a different side of dangerous animals. For him to stop doing that just because he had a child would be for him to stop being who he was. I would rather my children have a father who loves them, but also loves his work and is happy with himself because I think that will make him a better father. Steve Irwin would have been a miserable man if he were, say, a banker sitting in an office all day. And miserable men trapped in jobs they hate don't make the best fathers, I don't think.
Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
I'm going to miss Steve a lot, I grew up watching his specials on the Discovery Channel. He's probably responsible for most of my feelings towards animal conservation. Not to mention the fact that he was so amazingly cool.
He's wrestling crocodiles in heaven now.
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Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
I was just catching up on this thread and was about to respond to ketchupqueen when I read Belle's post, and since she summed up my thoughts nicely (and has more credibility than I do, as I don't have a firefighter husband who, if memory serves me, was trained in crawling through narrow passages to find survivors) I'll leave it at mostly that.
I'm pretty sure his wife Terri knew what their life would be like when she married him, and he was working on a segment for a new show with his daughter; from all reports it sounds like he spent quite a lot of time with his family, who are just as passionate about animals and conservation as he was.
Posted by Palliard (Member # 8109) on :
Steve Irwin died doing what he loved to do, in a relatively quick and painless fashion. That's nowhere near as good as not dying, but... you don't usually get a choice.
I will remember him for the enthusiasm he brought to his subject of study. The Crododile Hunter made a lot of otherwise unsavory beasties very cool.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Belle, it's interesting that you should say that; earlier today when I read KQ's post I thought the same thing, about Wes in particular.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
I had no idea he was so well known outside of Australia. It nearly brought us to a national stand-still yesterday.
A lot of Australians had a bit of 'cultural cringe' about Steve, if you didn't get it, you'd think he was almost a caricature of an Australian. In reality, he was the quintessential Aussie - what we all are, just under the surface, no matter how sophisticated we like to pretend we are.
His death didn't happen because he lived a dangerous life. Stingrays aren't dangerous. Over four times as many people a year die from vending machines than have ever died from Stingrays.
He'll be missed.
Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
I have also sawm with stingrays and the thought of the barb plunging into my heart also never crossed my mind. CNN says the chances of that happening is "one-in-a-million".
That is so sad, though. But he did live a full, exuberant life and that can't be said for many (especially those only as young as 44).
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
A terrible loss for conservation. I remember when I first saw the Crocodile Hunter on TV, I was amazed that someone was championing the cause of the non-cuddly animals as passionately as he was. His methods were dangerous, but that was his point - to get in close to the animals, show you the beauty of the sorts of creatures most folks would avoid. It's also worth remembering that his methods were more dangerous for him, but safer for the animals. It's easy to think he's just a nutjob for jumping on the back of a croc in a mesh net to capture it, but it's a lot safer than a steel trap or drugs for the croc and that is what mattered to him.
Something caught my interest yesterday - they were replaying a few of the retrospective shows on Steve yesterday on Animal Planet. There was another time when he was out filming on his boat, when a call came out that some divers were swept away from their boat and lost. He didn't hear about much in the way of a rescue operation going on, so he stopped filming and started one of his own. He found one of the lost divers, who had been battered by 10 foot waves, and rescued him. Saved his life. That's what I think Steve was about, saving life. Whether it's a croc, a wallaby, a snake or a person.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Well said Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Very. I liked the world a bit better with Steve Irwin in it.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Yeah, my first thought wasn't a very flattering one. I thought he'd taken too many risks for too long and it was a miracle he hadn't been killed before.
Still, I'm not happy he's dead. I feel really bad for his kids and wife.
Pix
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Anyone who works with wild animals is taking more risks than *I* would. But is that even what happened? I may watch Larry King tonight, as John Stainton will be on, but the description I see is more that he just swam over and startled a ray that nailed him with a 'one-in-a-million' shot with it's tail. If he doesn't get jabbed in the chest, we see this on his show later, with him talking about how this was nature's way, he surprised it and it did the only thing it could to make sure he went away.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
It's sort of like a Nascar driver dying trying to find a parking space at the mall. Or an infantryman with several tours in Iraq coming home to get hit by a stray bullet while walking down the street. Or a lion tamer dying because he tripped over his housecat and broke his neck.
With all the high risk activity he'd engaged in and survived, it's just astounding that it was a stingray that killed him.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
The cameras were actually rolling when it happened, so the events with the stingray were filmed, although the cameraman shut down when Steve lost consciousness. Here's an article (don't worry, no video; Discovery hasn't decided yet if they're going to release that footage, and I hope they won't), which states that the police have decided that Steve wasn't provoking or threatening the ray when he got hit.
Steve yanked the barb out of his chest before going unconscious, and they think the damage that caused may have been what killed him. However, this article, which is a little more recent than the first one I linked, says there's some ambivalence as to whether leaving the barb in wouldn't have been just as damaging, since his heart tissue would have been beating against the barb's serrated edge.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
I just found out how big he was in the US. I thought, okay, lets see if it's made it to Hatrack of Ornery.
I just found out how big he was in the US.
Woah.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
A CNN story states that they might air the footage of his death because that's what he would have wanted. He's quoted as saying that he insisted that his cameramen keep filming no matter what; if he's getting mauled by a crocodile, make sure every second of it was on tape. He'd stated that if it didn't get his death on tape it would have made him "sad".
I can understand why they would air it. I accept its airing because it was his final wish, but I certainly am not going to watch it.
I've seen pictures of what a stingray barb looks like. Basically, it's a 20" long serrated dagger that's poisonous. I'm amazed this doesn't happen more often with a weapon like that.
When he got hit by it, he was gone either way: either an inch wide hole in his chest through to his heart, or his heart bursting due to neurotoxins and the barb itself. Anywhere else on the body and he might have lived. I've heard stories of people taking half-inch wide rebar, 6" long nails or bullets to the brain and surviving; this was a polar opposite.
He may have looked like a loon, but that was his nature. He knew what he was doing every time, and knew the threshhold of safety, but nature is unpredictable that way. Nobody could have ever imagined he went out the way he did.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Anywhere else in his body and he would have lived. Stingrays can give nasty wounds, but I read that they have only caused 17 fatalities in recorded history, and only 3 in Australia.
He stood a greater chance of getting struck by lightning.
The randomness of his death just boggles my mind.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Proximity of the sting to his heart was certainly a factor. I think he was a goner either way. Something that is moderately poisonous is MUCH worse if it is dispersed right where your heart it. I watched on CNN as a man described the pain of a stingrays sting. He was stung on the hand and said he would have rather had somebody smash his hand with a hammer then be stung. Its a real possibility that Steve was stung, pulled it out and passed out from the pain. Though he probably would passed out from blood lose or heart stoppage just as easily.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
They did say he went in to cardiac arrest as soon as he himself pulled the barb out.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Everything I read also said that the barb went into his heart, not just near it.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I read about this this morning. I really liked Steve Irwin- such a character. He may have died in an unlikely way, but he died in mid doing.
What The Tick said.
Posted by Pelegius (Member # 7868) on :
Seldom can it be said that a great man has truely passed, but this is one of those times.
Mr Irwin was a showman, but his sincerity in his love for animals and nature was real, and his showmanship helped spread it to the world.
From the age nine to the age of twelve, I wanted to be him, and I still admire him.
He was doubtless more intellegent than often portrayed, but it was not for his intellegence that he will be remembered, but for the simplicity and sincerity of his message.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Teshi: I read about this this morning. I really liked Steve Irwin- such a character. He may have died in an unlikely way, but he died in mid doing.
Exactly, Teshi. I'm glad, if he had to die, that he did so doing something that he loved. Better this than to have been in a car accident, or to have had an aneurysm or something.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pelegius: Seldom can it be said that a great man has truely passed, but this is one of those times.
Mr Irwin was a showman, but his sincerity in his love for animals and nature was real, and his showmanship helped spread it to the world.
From the age nine to the age of twelve, I wanted to be him, and I still admire him.
He was doubtless more intellegent than often portrayed, but it was not for his intellegence that he will be remembered, but for the simplicity and sincerity of his message.
Amen Pel! And its nice to be able to agree with you on something. Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
In other news, the last known person to die with a stingray barb in his chest was Odysseus. Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
I thought the commercial he did for the movie, Dr. Doolittle 2, was hilarious, where he is preparing to do something with a croc, and Dr. Doolittle understands the croc to be saying he is going to get Steve by surprise and grab his arm. Dr. Doolittle tries to warn Irwin, but he is just shushed up. Next thing you hear, as the camera is focused on Dr. Doolittle, is Irwin yelling "Krikey!" That commercial was better than Steve Irwin's whole movie.
I liked Irwin. His joyously cheerful, over-the-top enthusiasm for the uncuddly, unlovely, often dangerous animals in nature, was enormously entertaining, even while making you feel slightly aghast. Many others began trying to imitate him, he was so successful. How can the world be the same, as bright or as beautiful, without him?
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
quote:Originally posted by Carrie: In other news, the last known person to die with a stingray barb in his chest was Odysseus.
I think Jack Hanna put it well when he said something to the effect of "Steve Irwin being killed by a stingray is the equivalent of my getting killed by a poodle."
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
quote: I thought the commercial he did for the movie, Dr. Doolittle 2, was hilarious...
I remember that! Dr. Doolittle hears the croc saying "Steve doesn't know that I know he's there, but when he makes a grab for me I'm gonna whip round and bite his arm off." And then a minute later from offscreen, "Aw, Croikey, me arm!!" Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I picture the hand of God reaching down into the ocean and swiftly, gently picking up the soul of Steve Irwin, turning to all of us in the audience, and in a flawless Australian accent, say, "Croikey, isn't he beautiful."
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Nice, Dan Raven.
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
I watched his FedEx commercial from a few years ago (during the Super Bowl I think) when it wound up on YouTube.
If someone made it today, they'd be beat down for bad taste. As it was, I think it highlights that he knew full well that the unforseeable could happen and it would be his end. Even he could joke about it.
Also, I'll second Pel's sentiment above. It fairly well matches my own.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: I picture the hand of God reaching down into the ocean and swiftly, gently picking up the soul of Steve Irwin, turning to all of us in the audience, and in a flawless Australian accent, say, "Croikey, isn't he beautiful."
That made me grin sheepishly at my desk for a good two minutes. Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Hey Dan_raven, that was beautiful. I got goosebumps and a little glossy eyed. Great image. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: I picture the hand of God reaching down into the ocean and swiftly, gently picking up the soul of Steve Irwin, turning to all of us in the audience, and in a flawless Australian accent, say, "Croikey, isn't he beautiful."
That made me grin sheepishly at my desk for a good two minutes.
Me too. Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
*sniff*
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
It's been a year - Wow...
Posted by Nathan2006 (Member # 9387) on :
Yeah, I know. It's kind of surreal, for me. And, when you think about how the fifth-anniversery of the twin-towers attack is in just a week, it's even more surreal. Wow.
Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
Or sixth year, rather.
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
Wow. A year. It still pains me to see reruns of his show on TV, because his passion and enthusiasm always impressed me the most, and to know that its gone...wow...
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
sixth?
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
Sixth. 2002 1st, 2003 2nd, 2004 3rd, 2005 4th, 2006 5th, 2007 6th. Sixth.
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
BB: Nathan2006 mentioned in his post that it was the fifth anniversary of the twin towers attack, which is incorrect - as they happened in 2001 - and Resh was just correcting him.
-E.
edit: shoot... I was beaten to the punch by a white whale... guess I'm gonna have to sharpen my harpoon Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
no eduardo you still won, because you mentioned what he meant by sixth, aka the twin towers since I had not read that far up.
Posted by Nathan2006 (Member # 9387) on :
The sad thing is, I really did count it out on my fingers.
I feel sorry for the person who marries me, come anniversary time.
"No, but it feels like five years, Sweetie. You look so young... And thin."
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
Darn, beaten by disqualification. I guess I just assumed that people could differentiate between the time the two towers fell and the death of Steve Irwin.
And eduardo, harpoons have no effect on me. Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
It's been two years... Double wow.
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I guess I just assumed that people could differentiate between the time the two towers fell and the death of Steve Irwin.