Origin of Barking Shark...

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Registered: 04-19-2004
Origin of Barking Shark...
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Mon, 04-19-2004 - 2:07pm
Okay, this is for all of my dear cyber-buddies that are wondering what, precisely, am I ON that makes me come up with these genuinely foolish monikers...(Efferor XR, 75mg.)

Okay, the REAL reason is, I am a sharkophile, if there is such a word. I am very into animals and my main interests over the past 27 years or so were sharks (my first love) and horses (much easier to deal with). I have done alot of research on sharks, have been diving with them, touched them, played with a baby sand shark, and would be very inclined to take one of those trips to South Africa where they have those shark tours where the guide 'tickles' the great whites on the nose when they surface next to the boat. I can say I'd volunteer a request to 'tickle' a shark snout also.

So, moving on...I love shark movies and have watched them all, good and bad. There is a made for TV movie with B-list actors called Shark Attack. The actors are horrible and the sharks are almost as bad, but in Shark Attack II, there is a scene where the sharks are in a frenzy and making barking noises.

Sharks don't have vocal cords.

I was incapacitated with laughter and Kyle actually coined the phrase 'bark like a shark'.

The visual of a barking shark, especially a great white with a terrier-like yap is extremely funny to me, hence Barking Shark. And there are certain personality traits of mine that are similar to a shark (we won't mention my ability to be a mindless eating machine.)

If anyone has seen the last one in the JAWS series, Jaws 4: The Revenge - when it breaches out of the water at the end and Ellen Brody is about to spear it with the boat, it ROARS AT HER. I was DYING, and also surprised that they displayed this behavior. I believe the fact that whites breach like killer whales was not common knowledge at that point in the study of their behavior, so it could have been a fluke...But the head shake and the roar were to much !

So there you have it.

Amy, the big DORK.

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Registered: 01-07-2004
Mon, 04-19-2004 - 2:10pm
will you shut the barking up....gonna call the pound

:)

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Registered: 04-10-2004
Mon, 04-19-2004 - 2:21pm
Wow, share some of your shark info with my son and you will be his newest hero. As much as I love the discovery channel, I can only watch shark week so many times before I want to pull my hair out.
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Registered: 06-13-2003
Mon, 04-19-2004 - 2:26pm
who let the shark out? who who who!!!
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Registered: 04-14-2004
Mon, 04-19-2004 - 3:37pm
sharks and horses were my two big obsessions, as well. and the coelacanth. did you read the story of Eugenie Clark when you were little? It was called The Shark Lady. I wanted to be her so bad!

thanks for the explanation. it was driving me nuts. i looked it up on the net, and there is a bar named the Barking Shark and also in the movie, Tomb Raider II, a shark whines and wiggles, but doesnt bark. I had to know what the heck you meant!

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Registered: 04-19-2004
Mon, 04-19-2004 - 8:13pm
Karrie !

What do you get when you cross a deer with a pickle ???

A Dill Doe.

BARKBARKBARKBARKBARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Registered: 04-19-2004
Mon, 04-19-2004 - 8:54pm
Oh, I never miss shark week. I was obsessed with Jacques Cousteau as a child and I was the only four year old in the library that was taking home picture books about sharks, not scared of them in the least. I drew them, had shark shirts, wanted to BE a shark, went to the Boston Aquarium 4,000 times and at one point considered marine biology for college, and wanted a shark tattoo.

Obsess much ?

But now it has taken a more expensive route - horses. Warmbloods - big expensive silly things that make you grind your teeth. I do love Appaloosa and Paints, and would love to have a draft horse one day just to fool around on, no serious riding.

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Registered: 04-19-2004
Mon, 04-19-2004 - 8:54pm
Too funny !!! LOL
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Mon, 04-19-2004 - 10:11pm
No, I never read the story... but wasn't a coelacanth last seen in the 30's ? They are OOOOOOLLLDDDDDDDDDDDD....Prehistoric fish are very cool. I am holding out hope that a megalodon is seen somewhere (far away from me, please - that would scare me)...

Horses are much nicer (sometimes) to deal with unless you sre talking about a 3 year old Perch/T-Bred Warmblood who is WAAAAY too big for her britches. When she's only three and 17.2 hands, you KNOW she's going to be a handful.

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Registered: 01-07-2004
Tue, 04-20-2004 - 9:01am
GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN

horrid horrid

you need a padded room for that one....and i think i see the men in the white coats


dill doe....HORRID

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Registered: 01-04-2004
Tue, 04-20-2004 - 10:23am
Amy, you'd love where I live. There's a horse farm behind us and we can see the horses from my kitchen. The only downside is when the breeze is blowing in our direction on a hot summer day!

~~Linda

~~Linda

 

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