LadyIrish...An Explanation

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Registered: 04-19-2004
LadyIrish...An Explanation
Sun, 05-30-2004 - 2:12pm
Hi ! I posted this a little over a month ago, so I had to really work to dig it up! here is the original post -

discussion title: Origin of Barking Shark...

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from: barkingshark

date: Apr-19 2:07 pm

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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.