World's Tallest Man Saves Dolphins

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6178659.stm

I don't really know what to say.

― stevie (stevie2), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

is there a babelfish plug-in that translates from english to dolphin click?

― stevie (stevie2), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

the tall guy looks so thrilled in that photo

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

How would one feel after receiving the phone call: "Uh, so we need you to stick your insanely long arm down into a dolphin's stomach and retrieve some plastic bits"?

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

AMAZING!
I really love the use of kit-logic. "Shit, we can't reach with instruments - LET'S GET A REALLY TALL GUY TO JUST PUT HIS ARM IN THERE"

I have those kinds of plans ALL THE TIME, and everyone just laughs.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

How would one feel after receiving the phone call: "Uh, so we need you to stick your insanely long arm down into a dolphin's stomach and retrieve some plastic bits"?

i wonder if they really needed someone with a 1.05m arm, or did the doctors just didn't want to do it themselves and picked on him because he's tall.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Did they hold him by the shoes though?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42351000/jpg/_42351709_arm2.jpg

If I were that dolphin, I'd be shitting my pants: "do not come at me with that thing! I do not want to be gagged by your enormous arm!"

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/asia_pac_enl_1166089542/img/1.jpg

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't believe he's not even 8 ft tall this is a huge disappointment

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

he's barely taller than yao ming

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

for reals. he wins on style points I think. quite dapper.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

How's the weather up there solid tall dude?

― Wench (jim wentworth), Friday, 15 December 2006 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: This headline vs. the one about the boy kicking the hawk in the face to save his dog

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 15 December 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Too bad he couldn't save the other dolphins from extinction with the power of his Go Go Gadget arms.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 15 December 2006 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah no shit.

when i first read this headline i seriously pictured tall guy reaching into some river and grabbing the last pair of living white dolphins by the tails right as they were about to get munched by an alligator or something, thus allowing a species thought to be extinct to continue on.

― grady (grady), Friday, 15 December 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

HI READ BLOGS AND NOISE BOARDS AND BOING BOING AND ANY SITE THAT AGGREGATES NEWS EVER

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, i was working today.

― grady (grady), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

RETRIEVAL A+++ WOULD ASK TO RETRIEVE PLASTIC AGAIN

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 15 December 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

HI READ BLOGS AND NOISE BOARDS AND BOING BOING AND ANY SITE THAT AGGREGATES NEWS EVER

You don't HAVE to be here, you know.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 December 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, this is the site that I read that aggregates news. Ever.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 15 December 2006 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM. Why would we bother with the rest of the internet?

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Friday, 15 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDE KINDA HAS THE DARINELLE HAIRCUT GOIN ON

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

A bit Leonard Nimoy as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't know what this guy was going to look like but "animated character" was not high on the expectation list.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, he looks kinda like the John Lennon on that 70s Beatles cartoon.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 15 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cojoweb.com/McCrary%20Twins.jpg

You call that a feat? The McCracy Twins from the late 70s once rescued coalminers from a deep well by both sitting in the mouth of the well, then being tugged out of the well in order to create a vacuum that sucked the coalminers out of the well like air-popped popcorn. And they never got the credibility. Fuck humanity.

― Fuck You I'm The Rock Scholar (LimpBizkit01), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

From this guy's Wikipedia entry:

(The story is similar to that of American basketball player Clifford Ray, who was asked to use his long arms to save a California dolphin in 1978.)

USA NMUBER ONE!!!

― 31g (31g), Sunday, 17 December 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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