webcast?

["Japhy" <japhy at mail_utexas.edu>]

dear all,
    whatever happened to thewebcast that was supposed to happen last night?
did that ever go through?
      -tc fromaustin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfred B Johnson" <hoopyfrood at juno_com>
To: <Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: Linford is not a Shark


> Who asked about sharks?
>
> One of my Eng 103 students last semester turned in an actually very
> interesting paper on myths about shark attacks.  So these are some things
> I learned about sharks.
>
> -Linford is not a shark.
> -Karin is not a shark.
> -Jack may or may not be a shark.
> -Sharks don't actually like to eat people.  We're too scrawny to be a
> good food source for them.  They prefer, like, roly-poly walruses and
> seals.  What's more, most of the time when the get their nibblers on a
> human, they spit 'im out in disgust-i-pation.  That's why we get one-bite
> shark attacks.
> -The people in most danger of gettin' shark-bit are surfers paddling out
> on their boards, b/c silly sharks see the paddle-action and think: "Seal.
>  Mmmm."  Then they spit the guy out after one good bite.
> -Three shark attacks rapidly in the same area is really rare.
> -And then there's all this stuff about how they're being hunted out
> internationally, often having their fins cut off and then left to die
> (for shark-fin soup).  But they're a really important predator in the
> ocean eco-system, so we'd be screwed if we extinctified them.
> -So if you're alone with a shark in the water 1) do not try to amuse him
> with your funny, funny walrus impression or your funny, funny seal "arp
> arp" sound; 2) thank him for his hard work in the ocean eco-system; 3) do
> not cut his fins off to make soup.
> -Willow would bark at a shark if it got loose in the house.
>
> That is all.
>
> Fred
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• Linford is not a Shark
• From: Alfred B Johnson <hoopyfrood at juno_com>

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