Lieutenant Robert Greene, the officer in charge of the M-7 series of mine-clearing dolphins.

M-7 series? When did we start building dolphins?

Thales: When did we start building dolphins?

It was a terrible logistical mess-up, we forgot to put dolphins on the Giant Space Ark and wound up having to engineer new ones. You remember, when the Sun was about to go nova, and we all had to come to this planet, and we didn't tell the stupid people because they might pani...

Err, never mind.

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dolphins rock.

The polite way to express their scepticism about the mine-clearing skills of the dolphins is to question their reliability and cost-efficiency, but one diver spoke more plainly yesterday.

"Flipper's f----ed, mate," he said.

LMAO, gotta love the Aussies.

But wait, what about all the Total Farkers that made comments about how this little guy wised up and left?

I bet there are 4 or 5 pregnant dolphins swimming around right now. Either that or an extremely dissatisfied trout.

That one Petty Officer is gonna be happy!

ACF
I don't know about that. His holding pool buddy seems to like the kinky stuff, maybe he does too.
Tacoma was yesterday resting in his holding pool with the Navy's oldest dolphin, 33-year-old Makay.

Makay has been more diligent in Iraq, perhaps learning from a painful experience when he, too, took off from duty once in Florida.

A shark attacked him during his self-declared holiday, leaving him with scars on his back.

i opened a can of tuna fish today, and found some shredded military hardware.... coincidence?????

OBB, I was kinda disappointed not to see him mentioned in the article.

Personally...I think it's a secret CIA mission. Come on, we here about people "disappearing" all the time.

"flipper come home" didn't have the cuddly cuteness that "lassie come home" did.

the part where timmy drowns really sucks.

(see, when i get bored i make up my own movie......)

Woohoo! No longer a no article posted virgin! Thanks Tacoma!

I'm all about Beluga Whales these days.

Andonbray, do you have a 3 year old too?

RandomBob - It is possible but none that I'm aware of. I just watched a documentary on PBS about them (Belugas, not three year olds).

Well if you become aware of one, be careful -- there's this very popular but clinically depressed kids singer, raffi, that sings this song.

by Raffi and Debi Pike
Actions: Hands together, make the shape of a small whale jumping over the waves.

Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above, and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.

Baby beluga, baby Beluga, is the water warm?
Is your mama home with you, so happy.

Way down yonder where the dolphins play,
Where they dive and splash all day,
The waves roll in and the waves roll out,
See the water squirting out of your spout.

Baby beluga, baby Beluga, sing your little song,
Sing for all your friends, we like to hear you.

When it's dark, you're home and fed,
Curl up snug in your water bed.
Moon is shining and the stars are out,
Good night, little whale, goodnight.

Baby beluga, baby Beluga, with tomorrow's sun,
Another day's begun, you'll soon be waking.

Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.
You're just a little white whale on the go.

A fatwa on Raffi! He actually is depressed -- he's very popular in the 3-5 set, but he wanted to be a rock star.

I'll have to search Kazaa for the MP3. Myself, I'd much rather be popular with the 3-5 demographic. They aren't so caught up in the whole image thing and can really appreciate music for music's sake.

For all of the curious farkers out there.
Here is a 'How To' Guide

have fun with that

The Wiggles rule!

The Wiggles R0xx0r!

WAKE UP JEFF
everybody's wiggling
WAKE UP JEFF

sorry, that's the repressed childhood in my coming out.

RandomBob - Found it. Hey, that's catchy - kind of a toe tapper.

Am I a bad person if I think this is the best news to come out of the war so far? I mean, not that I'm jumping on the bandwagon that the war is now a quagmire (I know enough about military strategy and history to know better), but when I heard about this guy going missing, it just tugged at the heart in a way that missing soldiers doesn't. Glad to hear he's back safe.

"Two days later we found him in the same spot where we put him in the water," said Lieutenant Robert Greene, the officer in charge of the M-7 series of mine-clearing dolphins.

It's always in the last, but most obvious of places you should be looking in.

If dolphins are so smart, why do they live in igloos?

I wonder if he got any 'fin' when he was gone? Hehe hoohoo haha hoho.

What was the porpoise of that joke, Locoz?

It was to make me laugh and he succeeded!

HÃi, David Brin, eat your heart out. Next episode will be on the Sundiver and then we'll even encouter the Elder Ones. It was all FORESEEN!!!!!

Wolf_Blitzer: yes

BunnyX: Of course it's in the last place you look, why would you keep looking once you've found it?

I wonder why CNN, Fox News, MSNBC & others didn't report 1 dolphin MIA when they report the casulaties.

And I hope the Navy put some GPS tracking gear on their dolphins. If scientists can track whales, tigers, lions, bears, and whatever else, why can't our Navy with their huge budget come up with a few bucks for a GPS transmitter or two. Wouldn't they want to know what part of the water the dolphin is in anyway? How do they know the dolphin isn't following them and letting the ship clear the mines?

I listened to Raffi when he was underground.

ACF, lol.

Good to hear the dolphin came back. I wonder how you say "court-marshal" in sonar...

All of a sudden, I'm imagining a dolphin in full Navy dress uniform...

Yay!
Good news to wake up to.

"Dolphins take queue from Dubya, go AWOL"

Dolph returns! oh boy its about damn time

Yay! I bet the dolphin's Petty Officer handler cried for joy. I hope he gave that dolphin his favorite fish that he'd been offering while calling for him.

Dolphins need R&R too.

Now the dolphin can go back to defending the US Navy from trained Iraqi giant squids!

Well geez, now we know the truth behind the giant squid theory, they do exist, Iraq had them the entire time!!! Hey, you don't think that its the real reason behind the war, do ya? I mean, calamari is a delacasy, you know. (Please Chthulu, don't eat me!!)

Ironic Moment:Isn't funny that our fishy friend Admiral Ackbar was commanding a Mon Calamari Star Crusier in Return of the Jedi? Just thought I'd share...and it's not a trap

Dang it RandomBob now I'm going to have that song in my head all day! It's already starting to fester into an earworm.

A shark attacked him during his self-declared holiday, leaving him with scars on his back.
Hmmm. Think the Iraqis have sharks now?

You win this time Flipper but I'll be back...