Archive for the ‘Fishing’ Category

Internet Fun (Not So Funny)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

I have no idea how true these emails I get are or whether their content has been published elsewhere but some stuff is worth sharing. That’s what I found today in my inbox:

<< Family on holiday in Australia [...] when husband, wife and their 15 year old son decided to go scuba diving.[...] His son wanted a picture of his mum and dad in all their gear so he got the under water camera ready to go. When it came to taking the picture the dad realized that the son looked like he was panicking as he took it and gave the 'OK' hand sign to see if he was all right.


The son took the picture and swam to the surface and back to the boat as quick as he could so the mum and dad followed to see if he was OK. When they got back to him he was scrambling onto the boat and absolutely panicking. When the parents asked why he said 'there was a shark behind you.' The dad thought he was joking but the skipper of the boat said it was true but they wouldn't believe him. As soon as they got back to the hotel they loaded the picture onto the laptop and this is what they saw:

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A Quiz

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

I searched my PC for image files including “fish” in their name. This popped up in 0.001 seconds:

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What do you think it is and how do you think it managed to get into my computer?

The first ten to answer this quiz incorrectly gain the right to become founding subscribers of the first mockoblog.

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The photos I was actually after are these three bellow.

There were two of us fishing in the Kaiapoi River, North of Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand, some day in 2006 and it was a clear afternoon, quiet and cold.

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A friend called from his car, as he was driving across the bridge to join us.  He calmly announced that there seemed to be a silver UFO right above our heads, or at least where he thought our heads would be.

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I thought it was a joke and told him off but then what felt like a curly wave in time and space engulfed my mobile, my head, the whole body and soon all I could see around became volatile and warm, with a soft vibration like a mute sound. I’m not sure how long it lasted, but I could hear static in the cell phone and then I realized colours were so untrue and bright while the air was moving in little spheres around my face almost as though I were submerged in a swimming pool full of tiny, heavy marbles.

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We did cath some herring that day, as if that matters.

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