June 15, 2006

• Sometimes I read a news headline on the net and don't even want to
  click on the link, due to getting so much play out of wondering what on
  earth they're talking about. 

  Case in point:  On Yahoo's front page there is a headline reading "Whale carcass mystifies Alaskan scientists".

  Hmmmm.  Using the decoding skills painstakingly learned at North
  Hi Mount Elementary and Stripling Junior High, I'm guessing there's a
  dead whale somewhere in Alaska.  Is this so unusual, though? 
  I sort of thought deceased whales washed up on the shores of Alaska
  with some regularity.

  If the whale's cause of death were weird, like someone shooting it, that'd not puzzle scientists.  Police, perhaps, but not scientists.

  Maybe it's the wrong type of whale?  One not normally seen in those
  waters?  Or maybe it's in the wrong place, such as a covered parking
  lot of a mall?

  Again, though, that'd be a matter to mystify the police rather than scientists.

  I daresay eventually I'll break down and go see what the heck there is
  about this particular croaked whale to set Alaska's scientists in a
  dither, but for right now I'll try to puzzle it out myself.

  • 8:18 pm
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