This is totally surreal

[vyvyanx]

World's tallest man saves dolphin:

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

Comments

[casilda.livejournal.com]

I had just read about this and had to tell everyone in the office, it has made my day!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wow, yes. It sounds like the Onion, but it's such a good headline, telling you exactly what you want to know in five words. The only way it could be improved is if there was an adverb meaning "by reaching into their stomachs and removing things", but I understand why one of those isn't in common usage :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Wow, so tall people do have uses. I doubted.

Incidentally, is it just me or does that guy look... not quite human, somehow? I mean, it's obviously acromegaly, but even so.

[sparrowsion]

But it's not all good news for dolphins in China.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

No, I saw that. Very sad. Didn't Douglas Adams devote a section to those poor things in Last Chance to See?

[sparrowsion]

Yes—it's the one where they're trying to buy condoms in China so the sound engineer can improvise a hydrophone out of an ordinary microphone.