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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Trevjon   
    writes   
   >   
   >"banana"  wrote in message   
   >news:HhhJwKAO$q0DFwVF@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   >> In article , DVH   
   >>  writes   
   >>   
   >>> wrote in message news:43d26d91$0$28448$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk...   
   >>>> Could be a chef from a Japanese Retauarant trying to harpoon him.   
   >>>   
   >>>Yes, but banana would like to know if it was a guided chef or the usual   
   >>>rogue.   
   >>   
   >> Guess what - there have been very rare sightings of whales recently off   
   >> the Texas coast too. Two whales. And guess what - one carries a scar,   
   >> and the other one has two cuts on her back.   
      
   >Apparently, it is not uncommon for whales to have scars.   
   >   
   >http://www.learner.org/jnorth/spring1998/critters/rwhale/Update021898.html   
   >   
   >extract :-   
   >   
   >"In addition to the callosity pattern, distinguishing scars aid in   
   >identification -- and, unfortunately, many whales display scars from both   
   >natural causes (killer whale attacks usually in youth) and fishing gear."   
      
   Thanks Trevjon for this sensible reply! It doesn't seem likely that the   
   whale had been tampered with, then.   
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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