From: ron_winn@lineone.net   
      
   Why did they use this lumbering heavy lift barge on this small whale. We are   
   not talking Moby Dick here. How come these men could handle it with ease?   
   One swipe of its tail could have sent them flying? Was it drugged? All very   
   strange   
      
   "banana"  wrote in message   
   news:2I7VaIAkOj0DFwht@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   > The whale that was in the River Thames in central London yesterday was   
   > reported as having a 'scar' or 'growth' on the left side of its head.   
   >   
   > What caused this? Has someone got a photo?   
   >   
   > I wonder whether the unfortunate animal hadn't been operated upon   
   > beforehand, and wasn't 'guided', by one means or another, to swim up the   
   > Thames?   
   >   
   > --   
   > 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)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)