Monday, September 04, 2006

Crikey!

(An epitaphany shared by the first lady of the Dead Pool – a title she neither encourages nor accepts - Ali, Monty and Craig

Or
Throw Another Steve on the Barb
There’s a reason he stayed on land. Steve Irwin, the “Crocodile Hunter” of legend and song, was killed by a stingray off the Great Barrier Reef at the age of 44. He died as he lived – annoying the crap out of nature. Who knew stingrays watched Animal Planet? The stingray stuck its poison barbed tail directly into Irwin’s heart during filming of, fittingly enough, “Ocean’s Deadliest,” although this was just the 17th reported death by stingray in the last 10 years. The son of the founders of the Australian Zoo was a well respected animal handler and conservationist when the ‘80s-‘90s obsession with all things Australian that gave us Paul Hogan and Yahoo Serious made a TV star out of the heavily accented goofball who stuck his thumb up reptiles’ asses to see if they like it. Australia capitalized on Irwin’s popularity to promote tourism, and even offering his infant son up as crocodile chow didn’t put a dent in that. Amazingly for all the croc rassling, snake fondling and turtle humping, Irwin had largely avoided serious injury before getting stang.

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