georgiagirl
May 30 2006, 10:48 am
From Reuters:
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A swan has fallen in love with a plastic swan-shaped paddle boat on a pond in the German town of Muenster and has spent the past three weeks flirting with the vessel five times its size, a sailing instructor said Friday.
Peter Overschmidt, who operates a sailing school and rents the two-seat paddle boat on the Aasee pond, said the black swan with a bright red beak has not left the white swan boat's side since it flew in one day in early May.
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Isn't this some sort of odd parable for human relationships?
Marshbot
May 30 2006, 11:03 am
Awww! I don't know whether to laugh or cry... so sweet and so sad.
They should make a movie out of this one. I vote Tom Hanks to play the swan, and 'The Rock' Dwayne Johnson or whatever his name is to play the boat (since he shows about as much personality as a lump of wax anyway he'd be perfect for this role.)
brokenm
May 30 2006, 11:05 am
Didn't Tom Hanks already fall in love with a volleyball? So maybe he should play the swan as he is used to being in love with an inanimate object. Unless you saw the Da Vinci Code and believe that Tom is now himself an inanimate object.
Chicago
May 30 2006, 11:05 am
I guess Swan-Mix-A-Lot said it best:
I like big boats and I can not lie
You other swans can't deny
That when a boat waddle in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough
'Cause you notice that boat was stuffed
...
My anaconda don't want none
Unless you've got boats, hun
...
Yeti
May 30 2006, 11:08 am
Spring, when a young swan's thoughts turn to paddle boats.
Eleanor Rigby
May 30 2006, 11:10 am
Is it even possible for an animal to "fall in love" with an inaminate object? I thought smell and sound were a lot more important than sight for animals in determining partner preferences.
I know they've done experiments where baby monkeys got attached to socks with feeding tubes but IIRC they had to put the smell of a mother monkey on the the socks before they would accept it.
Maybe the passengers were feeding the swan.
brokenm
May 30 2006, 11:11 am
QUOTE (Eleanor Rigby @ May 30 2006, 12:10 pm)
Is it even possible for an animal to "fall in love" with an inaminate object?
Usually natural selection reduces these numbers in the population.
hams
May 30 2006, 11:18 am
QUOTE (georgiagirl @ May 30 2006, 11:48 am)
said the black swan with a bright red beak
Have I not been paying enough attention to Attenborough, but anybody seen a black swan with a red beak??
Marshbot
May 30 2006, 11:21 am
That's the only kind of black swan I've ever seen... Are they available in other flavours?
hams
May 30 2006, 11:23 am
No, just never seen a black swan before... unless you count the ugly (grey) duckling of course.
brokenm
May 30 2006, 11:27 am
Here are some Black Swans.
britMUC
May 30 2006, 11:28 am
last time i was sunbathing down at the Isar, there was this guy hanging out with a swan. it never left his side the whole time i was there. he fed it biscuits & even managed to stroke the bird. sometimes the swan would have a sniff around for the biscuits ... was funny to watch this FKK guy protect his assests from the swan. not the usual goings-on for flaucher !!
arien78
May 30 2006, 2:50 pm
lollzzzzz...this is crazy!!!
cinzia
May 30 2006, 2:57 pm
How is a swan flirting with a swan-like boat different from this?
Yeti
May 30 2006, 3:11 pm
The boat on the lake probably looks a lot better than the boat inside the box.
Those boxes don't have photographs of the actual product on them for a reason.
cinzia
May 30 2006, 3:29 pm
You mean that's
not what the doll looks like??
Yeti
May 30 2006, 3:31 pm
Lets just say, your experience may vary.
Jimbo
May 30 2006, 3:43 pm
QUOTE (cinzia @ May 30 2006, 2:57 pm)
How is a swan flirting with a swan-like boat different from this?
The boat is five times bigger than the swan. Now I don't own one of those dolls, but I'm guessing they're not 30ft tall...
EDIT: I'm also fairly confident that the boat on the lake doesn't feature an 'ultra tight anus' or a vibrating vagina. If it had the former it'd probably sink, and if it had the latter...well...Jesus. Just think about it.
Eleanor Rigby
May 30 2006, 3:50 pm
you could just have a really small swan?
Yeti
May 30 2006, 3:52 pm
Admit it Jimbo, you always wanted a voice controlled sex doll that you could roar "Hard backboard !" at.
britMUC
May 30 2006, 3:53 pm
careful, some rough looking swans out there
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Jimbo
May 30 2006, 3:58 pm
QUOTE (Yeti @ May 30 2006, 3:52 pm)
Admit it Jimbo, you always wanted a voice controlled sex doll that you could roar "Hard backboard !" at.
Haha - superb. But you're quite right - though rather than 'Hard backboard!' I was thinking about something a little less kinky..."All ahead full!" or when I'm feeling romantic "Come astern".
georgiagirl
May 30 2006, 4:00 pm
Whale off the starboard bow?
Yeti
May 30 2006, 4:06 pm
Thar she blows !
Jimbo
May 30 2006, 4:15 pm
"Enemy submarine, 800 yards, closing fast" or "Torpedo reported to be running", or my personal favourite "Fire all tubes".
Sorry. I'm probably stretching this now.
Jimbo
May 30 2006, 4:24 pm
DIVE!!! DIVE!!! DIVE!!!
Blow all tanks
Christ, there's millions if you count the submarine related ones.
Yeti
May 30 2006, 4:26 pm
Run silent , run deep.
Oerrr, missus !
Jimbo
May 30 2006, 4:32 pm
The Hunt for Red October...hmmmm...sounds like a very specialist film in this context.
Come to periscope depth and prepare for depth charges.
Yeti
May 30 2006, 4:36 pm
She'll never take the pressure at this depth, admiral.
That's vice-admiral, sailor !
Jimbo
May 30 2006, 4:59 pm
As deep as she can stand it sailor, but the moment you hear her bulkheads starting to give way, blow all tanks.
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