I've read about Icelanders who really love whale burgers. I couldn't say. I might eat one if offered it, but don't think I'll go too far out of my way for one.

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I dont get it, a couple of guys voluntarily board a whaling ship and then declare themselves hostages.

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No they board to make an arrest but are detained as pirates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCp0lla317g

screw the whalers, no need for that any more. I am not a smelly hippy, but I hope they win. no need to slaughter whales. never had a whale burger when I was in Iceland, but I did have a camel burger in Cairo...yum...

Ya'all pass me a bite of that.

I for one, am a smelly hippy (now deodorized, thank you very much) and I agree that slaughter of whales is passe. Awesome critters, and there's not enough of them and too many people for it to be practical to hunt them with our current high tech. At least in the old days, the whales had a fighting chance. Now it's shooting fish in a barrel.

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Let's say hip hip hooray for the hippies!!!...on this one.

You have to admire their balls to actualy put themselves on the line like that. I'm no hippie fan, but those hippies are OK in my book.

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There's hippies, and then there's hippies. I have a lot of friends in the back to the land hippie contingent that could put the fear o' God into many a good ol' boy. One guy tans about 200 sheep skins a year by hand, using the sheep and hog brains method -- biggest shoulders I've ever seen.

They all live up in N. Central WA state and the locals didn't trust them too much at first. Then they had a big forest fire threatening many a homestead and a bunch of the hippies rolled up their sleeves and did yeoman's service on it.

One guy, nicknamed Buffalo, walked across the country and back barefoot with his wife in the early 70s. Dude's soles are like rhino skin. At the fire, he was crashing around in the brush barefoot, not batting an eye.

The ol' boys could hardly believe it.

And then after they started the annual fall Barter Faire (essentially a harvest fair) and the cowboys found out what a good time and money making opportunity it was, hippies' stock went up several points.

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Anyone watching this season? They are getting pretty hardcore the whalers are attempting to do some harassment of their own with some counter-measures. They also enlisted a few capable sailors one is a former US Navy officer and the other is a from a farm in Michigan but there is a familiar sense I get about him that he has done more than scoop cow poo and the 1st mate twit is leaving...hooray