Speedbump of the Sea

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A thread in praise of the manatee.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link

Knobheads.

― Lewis Phist (MichaelJ), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link

Somewhere on this board the picture of the Neditee exists, thanks to Chris B. Sure in Boston. I am pleased, since I love me them manitees and how they sweetly float in the ocean.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link

Are we talking sea cows?

― Pete S, Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

Yes. As so sweetly eulogized on the Apalling Poetry thread...

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

the poem in which the phrase, "Speedbump of the Sea" originates:

Manatee, so Graceful!
Speedbump of the Sea,
floating merrily!
Your eyes half closed
and so delicately serene,
your ears relaxed and deaf
to the sound of the turbo,
prop blades cutting through
like warm, toast flecked butter.
Manatee of pieces!

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link

thanks--i should have done that...
...a master work, a visionary poet
I give you mr Cole

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

i will lose to aja, but i will always have my cuddly, blubbery manatee to comfort me.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to print this poem out on frou-frou stationery, frame it, and hang it in the kitchen next to the fish broiler.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link

They're more interesting and all round bizarro if you forget their bovine moniker, aren't they. 'Cos then it's like - well what the hell is that. An example of ppl naming a creature something familar so as to 'tame' its strangeness/shocking newness.

am i taking this too seriously

― Pete S, Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

jack you go right over to ilm and post this to that "your positive contributions to ilx" thread.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.americanoceans.org/mammal/manatee.jpg

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

*swoon*

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:43 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.exide.co.nz/images/speedboat.jpg

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.ambergriscaye.com/wallpaper/art/ManateetanishaW.jpg

How cute!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

oh the hu-manatee!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc17.3p8.jpg

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

Sequel: Revenge of the Manatee:

http://www.floridatoday.com/community/resources/recreation/manatee.gif

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.floridatoday.com/community/resources/recreation/manatee.gif

The picture you wanted to post Orbit.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 30 November 2003 02:10 (twenty years ago) link

Now, if we could only find the Ned-itee picture...

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

manatees are related to elephants

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 30 November 2003 02:30 (twenty years ago) link

I looked up the link where said Neditee Photoshop file was posted and the link is dead. Chris B Sure must be encouraged to repost.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 November 2003 03:26 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

revive!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

https://nationaltoday.com/manatee-appreciation-day/

Did YOU know today is Manatee Appreciation Day?

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link

hmmmph! takes all the spontaneity out of it

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link

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