Cultural Outreach

May 8, 2006 3:51 PM

Or "tuna, its not just for under the bed anymore" The start of a publicly announced trend or just a simple logistics FUBAR (behind a wall - original local source) situation? An opportunity to 'support the troops' and starve the dolphins as Marine corporal Andoscia wants tuna. Because he says the chow line is short the calories he needs and his fellow Marines are culturally reaching out to the citizens of Iraq and asking for food.
posted by rough ashlar (39 comments total)

Wha.......?
posted by rollbiz at 3:56 PM on May 8, 2006

Do you really think that web site is credible?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 3:58 PM on May 8, 2006

Again, all your words are in english but don't make sense in the order you've written them.
posted by docgonzo at 3:58 PM on May 8, 2006

An opportunity to 'support the troops' and starve the dolphins as Marine corporal Andoscia wants tuna

Starve the dolphins? I want to think this post makes sense independant of the lousy source. Please prove me right.
posted by rollbiz at 4:02 PM on May 8, 2006

Do you really think that web site is credible?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 3:58 PM PST on May 8 [!]

Mr. Kerr of The Providence Journal is a journalist and he is only reporting what a mother of a Marine is saying.

I used urkunet as they like quoting what is behind the registration wall at The Providence Journal.
posted by rough ashlar at 4:05 PM on May 8, 2006

I'm disappointed by the lack of chemtrails to describe why US troops are eating Iraqi dolphins.
posted by docgonzo at 4:05 PM on May 8, 2006

Everything's fine. Nothing to see. Bush is great! Republicans are all knowing and all powerful. Move along, move along....
posted by rougy at 4:08 PM on May 8, 2006

An opportunity to 'support the troops',
and starve the dolphins as,
Marine corporal Andoscia wants tuna.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 4:09 PM on May 8, 2006

"Cultural Outreach"
Dolphins go hungry today
teh axe grind filter
posted by rollbiz at 4:15 PM on May 8, 2006

Everything's fine. Nothing to see. Bush is great! Republicans are all knowing and all powerful. Move along, move along....

Hey, rougy: Methinks it's possible to both despise and distrust BushCo and ridicule a post with only a passing resemblance to sane english. It's called thinking two complementary thoughts simultaneously; try it sometime.
posted by docgonzo at 4:16 PM on May 8, 2006

I'm gonna go with "slightly more credible than yours."

Yeah, but strangely, Mr. Den Beste's shrine to bad Japanese comics 'aint the issue here.
posted by docgonzo at 4:18 PM on May 8, 2006

MeTa
posted by dios at 4:18 PM on May 8, 2006

I meant the defunct one, silly.
posted by rxrfrx at 4:22 PM on May 8, 2006

This is what happens when dolphins aren't equipped with lasers.
posted by brundlefly at 4:22 PM on May 8, 2006

I've got it mostly puzzled out, except for the dolphin part. Where do the starving dolphins come in?
posted by mr_roboto at 4:24 PM on May 8, 2006

obcomment - "i'd kill flipper for a tuna sandwich"
posted by pyramid termite at 4:28 PM on May 8, 2006

An opportunity to 'support the troops',
and starve the dolphins as,
Marine corporal Andoscia wants tuna.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 7:09 PM EST on May 8 [!]

I think that explains it.
posted by rollbiz at 4:28 PM on May 8, 2006

Ah. Sorry. That's what happens when you're late to the party.
posted by docgonzo at 4:29 PM on May 8, 2006

Oh, yeah. It's totally clear now.
posted by mr_roboto at 4:30 PM on May 8, 2006

rough ashlar, are you under the impression that catching tuna hurts dolphins because it leaves the dolphins with nothing to eat? Or something?
posted by brundlefly at 4:30 PM on May 8, 2006

Dolphins get caught in the drag nets used to fish for tunas and die. They don't eat the tunas. I mean, I thought everyone knew that. I knew that when I was four.
posted by cilantro at 4:31 PM on May 8, 2006

Dolphins eat tuna. Humans eat tuna. Humans demand more tuna, starving dolphins.
posted by rollbiz at 4:31 PM on May 8, 2006

Cetacean bycatch: The unintentional catch of dolphins during driftnet fishing, most often for ... tuna. So, in this case: More tuna = less dolphins.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.
posted by docgonzo at 4:32 PM on May 8, 2006

Or what cilantro said.
posted by docgonzo at 4:32 PM on May 8, 2006

I'm still confused why tuna is under the bed.
posted by docgonzo at 4:33 PM on May 8, 2006

I'm totally going to use the "starve_dolphins" tag on all my posts from here on out.
posted by mr_roboto at 4:33 PM on May 8, 2006

Just stay away from the evil dolphin arch-nemesis, Zipper!
posted by NationalKato at 4:35 PM on May 8, 2006

I'm still confused why tuna is under the bed.
posted by docgonzo at 4:33 PM PST on May 8 [!]

"When you go to the store and buy three cans of tuna fish, buy a fourth and put it under the bed." - Mike Leavitt
posted by rough ashlar at 4:37 PM on May 8, 2006

Ah. In the future you might, I dunno, include a reference to obscure statements in the post.
posted by docgonzo at 4:39 PM on May 8, 2006

I don't think dolphins eat tuna. The issue is dolphins getting caught in tuna nets.

What a crazy post. Anyway, the origional article was on the Providence Journal, and the bugmenot password [e-mail]/connor worked for me.
posted by delmoi at 4:39 PM on May 8, 2006

leaves the dolphins with nothing to eat?

*grin* That would be silly and something one of the damn poetry crafting hippies would say.
posted by rough ashlar at 4:41 PM on May 8, 2006

I'm still confused why tuna is under the bed.
Shhhh....it's a Chicken of the Sea-cret.
posted by jrossi4r at 4:43 PM on May 8, 2006

Army admits invasion plagued by snafus (LA times article, July 2004)

They ran chronically short of food, water and ammunition. Their radios often failed them. Their medics had to forage for medical supplies; artillery gunners had to cannibalize parts from captured Iraqi guns, and intelligence units provided little useful information about the enemy.

Now who could gain good profit or money from not doing the job well AND escape responsability at the same time ?
posted by elpapacito at 4:46 PM on May 8, 2006

Wait a minute, there is something wrong with this post!

Dolphins don't regularly eat tuna, they swallow their food whole and tuna is rather large - instead they eat smaller swimming things: mackrel and squid and herring.

In fact, tuna schools follow groups of dolphins, not the other way around. So, to deprive dolphins of food would require the Marines asking for calamari or saba sushi, not tuna. Tuna, however, do live under beds.

Thus ends the biology lesson. Please continue your arguments.
posted by blahblahblah at 4:56 PM on May 8, 2006

What if the Marines just ate dolphins?
posted by mr_roboto at 5:05 PM on May 8, 2006

Winnar!
posted by CRM114 at 5:11 PM on May 8, 2006

What if the Marines just ate dolphins?
posted by mr_roboto at 5:05 PM PST on May 8 [!]

I don't think dolphin meat helps law and order or keeps down violence
posted by rough ashlar at 5:18 PM on May 8, 2006

What if the Marines just ate dolphins?

I think that's taking Army-Navy rivalry a bit far.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 5:26 PM on May 8, 2006

Is dolphin meat halal?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 5:29 PM on May 8, 2006