© Bruce Goodman 20 July 2015
“Hurrah!” shouted Atsushi. “Today is Ocean Day in Japan! Let’s kill a whale!”
“Yes! Yes!” shouted Kiyoshi. “Let’s kill a whale for scientific research. In fact, let’s kill three whales!”
“No! No!” shouted Takayuki. “It’s Ocean Day in Japan! Let’s kill all the whales in the world!”
“Yes! Yes!” shouted Osamu. “But let’s kill them to eat!”
“Hurrah! Hurrah!” shouted Shoji and Kaede and Hotaka and Aki and Mitsuo and Akihito and…
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
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A lot of pier pressure going on for Ocean Day, methinks. Meanwhile, the ocean itself doesn’t say anything; it just waves.
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Wharf! Wharf! Wharf! (That’s a guttural snorting sort of laugh from a walrus). However, the Japanese do make me angry with their daily “scientific research” of whales.
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I agree
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I thought this was a site for fiction….
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🙂 Fiction points out the great truths!
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And truth is stranger than fiction, our Government has whaled about it for years 😦
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Yes – there’s quite a few countries I think.
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I guess these guys haven’t heard about Moby Dick!
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I dare say it’s been translated!
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Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting. Whales are highly intelligent animals with their own language – at least humpbacks. I do NOT understand why certain countries are still hunting them. Thanks for the reminder!!!!
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They’re blubbering idiots…. !
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Horrid story Bruce!! Though provoking too [I believe it is now mainly the ‘older generation’ who still eats and uses whale meat and products. If wonder, we were Japanese, would that be us?]
Maybe, as an alternative ending, your cast of characters could be thrown into the ocean to sink or swim in honour of ‘Ocean Day’? And maybe there might be a shark or two around?? 🙂
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That could be tasty!
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But my, that’s a whale of a tale!
Those Japanese are awash
with rapacity.
All but one admonishing
their voracity.
For she was named Nanami.
Keeper of the seven seas.
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Does your erudition have no end? And don’t tell me your Icelandic brilliance extends to Japanese!!!!
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Don’t be silly, Bruce. You know well that I’m a blue whale from the waters of Iceland, idly circling in and out of the Atlantic and Norwegian. What ever would I be doing associating myself with those radiation spilling Japanese?
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At least you’re not a sperm whale… 😀 😀 😀 or perhaps you are!
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Of course not! That’s a neophyte’s mistake: too much Moby Dick on the brain. Speaking of which, you can remember the difference by noting that the Sperm Whale has the largest brain in the planet, where as I, the Blue Whale can brag about my huge…
…appetite for Krill.
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! https://weaveaweb.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/168-creative-assignment/
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