Weird Australians/dead whales/except my life

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "storm" <miss_megan at d...> wrote:

> . tow it into shore
> and ewww plus the oil leaks out and kills things, tow it out to
> sea (something happens, can't remember what), blow it up and kill
> of some of the feeding sharks who just happen to belong to an
> endangered specis, bury it and cause some huge toxic problem.  I
> don't understand. I thought things died all the time and the
> earth was well equiped to handle it. Obviuously not <g>

	A notoriously inept attempt at  carcass disposal  by the Oregon 
Highway Division is recounted at
http://hackstadt.com/features/whale/

** and now for something completely different**
"except my life" comes from Hamlet Act II
 
LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method 
in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord? 

HAMLET Into my grave. 

LORD POLONIUS Indeed, that is out o' the air. 
[Aside] 
How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness 
that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity 
could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will 
leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of 
meeting between him and my daughter.--My honourable 
lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. 

HAMLET You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will 
more willingly part withal: except my life, except 
my life, except my life.