Will Barry White Songs Help Sharks Get Down? 149
iforgotmyfirstlogon writes "From ABC News: Ten resolutely celibate sharks at the National Sea Life Center are getting a blast of Barry White in hopes they'll get in the mood for love." Nothing like a little music to get you in the mood..." CD: Valentines Day should be called Barry White day.
Re:Actually... (Score:4, Funny)
what about both of them? (Score:1)
Re:Actually... (Score:1)
One can only hope that unlike my better half, those sharks are living in an irony-free post-september-11 world, and will be transported by the mellow voice of love.
Re:Actually... (Score:1)
If that does not get the sharks going, then there is something very wrong with the boy-sharks...
Can't see why not (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:Can't see why not (Score:4, Funny)
/mini-rant off
The irony (Score:1)
He gets moderated 'insightful' for trying to be funny, and you get moderated 'funny' for being serious.
God I love slashdot ;-)
Re:Can't see why not (Score:2)
Only on Valentine's Day?
Walrus of Love? (Score:1)
Re:Can't see why not (Score:1)
Re:Can't see why not (Score:1)
Episode Information:
Episode Number 79
First Aired April 29, 1993
Production Code 9F18
Writer John Swartzwelder
Director Jeff Lynch
Guest Stars: Barry White (as Voice of Himself)
Rating [Contribute] [Details]
Average Rating: 7.95 Vote!
Number of Votes Cast: 19
Episode Rank: 92
Synopsis [Contribute] [Edit] [View Un-Edited]
During an inspection of the school by the superintendent, Bart takes Willy's tractor for a joyride and gets expelled. Marge tries to educate him at home. Lisa protests Springfield's annual snake-bashing day by using Barry White's bass tones to attract the reptiles to safety.
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* During this week NBC announced that Simpson's writer / producer Conan O'Brien would become the new host for Late
I still don't see how his post was insightfull.... I have a better Idea. Instead of asking someone else to do something about the current system I think I will voice my opinion to the
Re:Can't see why not (Score:1, Flamebait)
Yeah and while you're busy doing that futile task, here's another one: ask Bill Gates to reconsider his monopoly and opensource the windows code. Oh and ask God for world peace.
Re:hmm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Well, that's because CmdrTaco is too busy with Kath^H^H^H^H other things right now.
:) Congrats to the happy couple!
That's AWESOME! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That's AWESOME! (Score:1)
call me cynical (Score:4, Funny)
I don't think I believe this.
*groan* *retch*
Thank you, I'll be here til friday, enjoy the steak...
Simpsons (Score:1)
Re:Simpsons (Score:2, Funny)
To me everyday is whacking...oh, you mean something completely different.
Whatever... (Score:2, Funny)
*ooh baby*... bonk
Elephant Man (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Elephant Man (Score:2)
Sure? (Score:2, Funny)
"OOOOOOOO...your making me hungry.."
"Arby's..sastify your grown up tastes.."
resonance (Score:5, Funny)
Whats next? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Whats next? (Score:1)
Hardee's (Score:1)
Re:Hardee's (Score:1)
Re:Hardee's (Score:1)
an idea (Score:3, Funny)
Re:an idea (Score:2, Funny)
-Sara
Hey, it works on whales ... (Score:1)
CBC's "As It Happens" (Score:1)
-jbn
homosharksuals (Score:5, Funny)
Re:homosharksuals (Score:3, Funny)
Re:homosharksuals (Score:1)
*bada-boom*
Re:homosharksuals (Score:1)
And yes, I know you're only joking. Don't bother replying with that.
Re:homosharksuals (Score:2)
infobit... (Score:1)
barry's songs apply to 1 penis... could be some problems....
Re:infobit... (Score:1)
Re:penises (Score:1)
Re:penises (Score:2, Informative)
Re:penises (Score:1)
I'm a little rusty with latin (OK, so I dont know any latin
Re:penises (Score:2)
(jfb)
Deep Bass (Score:2, Insightful)
Didn't the US Navy just admit to killing some whales with ultra low frequency sonar?
Re:Deep Bass (Score:2)
Re:Deep Bass (Score:1)
The earth is flat.
The moon is cheese.
Pi is 3.
And whales are fish.
Re:Deep Bass (Score:1, Flamebait)
The earth is flat.
Voilà, I give you The Flat Earth Society [alaska.net] - quote: "Deprogramming the masses since 1547". Granted, those dudes are a little short on evidence right now, but I'm sure they'll come up with something as soon as they find a way to escape their comfortably padded cells.
The moon is cheese.
Green cheese, to be exact. Here's [crosswinds.net] the scientific evidence, complete with lots of important looking numbers.
Pi is 3.
"Scripture (I Kings 7:23) clearly declares that the value of pi (the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter) is 3, not the secular humanist value of 3.14 taught in every school in Lawrence." Source: this page [geocities.com]. (I believe the author might be counseling the prestigious Kansas Education Board. He also has something to say about that ridiculous round earth theory)
By the way, in my day we didn't have those newfangled processors with floating point units you kids have today, so we had to make do with "PI EQU 3" and we got along with it just fine, thank you very much.
And whales are fish.
Yeah, and spiders are not insects, right? Let me quote from this [finucane.de] page: "Pure nonsense. Either whales are fish or sharks aren't. I'd say whales are fish." There are more interestings facts to be found on this page, but I have to take my medication now.
Re:Deep Bass (Score:1, Insightful)
I'm sure Barry is Pleased (Score:1)
duh (Score:4, Funny)
How about giving those sharks a little PRIVACY!
Shark #1: Darling, allow me to gentle stroke your pectoral fin.. let me gently nibble your..
Researcher: HEY! He's getting close, turn on the video camera! Play the Barry White! Turn on the spotlight!
Shark #2: Uhm, not interested.
Shark #1: Damn you humans and your infernal lights and music! A pox on your families! May wasps eat at your eyes!
Barry... (Score:2, Funny)
"...can't get enough of your love, babe..."
Re:Barry... (Score:1)
Shouldn't happen again for a few weeks. I've just had a few Pils Urquells which supress the urge nicely.
Nice article on sharks in Santa Cruz Good Times last week, stupidly I left my copy behind. I'll need to catch another one before they all get recycled. Studying blue and great whites off Ano Nuevo, California, where seals, sea lions and elephant seals breed. Neat stuff about the misconceptions of sharts propagated by Jaws and shellfish fisherman, some great pictures, too.
SAD (Score:1)
Singles Awarness Day!!
Re:SAD (Score:1)
Bloody Commercialism making me spend £1.30 on a card.
Barry White vs Classical (Score:4, Interesting)
Anyway, it sound like pretty dubious science. Cute story for the day however.
Re:Barry White vs Classical (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Barry White vs Classical (Score:2)
Not sure if Sousa marches are considered classical though.
What a development! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What a development! (Score:1)
According to a review of the book "Shark Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance" (Lyons Press) in reputable science journal "American Scientist" [sigmaxi.org], Volume 89, September-October 2001, p. 458, "The book is loaded with other shark-related facts, including the surprising information that these animals are less dangerous than toilets: In 1996, only 18 people in the United States were killed or injured by a shark, whereas 43,687 were injured by a toilet. ("Could the toilets be mistaking people for seals?)
And you worry about shark attacks? Me, I play Barry White songs to my toilet. I'd rather have it put the moves on me than mistake me for a seal.
Fish food (Score:1)
Since sharks seem to be attracted to sounds from 20hz to 100hz as reported here [vanaqua.org](humans hear~20hz-20,000hz), because it associates it with prey or a fish in distress. What they do "hear" of Barry would probably only make them want to gobble him up. Sharks can also hear sounds in that ragne from up to 2km away, reported here. Hope they turn ole Barry down baby.
So it seems to me that they will achieve bunch of pissed off hungry sharks.
Jaws Quote as a stupid joke attempt... (Score:1)
White Day exists (Score:1)
Fair Use (Score:1)
Snakes, Simpsons, and Sharks (Score:2)
Re:Snakes, Simpsons, and Sharks (Score:2)
And the Simpsons is based on real life events too. Anything that happens on the Simpsons, can and does happen in RealLife.
[/SARCASM]
Re:Snakes, Simpsons, and Sharks (Score:2)
Actually, that's not quite true. The Halloween episodes are non-canonical.
My Best Valentines Day... (Score:1)
Although the night didn't end with sex, I realised half-way through dinner that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get into trouble, be insensitive, embarrassing, or thoughtless. There were going to be no tantrums, expectations, or politics. We laughed at our dirty laundry instead of using it to hurt each other.
What more could you want from the night? (You are not allowed to reply with "sex"
That's odd , our local news had this story too (Score:3, Interesting)
something fishy is going on!
though of course sharks aren't fish
Re:That's odd , our local news had this story too (Score:1)
didn;t realise out local news was so interesting to
Re:That's odd , our local news had this story too (Score:1)
Re:That's odd , our local news had this story too (Score:2)
Ummm perhaps you're thinking of dolphins?
Re:That's odd , our local news had this story too (Score:1)
sharks are the latter
sharks used to be the domniant of the two with many many variants but latterly the bony fish have more variety
Worked for the Simpsons! (Score:1)
So, if the snakes can respond to Barry, I don't see why other animals wouldnt...
Mark
You should see the other tank... (Score:5, Funny)
Now those were some fucking angry sharks!:
Neeeeeaar Faaaaaaar, Whereeeeeveeer Yooou Are *MAD FRENZY BEGAN*
No; For the "love" it always has to be Barry White!
Re:You should see the other tank... (Score:1)
Dangerous Horny Dolphins (Score:1)
Someone must alert Mr. White now!! Before it's too late!!!!
Mark
Barry White is so unsexy (Score:1)
Stuff that matters (Score:1)
I dunno... (Score:1)
How About... (Score:1)
Shades of South Park....Love Gravy. (Score:1)
hrmm... what about the rest of the equation? (Score:2)
(I don't know what species of shark these are, I just picked that one randomly.)
Chef, not Barry (Score:1)
..and if you believe that.... (Score:1)
These are... (Score:2)
japanese (Score:1)
They have a valentines day too, but then shortly after that they have a white day. That day is where everythings reversed, instead of the boys getting girls stuff.. girls give boys stuff.
Then they'd be wonderin who Barry is, and why it's his white day.
...
I've seen sharks react to music (Score:5, Interesting)
RIAA (Score:1)
Will RIAA somehow invoke the DMCA and order the National Sea Life Center to shut down its operations immediatelly because they're causing billions of dollars in losses ?
this could save the australians: (Score:1)
Dirk
best - post - ever (Score:1)
now I know.... (Score:1)
Maybe it's just me, but ... (Score:1)
Re:somewhat offtopic (Score:1)
OK.... (Score:1)
Re:Slashdot is racially ignorant... (Score:1)
2) Enough older to make a difference
3) I think I'll have to second an earlier statement of, "Not according to my IQ test."
4) While I have to cop to arrogant, (What's wrong with it, after all.) ignorant of other cultures in the US? I would have to say not. It's this point I will _have_ to take offense at. In my life, I've had about as multi-cultural an experience as it is possible to have had. We can first examine the varieties of European culture I've gathered into myself: Grandmother's parents owned a quarry and had lots of greek and italian employees. (Come to think of it, her family's the likely reason for such a relatively large greek population in the area I'm living in now.) Little greek and italian customs got incorperated into their holiday celebrations.
My step-father's family were born in (and spent their early life in) Germany. Came over before WWII and stayed here. They were my first exposure to real german cooking, customs, and culture. (Kind of like Jewish Grandmother TM, but without as much guilt)
My own life has been spent living near and having as close friends people from rather diverse backgrounds. The first time I had Vietnamese food was some good friends of my step-father coming by and cooking us an extensive meal. (I've been very glad of the rise in popularity of Vietnamese resaurants.) How many "whitey" guys know what uses you can put rice flour to? Hell, do you know what Pali Tao (Spelling?) is, much less, how to make it?
Hell, my friends taught me to swear in other languages almost before I learned to cuss in English.
Am I a racial melting-pot? Nope. I'm pretty much a European Alley-Cat. I'll admit that much. Am I devoid of cultural diversity? Hell no. Your own accusations are about as well-informed and narrow-minded as the statement, "It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand." I cry foul on all such separatism and self-serving arrogance. Damn right, there are things that I won't instinctively or immediately understand because of my racial and cultural identity. This does NOT excuse you from trying to explain, nor does it excuse me from trying to understand. I run into things like this fairly often (unfortunately) with my fiance. She will react in a certain, seemingly non-sensical way to a situation leaving me baffled. Generally, it will be a subtlty of the censored-American cultural phenominom that I've completely missed. However, I've gotten quite a bit better at understanding said subtlties, and these things come up less often as time goes by. We suspect that I'm on my way to understanding the censored-American experience better than anyone not born to it.
5) You say this like it's a bad thing. I've never been much on soul, so haven't really even sought out it's artists. Having heard his voice, I can respect it. Damn, but he's impressive vocally. Your accusation is rediculous though. It'd be like criticizing "whitey" for never having heard of James Earl Jones before they'd seen Star Wars. I'll admit to that: I was around 7-11 at the time... Too damned young for to pay any attention to actor credits, much less voice-actor credits!
I'll go ya one better: my high school German teacher was saying "Don't have a cow!" looooooooong before the Simpsons first aired...