[ExI] my apologies mister whidden!

[William Flynn Wallace]

I had a black Labrador  and she stood in the little creek every day for a
long time.  Finally, she caught a fish!  She brought it to me, I cooked it,
and she ate it.  bill w

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:05 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Mr. Whidden was a friend from where I grew up.  He told me stories of his
> childhood and youth out on Cape Canaveral a short distance from the site
> where John Glenn launched into orbit much later.  This was the 1920s in
> that remote village, where his father was a beekeeper and raised hogs.
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> One of their sows got out of the pen.  Tracks led toward the beach.  When
> they found her, she had discovered how to charge into the surf and catch
> fish (good chance BillW’s cod book never mentioned that.)
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> Mr. Whidden had this story about the fishing sow.  Naturally the Whiddens
> and local hog farmers hoped she could teach the piglets how to do that, and
> they could be rich, or at least well-fed, with nearly free meat production.
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> I always had my doubts about that story, for I couldn’t see how a hog
> could possibly be a swimmer with those hoofs, but everything else Mr.
> Whidden told me checked out perfectly, with actual historical records about
> the development of the Cape Canaveral launch facility.  I found references
> to back up everything he said.  Mr. Whidden has been gone for nearly 30
> years, but that fishing sow story has bothered me for all this time.  The
> rest of the story sounded even more outlandish.
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> Whelp.  My humble apologies Mr. Whidden:
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> https://twitter.com/capeandcowell/status/1293949729345339392
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> Now the rest of the story doesn’t seem as implausible.  Details available
> on request.
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> spike
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