STEVE IRWIN DEAD!! !

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What do you mean? That Steve Irwin is dead? Or that he was a good family man?

No there is nothing funny about it.
I can understand that epasode of southpark cartman getting an amusement park and kyle getting a hemroid. Life sucks!! ! simalar sort of thing happened here. God makes the good ones suffer.

It has to be a joke that you're blaming god for the death of someone that worked with giant blenders every day. Not the fault of your god, it's assumption of the risk.

I'm glad to hear that, s_b, I thought you were being potentially insensitive. I would love to blame God, but if he/she/it does exist, I have to ask, "which one?".

My heart goes out to his family.

And burning, flaming excruciating electric death to all those who make those really tasteless jokes after a tragedy.

I am sad to hear of Steve Irwin's death. He was, I hear, an inspiration for the crocodile dundee character and one of my cockatiels is named cockatiel dundee in honor of that legend. Steve shared dangerous animals with the world in a humorous and courageous way. He will be missed and I hope a fund for his family exists if needed. He was far too young to go.

Jerry Newport aka The Whale

I heard that a new animal facility will be named after him in his memory.

Right-o, mate! Yeah, I got a cellphone text message from a friend, then saw it on NBC's "Today" show before work. I was, like, "Died? Please don't say Steve Irwin. No-o-o-o!"

Steve got a lot of controversy over the whole thing of holding his one-month-old son while feeding a croc at a show (January '04), but tapes from a different camera angle (which he mailed to NBC's Matt Lauer) show that he's further from the croc's mouth than it looked originally. Steve made the point that it wasn't any more dangerous than putting your kid in their car seat and driving to the grocery store...there's always the possibility of getting into a car crash.

Steve was a great dad, a total environmentalist, and committed to educating us about wildlife. GOOD ON YA, MATE!

Very sad stuff. Let's hope our world is blessed with another champion of nature.

I think what you meant to say is "Let's hope our world is blessed with another archetypical, pompous, irritating, yet somehow popular champion of nature." Saying that there are no more champions of nature left is a bit of a shot at all the people on Greenpeace that are having their boats shot down by the French.

I think what you meant to say is "Let's hope our world is blessed with another archetypical, pompous, irritating, yet somehow popular champion of nature." Saying that there are no more champions of nature left is a bit of a shot at all the people on Greenpeace that are having their boats shot down by the French.

I didn't say that there were none left, just that we need more of them, and more of them who can actually get their views across--by "champion" I meant someone who was successful in his or her fight for nature, rather than just someone who fights for nature. How many people in the Greenpeace are famous enough to spread their message, unless they are infamous? The fact that their boats are getting shot down says something. Not a lot of people would purposefully shoot down a boat Irwin was in.

no offense to steve irwin, but i would give ANYTHING to see his final moments uncut on tape (if they exist?)

Verily, I say unto thee, most eloquently and erudite,

(blows a raspberry).

Steve Irwin, in my opinion, was more popular than Greenpeace. The only worthwhile thing Greenpeace has done lately to my knowledge is try to harass to Jap whalers, and they haven't whaled the tar (pardon the intentional pun) out of said whalers. C'mon, people, use a f***ing Stinger!! !

Or a harpoon, for added irony.

I actually feel bad for him, because very few people get shocked by stingrays.

HE
WAS
NOT
SHOCKED!

It was not that type of ray.

HE
HAD
A
MOTHER****ING
BARB
SMASHED
THROUGH
HIS
HEART!

I'm not even sure rays who do shock can give fatal (to humans) shocks, although I'll probably be corrected.

But you're right, it is a rare occurence to get killed by a stingray barb. I had read about it well before this had occurred, and it seemed to always involve the swimmer swimming above the ray, and the barb entering the heart.