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Just put in on my whale-blue car today:

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Jerry

Haha, cool

Jerry, I was wondering, how did you get the nickname of "The Whale"?

Somebody finally asked that question I always felt out of step as a kid and once I saw my first whale, I wanted to be one so I would be so big that the world would have to be in step with me!! That first whale hangs in the Hall of Ocean Life in NYC. It is a replica of a blue whale caught off the coast of South America in the twenties. Schoolkids call her, "Big Blue." Big Blue is 94 feet long and I married in 1994.

In 1993, I saw "Free Willy" six times. My favorite scene, besides the ending, was when the young boy first touched Willy. That inspired me to make my whale costume which I wore when I met Mary.

The funny thing about the costume is it has a 78 inch waistline, thanks to the bicycle rim used to support the waist under the chickenwire.
Josh Hartnett was born in 1978 and is 1978 days younger than Mary's oldest son, Stephen, who was never diagnosed but was hypelexic and still seems a little aspie to me.

Josh and I were both born in years of Triple Crown winners. Citation on in 1948 and was the last before Secretariat in 1973. Affirmed won in 1978 and we are still waiting for another horse to join him.

Jerry Newport

That's a great story!! Free Willy is a great movie, it came out at a time when I, too was obsessed with whales(One of my obsessions is animals) My family was also part of a marketing test to try to decide what to call the movie. When they told my Mom the title and asked her what she thought it was about, she said she thought it would be about a convict that escaped I'm also a big Triple Crown fan, too...I wish they had kept the Belmont and the Preakness two weeks apart!! !

Mockingbird: My family was also part of a marketing test to try to decide what to call the movie. When they told my Mom the title and asked her what she thought it was about, she said she thought it would be about a convict that escaped

Jerry: I hear that in the UK, "free Willy" has a meaning that the USA filmers didn't anticipate. It inspired grafitti with whales popping out of zippers?


Mockingbird: I'm also a big Triple Crown fan, too...I wish they had kept the Belmont and the Preakness two weeks apart!! ![/quote]

When were those races two weeks apart? Not since I have been watching them and that is at least since 1973.

Jerry

Shoot! I can't for the life of me remember what year it was...I think it was in the 40's or 50's that they switched it. Why are you interested in racing? Is it one of your obsessions? It's one of mine, I've watched the races since I was 9. Horses are such beautiful creatures, they never fail to captivate me

Jerry, does the costume in the movie resemble the costume you actually made?

It looks like an orca, do you like to think of yourself more like an orca because of "Free Willy," or do you still consider the blue whale your favorite?

I prefer Orcas but my car is blue so that is fine too.

Jerry