Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore , I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off -- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin...&division=div1

This is COMMANDER CATCOP, serving as COPYRIGHT POLICE OFFICER>>>

Please attribute yourself to that post being the first graph of "MOBY DICK!!!" by Herman Melville.

And you posted in teh WRONG FORUM. this is so way OMNI!

So go back to sea! Thank you!


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As Moby Dick was published in 1851 and therefore now part of the public domain, there's no fear of copyright infringement.

That said, I would hope it would go without saying that this paragraph is from Moby Dick.

Perhaps this is the oldest trip report yet.

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I like docstamps' profile.

In the final posting of this Trip Report, we will learn, no doubt, that the final seqment travelled on Pequod Airlines earned our Izzy 12,000 fathoms on his account.

I recently spent 15 days in Japan, and I am writing this to pass on bits of news and impressions. During my visit, I saw all three survivors from the capture of orcas at Taiji two years ago. All looked to be in fairly good condition now, especially the female being held at the Taiji Whale Museum. She looked great... energetic and alert, breath and body full, dorsal fin still straight.

She is in the largest part of the lagoon at TWM... it's about 130m across, flushed by sea water (there are fish, plants, sand and rocks, the depth varies but is sufficient for her to dive on one side, disappear from view and surface on the other). She had two dolphins for company and was breathing synchronously with one of them. I'm not sure why, but she has not been put together with the other orca, Nami chan, though she spends time facing Nami chan's enclosure.
http://whales.magna.com.au/NEWS/taiji3.html

The oldest trip report, I think, documented a 40-year CAI-Caanan group journey marked by years-long layovers in unfamiliar desert-style transit lounges. Water and food vouchers appeared every morning but the staff was stingy with information and the pax grew restless and worshiped gold statues and so on. Exodus Tours are no longer being offered but I believe the operator still does business.

Not only that, just before the very end of the trip, Someone made the Tour Leader stay behind.

I imagine that, by far, the most exciting part of this tour was the water crossing, which another group following closely behind was not allowed to make.

Now, every year when I watch the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments on television I will be thinking of some guy during the exodus hurriedly filing a trip report as the Pharaoh's chariots approach. Would make a great Far Side comic. ROTFLMAO