And suddenly you’re just hanging onto its back with your arms tucked firmly under its bottle nose, your face salty and stinging, your hair matted across your ears, as you’re whisked safely across the ocean on the ride of your life.
AWESOME!
Photo from: here
33 Comments
March 11, 2009 at 12:04 am
This is my FAVORITE AWESOME THING EVER
March 11, 2009 at 5:36 am
IKR, I LOVE WHEN THIS HAPPENS!
March 11, 2009 at 5:50 am
I read this as “when you’re drawing and then a dolphin comes to your rescue”, which would have been even cooler
STILL AWESOME
March 11, 2009 at 7:25 am
This happens to me at least twice a day.
March 11, 2009 at 7:34 am
Happens to me all the time! Absolutely ;)
March 11, 2009 at 9:07 am
Oh man, I can only dream that this will happen to me one day!
March 11, 2009 at 9:58 am
not a hater… maybe just possibly just sad person.. but when does this happen and what do i have to eat before bed to let me be saved by a dolphin?
March 11, 2009 at 10:00 am
That would be great since I can’t swim.
March 11, 2009 at 11:24 am
This has happened to me multiple times, and I can attest to it. Amazing.
March 11, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Great Post as usual.
Im in shock that some one else uses “IKR”… nice!
March 11, 2009 at 12:13 pm
You know when you are 12 years old, and get all obsessed with freaky stuff like UFO’s, the Bermuda Triangle, ghosts, David Hasslehoff, etc.?
Well, I had a bit of a thing for true tales of dolphin rescue. Like if your ship sank and you’re stranded on a piece of flotsam, and the dolphins push you to an island. Why should the dolphins care if you live or die? It just goes against the whole “nature red in tooth and claw” theory. Fascinating, and (of course)…
Awesome!
March 11, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Awesome, indeed.
This made me giggle for a good 5 minutes, thank you :)
March 11, 2009 at 1:39 pm
In my formative years, I did a lot of drugs. A lot. A stunning amount. But never did I eat, drink, snort, inject, smoke, or insert something rectally that made me envision being rescued by dolphins. Kudos to you, Neil. For saying balls to the fine line between fantasy and reality!
March 11, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Dolphins are great! If only there was a way to repay them.
March 11, 2009 at 7:24 pm
It’s kind of obnoxious when you’re just trying to go for a nice open ocean swim. But they’re endearing enough to get away with it.
March 11, 2009 at 9:58 pm
“You’ll be the first to die!” I keep getting reminded of the Simpsons when I read this. I’m talking about the lost at sea sequence in “Boy Scoutz in Da Hood” and not the THoH episode with the killer dolphins, but even that one has its merits.
Fuck land, I’m on a Boat™! :)
March 11, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Turns out they’re more likely to rape/kill you than rescue you.
Go figure.
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/01/dolphins_not_so.html
March 12, 2009 at 4:28 pm
that was a good day
March 13, 2009 at 11:47 am
I’d be on the dolphin, doin flips and shi…stuff
March 13, 2009 at 11:50 am
Will the dolphin be splashing, getting everybody all wet? :P
April 20, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Haha, that was my first thought too!
March 17, 2009 at 1:18 am
I love dolphins, and randomness, don’t get me wrong… but I was a little disappointed to see this one here…
Maybe I’m just a stickler, but I think the actual small things in life are more worthy of making this list.
March 17, 2009 at 6:43 pm
This was out of left field, but it was great.
March 22, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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May 15, 2009 at 4:50 am
This would be such a dream
May 23, 2009 at 12:14 am
cf. Herodotus: The Histories.
Dolphin boy rules.
August 16, 2009 at 1:54 pm
hahaha! i would love that
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October 5, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Yes, because this happens all the time…
November 18, 2009 at 9:12 am
slow awesome day?
March 16, 2010 at 10:10 pm
haha, your comment made me laugh much louder than the actual post! haha
December 3, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I’ve met some of my best friends while doing that.
May 6, 2010 at 1:55 am
HAHAHA @ Oldton!!!
Has anyone ever seen “the cove” the documentary about dolphin capativity and killing in Japan?
Anyway, point is, there is an Australian surfer they interview who was surfing with his buddy when a Tiger Shark started coming for them (thinking they were prey) out of NOWHERE a DOLPHIN swims up and T-bones the Tiger Shark to scare him away. Talk about REALLY being saved by a dolphin!!!!