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Can Domingo be for dolphins?

Jason Weisberger at 4:00 pm Sun, Mar 10, 2013

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Jason Weisberger is Boing Boing's publisher. He often does what he ought, instead of what he should. On instagram and twitter he is @jlw

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  • http://losinfinitos.tumblr.com Haz 0

    ¿Podría Domingo ser por los delfines?

    Si

  • http://twitter.com/roblandaeta Roberto Landaeta

    I was going to say “no” in the basis that dolphins are assholes, but I remembered that cats are bigger assholes.

    I just love my assholes!

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

      “So I paid fifty bucks to swim with dolphins, and the first thing they tell me is ‘don’t insert anything in the blowhole’. And I thought, well there’s a waste of fifty bucks.”-Robert Schimmel

  • pjcamp

     Ummmm. . . sure. Wut?

  • Gerald Mander

    Either I’m missing something here, or something is missing here.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

      It’s a proposal for something like Caturday. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/paleocinema Terry Frost

    WTF is Domingo?

    • MiG

      Sunday.

    • bardfinn

      “Sunday” in non-Anglo-Saxon Latin-Romantic Christian cultures is almost universally “Domin-”, meaning “Lord-”; whereas in Saxon-descended cultures it’s some variant of “Sun-”, for much the same reason we have days named for the moon, Tyr, Wotan, Thor, Frigge, and *Saturn*. Except in Germany, where a certain distance to Wotan-worship has arisen and the day is now literally “Midweek”. Lemme tell ya – explaining that’s fun.

      • CH

        Oh! Yea, my country doesn’t fall under your definition, other than the generic “Christian culture” (Nordic country)… I had absolutely no idea what the headline referred to. Thanks for the explanation!

      • Richard_Kirk

        In the UK, we have don’t have “national holidays”, we have “bank holidays”. Same sort of thing, except we know our unseen, superpotent, capricious, and occasionally destructive forces actually exist and demand our worship.

    • Smash Martian

      Domingo means “Sunday” in Spanish. So “Dolphin Sunday” as well as Caturday.

    • awjt

      He’s the new guest blogger who’s responsible for posting cute dolphin pictures every Sunday, henceforth.

  • Daemonworks

    Folks have been trying to push Sundog for ages.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Adams/100000053021803 Rick Adams

    Dolphingo?

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Wouldn’t it be Delfingo?

      • ldobe

        I dunno, delfingo is pretty close to delphingo: Delphi Sunday.  And we all know what happens when people follow a chick on mushrooms, or anyone on mushrooms for that matter.  Sure it may be a good time for a little while, but we’ll all reconsider when s/he’s trying to convince us to jump off a high ledge while hell hounds are chasing us.

        • ImmutableMichael

          Not mushrooms – huffing gasoline apparently.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia

          • ldobe

            Hallucinogenic intoxicants both.  Let the good times roll.  I suppose.
            Inhalants have always seemed stupid to me.  Starve a brain of oxygen and of course the victim will say weird things that might even sound prophetic.  Either that or brain-damaged babble with no semblance of meaning.  If these women were indeed huffing hydrocarbons, it would probably have shortened their lives significantly and reduced their quality of life overall.

          • Jerril

            Plutarch said[26] that the Pythia’s life was shortened through the service of Apollo. The sessions were said to be exhausting. At the end of each period the Pythia would be like a runner after a race or a dancer after an ecstatic dance, which may have had a physical effect on the health of the Pythia.

            Indeed, it wasn’t good for them.

      • Felton / Moderator

        I’m looking forward to Quentin Tarantino’s Delfingo Unchained.

      • oasisob1

        Dominphin.

  • tubacat

    Yes, why not!

    My contribution (though it’s Monday now) would be a suggestion to go to:
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoph1f_fred-neil-the-dolphins-mp4-show-infossee-your-video-fred-neil-the-dolphins-mp4-show-infossee-your-vi_music

  • Richard Crosby

    I speak Spanish, and still, I felt I was missing something here.

  • Just_Ok

    Yes, but to what porpoise?

  • Ramone

    The only problem I see is the lack of hosehold dolphins to caption. GIS may end up being a tad overused.

  • mongo

    Dolphingo meets Fido Friday
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/05/australian-woman-says-dolphins-saved-her-and-her-dog-from-drowning/
    http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/feb/24/dolphins-save-tired-dog-stuck-canal-marco-island/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Adams/100000053021803 Rick Adams

    Can Tuesday be Tarsday then!?!?

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Y_d7NHY49w/Te6-1kRS7WI/AAAAAAAAAbI/4omeaELLi0k/s400/tarsier_2.jpg

    • Felton / Moderator

      I love the idea, although “Tarsday” sounds more like “Thursday” to me.

      • Sparg

         I hear a leipreachán saying it, “Come back Tarsday!”

        • Felton / Moderator

          Or a tarsier dressed like a leipreachán.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Agenbroad/100002463876063 James Agenbroad

    Fa go.  Fa go NOW.

  • Gerald Mander

    It it’ll prevent more cat pictures, then I’m for it.

  • Jorpho

    Are those scratches on its face signs of abuse?  Should we be concerned?  Shocked?  Outraged?

    Or are those markings perfectly natural and acceptable even among wild and well-cared-for cetaceans?

    • oasisob1

      Another dolphin put them there, and Mike Tyson is going to sue.

  • Sofia Ortiz

    Yes, but only if they speak correct Spanish.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jenn-Chlebus/100000210481615 Jenn Chlebus

    I’ll just leave this here… http://thenexttobestblogever.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/far-side-kay-pas-uh/

    Props to the Larson. Man was way ahead of his time.