WE HARDLY KNEW YE, WHAT WITH THE SHELL
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Just how the heck do they know she was 175 years old? Was anyone there (besides Bob Dole) when she was born?
Posted by: Suzy Q | June 23, 2006 at 05:12 PM
What a turtlicious day!
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 23, 2006 at 05:12 PM
Talk about yer serious old maid! They didn't know he was a she until she was over 100.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 23, 2006 at 05:14 PM
My question is how the heck did they figure HE was a SHE??? after a hundred years????
Posted by: Susy Cruz | June 23, 2006 at 05:15 PM
What a magnificent creature. Her amazing life spanned sailing ships to the space shuttle. She will truly be missed.
Okay, who's got the soup kettle?
Posted by: fivver | June 23, 2006 at 05:15 PM
I hear the zoo is going to shell out big bucks for a proper wake...
Posted by: Sean | June 23, 2006 at 05:16 PM
She doesn't look a day over 170.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 05:17 PM
what would it have sounded like if she didn't pass away quietly?
Posted by: Betsi | June 23, 2006 at 05:22 PM
Betsi - she would have made a shell of lot of noise.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-he | June 23, 2006 at 05:26 PM
I'm proud to say I actually made Harriet's acquaintance. Well, I visited Australia Zoo, and stood with a throng of people to gape at her. Nevertheless, she touched my heart.
I'll have to talk to my boss about bereavement leave...
Posted by: Chow Yi | June 23, 2006 at 05:31 PM
"Harriet, who was originally mistaken for a male tortoise and called Harry for more than a century..."
...while she laughed to herself because all those scientists who prided themselves on their genius were morons...
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 05:42 PM
I would be impressed but I have been to Tampa and you are not even eligible for social security till 200 in Tampa.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | June 23, 2006 at 06:02 PM
She used to be a snapping turtle until--at 150--she lost her teeth.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | June 23, 2006 at 06:15 PM
Awwww ... Chow Yi, I didn't meet her in person (or in "shell") but I did see her on Animal Planet with her mate (as in buddy, not "mate" mate) Steve Irwin.
*sniff* I just figured she'd live forever.
Posted by: Cheryl | June 23, 2006 at 06:26 PM
Chow see if your boss will foot the bill for you to attend the services.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | June 23, 2006 at 06:29 PM
RIP
Posted by: Eleanor | June 23, 2006 at 06:45 PM
Cheryl~ Being on TV w/ him is probably what did her in.
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 06:45 PM
Cheryl, just try to look at it like a television series that has ended.Like When ROSANNE ended.well, I guess that was a gbood day, shoot , you know what I mean.~
Posted by: MoFaux | June 23, 2006 at 06:50 PM
gbgbgb... hmmm close together on the keyboard....
Posted by: MoFaux | June 23, 2006 at 06:51 PM
El - that would be "RIT" (rest in tortoise)
Posted by: Guin | June 23, 2006 at 07:07 PM
Guin, if that, shouldn't it be RITS (shell)? :)
Posted by: Eleanor | June 23, 2006 at 08:50 PM
Or maybe just on the half shell?
(Turtle power!)
Posted by: Militant Grammarian | June 23, 2006 at 09:43 PM
What's so sad is that even after 175 years, she never really came out of her shell.
Posted by: Brian | June 23, 2006 at 09:57 PM
After a horribly long day, it is slightly convenient that I can cite Cagle, 1939, as the reason they had the sex wrong for a hundred-years.
Meanwhile, Japanese couples are apparently having the sex wrong and it's 2006.
Posted by: CJrun | June 23, 2006 at 10:42 PM
Baboons stealing British flags, and Turtles traveling throughout the British Empire. " Oh! Rudyard Kipling, Where art though?"
Posted by: Kat C | June 24, 2006 at 12:06 AM
I believe Rudyard's with Harriet now.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2006 at 02:11 AM
Keepers at the zoo who cared for Harriet attributed her longevity to a stress-free life.
well, that's amazing, since she spent more than half her life called Harry, and couldnt shout out I"M A GIRL, you dipsticks..'.. that's a lotta stress. she probably could have made it to 200 if not for that. the article didnt say when the services are, and i hope they dont have to compete with the kidman wedding.
Posted by: queensbee | June 24, 2006 at 07:59 AM
Oh, Harriet, oh, Harriet!
Symbol of the G.B.E.
You struted your stuff,
Over the years enough,
From Sea to shinning Sea!
When you expired,
We tried and tried,
But couldn't come to grips.
The Aussies lost a faithful soul-
And the British, too, I'm told!
One day in Heaven,I hope we meet.
Then I can ask you why: "The Queens and Kings of England didn't hear your cry? They left you to your own diversion and didn't seem to care. But it was the Aussies down below the line that really gave you fare!"
Posted by: Kit a Long | June 24, 2006 at 03:51 PM
It seems to me she lived her life like an unlit candle on a windless day...never doing much, just--there.
Posted by: jt | June 24, 2006 at 08:33 PM
The question is: did Steve Irwin shed crocodile tears?
No one is still reading this I hope.
Posted by: nannie | June 24, 2006 at 09:14 PM
Not a soul! Not a soul.
Posted by: Kit-ah-Fur | June 25, 2006 at 01:27 PM
Nobody at all.
Posted by: Cat R. | June 26, 2006 at 10:06 PM