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From: ksh@rtgvax.UUCP (Kent S. Harris)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: old porpoise
Message-ID: <40@rtgvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 18:24:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 18:24:56 1986
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Organization: Santa Clara Valley Computer Sciences, Cupertino, CA
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	A couple of years ago along the southern California coast
	the Coast Guard was having trouble with porpoise (aka dolphins)
	beaching themselves.  Several amazing things were discovered.
	First, after taking skin samples and using dating techniques
	similar to the well known Carbon-14 method, it was realized
	the porpoise were many thousands of years old.  Furthermore,
	they refused to eat, even after being captured and nurtured
	in holding tanks.  Eventually, a young attendant discovered,
	quite by accident, the porpise would eat only baby sea gulls.
	Now this created a real problem, as you can imagine, since
	it is illegal to kill sea gulls in california.  However, the
	"save the porpoise" mentality quickly set in, and all kinds
	of volunteers were driving to the Oregon coast to capture sea
	gulls and transport them back to southern California.  That is,
	until one day, when the state agricultural station officer
	examined a truck on its return trip and immediately arrested the
	driver since it's "against the law to transport young gulls
	across state lines for immortal porpoise's."