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I just thought I'd point out that it was one year ago today when Steve Irwin died from a stingray.
 
Was it really? o_o Huh. I'd thought it had been July/August-ish or so. But, the last year has gone by so quickly that I'm all sorts of thrown off. I can't believe it's November already.

Although now I think about it, I think they said something about some Crocodile Hunter thing airing on Animal Planet next weekend. I guess this explains that. n_n;
 
Steve's Actual Deathday

Steve actually died on the morning of Monday, September 4, 2006 when he was killed by a stingray attack. This was close enough to my cat's deathday which was also September 4 when she died on Sunday, September 4, 2005. I had noticed it's been a year several hours before my cat became 2 years dead and since September 4 was 60 days ago, he's been dead for 1 year and 60 days with my cat being dead for 2 years and 60 days so she was approximately a year dead when Steve Irwin died. He was our hero and idiot; well at least that's what they said about him on the serebiiforums. There's a thread in there that talked about how he died with links to other websites since I don't know if I can advertise without the "Join my forums" kind of stuff when people over there love to advertise but get caught, link gets removed with them receiving 3 infraction points but you can search in the Miscallenous Dicussion and the thread was created and closed yesteryear.
 
As an Australian, I can get away with poking fun at the guy even after he's dead. It's part of our "Larrikin" culture. Thus, I present to you the following, in "honor" of a man who was a media personality to gullible tourists, in much the same way that Vegemite is a food to them.

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lol.

I liked watching this guy on TV, he was entertaining. I especially like the special when he kissed a poisonous snake on the lips.

But Carlos Mencia brought up a good point, wasn't a death like this SOMEWHERE in his future? The guy was around wild, often extremely dangerous animals everyday. Even if Stingray's aren't typically dangerous, they're still dangerous to BE around.

[Callous Remark] His death wasn't ironic enough. He should have been killed by a crocodile [/Callous Remark].
 
Azure Syaoran said:
lol.

I liked watching this guy on TV, he was entertaining. I especially like the special when he kissed a poisonous snake on the lips.

But Carlos Mencia brought up a good point, wasn't a death like this SOMEWHERE in his future? The guy was around wild, often extremely dangerous animals everyday. Even if Stingray's aren't typically dangerous, they're still dangerous to BE around.

[Callous Remark] His death wasn't ironic enough. He should have been killed by a crocodile [/Callous Remark].
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Disagree! I think it's ironic how, he had handled dangerous and deadly animals everyday of his life, such as poisonous Taipan snakes and crocodiles, yet he is killed by arguably such a harmless creature in a stingray.
 
I agree. When you think stingray you don't think of them as deadly. When ever I think of his death at the barb of a stingray I'm amazed. Especially since they had made fun of the thought of his demise from much more dangerous creatures.

As morbid as it is, Archaic's little animation is funny in a sick kind of way.
 
Stingrays apparently are deadly considering it KILLED him.
 
The only reason it was deadly was because it stung him in the heart.
 
The Big Al said:
The only reason it was deadly was because it stung him in the heart.
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Isn't that like saying killer bees aren't really deadly until they sting you? If it has the capacity to KILL you, it's deadly.
 
Azure Syaoran said:
Isn't that like saying killer bees aren't really deadly until they sting you? If it has the capacity to KILL you, it's deadly.
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It's like saying a cows aren't really deadly. Neither a sting ray nor a cow is likely to kill a man, but piss one off and you'll learn differently. Killer bees, on the other hand, will attack anything that interferes with them.
 
Archaic said:
As an Australian, I can get away with poking fun at the guy even after he's dead. It's part of our "Larrikin" culture. Thus, I present to you the following, in "honor" of a man who was a media personality to gullible tourists, in much the same way that Vegemite is a food to them.

tactoq1.gif
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Azure Syaoran said:
lol.

That's cool. I saw the little video of Steve Irwin getting attacked by a Mantine before. When I was surfing the serebiiforums, there was a link to the little video of Steve Irwin getting attacked by a Mantine and he dies. Then people starting thinking that Mantine was an evil Pokemon since it's like a stingray but on http://www.serebii.net/pokedex/226.shtml says that Mantine is called the "Kite Pokemon" so I don't why they believed it was an evil Pokemon on those forums.
I liked watching this guy on TV, he was entertaining. I especially like the special when he kissed a poisonous snake on the lips.

But Carlos Mencia brought up a good point, wasn't a death like this SOMEWHERE in his future? The guy was around wild, often extremely dangerous animals everyday. Even if Stingray's aren't typically dangerous, they're still dangerous to BE around.

[Callous Remark] His death wasn't ironic enough. He should have been killed by a crocodile [/Callous Remark].
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Sometimes I did watch the Steve Irwin show, but I wasn't a fan of him. I only watched the show on rare occasions. Do the old episodes still play on television even a year after his death?
 
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GyaraZapDos said:
Sometimes I did watch the Steve Irwin show, but I wasn't a fan of him. I only watched the show on rare occasions. Do the old episodes still play on television even a year after his death?
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Sometimes. I still see them on Animal Planet on occassion.
 
Archaic said:
Thus, I present to you the following, in "honor" of a man who was a media personality to gullible tourists, in much the same way that Vegemite is a food to them.
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Gullible tourists? If Steve Irwin and Vegemite weren't already established icons of Australia, they would have never gotten beyond fair Australia's borders.
 
Azure Syaoran said:
Isn't that like saying killer bees aren't really deadly until they sting you? If it has the capacity to KILL you, it's deadly.
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Your house could fall in on your head and kill you. Does that make your house deadly?

- Trip
 
Trip said:
Your house could fall in on your head and kill you. Does that make your house deadly?

- Trip
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No! I never had any houses fall in on my head as the roof is still attached to the house, but what causes your house to fall in on you? Besides I would just evade it by going outside. Clever me, I'd say.
 
Also, the barb went straight through his heart. That tends to be fatal one matter what it is.

Back to the topic at hand. It's not just Australians that make fun of the peculiar circumstances of his death. One time at a gaming party I went to someone found the Jaws game for the NES. The guy got killed by a stingray and someone said "dude, just like Steve Irwin".
 
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