[Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)]

Invented by British soldiers in Burma during the war, shark-jacking provided hardened troops with a highly effective method to blow off steam between battles. Blowing off steam by having sex with natives was not an option due to their unshakable conservative stance against premarital and extramarital sex. This recreational activity especially appealed to brits that did not like playing soccer. "They would swim out to a shark-infested area of the Indian Ocean and would lure these deadly creatures to them by having meat tied around their ankles. When the shark approached, the three 'sleepers' would wrestle the shark into submission and the 'baiter' would manually stimulate the shark.

[Malamute Lover]

Invented by British soldiers in Burma during the war, shark-jacking provided hardened troops with a highly effective method to blow off steam between battles. Blowing off steam by having sex with natives was not an option due to their unshakable conservative stance against premarital and extramarital sex. This recreational activity especially appealed to brits that did not like playing soccer. "They would swim out to a shark-infested area of the Indian Ocean and would lure these deadly creatures to them by having meat tied around their ankles. When the shark approached, the three 'sleepers' would wrestle the shark into submission and the 'baiter' would manually stimulate the shark.

I've heard of jumping the shark, but this is ridiculous. (flicks cigar, wiggles eyebrows)

[alancalverd]

Far more likely (and less risky) to have been a dolphin. There have been US prosecutions of people accused of sexual shenanigans with cetaceans, and at least one UK newspaper scandal that I don't think was actually presented to Their Worships.
   

[Malamute Lover]

Far more likely (and less risky) to have been a dolphin. There have been US prosecutions of people accused of sexual shenanigans with cetaceans, and at least one UK newspaper scandal that I don't think was actually presented to Their Worships.
 

Somewhere in my vast and disorganized library, I have a book on Dolphin research. In it there is the account of a woman and a dolphin who spent extensive time together in a special habitat. One day he approached her and she cooperated.

There is also the story of an event at a Sea World like place where the dolphin show was in peril because the male and female were engaging in nonstop, ahem, relations. Obviously not family material. One of the old hands at the show said that if they were fed they would stop. However there were no more fish left and the next delivery was not until the next day. But the experienced worker offered a solution. There were usually dead seagulls down by the beach.

So two of them went down to the beach with large garbage bags and sure enough there were a number of dead seagulls there. The younger worker had put several in his bag and turned to discover there was a lion lying in his path. 'Don't worry' said the other worker. "That's just Leo from the zoo. He is very old and not at all aggressive. Likes to follow people around and then usually goes to sleep. Just step over him,".

The worker did and immediately FBI agents came out of nowhere and put him in cuffs.

The charge?

>>>Crossing a staid lion with gulls for immoral porpoises.<<<

[Colin2B]

Somewhere in my vast and disorganized library, I have a book on Dolphin research. In it there is the account of a woman and a dolphin who spent extensive time together in a special habitat. One day he approached her and she cooperated.

Margaret Howe Lovatt, in the 1960s. It was in a tv documentary about trying to teach dolphins to talk, although I recall she stopped short of admitting full relationship, but some newspapers took it further.

The worker did and immediately FBI agents came out of nowhere and put him in cuffs.

The charge?

Well, I’m sure he stepped over the lion, but that’s no federal crime.

[alancalverd]

So it was a lion in the sand, not a police lion (they only operate inside state lions)  or a red lion. As they say, lessons will be learned and we will draw a lion under it (politicspeak for "no Party donors will be prosecuted").

[Petrochemicals]

Invented by British soldiers in Burma during the war, shark-jacking provided hardened troops with a highly effective method to blow off steam between battles. Blowing off steam by having sex with natives was not an option due to their unshakable conservative stance against premarital and extramarital sex. This recreational activity especially appealed to brits that did not like playing soccer. "They would swim out to a shark-infested area of the Indian Ocean and would lure these deadly creatures to them by having meat tied around their ankles. When the shark approached, the three 'sleepers' would wrestle the shark into submission and the 'baiter' would manually stimulate the shark.

I think it would more likely have been meat, buoy, grenate, dead shark. Where on earth did you find above quoted info.

[Malamute Lover]

Quote from: Malamute Lover on Yesterday at 19:38:52

    Somewhere in my vast and disorganized library, I have a book on Dolphin research. In it there is the account of a woman and a dolphin who spent extensive time together in a special habitat. One day he approached her and she cooperated.


Margaret Howe Lovatt, in the 1960s. It was in a tv documentary about trying to teach dolphins to talk, although I recall she stopped short of admitting full relationship, but some newspapers took it further.

My memory has revived a bit on this matter, and if I now have it clearer, it turned out to be geometrically impossible if she was to keep her head above the water. Like Leslie Nielsen, dolphins can hold their breath for a long looooong time. (cue creepy music, go to comic book depiction)