Whale sings lonely song

From CNN :

"LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A lone whale, with a voice unlike any other, has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years, American marine biologists said Wednesday.
Using signals recorded by the U.S. Navy to track submarines, they traced the movement of whales in the Northern Pacific and found that a lone whale singing at a frequency of around 52 hertz has cruised the ocean since 1992.
Its calls, despite being clearly those of a baleen, do not match those of any known species of whale, which usually call at frequencies of between 15 and 20 hertz.
The mammal does not follow the migration patterns of any other species either, according to team leader Mary Anne Daher.
The calls of the whale, which roams the ocean every autumn and winter, have deepened slightly as a result of aging, but are still recognizable.
The study by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, appears in the New Scientist magazine."

How very sad! I wonder if the whale has lost its way? Its pod? Is it looking for another lonely whale?

Hairy toes under the stall -- Ewww! --

Police in Jamestown, North Carolina, report a peeping Tom was caught in the women's locker room at a local "Y." A woman in a neighboring shower stall spotted his hairy feet and called for help.

David Herbert Witham is charged with six counts of peeping. Authorities say he used a small mirror to catch glimpses of the women in the shower and undressing.

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What do you want for Christmas?

All I want for Christmas is . . .

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[Friday, Dec. 17th UPDATE: Last night, I was sitting in our pied-a-terre, knitting madly away, with Christmas music on the radio in the background, when what should I hear???? . . . but "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas!" Not once, but twice over the course of the evening! Who woulda thunk it? :-D]

Extra! Extra! Minnie smacks Mickey!

Here's an image that takes me right back to being five. That would have been the mid-fifties, Ike was in the White House and the Cold War was heating up. Black-and-white television was the newest toy in the American toybox and Mickey Mouse was king of the heap.

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