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What age is Fungi the Dolphin

  • 29-08-2011 11:39PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭


    Was just thinking about Fungi there today. Saw him years ago. Seems he is outliving all his dolphin cousins by about 5 years. Is there something fishy going on down in dingle? What is the story with Fungi anyway?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Glad you asked!

    In 1984, Paddy Ferriter, the Dingle Harbour lighthouse keeper, first began watching a lone wild dolphin escort the town's fishing boats to and from port. By August of that year, local Ministry of Marine manager Kevin Flannery was able to officially record the dolphin as a "permanent" resident of the entrance channel and self-appointed "pilot" of the fleet.

    Two years later the continuous investigations of a couple of cetacea enthusiasts, Sheila Stokes and Brian Holmes, brought them to Dingle Pier and into conversation with the seamen who were still being entertained by the dolphin. Nine months of intensive aquatic contact later, the dolphin had decided to develop from a timid but inquisitive observer of the human visitors into a playful, though mischievous, companion.

    It also soon became apparent that having become accustomed to them, all humans, particularly females, would be welcome. Now each and every person receives the same special preferential treatment, be they swimmers, divers, canoeists, windsurfers, or children paddling from the small adjacent beach.

    During the summer months Fungie is often seen taking fish in the harbour mouth. On several occasions he has been observed catching a fish commonly known as a "Garfish", a species which had not previously been recorded as part of a dolphin's diet. During the winter months he must travel further a field for his nourishment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Thanks bikopedia.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    hes just an old man in a dolphin suit... its a scam too lure amerians and gullible irish


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    Wow! He's older than me :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    He is one big fecking fish up close.
    With the recession and all, we should turn him into fish fingers.

    Sorry Fungi. *single-tear*


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    Haven't seen him since I was little, now I really wanna go see him again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Off topic.


    Is three testicles an advantage, do you find ?
    Like cycling ... how does that go ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    TheUsual wrote: »
    He is one big fecking fish up close.
    With the recession and all, we should turn him into fish fingers.

    Sorry Fungi. *single-tear*

    Mammal...
    Hes a mammal,not a fish


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭AnamGlas


    TheUsual wrote: »
    Off topic.


    Is three testicles an advantage, do you find ?
    Like cycling ... how does that go ?
    We're talking about a different kind of fungi :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    TheUsual wrote: »
    Off topic.


    Is three testicles an advantage, do you find ?
    Like cycling ... how does that go ?


    If going into a long battle what is better? Having two fully loaded guns or three?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    he's dead now :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    Saila wrote: »
    he's dead now :(

    Really?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,633 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Really?

    Yep. Sad really. He went mad on heroin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Really?

    dolphins dont live as long as humans, and humans cant tell fungi from fred the dolphin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    chucken1 wrote: »
    Mammal...
    Hes a mammal,not a fish

    Mammal-fingers ?
    Fish-fingers ?

    You are just arguing over spelling really.
    It will taste the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,505 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Fungi's not long left now for this earth...saw him about 2 years ago and he was bloody frakked...apart from surfacing he could barely roll over let alone flip..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    TheUsual wrote: »
    Mammal-fingers ?
    Fish-fingers ?

    You are just arguing over spelling really.
    It will taste the same.


    :( shup!:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    AnamGlas wrote: »
    We're talking about a different kind of fungi :p

    "Fun-guy"

    I see what you did there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭WalterMitty


    Had fungi on me dolphin once. Nasty itch for weeks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam




    Fungi is believed to have been born in the mid-1970's.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Feckin Kerry dolphins. Couldn't beat them with a schtick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭rivalius13


    chucken1 wrote: »
    Mammal...
    Hes a mammal,not a fish
    I dunno, when I buy tuna that isn't dolphin friendly I barely notice the difference, can't be THAT far away from fish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭lastlaugh


    Off topic,

    Was someone charged with molesting Fungi a few years back?

    They were in a Dingy, got up close to him and tried fingering his blow hole?

    Could be wrong though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    hondasam wrote: »
    Fungi is believed to have been born in the mid-1970's.

    thats settles it then, its deffinately fred the dolpin now then, I was conned :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    lastlaugh wrote: »
    Off topic,

    Was someone charged with molesting Fungi a few years back?

    They were in a Dingy, got up close to him and tried fingering his blow hole?

    Could be wrong though.

    I think fungi molested some woman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    lastlaugh wrote: »
    Off topic,

    Was someone charged with molesting Fungi a few years back?

    They were in a Dingy, got up close to him and tried fingering his blow hole?

    Could be wrong though.
    :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    hondasam wrote: »
    I think fungi molested some woman.

    he though she was a cat


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Sc@recrow wrote: »
    Fungi's not long left now for this earth...saw him about 2 years ago and he was bloody frakked...apart from surfacing he could barely roll over let alone flip..

    Saw him about 14 months ago and he was flying around the place!

    Althought \i do think he is probably robotic t this stage


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    lastlaugh wrote: »
    Off topic,

    Was someone charged with molesting Fungi a few years back?

    They were in a Dingy, got up close to him and tried fingering his blow hole?

    Could be wrong though.

    Neagh - FingyDingy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    I was told once that the reason he stayed there on his own is because he's gay.

    Honest to God, that is what I was told. I'm not trying to be funny here.


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