I don’t think we need to speculate on the possibility of any poodle ever winning the poodle versus shark deathmatch, do we?
The Advertiser 31 Mar 1911 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5262531
In 1911 two off-duty* coppers from Prahran went fishing off St Kilda pier and caught a small, but very active shark. As it lay on the pier each of its death flops wiggles was accompanied by a strange tinkling sound.
The men decided to investigate and, opening the shark, found a small bell such as those which were popularly attached to the collar of small poodles.
It was surmised that the bell was the only part of a missing Fluffy which had resisted the sharks digestive juices.
The foremost question I had about this article was this; when do you think the paths of the shark and a tinkly-bell wearing dog collided? There are lots of things that are found inside sharks, not all of them make sense. Wouldn’t you love to know where sharks find some of those things!! (Some other posts I have done have bombs, cats, goats and kangaroos and more cats inside sharks.)
I wonder if the annoying tinkling of Fluffy’s bell caused a husband to finally crack, the pooch meeting its end when it was taken on a late night stroll by the pier….. 😉
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And, using a thread so thin as to be almost invisible to connect this deathmatch to another equally unlikely deathmatch, here is a clip that makes me laugh, Celebrity Deathmatch: Men in Black vs The X Files.
Unnecessary use of dismembered play dough body parts warning…. 😉
*I say off-duty, but it was a Thursday afternoon. If it was a sunny Autumn day the chances are they were just fishing instead of working detaining the shark to help with their enquiries….
Buried words and Bushwa. 
It’s quite surprising what a varied menu your sharks have over there.. Pampered I call it.
The video was a bright spot in a dull Monday morning Metan, thank you.
xx Sending Hugs xx
Pleased I could brighten your day with tales of destruction… 😉
It is surprising what sharks consider food, I think they are like a baby, anything that will fit goes in the mouth, regardless of flavour!
Imagine how annoyed the shark was… that’s it I’m never eating poodleever again, it gives me the tinkles 🙂 And, it never did. I’m sure the 2 cops were in the area following up leads. Yep.
“It gives me the tinkles”, I’m still laughing! 😀 I wonder if the shark had trouble hunting anything else once it had the bell inside? A bit like a cat trying to sneak up on a bird, the fish would have heard “dah nah…tinkle, dah nah….tinkle”. Hard to be menacing under such trying conditions! 😉
“dah nah…tinkle”?? LMAO
I can get the vision of the tinkly shark out of my head, and your version just makes me laugh all the more 😀
😀 I can’t stop thinking about it either! Every time the shark coughs a little tuft of curly poodle hair puffs out…. 😀
This hilarious but so subjective… I couldn’t bear the thought of cat eating sharks but a poodle is just made to be the curly butt of a bad, mmmm, tastes like chick joke, and in having this random thought I wondered if it was just me, us, so Googled, and no, there is this http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647652.Poodle_The_Other_White_Meat 😀
I prefer dogs over cats but I can still think of no other animal that is better suited to this joking than that particular critter. I love that the two top shelves of Sherman’s fridge are full of poodle in that link. 😀
I’m just wondering how the bell could possibly have been ‘tinkling’… if you hold a bell tight in your hand, it makes a dull sound because it can’t vibrate. So, where was it in the shark that allowed it to tinkle?
Am I analysing this too much?
Well played! Plus it would have been wet… and sticky. Something smells fishy?
… fishy, indeed! Probably a bit corroded too if the shark’s digestive juices were enough to have processed a whole poodle plus collar.
I did think the same thing myself, bells only work when they get to hang freely don’t they? If the rest of the collar was digested I doubt there would be much tinkle left in the bell. Maybe there was a recently swallowed fish forlornly jingling the bell from within in the hopes of rescue…. 😉
lmao – I didn’t think of that! Good point. 🙂
As someone with absolutely no use for poodles, this story – at least in my opinion – ended on a happy note.
I can see you playing the part of the long suffering husband taking the tinkling dog for a long walk off a short pier (tip of the hat to my dad there, he would tell us kids to do that when we were being particularly annoying 😀 )
My grandmother had a poodle that was the most obnoxious beast to ever roam God’s green earth. If there had been a pier nearby I would have taken a saw to it to ensure it was short – very short – when it came time for a walk.
My grandfather had a chihuahua like that. You could have taken it and the poodle on such a walk.
That’s a very nice saying, Metan. Mind if I swipe it? It is perfect Wal-Mart material. 🙂
Feel free to share it, my dad is still full of silly sayings. 😀
You write that “I don’t think we need to speculate on the possibility of any poodle ever winning the poodle versus shark deathmatch”—you don’t know our toy poodle. He’s named Sherlock for a reason. 😉
Aaah, so that is how the bell got there. Sherlock, gripping the shark by the nose and ramming the bell down its throat “I’ll see you laddie!” then giving him a headbutt. For some reason my imaginary version of your dog is Scottish…. 😉
Good as story as any. Sherlock is very mischievous. Perhaps he leads a double life in which he antagonizes sharks. OR maybe he fed my dog Murdoch to the shark. Rapscallion, that he is. We call him a “Haubstadt Hoodlum”, not very Scottish even if his name is. 😉
Aw… no… 😦
Poor pooch!