While watching a TV show when I was a child about a dolphin named Flipper...singing, "They call him Flipper, Flipper faster than lightning," I wanted to live like those boys and spend my days with Flipper. That dolphin sounded like he was communicating with the boys and he was so smart.
After I watched a show about the taping of the TV show Flipper, my heart sank when I learned that Flipper was trained and everything Flipper did on that show was with hand commands. What a big disappointment.
"Swim with dolphins" is on my bucket list and has not been scratched off. However, I did come close when I was 15 years old. My parents took me and my brother on a fishing trip in Florida where I sat on the bow of the boat and watched the dolphins swimming ahead of us; leading the way. It was so much fun and the closest I ever came to swimming with the dolphins.
And not too long ago, I thought I was finally swimming in an ocean...with dolphins, only to be disappointed once again. Most people think that when you join Steemit you start off as a minnow. A few months after joining Steemit I read a post by @albertvhons who stated that we do not begin as minnows; we begin as redfish. To make matters worse, I learned that that I am not even swimming in an ocean. I am a redfish...swimming in a bowl! Once again, I find myself yearning to swim with the dolphins and wonder if I will ever be able to scratch this off of my bucket list.
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You WILL someday if you want it bad enough and I think this post proves that you do!!!!
and I use to watch that show too!!! :D I can still hear him talking in my head loll as soon as you said his name!
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Thanks for the encouraging words!
Now I can't get that song out of my head. LOL! : )
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You will!!!!!
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Thanks for the encouragement my friend! : )
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Let's swim the Steemit Ocean together!!! :) Ohh~!! I love Flipper, too! ^^ I like watching it and Free Willy when I was young.. hihi ^^
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I will be more than happy to swim the Steemit Ocean with you! Oh, I forgot about Free Willy...how could I? : )
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Yaaaay~!!! ^^ That's great to know!! ^^ Maybe because we're talking about Dolphins? hihi... When it comes to whales... I like Free Willy and @whalepower! hihihi ^^
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heyheyhey! I love @whalepower! : )
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Yaaaaaay~!!!! <3 <3 <3
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I think a lot of us were thinking flipper - just shows you the world wide reach of the TV culture. I had to laugh about discovering the redfish reality - I got my nose dunked in that too.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-40-5-minute-freewrite-prompt-pasta
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HaHa! Those shows back then were fun and so innocent. I refuse to watch TV now. Good 'ole redfish! : )
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I remember Flipper, but mostly I liked the Flintstones lol
It was rather un-magical to see how shows were made but
also it was interesting how everything was achieved to get
what you see when It's done. One of the best showing how
a movie was made was on the dvd extras of the movie
Dreamkeepers* a Hallmark movie.
It looks like it takes 4ever to get to the next fish lol
Least not skeletal anymore or maybe that was changed
to the red one after the upgrade?
That would be such a trip to swim with such big fish as
dolphins real or digital lol :-)
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That is interesting about the extras of the Hallmark movie. You are so funny. I used to watch the Flintstones too...Yabba Dabba Doo! : )
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Ahhh, no way! you're a sleek beautiful swordfish in my ocean and dolphins can't begin to be as much fun to swim with! You are definitely no redfish in a bowl, that would make me a tadpole caught and chunked into a child's sippy cup!
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OMG! ROFLMAO! How can I possibly top that one!!! Man...you are so good! LOL! : )
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LOL, it's true, and no one has ever caught me exaggerating anything, no not ever! 😎
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