How finless got his name ...

[rdlohr]

kgfly:
It's obvious isn't it ?

One night while out sailing Bob was watching the stars through his 14" Celestron with one eye and flying his TRex inverted over the water with the other. With his eyes thus occupied he failed to notice a passing humpback whale. Let's just say that when an unexpected interaction occured between his "needs more headspeed" rex and the humpback, the humpback left the area somewhat modified.

Since Bob modifies pretty much everything he touches, why should the humpback be any different ?




Spork:
The humpback story is a common urban legend explanation as to how the finless one got his name. The reality is that he ordered shark-fin soup while traveling for business to the Align factory in Asia. Having never had shark-fin soup, he was surprised and dissappointed to find there was no shark-fin floating around in there. An irate Bob complained loudly to the waiter "This soup is FINLESS!" thus embarrassing the entire party. In fact one of the high level managers at Align was so upset he through himself on his sword.

The name has stuck ever-since - and we've all had a love-hate relationship with Align ever since.

And that's the absolute 100% truth, or my name isn't Spork! :mrgreen:

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[BarnOwl]

You should be writing fiction novels........

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[kgfly]

Oh come on, you're not going to believe that are you ?

The real story goes way back thirty plus years to when Steven Spielberg was making Jaws. They were having trouble getting Fred, the remote control shark, to behave properly. Someone that worked on the lot said they new this kid that had a knack for fixing things and Steven said to bring him along. Bob came to the Universal lot the next day and quickly found the problem, turns out Fred wasn't able to thrash his head around realistically enough. Yep Bob knew the problem, Fred simply didn't have enough head speed.

Bob got on the job and upgraded the bearings, linkages and power system and soon Fred was performing very stably indeed. During the rebuild Fred's dorsal fin had been removed to allow access to the antenna.

All was quiet on the set. The curvaceous bikini-clad blonde slipped into the giant pool on the sound stage and started treading water. Steven called "Action" and the cameras started to roll. Fred was driven out from his launching bay to begin circling the unsuspecting victim. The music swelled, "Daaah Dum, Daaah Dum, dum dum dum dum dum dum dum" as Fred swept in for the first strike. All of a sudden Steven called out "What the? CUT! Where's that kid Bob ? Look at that, he's finless"

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[kgfly]

Well, when he popped out his father (the pirate) exclaimed proudly "he's Finless!".

This was your downfall. Now I don't dispute the genealogy, nor that the buttUglyFish avatar was a photo of his brother. However, while there is a large volume of video evidence that Bob has hands, there is none, nada, zip, zero of his feet. There's a reason. You see Bob is a hybrid mer-pirate. His tail is split with separate fins.

However, you know how cruel children can be and so of course "finless" was the nickname he was given by the kids that swam in his school.

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[WayneBrown]

oh jeeeeeeeeeze... *groan*

[rdlohr]

You guys crack me up!

I'm lovin it! Needs more head speed! LOL :D

Reminds me of a favorite SNL skit "Needs more cowbell!"

[zooland1]

oh come on guys. Haven't you figured out by now that Finless is his real name. It's just that he can't swim, but floats pretty well. That's why "Bob" is his real nickname.

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[Finless]

Here is the proof

VIDEO -> I GOT FINS! (http://video.helifreak.com/?subpath=finless/other&filename=igotfeet.wmv)

Bob

[Finless]

Or did I lie?

VIDEO -> I GOT FEET! (http://video.helifreak.com/?subpath=finless/other&filename=igotfins.wmv)

Bob

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[rdlohr]

And it gets deeper and deeper ... :smokin:

[zooland1]

And it gets deeper and deeper Now that's a video I "don't" want to see :)

[COOKIEULT70]

I haven't seen all of Bob's vids but what I have seen so far reminds me of the show "Home Improvment". Its like Tim's neighbor Wilson where you never see his head. I mean the above vids do indeed prove Finless Bob actually has fins but does he have a head?

[nhheliguy]

LOL!!!! nice fins bob :glasses2:

[reman]

Does any one have pictures of the reluctant film star's head then ?

It would be interesting to see who the famous fingers belong to

[rdlohr]

http://www.helifreak.com/album_mod/upload/2b9df80a41ca7e5a880cda9e973e21c5.jpg

Check his gallery for a few more.

[reman]

Theres 2 pictures of him in there, but is that the same girl he's got his arm around in both ? :shock:


one hell of a sunset though. here in England we get sunsets just like that just not as often ( :D I think the last one was in 1987, it was a Monday, yes, i'm sure it was a Monday :D )

[rennster]

Looks like Kona