Close, but no cigar.
“They’ve learned how to weaponize flipper”
Just so.
An excellent improvement.
Canada was going to contribute a Goldfish to the Marine division, but our funding was cut and we couldn’t afford the aquarium for transport.
I’ll mail you guys a plastic baggie if you’d like. Just put the fish in there. He should be okay for a couple of hours. (That’s how I brought mine home from the carnival when I won at ring-toss.)
Or his writing staff.
Skogcat
And if they had Mad Cow Disease, that would take care of two birds with one stone. Someone should make a game out of this!
Debaser:
Or maybe they give 100 monkeys 100 typewriters, and wait for them to produce a list of where all the mines are.
More seriously, this is morally troubling. What if other countries start killing off dolphins to stop them from finding the mines? I think there is a slippery slope here.
Perhaps we should start a campaign to demand bullet-proof vests for the dolphins.
One of the trained dolphins has apparently gone AWOL (away without leave). Will the the military prison at Leavenworth soon be installing a large aquarium?
More likely that the missing dophin has been attacked by local dolphins. This possibility has been reported by the press. Perhaps they dont see them as liberators.
Our Sea World down here in Miss. Gulf trained the dolphens. They specialize in dolphen and seal training for the military.
The facility is right next to our YC and we have been watching them for the last year but did not know what they were training for. It is so neat that they are able to contribute in this way.
They have part of the harbor as their home and take them out into the gulf all the time (kind of like freerange chickens). These little guys are great …
I think it is so cool… 
Actually, I think they taste more like pork. Especially on rye bread with some mayonaise.
An update: one of the dolphins may be a dirty traitor!
Sniff
This last line brings tears to my eyes…
Poor guy.
Us Aussies have looked into the situation and it appears that these ‘Mine detecting Dolphins’ are not all they are cracked up to be.
From here Flipper’s new trick going AWOL
An Australian diver:
Drat! They don’t have a GPS transmitter?
Takoma is an Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin. I’ve no idea what sorts of porpoises are in the Persian Gulf.
bummer.
Clearly, what we need now is monkeys trained to carry dolphins on their backs overland.
The AWOL dolphin has returned.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6213096^25777,00.html
“The bottom line, mate, is it’s a fish.”
What do they teach these kids in school nowadays?
Maybe we could retrain these mine-sweeper monkeys:
What happens the day when our animal friends are no longer content taking orders?
Somwhere here there’s a sci-fi movie script waiting to be born.
They did the dolphins taking over the world thing on one of the Simpsons halloween specials.