Of course, when talking shark bites it is usually in the context of the human being in the water. This case more closely resembles someone annoying a cat or dog to the point that it finally snaps at them.
Or when making an analogy to a murderer with a jackknife.
Und it makes quite the messer.
Sure, but as mentioned, fishing for sharks does happen. And usually without incident.
Not really enough detail to say for certain but there was at least some stupidity (or the near-equivalent complacency) involved. The ones in the bay aren’t great whites or the other huge sharks from TV (the minimum length for fishing on the most common varieties is 2 feet - a kid isn’t going to be trying to pull in an 8 foot shark by himself!), so it’s easy to forget or underestimate they’re still wild predators.
And people probably get bit by their catch a lot - but “boy bit by tuna” doesn’t make a headline.
I knew there were a number of cover versions of Mack The Knife, but Today I Learned that Bobby Darrin’s version wasn’t the original. It wasn’t even the first cover version, it wasn’t even the first famous cover version (Louis Armstrong).
The visuals there are from the 1931 film adaptation of The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper) but the vocals are an over-dub of Lotte Lenya, the wife of Kurt Weill who scored the 1928 stage adaptation.
And later, villain in one of the early Bond films.
“In Soviet Russia…”
The Armstrong version is the one I’m most familiar with.
I vaguely knew his cover had been bowlderized but sufferin’ cats!
Ah, yes. Rosa Klebb of the pointy shoes. Np wonder the name rang a bell.
And though not a direct copy the song I associate it most is Perdo Navaja by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades:
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I remember once a radio station was playing love songs on Valentine’s Day, and apparently decided that anything Frank Sinatra sang was a love song, so they played Sinatra’s version of Mack the Knife (which is about, you know, murder. How romantic!).
Mobsters need love too. And often have SOs.
I always figured Mack was popular with the ladies. What do you think Jenny, Suky, Lotte, and Lucy were lining up for?
People tend to open up around him.
A real rapier wit he was. And a well-known ladykiller.
There was no Lotte in the original song. I think Darrin was looking for some cred with the name drop.
Y’know, I’d be OK if nobody ever played the Sinatra version of anything.
I don’t know… If Sinatra had covered Dr. Dre’s “Deep Cover”, I think that would be pretty damn interesting.
Actually, the earliest one that I know of that uses Lotte is Armstrong’s version.