RIP, Steve Irwin
‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin Killed by Stingray — Sept. 4, 2006 — Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
That’s just too damn bad. I liked the Crocodile Hunter. 
From Pun of the Day, in honor of Steve Irwin:
An elephant and a crocodile were swimming in the Amazon, when the elephant spots a turtle sunning himself on a rock.
The elephant walks over to the turtle, picks him up in his trunk and hurls him far into the jungle.
”What did you do that for?” asks the crocodile.
The elephant answers, “That turtle was the one that bit me almost fifty years ago.”
The crocodile says, “And you remembered him after all these years? Boy, you sure do have a good memory.”
”Yep,” says the elephant. “Turtle recall.”
This one is a rerun, but I won’t tell if you don’t.
Mercy Hospital in Chicago is run by a group of nuns who came from Australia. Through the years the years they have gone out of their way to maintain ties with their native land — putting up a large map of the country in the recpetion area, and serving Australian tea from tins decorated with koala bears.
One night a patient calls a nun into his room and tells her how much he likes the hospital and the care. But he has one small complaint: he found some leaves in his tea.
”Oh,” the nun says, “the koala tea of Mercy is not strained.”
