This is going to take a number of boats and organization to coax it back into deeper water," Martin told Sky News on Friday.

Or they could harpoon it. Just a thought.

Bet it tastes just like chicken....

The rescue has been called off. Turns out it was just Rosie O'Donnell.

I blame the Jooooooooooooooooos

They should call in Greenpeace, they would have it out of the Thames and double parked in front of a Japanese embassy in no time.

Northern Bottle-nosed Whales are normally only found in very deep water so the fact it's here probably means it's ill. This is going to take a number of boats and organization to coax it back into deeper water

Or you could, ya know, try to cure it before you coaxed it back into deep water.

I think the real news here is that it's been centuries since the Thames was last clean enough that a whale would even try this.

Yeah - y'all have no idea how much plastic explosive you can stuff into a bottle-nose whale, do you?

Has anybody stopped to consider that Osama bin-Laden might be in international waters doing cetacean research?

And not the good kind of research either, the kind that makes 'Day of the Dolphin" look like a walk in the park.

I say "don't let that whale near a bridge or any port/dock/oil tranfer locations'

That's what I say.

Yeah - y'all have no idea how much plastic explosive you can stuff into a bottle-nose whale, do you?

No, but Dave Barry does.

Whale of a Tale!!

Actually this may be related to the much improved water quality of the Thames. (I know it still looks brown, but that's the silt).

I've been going to London on a fairly regular basis for about 20 years and the water is much improved (as is the smell) due to sensible pollution controls.

Fish stocks have improved and water birds (herons, cormarants, etc) are fairly common in London.

It's Cheney's hammer out for a swim, isn't it?

A rescue boat has been sent to protect the whale and rescuers have been trying to keep it away from the river banks.

I didn't even know whales had pockets.

Poor thing probably got confused when it started tracking the electro-magnetic impulses given off from Dick Cheney's cock.

My guess is it was shooting for the Potomac.

. . . to be indicted as ecoterrorists according to british authorities.

"This is not going to be an easy job."

I know, I just tried googling for "whale recipes" and I didn't find anything good. Where do they begin?

I like my oceans equatorial Oooo....
Where the water's warm and the breeze less boreal Oooo....
It's Fahrenheit minus twenty-nine, and I don't know what to do.
A rubbery, blubbery bottle-nosed whale,
The bottle-nosed whale with the flu...
ch oo-ch oo-ch oo-ah Tshcoo....

They are tired of the whale watchers their tired of the eco-freaks