Best advice column letter ever?

By Adam Stanhope in Animals & Pets on Jul 15, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Sea World dolphins with phallic symbol

Would getting sexually aroused by the dolphin show at Sea World ruin your marriage? Salon.com’s advice columnist Cary Tennis responds to a letter writer describing precisely this situation. The consensus appears to be that the letter is a hoax, but it’s so strange and funny that Tennis decided to run it and make an attempt at a response. Warning: the article contains a word that starts with “pen” and ends in “is.” [Salon.com]

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  1. Zombie79
    Jul 15th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Maybe he should see if the writer of this book is single”

    http://www.julesjones.com/fiction/details/dolphindreams.html

  3. donna
    Jul 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Commerson’s dolphins are amazingly horny — and the males are quite well hung!

  4. Chris C
    Jul 15th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    Sweet! They answered my letter!

  5. Liz
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    As much as this might be a hoax, people like this do really exist and it’s quite…interesting, to say the least.

  6. violet
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 1:03 am

    Yeah, people like that exist, but this letter pretty much screamed “fake.” There’s a memorable bit about his swimming the San Francisco Bay drunk–except he says he “swam the Golden Gate” while drunk.

    I don’t know…I live in SF and I have no idea what he’s talking about. If he’s talking about the SF Bay, he’s lying. Hypothermia, anyone?

    Anyway, the letter is rambling and bizarre and although I am not a “fake” caller-outer by reflex, this one is pure random crap.

  7. Adam Stanhope
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 1:30 am

    Here’s a link to the Golden Gate drunken swim letter that Violet mentioned:

    http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/06/23/lost_love/index.html

  8. ted
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 6:40 am

    Not very inventive. Kinda dumb.

  9. hark
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    so what if the columnist gets fake letters, what does he expect? running it was an exercise in smug vanity, and he comes off like an ass.

  12. Homer J. Simpson
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    I immediately flashed back to that episode of the Simpsons where Troy McLure married Selma Bouvier in order to cover up his sexual attraction to fish.

  13. ektomberlin
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    I wonder if they are thinking of the episode of Friends where Monica walks in on Chandler watching porn, so he tries to cover it up by turning to the Discovery Channel. She sees a shark attack going on and so she thinks he gets turned on by sharks!


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