Best advice column letter ever? - Neatorama

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

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

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TL;DR

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Commerson's dolphins are amazingly horny -- and the males are quite well hung!

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Sweet! They answered my letter!

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

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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.

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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

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Not very inventive. Kinda dumb.

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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.

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He´s sick.

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Savage Love, anyone?

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove

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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.

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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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