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...Because Fish #@%& In It!

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It's hard to concentrate on movies or blogging when all you have are thoughts of copulating sharks in your head. Such is the problem when Discovery Channel's annual  Shark Week  rolls around. It's not my fault that they devoted an entire documentary to  The Science of Shark Sex ! But then the filmmakers spent 45 minutes of the show  not  talking about shark sex at all, but instead showed the drooling scientists roaming about the water around three islands posting all sorts of monitoring devices in their attempt to capture the mating habits of some grey reef sharks. But once the magic moment arrives --  BUCK-A-WHANG!  It was so freaking graphic, with all of this descriptive talk about penetration and thrusting, that I wasn't sure that I hadn't fallen asleep earlier and missed the whole plotline involving the great white pizza delivery boy and the randy nurse shark cheerleader. The scientists made a big deal about how they had been waiting their whole careers to c