When returning from holiday, one starts to think of holidays

[fivemack]

By 'south of the Rio Grande', I mean 'into Mexico' rather than 'anywhere south of 31N' - I thought this was standard usage, but various of my friends in Cambridge interpreted it the other way.

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[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Oops, yes - I was rememberimg the wrong seal type. AFAICR one of the main issues with leopard seals was that they harbour some fairly non-standard bacteria in their mouths, which makes bites somewhat more tricky to treat.

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[http://the.earth.li/~alex/halley/ (from livejournal.com)]

Leopard seals scare the divers most, as one ate someone at Rothera a few years back. Elephant seals will, I'm told and entirely believe, happily let themselves be 'gently' dragged by a Sno-Cat into a box. Fur seals, which I count amongst species best helped to be extinct, are bitey and growly and generally full of bacteria. Not that Elephant seals are also not full of bacteria, but I've had one projectile sneeze into my cup of tea before and still live.