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| The donut fish -- Side view |
First of all, it wasn't really a fish. It was a reptilian green, and had legs like a turtle or an alligator. It was the size and shape on an inner tube. John Cleese, standing waist-deep in the ocean, had just pulled it out of the water and was holding a microphone up to its large mouth. I was a few feet away, filming the pair. Before the donut fish could utter a word, however, it died. Just like that, it was dead, seconds after showing its head above the water. We poked and prodded it, but sure enough, it was stone dead.
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| Top view |
The film could not be completed, so we left the water. Apparently we had been making a documentary about this endangered animal, and we now needed to find out why it died. So we lugged the beast to a fish expert. While examining the fish, it suddenly sprung back to life. It was smiling and apparently quite pleased with itself for its little trick.
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| John Cleese |
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