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When I was little I wasn't crazy about this song, but I saw the video recently & almost died. The animation for then is sick!....AND the song kinda Jams?

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Nine facts about the maritime history of swallow tattoos:

1.Swallow tattoos were traditionally used to show how many miles a sailor had traveled -- five thousand nautical miles got you one swallow, ten thousand the second.

2. Sometimes, when a sailor had retired, he would tattoo laundry hanging between the two swallows.

3. If a sailor's friend was killed at sea, one of his swallows would have a dagger tattooed through it.

4. Swallows always return home -- so the swallow tattooed on a sailor was meant to symbolize that he would return.

5. And if the sailor didn't return, the swallows would help carry him to heaven.

6. In England, the swallow tattoo indicates a willingness to fight -- "these fists fly."

7. Apparently, in American jails, the swallow tattoo can mean that the wearer is into white power. (but hopefully, with an ever-growing number of liberally inclined young ladies getting this tattoo, that message is getting diluted.)

8. To a sailor at sea, the sight of sparrows meant land, and a return home.

9. Luke 12:6 says..."Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God."

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Pacifica buries the Whale & the Stank....

A couple months ago, my ole’ man & me, were watching the daytime local news on a day we were both off. We sat there listening to the story of the whale "situation" a couple miles south of us, in Pacifica and really just shook our heads.

The whale washed up in the summer on the beach opposite Sharp Park Golf Course, west of the 16th hole. The golf course is located in Pacifica, but the property belongs to San Francisco. A dispute has arisen between the city of Pacifica and San Francisco, which owns the golf course, as to who should be responsible for disposing of the rotting flesh which, residents say, has been there for several months. All that time, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has received calls about the whale. So apparently Wednesday, the department at last decided to dispatch two staffers to Sharp Park for an official surveying party to figure out which city was on the hook for the whale and its possible removal.

Officials in Pacifica said they had known all along it wasn't their whale. Public Works Director Van Ocampo said Pacifica would be glad to bury San Francisco's whale and send San Francisco a bill for the undertaking. "It's their property," he said. Pacifica beachcomber Brenda McManus, who has strolled past the whale dozens of times since it washed up, gazed at the dead creature and the ocean beyond and said she did not understand why the whale needed to be surveyed, because it was located right there. But sometimes a stinky situation is worst than a sticky one in which you have won. So the city of Pacifica decided enough was enough and buried a carcass that washed up on a beach seven months ago, even though S.F. staffers determined it was their problem.

Katarina Camber snaps a picture of a whale carcass on the beach across from Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica on Wednesday. Stanky shot!

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