Read about the northern bottle-nosed whale that's swum up the Thames into London? Londoners are calling him "Big Ben." Great story. Well, it will have been a great story if the city is able to return the guy to the ocean. The reaction of the man who purportedly spotted the whale first was something right out of Master and Margarita—he refused to believe his eyes.
Not to fire a shoot across the bow here, but really, a whale is a much better metropolitan mascot than a panda.
UPDATE: Sad.
Posted by Kriston at January 21, 2006 2:46 PM