mouthed? gummed? licked?
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This video makes the thing seem plausible.
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Being the foreign object that a large animal choked to death on wouldn’t be a fun experience either.
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Fortunately, whales don’t breathe through the mouth, so choking seems unlikely.
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Can’t Heimlich a whale!
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But it’s a fish story (or at least a fish-like mammal story). You can’t have a fish story without at least some embellishment 
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Plausible? Heck, I see it happen every day at work.
A while back I realized that there are three separate Disneyland rides within a short walk from each other where you either get swallowed by a whale (Storybook Land Canal Boats, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage) or almost get swallowed (Pinocchio’s daring journey.) There’s got to be some deeper significance to that but I don’t know what.
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I wanted to be friends with this man… until I realized all his friends die horrible deaths while he just keeps carrying on.
He needs to find safer lines of work.
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I read that as “Pinocchio’s dating journey,” and that’s a ride I’d like to see.
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That’s the one where he goes full circle from wishing to be a real boy to wishing to be a real man back to wishing he was made of wood.
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It might not die from asphyxiation but the diver could obstructed food from getting to the whale’s stomach. Is that choking or is there another term for it?
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Reminds me of a t shirt with a dragon and a plate full of empty armor with a screwdriver and a pair of plies nearby captioned
“So good to eat, So hard to peel”
He should change his name to Ambergris.
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since this sort of near-death thing has happened to him twice now, if i was this guy i’d have a standard response in my back pocket, just to yank on the media’s chain a bit in case such a thing happens again. instead of saying “…and i thought, ‘oh my god, this is it, i’m gonna die,’” i’d say something like, “…and i thought, 'i can’t believe it – that fortune teller was RIGHT!” haha
Wrong kind of whale for that name, unfortunately.
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I think the deeper significance is that Disney steal/ appropriate/ get inspired by folk tales and this is a common motif in several of them. Probably they all go back to some sort of urtext lost in the mists of time that the Jonah story is also based on…
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Dude, but what if time is circular, and all the stories go back to this one?
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