When I saw the headline I immediately thought, "Crikey! He's been eaten by a crocodile!" It turned out that he was stung by a stingray instead, which hardly seems fitting. Quite disappointing, really. If you gotta go, it should be in the most classic manner, I think, and for Steve Irwin that would have been death by crocodile.

I don't know whether crocodiles throughout the length and breadth of Australia will be mourning or celebrating tonight...but things will certainly never be quite the same, will they?

By the way, the silly bloke looked an awful lot like my nextdoor neighbour Glen. Glen does not wrestle crocodiles, however, he mows lawns and does snowplowing. This may be why Glen is not famous and has not had a fatal encounter with a dangerous animal as yet.