Piranhas in Dordogne?

Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 10:37 AM
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Piranhas in Dordogne?

My French in-laws insist that piranhas have been spotted in the Dordogne River - i poohpooh this - anyone know if there are piranhas in the Dordogne?
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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 10:41 AM
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Hi Pal,

It's true!

See http://tinyurl.com/7dcfd

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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 10:48 AM
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No such site on my google - can you give me a brief on the site and how it says this is true? Or maybe you're pulling my leg?
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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 11:03 AM
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And sharks all over the beaches of Austria - - north, south, wast and west!



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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 11:11 AM
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Rex, are you pulling my leg?
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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 11:50 AM
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OK, Pal...

This amused me so much I did a google, and found the following with a reference to piranhas in the dordogne river!!

www.aujardin.org/sutra158417.html

Googling piranhas in dordogne also comes up with some sort of sports team (ira's ref works on my wanadoo [and that sounds really bad!]), but it's up to you to check that out.

I think your in-laws are taking the p***!!!! Along with ira and rex!!!!

SNAP SNAP....
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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 11:57 AM
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julia t - merci - that site you have is some kind of gardening sight for the area - but thanks.
My in-laws are dead serious about there being piranhas in the Dordogne, i think they even had an old news article saying something about it. I just think it must have been a one-time freak - coming out of the bilge of some ocean-going ship and not there always as they claim.
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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 11:57 AM
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Well, if julia's info on that URL is true, there'll be no more jumping off the canoe for me!!
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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 12:19 PM
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Pal - scroll down the opening page of that gardening site to a comment by Nathaline, fleur de pipelette (yes really!!!!) and you too can read her post of 10 June about piranhas in the river....

The bilge stuff could always have some truth in it.... maybe it's not just a load of old **** =D>

Anyway, you are not so safe in the UK - there are all these panthers and leopards running wild....
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Old Jul 22nd, 2005, 12:30 PM
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Incroyable - extraordinaire - yes there are piranahas in the Dordogne! thanks for solving the mystery. the wonders of the Internet and Fodors. Ira, thanks too, guess you weren't pulling my leg! Again julia t thanks.
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Maybe your in-laws are referring to Lamprey which is a specialty of Bordeaux but a far cry from piranha.
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i doubt that pirahnhas could survive a winter in the Dordogne.
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and you topped PQ's (two screen names ago) 8+ year old thread why exactly ??
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Because there's a current thread about swimming pools in the Dordogne that morphed into a discussion about the pirhanas.
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Old Nov 23rd, 2013, 10:32 AM
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Any relationship to the alligators in the New York City sewers?
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In a related story trout meunière has been spotted in the Amazon Basin.
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