Those who recall Dimblebum's tetchy encounter with Republican walrus John Bolton during the BBC's 2008 US presidential election coverage may beg to differ.
IT MAY come as a surprise to a walrus wondering where all the Arctic's summer sea ice has gone.
But on these issues, the government remains like "a walrus moving from side to side", as one of the author's interlocutors puts it.Reform is sometimes possible without clamour and controversy.
The stubborn obstructionism of those who had chosen to block his reappointment, Mr Bush maintained, "ill serves our country".Not everyone sees America's fiery ambassador with his remarkable white walrus moustache under a reddish-brown thatch quite that way.
There is a strong smell of "policy-based evidence making" here.Since the 1970s the population of white whales around Svalbard has increased, as have walrus and barnacle geese numbers.
For this is a fund-raiser for the First Samoan Congregational Christian Church in Anchorage, Alaska.The state's single congressman, Don Young, a Republican, once flourished a walrus penis-bone at the federal Fish and Wildlife Service director at a congressional hearing.
But humans, it seems, are not the only ones with romance on the horizon.Hopes are high at Hong Kong's Ocean Park that Rock, a male walrus, and Mero, a female, will make more walruses appear in 2014.
He recorded at length, in the Netherlands, the details of the walrus he drew and where it was caught.
The fox in socks is as entrancing and memorable as Carroll's walrus and carpenter, or Lear's owl and pussycat.
A passionate speaker with a walrus moustache, he was expected to restore the party's core values.
