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Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« on: March 20, 2016, 1305 UTC »
And they thought that tiny great white shark was something back in '75. Wait until these beasts start ramming and sinking the local ferries to knosh on tourists by the hundreds this summer.
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2016, 1349 UTC »
If any other Diane Duane fans are around, you'll get this.  Maybe it's a Twelvesong?  We could use one... 
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2016, 1530 UTC »
Is that woman still swiping my schtick? The original Captain Caveman was based on her friends spotting me in the mid-70's chasing Fansome with a baseball bat in the Hamptons. She filled out the scripts with insufferable nonsense when in fact Al was my pupil, a Plato to my Socrates, studying my methods and thought.

Whale wizards. What a load of ambergris!
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2016, 0450 UTC »
Well, thank god they aren't WRONG Whales...

I mean, that would be worse, right?

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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2016, 1144 UTC »
Quote from: John Poet on March 23, 2016, 0450 UTC
Well, thank god they aren't WRONG Whales...

I mean, that would be worse, right?



I was wondering when this would surface...
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2016, 0257 UTC »
Wrong whales have been extinct for millennia. Wrong whales had a habit of going into shallow water to scoop up large schools of fish. It was a strategy that worked well for them for eons.

However, nature abhors a vacuum, land based predators developed to take advantage of the wrong whales feeding habits. That's why in fossil beds today we often find the remains of wrong whales impaled on the tusks of mammoths and mastodons. The latter animals would wade into the surf and spear the whales as they fed. It was a slaughter. That's why they're known as wrong whales.

Any paleontologist who's made their bones will tell you, "Find a mastodon, find a whale."
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2016, 1627 UTC »
That, my friend, is a whale of a story.  I know that's a cheap shot, but it was too sharding good an opportunity to pass up.  Ambergris indeed... :) 
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2016, 2029 UTC »
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2016, 0159 UTC »
Reminds me of the controversy over the fact that unicorn fossils are often found with cattle impaled on their horns.

Apparently this is where the term "unicorned beef" came from

Quote from: Pigmeat on March 24, 2016, 0257 UTC
Wrong whales have been extinct for millennia. Wrong whales had a habit of going into shallow water to scoop up large schools of fish. It was a strategy that worked well for them for eons.

However, nature abhors a vacuum, land based predators developed to take advantage of the wrong whales feeding habits. That's why in fossil beds today we often find the remains of wrong whales impaled on the tusks of mammoths and mastodons. The latter animals would wade into the surf and spear the whales as they fed. It was a slaughter. That's why they're known as wrong whales.

Any paleontologist who's made their bones will tell you, "Find a mastodon, find a whale."
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Re: Right Whales gathering off of Cape Cod.
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2016, 1204 UTC »
Brilliant as always, Al. And people wonder why I run around with you.
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