Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 06, 2005, 08:05:54 AM
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Sea Serpent? Plesiosaur?
One day in June, about 1990, my friend Joanne Rauch and I hiked along the central Oregon coast at Cape Meares. We soon spotted a large object on the beach.
I took the pictures, but I can't remember which camera I used at the time. I believe it was a Minolta 35mm point and shoot.
I paced the length of the "sea serpent" - 13 paces, approximately 33 feet since my pace at the time was a bit over 2.5 feet.
If the bent leg points to the head, the head was missing as far as I could tell, chewed or screwed off by a propeller, or perhaps rotted away.
Unfortunately, some liquid spilled on some of the pictures and efforts to clean them resulted in minimal damage. When that happened, I stopped my efforts to clean the photos. Somewhere in the house I have the negatives and when I get them, I'll developed them and make better scans.
I called the Hatfield Marine Science center (Newport, OR) and described what we'd seen. Their best suggestion was that this is a gray whale, despite the tapering neck and tail. One woman suggested the bent flipper might be a grotesque penis. She didn't see the pictures.
I've hiked the wilderness strip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, a couple of hundred miles north of Cape Mears, and seen 4 dead gray whales over the years. None looked remotely like this-the grays don't taper nearly so much at the tail and don't taper at all at the head. The heads are massive.
What the heck is this thing???
One day in June, about 1990, my friend Joanne Rauch and I hiked along the central Oregon coast at Cape Meares. We soon spotted a large object on the beach.
I took the pictures, but I can't remember which camera I used at the time. I believe it was a Minolta 35mm point and shoot.
I paced the length of the "sea serpent" - 13 paces, approximately 33 feet since my pace at the time was a bit over 2.5 feet.
If the bent leg points to the head, the head was missing as far as I could tell, chewed or screwed off by a propeller, or perhaps rotted away.
Unfortunately, some liquid spilled on some of the pictures and efforts to clean them resulted in minimal damage. When that happened, I stopped my efforts to clean the photos. Somewhere in the house I have the negatives and when I get them, I'll developed them and make better scans.
I called the Hatfield Marine Science center (Newport, OR) and described what we'd seen. Their best suggestion was that this is a gray whale, despite the tapering neck and tail. One woman suggested the bent flipper might be a grotesque penis. She didn't see the pictures.
I've hiked the wilderness strip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, a couple of hundred miles north of Cape Mears, and seen 4 dead gray whales over the years. None looked remotely like this-the grays don't taper nearly so much at the tail and don't taper at all at the head. The heads are massive.
What the heck is this thing???
Post by: grampster on December 06, 2005, 08:39:02 AM
Post by: charby on December 06, 2005, 08:42:39 AM
Post by: onions! on December 06, 2005, 09:05:43 AM
If I found Nessie on a beach I'd be throwing a rope around it & dragging it past the high water mark w/my truck.
If I lost it to the surf then my truck would make an acceptable sacrifice & position locator.
I'd dub it Jeffusoregonus platypus.
Post by: 280plus on December 06, 2005, 09:17:34 AM
That's a whale. The "curious appendage" is it's dick. You know, it's penis?
Imagine your unit is so big someone thinks it's an extra leg!
Makes us boys jealous don't it. Wait till you see a Clydesdale in "full regalia" you'll be jealous THEN too!
Post by: Azrael256 on December 06, 2005, 10:16:43 AM
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That's a whale. The "curious appendage" is it's dick. You know, it's penis?
Er, not exactly. That infamous photo of a blue whale wang is neither a blue whale, nor a bull. The whale doesn't have a penis in the land-mammal sense, but rather a pair of appendages that extend out from the pelvic fins which look nothing like a penis. They work completely differently.
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 06, 2005, 10:57:25 AM
ding ding ding
we have a weiner
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 06, 2005, 11:06:16 AM
Post by: Gewehr98 on December 06, 2005, 12:32:51 PM
(Hint - they're not the claspers found on bull sharks...)
Post by: onions! on December 06, 2005, 01:38:12 PM
Post by: 280plus on December 06, 2005, 01:38:39 PM
Post by: Justin on December 06, 2005, 01:41:26 PM
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That's a whale. The "curious appendage" is it's dick. You know, it's penis?
There's a Herman Melville joke in there somewhere...
Post by: 280plus on December 06, 2005, 01:43:08 PM
(like that?)
Post by: Winston Smith on December 06, 2005, 05:44:48 PM
Post by: grampster on December 06, 2005, 06:00:27 PM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 06, 2005, 06:57:23 PM
http://users.rowan.edu/~kurnc89/SHAMU.HTML
Post by: 280plus on December 07, 2005, 01:49:50 AM
Post by: charby on December 07, 2005, 05:09:38 AM
Post by: LawDog on December 07, 2005, 07:09:05 AM
1) Someone will know the answer; and
2) Other people will chime in with the absolute worst puns you ever heard.
LawDog
Post by: Guest on December 07, 2005, 07:20:23 AM
I figured LawDog had a recipe on how to fix Seamonster.
Heck, don't look at me like that - they got fake crab meat in the grocery stores - they may put fake Seamonster in their next.
"It you build it - they will buy it".
Humm...ya know what will happen, some idiot will actually market fake seamonster meat, get filthy rich off this idea and all I did make a smart-aleck remark about the thing.
All I got to do is get PETA all up in arms and this stuff would fly out of the stores...
Post by: mtnbkr on December 07, 2005, 07:27:42 AM
Quote from: LawDog
If you ask a question around here, two things are going to happen:
1) Someone will know the answer; and
2) Other people will chime in with the absolute worst puns you ever heard.
LawDog
That's why I love this place. 1) Someone will know the answer; and
2) Other people will chime in with the absolute worst puns you ever heard.
LawDog
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I figured LawDog had a recipe on how to fix Seamonster.
We've had plenty other cooking threads, why not one more...So, fried like a turkey, grilled, roasted, etc? What about sides?
Chris
Post by: SADShooter on December 07, 2005, 07:37:30 AM
a) a delicacy
b) an aphrodisiac, croup/cancer/canker sore/(insert malady) cure, etc.?
Post by: 280plus on December 07, 2005, 08:02:40 AM
Quote from: LawDog
If you ask a question around here, two things are going to happen:
1) Someone will know the answer; and
2) Other people will chime in with the absolute worst puns you ever heard.
LawDog
Some will do both...1) Someone will know the answer; and
2) Other people will chime in with the absolute worst puns you ever heard.
LawDog
Post by: Justin on December 07, 2005, 08:21:53 AM
Bingo.
Post by: Preacherman on December 07, 2005, 08:26:48 AM
Post by: grampster on December 07, 2005, 08:41:18 AM
Waitin' for a three ton pun. See if you can bayleen this thread out.
Post by: Guest on December 07, 2005, 08:47:03 AM
Rut Roh-The PunsterPreacher has founded this thread.
Put down your sodas and coffee, hands off keyboard, scoot back from monitor...
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 07, 2005, 11:05:22 AM
Post by: grampster on December 07, 2005, 11:09:35 AM
Post by: Strings on December 07, 2005, 11:09:59 AM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 07, 2005, 11:16:31 AM
Fish based puns in a marine mammal thread make me eel.
Post by: Lo.Com.Denom on December 07, 2005, 11:26:05 AM
And by channeling the pun-tastic spirit of Preacherman, I make that "Crime Squid Investigation" and "Squid-ncy".
I'm so sorry, that's the best I can do.
Post by: grampster on December 07, 2005, 11:33:39 AM
I'm perched here in my chair and otherwise I'll have to clam up.
Post by: Guest on December 07, 2005, 11:44:42 AM
Post by: grampster on December 07, 2005, 11:49:40 AM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 07, 2005, 12:04:40 PM
Do not belittle the wee whale , beached between his cock and a hard place
Post by: 280plus on December 07, 2005, 12:09:20 PM
"Oh he doesn't need a Cod, he needs a STURGEON!!"
Post by: Guest on December 07, 2005, 12:20:20 PM
http://www.oceanicresearch.org/spermwhales.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_Whale
http://www.lubegard.com/about.html
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Years ago, sperm whale oil and its deriatives were used as additives in virtually all automotive lubricants. The products were so effective that a car's transmission fluids were generally never changed, and the transmission lasted the life of the car. Some 30 million pounds of sperm whale oil were used every year; to supply the demand, hundreds of thousands of whales were slaughtered until the species was faced with extinction.
Post by: 280plus on December 07, 2005, 12:37:30 PM
Post by: crt360 on December 07, 2005, 01:50:51 PM
Post by: grampster on December 07, 2005, 05:56:17 PM
Post by: Phyphor on December 07, 2005, 06:13:09 PM
Quote from: LawDog
If you ask a question around here, two things are going to happen:
1) Someone will know the answer; and
2) Other people will chime in with the absolute worst puns you ever heard.
LawDog
Blame Preacherman
1) Someone will know the answer; and
2) Other people will chime in with the absolute worst puns you ever heard.
LawDog
Post by: Phyphor on December 07, 2005, 06:14:46 PM
Quote from: Preacherman
Did someone call my name?
Speak of the devil...
Post by: grampster on December 07, 2005, 06:14:53 PM
Post by: Winston Smith on December 07, 2005, 07:54:09 PM
Post by: brimic on December 07, 2005, 09:16:09 PM
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That's a whale. The "curious appendage" is it's dick. You know, it's penis?
[Bozo the Clown Voice] We have a Weiner! [/Bozo the Clown Voice]
Post by: 280plus on December 07, 2005, 11:32:42 PM
A long time ago B.C. the comic strip went through a whole thing for a while on "CLAMS HAVE LEGS!!" with clams sprouting legs and running around when nobody but BC was looking.
and
"Had a little wet dream...
Down in the Gulf Stream..."
Post by: Antibubba on December 08, 2005, 03:04:26 AM
Post by: Preacherman on December 08, 2005, 08:38:01 AM
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...and where is the Padre when we need him most?
Well, everyone was doing so well with their own puns and comments, I didn't really feel needed. I guess my teaching has taken effect! Everyone's having a whale of a time...
Post by: Strings on December 08, 2005, 03:31:04 PM
GAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!