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Harold Tuttle

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« 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???
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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2005, 08:39:02 AM »
Looks like Wildalaska sunning himself on the beach.
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2005, 08:42:39 AM »
I'd go with the whale theory.
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2005, 09:05:43 AM »
I can't imagine the person who wouldn't be calling the news if they found a strange looking carcass washed up on a beach.If this fella is familiar w/what a whale carcass looks like I expect that he might be wondering enough to at least call the local university & send a pic to a biology teacher?

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.Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2005, 09:17:34 AM »
LMAO...

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!

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« Reply #5 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.
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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2005, 10:57:25 AM »


ding ding ding
we have a weiner
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2005, 11:06:16 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2005, 12:32:51 PM »
Looks like Azrael needs to identify that pink thing protruding from the whale in the picture above, then.   shocked

(Hint - they're not the claspers found on bull sharks...)
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2005, 01:38:12 PM »
Harold Tuttle?I sure hope you didn't let that thing get too close to your boat!It's one thing for your leg to get humped by an ankle biter but...geeze!That thing would wreck your week for sure!
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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2005, 01:38:39 PM »
Now THAT'S a happy whale...

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« Reply #11 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...
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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2005, 01:43:08 PM »
Good GOD!! It's MOBY'S DICK!!

(like that?)

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« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2005, 05:44:48 PM »
What penetrating wit.
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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2005, 06:00:27 PM »
That's a whale of an appendage.
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« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2005, 06:57:23 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2005, 01:49:50 AM »
WOW!! SHAMU!! Is that a rocket in your pocket or are you just happy to see us?

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« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2005, 05:09:38 AM »
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« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2005, 07:09:05 AM »
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.

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« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2005, 07:20:23 AM »
Gee - I saw the thread title and the last post having been made by LawDog

I figured LawDog had a recipe on how to fix Seamonster.  Smiley

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...


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« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2005, 07:27:42 AM »
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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?  


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« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2005, 07:37:30 AM »
I suppose the follow-on question is, what cultures consider whale "appendage":

a) a delicacy

b) an aphrodisiac, croup/cancer/canker sore/(insert malady) cure, etc.?
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« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2005, 08:02:40 AM »
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Some will do both...

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« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2005, 08:21:53 AM »
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Bingo.
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« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2005, 08:26:48 AM »
Did someone call my name?

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