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Picture: The Whale With A Tongue the Size of a Car!
news.bbc.co.uk — The carcass of a humback whale lies on an Alaskan beach. Scientists believe its death was down to its enormous deformed tongue, "the size of a small car". What caused the grotesque swelling is a mystery, but a ship strike and infection are the principal theories.
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- footodors, on 10/10/2007, -29/+5It's those bad bad republicans. They caused it.
"voice"- jellomizer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well I dug you up not like it is going to help anything.
- lordtyros, on 10/10/2007, -3/+73That's really sad. :(
- theRIAA, on 10/10/2007, -12/+6i bet he gets ALL the girls...
- 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -25/+3I wish MY moby dick would have that kind of swelling... Sad for the animal though :(
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41That's the freakiest thing I've seen all day. Then again, it's only 7:38 ...
- roastedbagel, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Cue the famous picture of the whale dork
- ilkeryoldas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Puts things in perspective.. nice addition to the Google Whale Map http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html
- ZephyrNinety, on 10/10/2007, -10/+1Bad kisser.
- dhaval1985, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0Damn, that sucks!!!!!!!!
- kaijunexus, on 10/10/2007, -8/+6Now who can't appreciate this kind of tongue in cheek humor?
- spawnfree, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5couldnt be pollution or anything.
- JPDota, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Because everything is pollutions fault, there are no other problems on earth.
- MCCULLAH, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0yea spawnfree, you hippie! omg!
like the three eyed fish blinky, this whale is - jellomizer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yea like pollution is a cause of everything.... What probably happened was somehow he cut or hurt his tongue (Like the picture said) and it got infected. It might have been from a boat but it could also be from a bite from a giant squid. I bet there are a lot of bacteria in the sea that would love a warm place like a whale tongue to live in.
- shorty9, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3Horrible. And the Japs keep slaughtering them all over the ocean http://tinyurl.com/3997yh
- VonCannon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1dang, that was insane
- zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1that's kind of a racist thing to say, don't you think? at least consider for a second that whale fishing isn't specific to 'japanese people' or 'the japanese' or 'japan' or even 'that little island in the pacific that is technologically superior to the US'
- Paroparo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"The japs" is as racist as saying "the brits" or "the yanks". Some might be annoyed, but it happens all the time and generally doesn't contain any hostility.
- NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21That really was a whale of a tongue.
- KrazyKoala, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Yes and if this becomes a common problem, it could prove to be UNBEARABLE!
Let's hope this doesn't happen to any other whales. - zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1i see what you did there. but you're wrong:
it was a placenta that was being harvested for shampoo packets. LOTS of shampoo packets.
- KrazyKoala, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Yes and if this becomes a common problem, it could prove to be UNBEARABLE!
- DeathMarcher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I wonder if whales have allergies..
- jake8689, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i don't see why not I do, my dad and mom do hell even my dog does
- FLarsen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Allergies are caused by faulty immune reactions. Whales have an immune system, so they can get allergies.
- fac51, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3"Scientists believe its death was down to its enormous deformed tongue" - Really, I never would have thought that from looking at the pictures. I'm sure it's death was more likely down to stomach or a broken heart.
- stopbrorape, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2maybe he has another part enlarged out of proportion to make up for it
- ccL1, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1I advocate feeding whale carcasses to sharks on Seal Island in South Africa. It's absolutely dazzling to watch the great whites rip apart the carcass and then have a sexual orgy afterwards.
- stopbrorape, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0i would never have guessed.
- conceptkid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Holy *****, poor thing, yea I would say getting hit by a freaking ship is going to pretty much ruin your life.
- thewierdone2000, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5My girl friend would absolutely love that....
*gets shovel out to unbury comment* - mijohnst, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Every lesbians dream...
- banz23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's not a tumor!
- Disease, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9 ◕ ◡ ◕
How do i do it? - shak3d0wn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Let's save poor whales from slaughter! why greed should always overcome our humanity?
- PeachCobbler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I bet he tasted some foul things during his lifetime =P
[i'm surprised the whale could even open its mouth...] - JZ1991, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Thats a bad way to die....poor whale....
- slickstone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Must have been bad sushi
- magsolutionz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yeah, but did it have Pete Rose haircut?
- johnnyrotten, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I got me a tongue, it's as big as a car!
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