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Please Let It Be Whale Vomit, Not Just Sea Junk!
nytimes.com — MONTAUK, N.Y. — In this season of strange presents from relatives, Dorothy Ferreira got a doozy the other day from her 82-year-old sister in Waterloo, Iowa. It was ugly. It weighed four pounds. There was no receipt in the box.
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- geodescent, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I'm a certified whale-vomit inspector. Just send me the ambergris and I'll let you know. Trust me. ;-)
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+73Just because your girlfriend defiled your couch with McNuggets doesn't make you certified.
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Oh man. How do you respond to that? Haha. Shut down.
- Clevinger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I believe you described precisely why it does.
- twst1up, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0oh....SNAP!!
- endtwist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Whale Biologist: You heard Roseanne. Scrape off the priceless ambergris and I'll let you go!
Kif: Or better yet I'll simply shed my skin!- AdamalNZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Hahaha. That episode of Futurama was the first thing that popped into my head as well!
- Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Priceless hamburgers?
- Antennapedia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Who smells like porpoise hork?
- sancho320, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Matt Groening always seems to be way ahead of the times.
- Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Wait, why does she think she can retire with only 18 grand?
Also, why hasn't she retired at 80 years old yet?- AF-Geek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Because she doesn't have 18 grand.
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12because she is living on social security.
Dont worry, we will all still be working at McDonalds when we're 90. You can thank Dubya for that one. - deaper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@drizek
Yes sir we can sure thank Dubya for first passing budgets that dip into social security and then not making laws to solve the problem. Oh wait. No we can't. Dubya is the president and therefore a part of the EXECUTIVE branch. I believe what you mean is you can thank the congress during dubya's time in office for that one. - kremvax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Right. You have 12 years of a republican congress to thank. And really, don't forget to thank the president for leading us into an insanely expensive unecessary war that's sunk us hundreds of billions of dollars into debt to the chinese. THAT you can thank him for.
- lcohiomatty86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3how is it congress/dubya's fault?.. if this money is being spent on tax breaks.. shouldnt that money be invested than to grow and then by the time your old and wrinkley.. the interest would be all added up and you'd have quite a chunk of change on your hand?
well next thing ya kno.. people will be complaining about the democrats higher tax rates and how they cant afford that new HD tv or Geforce graphics card anymore.. - febryle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Only on Digg can a conversation about petrified whale vomit turn into a discussion of Republican party politics and the Iraq war.
Take THAT, Slash-dot! Who says the comments on digg aren't any good?? :)
- Vishap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"Ambergris has been a valued commodity for centuries, used in perfume because of its strangely alluring aroma..."
If only my vomit had a strangely alluring aroma. Whales have all the luck.- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Except for the being hunted to near extinction bit.
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12well, if you had the world's biggest schlong, you'd have haters too.
- daofma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Why couldn't I have read this before the crossword puzzle I just did... Ambergris was one of the answers! What a coincidence.
- AF-Geek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This has to be the best title I've seen yet on Digg. Thanks for the laugh, sicc.
- sicc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, I found this story on fark. But yea, it's a funny ass headline.
:)
- sicc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, I found this story on fark. But yea, it's a funny ass headline.
- Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i think now im going to make sure and read the ingredients on my cologne bottles from now on
- Majin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ask kiff croaker.... or roseanne
- fantasmacanino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3After seeing this story, I've decided I'll sell pictures of whale vomit on eBay. I'll make millions, I tell you, millions.
- white1827, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Best.. whale vomit story.. ever..
- Jist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Oh man. I thought she got a d*ck in a box...
- CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I'm not exactly sure how to respond to this comment, other than that I had no idea what you were talking about until I had clicked on the link, and then laughed.
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8you know what they used to say,
one whale's petrified vomit is another man's college fund. - securitymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Best article title. Ever.
- Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8But will it blend?
- rowanjl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Will you? What the hell does it mean anyway...?
- thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6going by the images on this site, I don't think it's ambergris:
http://www.ambergris.co.nz/identification.htm- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1from your link,
"If you can imagine scented cow dung you will be on the right track."
strangely enough, i can. :) - rauz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, noticed this too - a quick Google Image Search for ambergris tells me it should look kind of like petrified cow dung...
http://www.fahad.com/pics/ambergris.jpg - djrocksteady, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You would think that the reporters would have been able to do a quick google search for the lady since she's 80 and probably doesnt have a computer... or maybe they did but still wanted to run the story. I kind of feel bad for her, I bet the reporters got her hopes up and everything...
- djrocksteady, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0sorry...DP
- raabco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6What she has looks nothing like the pics on those links, which begs the question: What the hell is that?
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1from your link,
- yujie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish my vomit would be just as valuable :(
- charlie55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i think i can speak for almost all of us when i say that we would have no clue what ambergris is except for that episode of futurama.
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Uhm, not for me and probably not for quite a few of us here on Digg. I've never seen futurama but I have known about ambergris for most of my life.
- mgrucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anybody notice that EVERYONE mentioned in that article is ridiculously old? Does she live in a retirement village?
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All the young people have moved to places with higher paying jobs and things for young people to enjoy doing together...
- nbcivic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So rather than looking for sea shells i should be looking for whale vomit.............interesting.
- cbmeeks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is easy to produce. Just eat 14 Burger King cheeseburgers, 8 Krystal pups, 4 Slim Jims, 6 Taco Bell tacos and anything from McDonald's. Hold your bowels for at least a week.
Run to the toilet and let 'er rip. Look down in the bowl and you will see what she is holding. Let that sit for a few hours and it will be hard enough to pick up. Submit it to digg and get $18,000.
I did the above technique and photographed it. Check out the pics here:
http://www.codershangout.com - RodeoRobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"What you got there son is a big 'ol chunk of poopy."
"Dude! You were eating off that!" - spookshowbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Best story to show up from Waterloo, IA. That's my hometown and I'm so glad I left. :)
- dieri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here's a link to a story with a pic of actual whale vomit and it looks diff to what's pictured. Maybe it's whale shark vomit instead..
http://www.abc.net.au/eyre/stories/s1554273.htm - Tapewormz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I found one of these in my nose when I was a kid. Though, it wasn't anywhere near as big.
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