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How Bizarre but its True! Whale’s ***** is Extremely Expensive

sciam.com — "Worth its weight in whale waste"

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 28, 2007

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  • intricate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+64Talk about expensive *****!
  • bryxal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57you must be new here...
  • robinator08, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Futurama wasn't lying!
  • therealrico, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43What?
  • sephiroth965, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Ambergris is not simply whale *****.
  • lejohn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Way to sensationalize the story. It is not whale's craps that are expensive but the ambergris found alongside with the craps. Ambergris formed through biliary secretion to ease the passage of pointy materials inside whales' digestive tract.
  • aqualung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18This is why I love digg. I have never heard of such a thing. It's great to be surprised by something you had absolutely no knowledge of before. The article was very thorough too, which was a nice change from the more common blog entry.
  • StephenChow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Precious Hamburgers?
  • cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Watch? We don't care about the watch, we just want back the priceless whale ambergris!!
  • SilverBack101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I always thought that this stuff was actually thrown up?
  • ksmith34746, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15@ motorola
    I wish I could digg you down more than once
  • fLUx1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13If only my ***** was expensive! :(
  • LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15But will it blend?
  • KuntaKinte, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13"hi honey, i brought you a present" "is it Chanel No. 5?" "No, it's whale *****"
  • VeganBob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9digg me down
  • LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, this is the very basis of supply and demand: As supply goes up, demand fails Econ.
  • rejoined, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Apparently good enough to be used as ingredients in Chanel No. 5 perfumes.
  • david76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It's not whale *****, it's whale vomit.

    It's like a whale tonsiloth that originates in the intestine instead of the tonsils.
  • ByronT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yep. Just read a chapter about this in Moby-Dick actually. It comes from the intestines of sick whales and smells really sweet; it is (or at least was) used in perfumes and miscellaneous other things back in the time when the book was written.
  • rhoadesb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6 Let's see, I'll need a scuba outfit, large tugboat, and a really really big pooper scooper.
  • themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Holy *****!
  • pasher1221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5We went to Port Aransas last weekend and my wife and kids picked up a bunch of stuff. They did get this one weird "rock" that my dog tried to chew on when we go home. It LOOKS just like this stuff. I just woke up my wife to ask her where it was and she said it is in the trash outside. Looks like I will be digging thru the garbage tonight for whale poo. Then I am going to have to get my whale poo appraised.... That is going to be a fun search.... "Excuse me sir do you appraise whale poo?"

    I will keep ya posted.

    What a great headline.... Man gets rich with Digg and whale poo!
  • CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I know a hobo that will pay 7 pieces of eight for 765 lbs.
  • piwy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6no rtfa, it is not *****. it comes out alongside the ***** to ease passage of said *****.
  • Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Phooey, tiger penis is more powerful for warding off demons and enhancing sexual prowess.
  • Valnar300, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Nope Sex Panther is, it's made with bits of real panther. They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.
  • catfish182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5your ***** me?
  • SpectralSounds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I guess its a good thing Ive been stockpiling all of this whale *****.
  • bloodchains, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dang, they actually put this stuff in perfumes?
  • Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Stephenchow = Futurama quote.
  • GeneralKickass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Whoa there. One creature's ***** is another's perfume??
  • spurtle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5'No one has ever seen a sperm whale excrete ambergris, although sperm whale expert Hal Whitehead of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, admits that it is assumed the voiding takes place as fecal excretion, because when first cast out, he says, "Well, it smells more like the back end than the front."'

    ***** (shĭt) Vulgar Slang.
    n.
    1. Excrement

    So most likely, *****.
  • pasher1221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well I dug the poo out of the trash. Did a little searching and found a test to preform to see if it is ambergris. IT IS!!!!!

    I have about 2.1lb of ambergris. Worth about $250-$500 but there is one large problem. According to University of Miami web site ( http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/support/lib/seas/seasQA/QAs/a/ambergris.html ) possession of it is prohibited by the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which includes the sperm whale, declared an endangered species on June 2, 1970. The Act states that it is unlawful to possess, sell, deliver, carry, transport, or ship by any means whatsoever any parts or products of an endangered species taken within the United States.

    New headline: Man gets arrested for digging poo from trash after digg convinced him he was going to be rich.
  • pasher1221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh wait!!! 2001 it was deemed legal and it is worth $10 per gram. That makes mine with about $10,000!!!!

    THANKS DIGG!!!!!!
  • Narwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hamburgers?
  • johnpaul191, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yes, the article pointed that out. it's perfectly legal in France (mentioned in article) and a lot of other places. the article said the legality of it in the USA is kind of questionable. it's from a protected animal, but it's generally found washed up on a beach. hopefully nobody is killing whales to extract this stuff.
  • cnldelta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Who thought ***** could smell so good?
  • toasty168, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i always thought it was whale vomit. and it takes years of floating around before it's smells sweet.
  • LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's not simply whale *****. It's very special whale *****.

    Whale indigestion: "Ambergris originates in the intestines of male sperm whales after they dine on squid, whose hard, pointy beaks abrade the whales' innards. Scientists believe that the whales protect themselves by secreting a fatty substance in their intestines to surround the beaks."

    Btw, scientists aren't even totally sure it's poop.
  • nodong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This stuff smells so ***** good. Order some online. Check out the homoerotic passage about the whaling crew kneading ambergris in Moby Dick.
  • theOster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@cyrix

    yeah, i thought it was made up :)
  • Slink1109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow, reminds me of an episode of futurama
  • fragile00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Look for Chanel's Sea Fragrance soon.
  • piwy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This stuff is illegal to own / sell in a lot of countries if i'm not mistaken. Since (if i'm not mistaken) the sperm whale is a protected animal.

    For the people that saw Drawing Restraint 9, this was the stuff they drank during the tea ceremony.
  • crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...jonah said to the whale.
  • EvilFerret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there a ***** gas leak in here?
  • BaliWebNews, on 01/12/2009, -0/+1also known as "floating gold"
  • r3zim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do they put that in Slurm?
  • chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let the ***** Rush Begin
  • sbassi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I read that there you can't take it "fresh" from the whale, it should float in the water and have some sunlight and sea water, this way (by the mix of digestive enzymes and compounds found on sea water) it gets is properties.
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