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Whale poo is ‘scientific gold’
Monday Metro ^ | 11/16/08

Posted on 11/16/2008 9:51:10 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 11/16/2008 9:51:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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What a sh*tty job.


2 posted on 11/16/2008 9:52:50 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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Thar she poos!


3 posted on 11/16/2008 9:53:11 PM PST by smokingfrog (If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. - Ronald Reagan)
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So, this guy likes being lower than whale sh*t, I guess. Cabinet post on the Obama bandwagon in his future???

Just an idle thought...


4 posted on 11/16/2008 9:57:55 PM PST by jessduntno (Barack - Kenyan for “High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain")
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“Whale sharks are elusive creatures hidden in our vast oceans”

Try the Gulf of California, there are lots of them there.

It’s kind of spooky when one of those 20 ton monsters crosses 10’ uder your boat when you are trolling for marlin.


5 posted on 11/16/2008 9:58:52 PM PST by dalereed
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so you can imagine how excited a scientist was when he saw one doing a poo.

The 12 year old in me is giggling at the way this was written.

6 posted on 11/16/2008 9:59:16 PM PST by conservative cat ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
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A doctorate in poopology, what a credential.
7 posted on 11/16/2008 10:00:44 PM PST by Jolla
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I wonder what that Scientist’s fetish is...


8 posted on 11/16/2008 10:01:03 PM PST by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: conservative cat

DOAPOO.COM is already taken.


9 posted on 11/16/2008 10:02:37 PM PST by Silly (www.PalinLove.com)
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To: conservative cat; Silly

They used a British idiom, and it is odd for U.S. ears.


10 posted on 11/16/2008 10:04:54 PM PST by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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Anyone know where I can get a pooper scooper THIS BIG??


11 posted on 11/16/2008 10:24:19 PM PST by jessduntno (Barack - Kenyan for “High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain")
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No, not that blow hole, the other blow hole.
12 posted on 11/16/2008 10:26:02 PM PST by Kirkwood
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The messy moment, caught on camera for the first time

Watch the video on PooTube...
13 posted on 11/16/2008 10:27:23 PM PST by adingdangdoo
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Excited by poo? This guy would have an orgasm if he saw Congress at work!


14 posted on 11/16/2008 11:12:56 PM PST by pankot
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Catching the excrement of the world's biggest fish was 'scientific gold', said Dr Mark Meekan, because it holds many clues to its feeding habits.

Biggest fish? A whale is a mammal, not a fish.

15 posted on 11/16/2008 11:33:57 PM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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A Whale Fish is a shark (hence a fish), not a whale, despite the name.


16 posted on 11/16/2008 11:38:19 PM PST by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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A Whale Fish is a shark (hence a fish), not a whale, despite the name.

OK, thanks for the correction. I saw the headline and skimmed over the shark part when I read the article. I was wondering why no one had observed a whale pooping until now. But this is not about whales but rather a very large shark.

17 posted on 11/17/2008 12:48:27 AM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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I think headline writers have to go to idiot school.


18 posted on 11/17/2008 1:36:05 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.)
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While we're on the subject

Ambergris is sperm whale vomit used in perfumes.

19 posted on 11/17/2008 1:45:01 AM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: stripes1776

This headline does substantiate the theory that today’s news writers have not finished junior high school.


20 posted on 11/17/2008 4:47:03 AM PST by ottbmare
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