To: nickcarraway
Anyone ever heard of a substance called “ambergris”??..It’s Sperm Whale poo, but supposedly it’s worth a lot of money?
13 posted on
09/17/2013 12:53:15 PM PDT by
JSDude1
(Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
To: JSDude1
I wouldn't call it poo- it's a digestive secretion. Moby Dick has a whole chapter about it, after the Pequod tricks a French captain out of whale full of it. It's illegal in the United States. Unless, you're a whale, I guess.
To: JSDude1
Yes. Ambergris is used as a ingredient in expensive perfumes.
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