Slicing Up Dead Blue Whales While Smoking a Pipe

[georged]

Proof positive that "correct" pipe smoking situations are in the mind of the smoker, thankyouverymuch.

This guy was the only capable whale slicer-upper (the proper term is flenser) anyone knew when a half dozen blue whale carcasses washed ashore and made their nearby town uninhabitable, so they hired him to dispose of the critters.

Sleecy slicey, deecey dicey...

 

[El Capitán]

I wonder what killed the blue whales? Largest animal on the planet by mass doesn't have many predators.

 

[anotherbob]

I wonder what killed the blue whales? Largest animal on the planet by mass doesn't have many predators.

time

 

[El Capitán]

time

That would be probable if it was just one but there is six.

 

[Piping Abe]

Political reference removed.

 

[yanoJL]

I know what's in that pipe...

 

[georged]

That would be probable if it was just one but there is six.

Pods of them (they travel in groups) apparently get lost in shallow water occasionally, then the tide goes out and they're stranded. (Yes, they can breathe air directly---they have lungs not gills---but soon suffocate from their own unsupported weight.)

This instance was in the North Sea, on a Netherlands island beach.

 

[didimauw]

I wonder what killed the blue whales? Largest animal on the planet by mass doesn't have many predators.

Probably tobacco.

 

[El Capitán]

Pods of them (they travel in groups) apparently get lost in shallow water occasionally, then the tide goes out and they're stranded. (Yes, they can breathe air directly---they have lungs not gills---but soon suffocate from their own unsupported weight.)

This instance was in the North Sea, on a Netherlands island beach.


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Beaching themselves unintentionally seems like it is the culprit.

 

[LotusEater]

I’ll bet no one on that beach was offended by or complained about the smell of that guy’s pipe.

 

[Servant King]

I’ll bet no one on that beach was offended by or complained about the smell of that guy’s pipe.

Unless he happened to be smoking C&D Decomposing Whale Carcass Flake, and he certainly looks like the kind of dude to go 10 tins deep on a small batch release...

 

[romaso]

Other methods have been tried...

 

[kcghost]

Another six smoking related deaths!!

 

[Ahi Ka]

Unless he happened to be smoking C&D Decomposing Whale Carcass Flake, and he certainly looks like the kind of dude to go 10 tins deep on a small batch release...

Is that rebranded warhorse bar?

 

[anotherbob]

I’ll bet no one on that beach was offended by or complained about the smell of that guy’s pipe.

oh there is always one. If there is a situation where only a complete lunatic would complain some how that freaking lunatic finds their way there. I know in my heart of hearts that in the Neolithic age someone would go into the caves being painted and nit pik their work or complain about how much prettier a natural rock is....

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Other methods have been tried...

I prefer the dynamite option, myself. I just like the idea of hunks of decomposed meat raining down on the city.

 

[jguss]

I wonder what killed the blue whales? Largest animal on the planet by mass doesn't have many predators.

Same thing that kills most mammals: ennui.

 

[El Capitán]

Same thing that kills most mammals: ennui.

Listless Whales sounds like a good name for a band.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Same thing that kills most mammals: ennui.

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[El Capitán]

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Death by Snu-Snu