moby update

[phosfate]

Continuing his discourse on property law and dead whales, Ishmael tells us about abandoned rotting whale carcasses which have died, apparently, of natural causes. Some are valuable. Some are not.

Mr Stubb cons a French whaler out of a valuable, albeit extremely stinky, rotting whale carcass. It's just chock-full of ambergris*. Ambergris is, apparently, the 'sperm' in 'sperm whale.'

Then there's this whole chapter where Ishamel describes the...oh God...the delights of 'squeezing sperm.' He really likes squeezing sperm. He likes the smell. He's in his happy place.


*Oh, look it up yourself.

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*smackyo'head*

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[hooverdam.livejournal.com]

I have here a magazine in which a man whose surname is Seaman lists the worst puns he's ever heard involving his name. Don't make me use it.

Ah yes. Spunky fellow, isn't he?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You can't post that here. Women and Seaman don't mix.