Phligm Phlagm part3

[philmophlegm]

Ten film quotes we all get wrong.

Armour for cats. They'll need helmets too though.

Bull African elephant 1, small hatchback 0

The best photograph of a dead sperm whale on the back of a lorry you'll see this week. (Seriously, the only use for a dead sperm whale they can think of is landfill? Ask the Icelanders, they’ll have some ideas.)

Twelve historical speeches that nobody ever heard.

A landslip just downriver from us cut off some cars. A 10 year old boy asked the Royal Marines to sort it out. They did.

Christine McVie is returning to Fleetwood Mac.

Don't do it, George! part 3

If RPG magazines looked like women's magazines.

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[eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com]

Landfill was the fate for the dead pilot whale that the Zoology Dept was given when I worked there. The museum curator wanted to bury it in the Botany garden and dig up the bones 10 years later, but was told that a rotting whale carcass would violate lots of Publich Heath regulations.

We took it to the local tip, gutted it (to check for stomach contents and parasites), sawed off the lower jaw (to get an age from its teeth) and then shoved the rest into a big hole dug by a bulldozer.

I always imagine that whale skeleton will cause much confusion in archaeologists who excvate the tip a few centuries from now... :-)