OT: And now, time for something completely different.

while in Iceland. they had some boat-sized whale skulls in Reykjavik and the fishing town of Grindavik. Vertebrae on those beasties are footstool sized blocks of bone! Tools and structures were built using whale bones when tool and building materials were scarce.

Whale was on the menu i one restaurant I went to.

Keith
 
If one were super rich, I could see buying that and a T Rex. And those bone foot stools! Great idea.



munk
 
Minke Whale spinal discs 1/2" thick by 6" diameter, only $25 at Boone Trading Co. Top looks like cow pie, bottom is rougher. Can't you hear it calling you, Munk?
 
Hmm. The scientific name means "New England Big Wing". I would have picked something a little more descriptive, like dorsalbumpus barnacledermus or quasimodo tharsheblowus or something.

Are there any properties of whale bone, apart from size, that make it especially useful?
 
Buy it, then donate it to a worthy cause. That's what I would do if I had the $$. Shame to let that kind of thing go.
 
The ones I saw were much bigger, like 12-18" diameter, 12-18" height. Not the kind of thing you can brinng back in a suitcase (and they parts weren't for sale anyway, some folks just had some parts left over from the older whaling days--something about not being legal to hunt/have whale parts, like an ivory ban.)

Keith
 
Yup, god's truth. It had dark bitter skin was kind of mushy and really oily. Found out later that it was eggplant! Too this day I try pulling that one over on the nephews and neices. I guess they are a little less gullible than when I was a kid.
 
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