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Lady Butterfly she/her ( LadyButterfly@reddthat.com )  to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago

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Good point

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Lady Butterfly she/her ( LadyButterfly@reddthat.com )  to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago
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  • janNatan ( janNatan@lemmy.ml ) 
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    It’s short for spermaceti whale.

    Spermaceti is the name of the oil they produce for buoyancy/echolocation. Why is it called that? Because it was originally thought to be whale semen. Yes, really.

    • Catoblepas ( Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Cum is stored in the head

      • joelfromaus ( joelfromaus@aussie.zone ) 
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        Would explain some of the decisions I’ve made over the years.

      • Potato Lover 💾 No brain found ( user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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        Only during transit.

      • pootzapie ( pootzapie@lemy.lol ) 
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        Actual lol, tysm and happy holidays

      • SkaveRat ( SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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        10 months ago

        Only until you swallow

    • SillyDude ( SillyDude@lemmy.zip ) 
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      I wonder if they were either disappointed or relieved when they found out it wasn’t cum.

  • tiny_hedgehog ( tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social ) 
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    I bet he named the Daddy Long Legs too.

    • Signtist ( Signtist@bookwyr.me ) 
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      He originally wanted to call it the Spermy Long Legs.

    • hopesdead ( hopesdead@startrek.website ) 
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      Sadly I have a video for this topic.

      https://youtu.be/bYyiS8AT3ug

  • FaceDeer ( FaceDeer@fedia.io ) 
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    Unfortunately not before he did the bear and the peacock.

    Or rather before he named the bear and the peacock. Need to be careful with words when that guy’s involved.

    • hopesdead ( hopesdead@startrek.website ) 
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      I knew from the cropped thumbnail it was Ryan George.

      • EpeeGnome ( EpeeGnome@feddit.online ) 
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        I can’t see the thumbnail, but I could already hear the Ryan George character in my head just from reading the image text, so when I saw a youtube link I assumed it had to be one of those skits.

  • neuracnu ( neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Just gonna leave this here…

    As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, wove almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as. I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma,- literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.

    Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

    Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side; the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

    • DragonTypeWyvern ( DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 
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      What a magnificent example of the kind of straight male bonding you just don’t see anymore

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@feddit.uk ) 
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      I’ve now understood why our english lit teacher skipped over this one at school

  • FunkyCheese ( Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    it’s called “kaskelothval” in danish

    kastelot supposedly means “oil-filled head”

    that oil is called “spermaceti oil”. And supposedly is kinda sticky… like sperm

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮  ( Kolanaki@pawb.social ) 
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    Why is it called that? Did the first one they ever see ejaculate at that moment or something?

  • chirayu_alias ( chirayu_alias@lemmy.zip ) 
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    And I bet that guy regrets nothing

  • Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I’m interested of the reason to call an prehistoric elephant Tit tooth (Mastodon)

  • SeductiveTortoise ( SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ) 
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    He changed departments and started deciding on packaging.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPf529urxw8

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