Someone heard the old Inuit proverb about eating whale blubber for good luck. The Chargers are desperate.

Exploding whale was a meme before the internet

Because trucking a week-old rotting carcass across town can't go wrong, right?

Trucking it across town might not be good either (new window).

I think San Diego should just be it's own country. Not quite Mexico, not quite America, but man...

illicit: Because trucking a week-old rotting carcass across town can't go wrong, right?

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Jerkface!

ANOTHER Kardashian thread???

and then blow it up?

This thread makes me sad...because at one point we thought early versions of quicktime were a hi-res way to post things to the web...

At least we've moved on from there.

(dick)Headline Startling proof that the internet makes you smarter. San Diego nixes plan to explode whale carcass, instead plans to truck it across town to research lab

Yeah, if by nixes, you mean never even considered, and by research lab, you mean landfill.

That article read like it was narrated by the voice over of a show with a title like "worlds somethingiest something"

/rtfa

Halt Die Schnauze: I think San Diego should just be it's own country. Not quite Mexico, not quite America, but man...

we are pretty awesome....

I found the exploding whale vid in 1995 by typing in "cool stuff" in Netscape.

It took a while to download and start.

it was pretty farking cool.

I hear they're gonna dump it on norv turners driveway as a farewell "f**k you".

CornDog in 2012: I hear they're gonna dump it on norv turners driveway as a farewell "f**k you".

Some of us Redskins fans would like to help you with that.

They should tow it out to sea and blow it up real good.

/Smile you sunuva BOOM!

The Southern Dandy: They should tow it out to sea and blow it up real good.

/Smile you sunuva BOOM!

Why else would whales have blowholes?

That was one of the very first viral videos I ever saw. It wasn't even on the Internet, I got it off a CD with some OS/2 software.

The fin whale is the second-largest living animal after the blue whaleyour mom and can grow to nearly 90 feet (27,5m) long.

I'm making a case for the opposite.

Point02GPA: Native Americans use to dance around them and then eat'um up. Maybe we could get a flash dance thingie going on this one. Anybody hungry?

I'm not sure how you got from whales to this but whatever, I'd eat it.

Couple of guys with chainsaws could do the job in few days. Why does it need to be moved as one piece of rotting whale flesh? Maybe they could hire some Japanese whalers.

So they moved the spectators back up the beach, put a half-ton of dynamite next to the whale and set it off. I am probably not guilty of understatement when I say that what follows, on the videotape, is the most wonderful event in the history of the universe. First you see the whale carcass disappear in a huge blast of smoke and flame. Then you hear the happy spectators shouting "Yayy!" and "Whee!" Then, suddenly, the crowd's tone changes. You hear a new sound like "splud." You hear a woman's voice shouting "Here come pieces of... MY GOD!" Something smears the camera lens.

Came to post link to "trucked rotting whale explodes"... See I'm late to the party.

Was it discovered by the Germans?

/envotinated because why not

Didn't Exploding Whale Carcass break up after the fail of their third album?

Why don't they just light it on fire? Seriously.

Ah yes, Ole Explodey The Whale.

I grew up on the Oregon Coast about 60 miles north of where that happened and it's still legendary around there to this day.

Funniest part about Ole Explodey? They thought blowing it up into smaller bits would mean that the local Sea Gulls and various other carrion eaters would clean up the mess. The sound from the blast scared away ever bird within a few miles instead.

"...for the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." Just for that alone, the video is priceless.

Britney Spear's Speculum: Exploding whale was a meme before the internet Eternal September

Fixed that. It was certainly floating around on Usenet back in the day.

Solution: tow it behind something big sailing the Pacific (oil tanker or maybe container ship). It'll take the sharks a couple of days, but they'll get the job done.

wait, they say they are NOT going to explode the whale and this is supposed to be SMARTER?

Nope. No way. Blowing up things is SMART. And cool.

I'd volunteer to help them move the whale, but I'm busy cleaning up this shattered bowl of petunias someone dropped on my roof.

/again...

A few thousand jellyfish beached themselves in La Jolla a few years ago. The smell carried inland about 5 miles.

So if this whale is carted inland, it'll smell like ass in a 10 mile radius.

Bathia_Mapes: For those unfamiliar with Oregon's infamous exploding whale, here's a video (new window).

As God is my witness, I thought huge chunks of whale blubber couldn't fly.

RaceBoatDriver: A few thousand jellyfish beached themselves in La Jolla a few years ago. The smell carried inland about 5 miles.

So if this whale is carted inland, it'll smell like ass in a 10 mile radius.

I remember that. For some reason someone dumped a garbage bag full of them on my neighbors driveway. The smell was so bad I could barely keep from vomitting when I went outside.

HalRoach: This thread makes me sad...because at one point we thought early versions of quicktime were a hi-res way to post things to the web...

In our defense, at one point early versions of quicktime were a hi-res way to post things to the web

From KATU in Portland. The year 1970. The original exlpoding whale.

Link (new window)

RaceBoatDriver: A few thousand jellyfish beached themselves in La Jolla a few years ago. The smell carried inland about 5 miles.

So if this whale is carted inland, it'll smell like ass in a 10 mile radius.

In San Diego they call that "air freshener"

Dear god I forgot how funny that clip was. The commentator is so deadpan with his delivery!

CephJedi: Dear god I forgot how funny that clip was. The commentator is so deadpan with his delivery!

"...because the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds."

That line gets me every time.

TorqueToad: So they moved the spectators back up the beach, put a half-ton of dynamite next to the whale and set it off. I am probably not guilty of understatement when I say that what follows, on the videotape, is the most wonderful event in the history of the universe. First you see the whale carcass disappear in a huge blast of smoke and flame. Then you hear the happy spectators shouting "Yayy!" and "Whee!" Then, suddenly, the crowd's tone changes. You hear a new sound like "splud." You hear a woman's voice shouting "Here come pieces of... MY GOD!" Something smears the camera lens.

It's the transition from "Yay" to "Aiee" that cracks me up every time.

I actually learned about this from the Bathroom Reader!

RaceBoatDriver: A few thousand jellyfish beached themselves in La Jolla a few years ago. The smell carried inland about 5 miles.

So if this whale is carted inland, it'll smell like ass in a 10 mile radius.

Eh, it'll just be in East County and who the fark cares about Santee?

What's wrong with just dragging it back out into the ocean and blowing it up there? The scavengers will take care of the rest.

j0ndas: What's wrong with just dragging it back out into the ocean and blowing it up there? The scavengers will take care of the rest.

Two words. Hippie Environmentalists.