“The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds…”

36 Replies to ““The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds…””

1. Isn’t the Dep’t of Highways guy responsible for the blast named “Holdren” and wasn’t he later appointed to the Obama administration as Science Advisor? I’m sure that’s him.
   Oh, and within a month he comes up with this great idea:-
   “John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.”
   You will be forgiven if you mentally replace “pollution particles” with “whale carcass”.

2. Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?

3. Commentors at the Youtube link immediately noticed the striking similarities between this and the Obama stimulus plan.

4. Heh…file this one under the category “It seemed like a really good idea at the time”….

5. Catman’s ego after one of Kate’s well placed kicks to the gonads.

6. I used to think cremation was the best choice, but I’ve changed my mind. When I die, I’m going to have my kids strap 20 sticks of dynamite to my carcass, and blast body parts all over the Canadian Tire parking lot. With any luck, my head will go through the front window, and land in someone’s shopping cart.

7. Going boldly where no whale has gone before.

8. Some years ago in France, an electrical strike on a tree exploded tons of first world war ammunition stockpiled in a small tunnel at the base of the tree.
   Unfortunately, a herd of cattle were taking refuge from the storm under that and other trees in the area.
   A cowhand sent to collect the cows reported a blast so powerful that he was knocked back 20 feet and thrown into a ditch along with his bicycle.
   It was reported that it rained down chunks of beef no larger than a closed fist for five minutes after..
   I would have ran home and got the bar-be-que!!

9. Heh. Blowed ’em up real good.

10. Posted by: Bruce Strang at May 13, 2009 9:56 PM
    “Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?”
    There’s the guy you want to consult when you are deciding how much dynamite it would take to remove a POTUS’s head from his ass.

11. Jeez that’s unbelievable.
    I was thinking adjust the placement of the dynamite and cover it with sand or mud and move the people back.
    It’s worth another try.

12. When I was training for a blasting ticket while working an open pit mine up north we were shown this video as an example of improper application of explosives, and cautioned that if asked to remove a whale from a beach to be sure to demand a safe distance for spectators and vehicles.
    Memories of when it was considered legimate work to extract resources via the liberal utilization of high explosives and not be worried a protected spotted tree bear owl duck butterfly may wander into the blast zone and generate a several thousand dollar fine.

13. If this would have happend at a Bingo hall the results would have been simular.

14. That video is almost as old as the internet.
    Now that we finished the internet with the Hairy Mail site, are we starting over?
    😉

15. This must have happened before whales had rights.

16. The last blast of the blasted blubber….

17. This reminds me of the old bumper stickers dedicated ‘red necks’ used to have on their trucks specifically to annoy leftards during the ’70s.
    http://www.zazzle.co.uk/nuke_the_gay_baby_whales_for_jesus_tshirt-235392069490136994
    “NUKE, THE GAY BABY WHALES FOR JESUS”
    A catch phrase designed specifically to offend everybody in the room.
    Alternately:
    “Guns don’t kill people, gaping holes in vital organs kill people.”
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

18. More proof that Obama is a radical socialist.

19. From the vehicles in the video I’d say this film was from around 1970

20. I recall that two of the mines laid under the German lines at Messines in 1917 – 50 to 100 tons of Ammonal each – did not go up. One did explode during an electrical storm in 1956, removing the back paddock of a farm. Geophysical investigations in 2003 showed the other – unexploded – mine to be located under the farmhouse. I wonder what the farmer thinks during thunderstorms?.

21. Yes, thats right.
    We have certainly come to the End Of The Internet.

22. “the tornadoed Atlantic of my being”
    so i wonder…what would Melville have done ….or Tashtego….?

23. What year is this video? It loks to be from the 70’s or 80’s.

24. It should have respectfully been cremated with napalm, then the ashes dispersed with dynamite.

25. hey Kursk
    Your story is the Battle of Messines Ridge
    Crazy – 1917 – and the first time for the allies that offensive casualties outnumbered defensive casualties
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Messines

26. I vaguely remember this incident… Yes, a monumental screw-up! My dad worked for the Oregon Highway Department at the time, and told story for years afterwards (no, he wasn’t responsible for making the decision to blow it up, or involved with doing it). The funniest part of the story was always the large chunk of fetid whale that came crashing down on someones car… what a mess!
    I can’t remember the year, but probably in the 70s.

27. that was interesting.

28. C’mon.
    These guys are just having some fun.
    Wish I’d been there.

29. “From the vehicles in the video I’d say this film was from around 1970”
    If it’s on the east coast and the cars are from the ’70s it’s probably about 1995.

30. They tried the same thing with Hedy Fry, but she just landed in Ottawa.

31. It was November, 1970. A wee bit older than Al Gore’s invention of the internet.

32. The easiest way to deal with it would have been to cover the animal with chlorinated lime. That’s what they did with dead bodies during WWII. The second easiest, to get a wide track D-8 Cat and bulldoze it out to sea and let thhe gulls and other predators devour it. Then, there was the American way………

33. PS; Covering it with old railroad ties would have also worked. Blubber burns like gas!

34. A cautionary tale for Michael Moore next time he considers sunbathing at the beach.

35. Big Dead Animal

36. “Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.”
    Yea, whale blubber from the sky, and the first thing that comes to mind is Douglas Adams… More wine please.