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02-26-2010, 09:08 AM | #1 |
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This is just a bit bizarre.
You old goats probably remember pics of Jackie O on The Christina. It was Aristotle Onassis' big fancy yacht.
I watched a show last night about yachts, and it was on there. Turns out when Aristotle died it was donated to the Greek President's office. They didn't use it at all and it slipped into disrepair. Recntly a friend of the Onassis family had the boat refurbished to it's original glory. Now the bizarre part... The bar is gorgeous. It's got stools all around the bar, and they are decorated with whale teeth and rope. The teeth actually stick out to rest your feet on. They had to recover the seats. When they did, they covered the old covers, but left them in tact. The reason they did this is because the old seat covers were made from whale foreskins. Ya. Whale foreskins. I can't make this stuff up. Now, my question is this... Why? Are there not enough elephant foreskins to go around?
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02-26-2010, 09:15 AM | #2 |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
Yeah, but there are more Jewish whales than Jewish elephants, so the whale foreskins were easier to attain.
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02-26-2010, 09:21 AM | #4 |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
Just imagine sitting on one of those stools, enjoying your favorite drink and maybe a fine cigar and then thinking about some poor whale swimming around in that cold water without his foreskin!
The thought might make me move to the sofa
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02-26-2010, 09:23 AM | #5 |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
I hear that lady whales like it better
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02-26-2010, 09:23 AM | #6 |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
You'd think they'd have a hole in them. That's all I'm saying.
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02-26-2010, 09:49 AM | #8 |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
Well considering a whale penis can be 20 feet long I am pretty sure that the foreskin is big enough for more than one stool.
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02-26-2010, 10:05 AM | #9 | |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
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You just don't hear that every day, ya know?
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02-26-2010, 10:06 AM | #10 |
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02-26-2010, 10:24 AM | #11 | |
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02-26-2010, 10:42 AM | #12 |
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02-26-2010, 10:45 AM | #13 |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
Once you go Shamu you don't go back!
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02-26-2010, 10:52 AM | #14 |
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Re: This is just a bit bizarre.
What I want to know (OK, maybe I don't want to know) is WHO woke up one morning and said "I think I'll make a bar stool out of a whale foreskin..."
Not exactly something I would think of, that's for sure!
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02-26-2010, 12:29 PM | #18 |
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You don't know comfort until your butt naked drinking scotch while sitting on a whale foreskin.....
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