Have you ever had a really good Tequila drunk? Then you know of the praying at the porcelain throne…..did you learn your lesson? Of course not! It is Tequila and what more can be said?
Just how valuable is vomit? Well if it came from a whale then all I can say is Cha-ching!
A lucky couple in the UK county of Lancashire is set to make a boatload of money for a chunk of whale vomit (what the scientists like to call ambergris), which they discovered while strolling along Middleton Sands Beach.Gary and Angela Williams are hoping they can repeat the success of the last whale vomit sale, when a buyer coughed up £120,000 (US$170,000).
Ambergris is a highly-sought-after perfume ingredient, despite its natural stench, described by Gary Williams in the Mirror as “a cross between squid and farmyard manure.”
Weighing 1.57kg (3.4lbs), the lump isn’t a by-product of a massive all-nighter under the sea, but rather the indigestible leftovers of squid that got trapped in a sperm whale’s intestines and eventually comes out “saturated with feces,” explains Christopher Kemp, author of ‘Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris’.
More than half the size of the ambergris found in nearby Morecambe three years ago and sold for £120,000, the Williams are currently in talks with potential buyers in both France and New Zealand and stand to sell their lump for around £50,000.
Who knew vomit could make you rich? Well, I guess if bat crap can…..then why not vomit?
Tequila could have made me rich!
Thoughts?
The vomitoriums of the political world are filled with people who make vast fortunes off their abilities to spew forth endless diatribes of bullshit encased in air-dried puke so I am not surprised that others have done it on a less ostentatious level. Great post! Very revealing and informative … as always.
THanx…..glad you liked it.
So. we humans are using the alimentary discards from another species, to make a substance used to deceive each other (perfume basically masks human pheromones, thus disrupting normal interactions between the sexes, basically, making us smell like something other than what we are….), spending an inordinate amount of something that doesn’t exist (money) for the privilege of using it to make perfume, which is then packaged expensively, and used to make more non-existent money for people who don’t need it, by charging outrageous amounts of the same non-existent entity to people who DO need money far more than perfume.
All sounds like a pathetic waste of time, pursuing illusions and lies about stuff that doesn’t even exist, for the purpose of being something we are not… I can think of at least two other things which would probably be more productive, neither of which involves any sort of vomit…
gigoid, the dubious
I can think of a lot better ways to smell better than to rub crap (feces) on myself.
We humans can never seem to come to terms with our own nature. Our smell is what attracts us to each other sexually, yet we try to cover it up, thus disrupting our own natural system of exchanging biological information non-verbally.
One can teach oneself to enjoy the natural odors humans produce, and, in fact, doing so greatly enhances one’s life, in at least one respect. To my mind, nothing smells better than a woman who wears no perfumes, because what I perceive is all reality, with no disrupted information to perceive….
But, then, honesty is not a particularly common trait amongst most humans…
gigoid, the dubious
Whatever that is, we need to get it into spray cans and on the production line as quickly as possible. I am working on a design for a bed pillow made of memory foam, latex and shaped in the exact form of a female breast. The secret to making those work to give a good night’s rest is to learn to sleep face downward on the pillows .. which will also have an enhanced oxygen flow mechanism so people will not suffocate.
Cute idea, but, I think I’d prefer a real one, which requires no design parameters, smells right all by itself, & needs no oxygen enhancement.
Plus, I believe one can now acquire human pheromones in a can, although why one would need it, I don’t know. Our bodies make them naturally, without thought or direction needed…
Probably a good market for it, though; people will buy anything if it doesn’t require them to actually think about anything….
gigoid
Do not forget Guano…lol chuq
Aye, one of the biggest industries in the world, mining bird and bat shit for phosphorus and other chemicals for agriculture, and, making weapons…. One of the other highly prized chemicals used in perfume is the essence of skunk…
Maybe this is an indication of how our minds work, mining the universe to spread our shit to the ends of space & time….
😉
gigoid
So that is why Pepe Le Pew is French…LOL chuq
Got it in one, bro… LOL!
How about this for vomit inducing bilge..
I am about to have a rant…apologies in advance..
This was sent to me today..
from someone I kinda know…on the net….
“Bless, have mercy and forgive all those murdered today. Bless, have mercy and forgive their killers.”
One of my closing prayers each day
I replied like this..
Rather you than me…
I am not in a position to bless ….unless I am the Pope of course.
As for forgiving…..there is no need..no need at all…it is the forgetting that can be a problem.
How about considering this …….
I am grateful I have food in my belly
and a roof over my head…and I am not in the middle of a war zone..
Do not waste my time..
Go and nurse the dying……
then come back to me.
clean their wounds…their pussing sores their cancerous growths their mental problems their children’s problems their pleas to die in a dignified way…
Yes,I have worked with the dying….ya see I like the old folk..
I used to listen to their stories while they lived through the war… a real privilege.
End of rant..
Thank you chuq
you saved my day …
Ur irate friend who is in need of a large Tequila….
but only the best…Madura!
I have a favorite prayer for my enemies. Jesus said we should pray for our enemies and so I obey and here is my prayer for my enemies:
“Dear God … In your Infinite Love and Mercy I ask today that You see fit to remove all my earthly enemies from thier burdens of life and take them to Heaven as swiftly as possible so they may enjoy Your Company as soon as possible and forever and ever, Amen.”
Hahaha….
Thank You…. The Ripening Wanderer….
😉
That can also be said as “You are cordially invited to attend the place of eternal damnation” dru
Yes it can, Dru — yes it can. Thank you for your comment. I appreciate your comment.
You are very welcome an thanx….chuq
p.s.
Hi chuq..
grin
wink wink
u low down rat!
Oh shit, i have not read all the above comments cuz I’m too tired after trying to get my sister’s new puppy to like me….never had a dog not like me before, but shit there is always a first time. Wink Wink….hell tequila is almost hallucinogenic…(Read most of the last posts today) BUT IF YOU REALLY want a trip…..drink RETSINA, nothing says I love you like rolling around in the front yard of some one’s home…i don’t who’s …and being drunk on Resin. I totally recommend it but for the sake of your brain tissue…not often. dru
Now why was I thinking that Retsina was a civilized drink?
I have drunk copious amounts of it and still remained standing/sober…….( in Crete)
However,that cannot be said for Raki….that’s local Raki….
Never Again!
Eva…:(
Well I’ve never had Raki…so I can’t comment BUT Retsina was shipped to the US in pine casks. Not brewed in them or aged in them, i was told, but shipped in them and supposedly the wine took on the flavor of the cask, which happened by the pine resin being absorbed by the wine. Now I can’t actually vouch for this cuz to me it is just another urban legend….but I was once at a home of a friend of a friend and the three of us drank 2 bottles of the stuff that her husband smuggled back from his trip to his family AND WE rocked! (husband wasn’t very happy when he came home but scre….’em if he can’t take a fu…)
Could have just been an contact high but i’m not kidding about three younger than middle aged women rolling down the steep front yard of a home and laughing so hard, it was…..well….fun! dru
REALLY COPIOUS AMOUNTS? Where do you live we need to get together. OR NOT! hee hee hee. dru