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June 1, 2007

Friday Squid Blogging: 1873 Giant Squid Stored in Bathtub

Newfoundland naturalist Moses Harvey collected the first complete specimen of a giant squid in December 1873.
He kept it in his bathtub.

Tags: squid

Posted on June 1, 2007 at 3:19 PM • 11 Comments

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Joe • June 1, 2007 4:09 PM

If I had a giant squid, I guess that's where I'd keep it too!

Herman • June 1, 2007 5:01 PM

> He kept it in his bathtub.

For how long? Weeks? It was dead, right? It sure looks dead in that picture.

alastair • June 1, 2007 5:31 PM

Ok, I've been reading this blog for a little while now and I have to ask. What is it with the Friday squid blogging?

Bubble Boy • June 1, 2007 5:35 PM

Alastair, you obviously mean: what is it with all the crypto stuff in between the squid news? We come here for the squids!

DV Henkel-Wallace • June 1, 2007 7:18 PM

I don't get it, alastair. I use SQuIDs for all my TEMPEST snooping work. Nothing else is sensitive enough!

Tristram Brelstaff • June 2, 2007 2:50 AM

He must have had a very understanding wife.

whistler • June 2, 2007 3:05 AM

My uneducated guess is the man was a bachelor.

Squid make ink. Ink used in old time cryptography.;)

Albatross • June 2, 2007 1:26 PM

Did anyone else read the header and think "If they were giant squid, how did he keep 1873 of them in a bathtub?"

No?

Great, I'm the dumb one then...

kelly • June 3, 2007 1:24 PM

preserved giant squid can be seen at the Marine Institute in St. John's, no idea if it's the original

Andy • June 4, 2007 8:13 AM

There was a joke in Viz a few years back about "saving whales" with the punchline "I've been saving this one for sometime now and it's gone a bit smelly".

Fnord Prefect • June 6, 2007 8:20 PM

@Albatross:

No, I had the same the same thought, too. I suppose if you used a swimming pool as your "bathtub"...

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