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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.

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

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

Posted by: Joe at June 1, 2007 4:09 PM

> He kept it in his bathtub.

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

Posted by: Herman at June 1, 2007 5:01 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?

Posted by: alastair at June 1, 2007 5:31 PM

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

Posted by: Bubble Boy at June 1, 2007 5:35 PM

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

Posted by: DV Henkel-Wallace at June 1, 2007 7:18 PM

He must have had a very understanding wife.

Posted by: Tristram Brelstaff at June 2, 2007 2:50 AM

My uneducated guess is the man was a bachelor.

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

Posted by: whistler at June 2, 2007 3:05 AM

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...

Posted by: Albatross at June 2, 2007 1:26 PM

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

Posted by: kelly at June 3, 2007 1:24 PM

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".

Posted by: Andy at June 4, 2007 8:13 AM

@Albatross:

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

Posted by: Fnord Prefect at June 6, 2007 8:20 PM

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