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.
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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
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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Joe • June 1, 2007 4:09 PM
If I had a giant squid, I guess that’s where I’d keep it too!