# Extree ... Extree ... Chilean Blob Identified! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126 "2003-07-13T07:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/1 "2003-07-13T07:40:11Z")
Chilean [blob](http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/07/11/chile.creature.reut/index.html) determined to be part of sperm whale carcass. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/2 "2003-07-13T23:43:06Z")
ewwwwwwwwwwww ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/3 "2003-07-13T23:46:13Z")
Oh, how prosaic. ---
**Author:** ![SexyHamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SexyHamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SexyHamster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/4 "2003-07-14T01:05:48Z")
Hey thanks **Zenster**. I had been wondering what had happened to that blob and I had entirely missed the update. Too bad it didn’t turn out to be something a little more interesting. Oh well. I guess sometimes a dead whale is just a dead whale. ---
**Author:** ![Publius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Publius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Publius)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/5 "2003-07-14T01:08:16Z")
I was going to make some kind of crack about “call Ishmael,” but the sheer lack of wit involved might have gotten me banned. Thanks for the update, **Zenster**. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/6 "2003-07-14T01:25:11Z")
Horse pucky. It’s a shoggoth, and no one can tell me different. ---
**Author:** ![skyzoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@skyzoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skyzoo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/7 "2003-07-14T02:00:14Z")
Well, **Zenster** , thank ye. We do try to keep these things away from the free zoo up here, and our supply of ipacec is running low…so - as they say, “Give me a bottle of rum, by gum!” Triple icky—sticky—! Poor creature. My browser refused to take a look. (How protective!) —skyzoo ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/8 "2003-07-14T03:35:19Z")
Thanks for wrapping that up, **Zenster** Ohhhh…Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! So sorry, I just could.not.resist. throwing in some sea humor. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/9 "2003-07-14T03:54:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*Ohhhh…Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? > Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! > So sorry, I just could.not.resist. throwing in some sea humor. 🆒 \*\* I fail to **see** the humor. [sub]That was beneath all of us, I know. I’ll get me coat.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/10 "2003-07-14T04:18:19Z")
From the article: > [@](#): > > a semi-liquid mass within a bag of skin and blubber That’s such lovely iambic heptameter. Brings a tear to my eye, it does. It has become my mantra. ---
**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/11 "2003-07-14T05:05:26Z")
Wasn’t that one of the first guesses from the sciencetician community? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/12 "2003-07-14T05:10:24Z")
**j.c.** , I think you mean not “sciencetician” but “scientificician”. No worries, though … we all know what you meant:) ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/13 "2003-07-14T05:16:09Z")
Well that’s a load off my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/14 "2003-07-14T06:35:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FabioClone \* > \*\*Well that’s a load off my mind. \*\* So that’s what the blob was… ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extree-extree-chilean-blob-identified/188126/15 "2003-07-14T12:48:05Z")
I wonder how the guy who pointed out the _EYES_ of the supposed giant octpi feels… thanks for the update.