# Yes! Dolphins and Whales have hair all over their body! Cuz they are Mammals! Jeez! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447 "2004-06-09T14:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/41 "2004-06-10T15:11:25Z")
You know, the rest of your post may have been the funniest/deepest/most profound insight ever submitted to these boards, but I’ll never know because I can’t get past: > [@](#): > > Ok, so we’re giving orals on groups of animals. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/42 "2004-06-10T15:17:13Z")
> [@Doctor Jackson](#): > > You know, the rest of your post may have been the funniest/deepest/most profound insight ever submitted to these boards, but I’ll never know because I can’t get past: And believe me, picking porpoise hair out of your teeth after is no picnic. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/43 "2004-06-10T15:18:47Z")
Ahhh the visualizations on these boards often verge on the sacred and profane! ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/44 "2004-06-10T17:12:24Z")
> [@Ashkicker](#): > > Yes they should. I’ll tell you one a little more messed up than that story. I wait tables. Back in the early '90’s I waitressed for a mom and pop restaurant. This mom and grandma came in with a little boy probably about 6 or 7 years of age. I’m taking the order when the mom orders the little boy fish sticks. I tell her we don’t have fish sticks but we do have chicken fingers. All the while the mother is winking her eye and telling me “Oh yes you know those fish sticks I’m talking about that’s what he’ll have”. The mom is then holding the menu up in front of her mouth and stating that the little boy won’t eat it if you call it chicken. So I just played along and went with the flow. Which is what I did. God, I can’t believe I contributed to ignorance. :smack: I wonder if a similar thing was taught to a young Jessica Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/45 "2004-06-10T17:27:53Z")
[white moustache] Got Mammaries? [/white moustache] ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/46 "2004-06-10T23:15:12Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > [white moustache] > Got Mammaries? > [/white moustache] You did that on porpoise! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/47 "2004-06-10T23:19:06Z")
You shoulda seen her boyfriend. He was covered in mussels. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/48 "2004-06-11T00:26:53Z")
You could see the anchor in his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/49 "2004-06-11T12:06:06Z")
Ok…thanks **lieu** - you set off a cacophany of people who have nothing better to do with their time, and you did it on porpoise. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/50 "2004-06-11T12:58:07Z")
I am laughing so hard. I was almost going to change it to speeches or something else, but ti was an oral, and I thought that people on the SDMB would be a bit more mature than I am and not find it dirty at all 😉 Apparently I was wrong. The SDMB is just as dirty as me. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/51 "2004-06-11T13:57:33Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Ok…thanks **lieu** - you set off a cacophany of people who have nothing better to do with their time, and you did it on porpoise. :smack: He Manta do it, too! :mad: 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/52 "2004-06-11T18:35:29Z")
Hey! I resemble that remark! ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/53 "2004-06-11T20:45:02Z")
That’s irrelephant! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/54 "2004-06-12T16:14:46Z")
Quoth **…Fire Engine** : > [@](#): > > But considering I thought Anenomes were plants and not animals this misunderstanding does not come as a surprise. To be pedantic, anenomes _are_ plants. But **sea** anenomes, which are a completely different creature, are animals (albeit very simple animals). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/55 "2004-06-12T17:01:37Z")
Abalone! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/56 "2004-06-12T19:24:33Z")
I hadn’t been planning to post in this thread, but now I think I will. Just for the halibut. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/57 "2004-06-12T20:07:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I hadn’t been planning to post in this thread, but now I think I will. > > Just for the halibut. As the fisherman said to the priest. 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/58 "2004-06-12T21:17:30Z")
I was appalled by a teacher who told the class that the closest planet to Earth was the moon. Several years later I got into an argument with my future ex, who says that the moon is a planet. I say it’s a moon. So, what’s the real deal? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/59 "2004-06-12T22:39:36Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > I was appalled by a teacher who told the class that the closest planet to Earth was the moon. > > Several years later I got into an argument with my future ex, who says that the moon is a planet. I say it’s a moon. > > So, what’s the real deal? Well, the closest heavenly body to Earth is indeed the Moon. I can forgive your teacher on that one. Is the Moon a planet? Well, that seems to vex a few people. I have read in books of lay science and in periodicals like _Sky & Telescope_, that if the Earth/Moon system were found anywhere else, it might, I repeat might, be classified as a double planet system. However, since we did NOT find the Moon that way, it remains our satellite, the closest heavenly body to the Earth. True, it is an abnormaly large satellite for such a small planet, but it is still, and always will be, our Moon. Does that help confuse thing any more? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447/60 "2004-06-13T00:59:13Z")
> [@Darwin's Finch](#): > > In the interest of full disclosure and ignorance-fighting, it should probably be pointed out that there are, in fact, “[Dolphin Fish](http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Coryphaena_hippurus.html)”, which are well and truly fish. See also [here](http://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/dolphin.html). And also [here](http://www.swandolphin.com/nonflash/explore/explore.html). The Dolphin hotel at Walt Disney World uses the dolphin fish as its logo, incorporating gigantic statues of the things at either end of the building. Much to the chagrin of parents and passersby who have to hear every other child (and frequently adult) ask why there are statues of fish on the hotel when it’s called the Dolphin. Maybe it’s a case of theme park architecture being used in the fight against ignorance? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-dolphins-and-whales-have-hair-all-over-their-body-cuz-they-are-mammals-jeez/249447.md?page=4)