How weird…
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t1grm

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4,657 posts

314 months

Tuesday 24th January 2006
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F**k me! If it were 1st April I’d say this was a load of bo**ocks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/464272

Never heard of AMBERGRIS before.

Gusto

608 posts

263 months

Tuesday 24th January 2006
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You must have heard of Eau de Sperm Whale though, no?

singlecoil

35,836 posts

276 months

Tuesday 24th January 2006
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I have heard of it, seem to remember it cropping up in some TV programme many years ago

hugoagogo

23,438 posts

263 months

Tuesday 24th January 2006
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it is (was?) used as a binding agent in most perfumes iirc
whale hunters would cut open the whales bowels and dig in amongst the poo for the stuff