Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

« previous next »
Pages: [1]
  
Go Down

Author Topic: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!  (Read 1450 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

mr.Curmudgeon

  • It's going to hurt your brain. A lot.
  • Wiki Master
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3833
  • Last login:October 11, 2021, 07:15:49 pm
  • Huzzah!
The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« on: December 13, 2005, 02:01:42 pm »
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13narw.html?8dpc

Ever since I was a kid, and first learned of the Narwhal, I've been fascinated by the creature. Their physical makeup never made any sense to me. A whale, with a unicorn horn?  Wtf?

Well, one more mystery has been solved. I feel better...First the giant squid, now the freaky magical whale. Can't wait for the next thing they help check off my list!

mrC
« Last Edit: December 13, 2005, 09:49:25 pm by mr.Curmudgeon »
Logged

mr.Curmudgeon

  • It's going to hurt your brain. A lot.
  • Wiki Master
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3833
  • Last login:October 11, 2021, 07:15:49 pm
  • Huzzah!
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2005, 02:04:34 pm »
"the tusk, it turns out, forms a sensory organ of exceptional size and sensitivity..."

I bet you the tusks would be longer if the Narwhal didn't live in such cold, arctic waters!

/In before you other perverts!
mrC
Logged

Stingray

  • Official Slacker - I promise to try a lot less
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10463
  • Last login:April 08, 2021, 03:43:54 pm
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2005, 02:17:12 pm »
My tusk is also of exceptional size and sensitivity.

-S
Logged
Quote from: releasedtruth on November 02, 2006, 04:25:16 pm
Stingray you magnificent bastard!
Quote from: Hoopz on October 24, 2012, 02:04:03 pm
This place is dead lately.  Stingray scare everyone off?

Ed_McCarron

  • Nothing worse than Picard issuing the self destruct order and the next thing you know it your apartment blows up.
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2404
  • Last login:June 20, 2022, 02:33:39 pm
  • Get your mind out of the gutter. THIS is a dongle.
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2005, 02:26:52 pm »
Knew someone would say it.
Logged
But wasn't it fun to think you won the lottery, just for a second there???

fredster

  • Grand Prophet of Arcadeology
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2267
  • Last login:February 16, 2019, 04:28:53 pm
  • It's all good!
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2005, 02:30:25 pm »
Well Duh, I knew that.
Logged
King of the Flying Monkeys from the Dark Side

Ed_McCarron

  • Nothing worse than Picard issuing the self destruct order and the next thing you know it your apartment blows up.
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2404
  • Last login:June 20, 2022, 02:33:39 pm
  • Get your mind out of the gutter. THIS is a dongle.
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2005, 02:37:02 pm »
"He added that the nerve endings, in addition to other readings, undoubtedly produce tactile sensations when the tusk is rubbed or touched, and that these might be interpreted as pleasurable.

This tactile sense might explain why narwhals engage in what is known as "tusking," where two males gently rub tusks together"


Not with a 10' pole.
Logged
But wasn't it fun to think you won the lottery, just for a second there???

ChadTower

  • Chief Kicker - Nobody's perfect, including me. Fantastic body.
  • Trade Count: (+12)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 38212
  • Last login:June 22, 2025, 04:57:38 pm
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2005, 02:42:37 pm »
I refuse to heed a story that talks about someone named Kaiser Karl the Fifth as if that could happen.
Logged

Stingray

  • Official Slacker - I promise to try a lot less
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10463
  • Last login:April 08, 2021, 03:43:54 pm
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2005, 02:49:53 pm »
Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 13, 2005, 02:26:52 pm
Knew someone would say it.

I'm just proud that I got to be the first. :-\

-S
Logged
Quote from: releasedtruth on November 02, 2006, 04:25:16 pm
Stingray you magnificent bastard!
Quote from: Hoopz on October 24, 2012, 02:04:03 pm
This place is dead lately.  Stingray scare everyone off?

ChadTower

  • Chief Kicker - Nobody's perfect, including me. Fantastic body.
  • Trade Count: (+12)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 38212
  • Last login:June 22, 2025, 04:57:38 pm
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2005, 02:58:27 pm »

I have reconsidered.  I bet Seph would be proud to call his willy Kaiser Karl the Fifth.
Logged

Ed_McCarron

  • Nothing worse than Picard issuing the self destruct order and the next thing you know it your apartment blows up.
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2404
  • Last login:June 20, 2022, 02:33:39 pm
  • Get your mind out of the gutter. THIS is a dongle.
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2005, 03:00:28 pm »
Fifth of what?

1/5 of a foot = 2.4 inches...
Logged
But wasn't it fun to think you won the lottery, just for a second there???

Stingray

  • Official Slacker - I promise to try a lot less
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10463
  • Last login:April 08, 2021, 03:43:54 pm
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2005, 03:01:43 pm »
Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 13, 2005, 03:00:28 pm
Fifth of what?

1/5 of a foot = 2.4 inches...

Sounds about right.

-S
Logged
Quote from: releasedtruth on November 02, 2006, 04:25:16 pm
Stingray you magnificent bastard!
Quote from: Hoopz on October 24, 2012, 02:04:03 pm
This place is dead lately.  Stingray scare everyone off?

ChadTower

  • Chief Kicker - Nobody's perfect, including me. Fantastic body.
  • Trade Count: (+12)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 38212
  • Last login:June 22, 2025, 04:57:38 pm
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2005, 04:25:48 pm »

Fifth of whiskey, which is what precedes Kaiser Karl coming out to play.
Logged

duffjr

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 429
  • Last login:January 19, 2012, 05:50:14 pm
  • There is no dinosaur name ending in PUSS.
Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2005, 06:42:51 pm »
i can't read the article.  i was hoping for something about bigfoot or the loch ness monster surviving from the paleozoic.

i've waited my whole life for pinky and the brain:  human brain cells in mice

the article title is misleading.
« Last Edit: December 13, 2005, 06:45:09 pm by duffjr »
Logged
Pages: [1]
  
Go Up
« previous next »