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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance
Can't get away from the big guys - today's Sunday Times:
Nothing for ages, and then two whale stories come at once. After the moving plight of the London whale, a couple stand to make £165,000 after finding a piece of whale vomit washed up on a beach in Australia. Fisherman Leon Wright and his wife, Loralee, found a 32lb piece of ambergris, which is vomited by sperm whales to rid their stomachs of solid objects. Ambergris - nicknamed Moby Sick - has a solid fatty/oily feel and will fetch around £13 per gram from perfume manufacturers.
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How would you know that it was vomit? I guess he was a profeesional fisherman, they must cover that in fisherman school...
But still, "Hey honey, what's that?"
My luck, I'd drag it to the car, get it to the perfumers and find out it was just whale spunk.
"Sorry mate, can only give you 2 quid a kilo for that. Not much call for it really."