The Things My Coworkers Think Of . . .

[wolfie]

Whale foreskins were made into 'raincoats' on whalers. Mentioned in Moby Dick.

I recall "Moby" being used as slang for "really big". Just checked the urban dictionary, and (definition #7) they have it in a specialized context (that's appropriate to this case). Ironic that in Moby Dick, someone would use a foreskin as a raincoat.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Whale foreskins were made into 'raincoats' on whalers. Mentioned in Moby Dick.

Are you sure Moby Dick isn't the authorized biography of John Holmes?

[AccountingDrone]

I recall "Moby" being used as slang for "really big". Just checked the urban dictionary, and (definition #7) they have it in a specialized context (that's appropriate to this case). Ironic that in Moby Dick, someone would use a foreskin as a raincoat.

Are you sure Moby Dick isn't the authorized biography of John Holmes?

Oddly enough Melville was a sideways ancestor of some sort on my grandmothers side [hence the familial middle name of Melville ]

And when you are at sea for several years at a crack, you make stuff with what you have on hand.

[fireheart]

I recall "Moby" being used as slang for "really big". Just checked the urban dictionary, and (definition #7) they have it in a specialized context (that's appropriate to this case). Ironic that in Moby Dick, someone would use a foreskin as a raincoat.

Is it anything like this?

[TheCheerfulTreeRat]

How do you circumcise a whale?

Send down four skin-divers...

[wolfie]

How do you circumcise a whale?

Send down four skin-divers...

Glad I'm not the only one to be making awful puns.

[dalesys]

How do you circumcise a whale?

There will be a greater mohel in the deep.


Is the whale Jewish?



(mohel is pronounced moyl, to rhyme with Popeye's main squeeze)

[TheCheerfulTreeRat]

Glad I'm not the only one to be making awful puns.

<looks wounded> I liked it...