I never realized walruses were so flippin' large

[wobbegong]

The largest known bull elephant seal weighed 11,000 lb (5,000 kg) and measured 22.5 ft (6.9 m) in length. This makes the elephant seal the largest member of the order Carnivora.

Nah, I saw something larger than that with 6" hoop earrings, a "Lonsdale" hoody and a double buggy, getting off a bus in Weymouth, only last week.

[NickFitz]

Big Walrus

[Clippy]

Separated at birth?

[northernladuk]

You would enjoy the stuffed walrus in the Horniman Museum. Some explorers brought the skin back and gave it to a taxidermist. The taxidermist hadn't seen a walrus before and didn't know they had wrinkles, so he just kept stuffing it until it was full.

This one....

Big Walrus

[RichardCranium]

The natural history museum in Tring is worth a visit, even if it is full of stuffed animals massacred by one or two generations of the Rothschild family.

As you wander into one of the rooms, there in front of you is a display case and on top of it is an elephant seal.

I was utterly gobsmacked. Once I had come to, I decided it was a fake.

You see these things on the telly, and they are clearly the size of a small, legless cow.

But it wasn't. Wikipedia:

The largest known bull elephant seal weighed 11,000 lb (5,000 kg) and measured 22.5 ft (6.9 m) in length. This makes the elephant seal the largest member of the order Carnivora.

[lightng]

Look at the size of this great big brute.

and I love the way it is holding its own fish bucket.

Holy Moley. Neither did I. Are you sure thats not just a screenshot from the next World of Warcraft patch?

[thunderlizard]

You would enjoy the stuffed walrus in the Horniman Museum. Some explorers brought the skin back and gave it to a taxidermist. The taxidermist hadn't seen a walrus before and didn't know they had wrinkles, so he just kept stuffing it until it was full.

[NotAllThere]

I share your pain.





( All explained by one post;Learn Lolspeak — teh furst language born of teh intertubes. )

[wobbegong]

lolrus

Did anyone read the "comments".

Lolrus al teh way
Who cares abowt siense an stufs; it luks liek a lolrus, so it is totaly a lolrus!!!!!

WTF? That's not even "text speak"!

[NickFitz]

lolrus

[NotAllThere]

Tolkien wrote the definition of walrus in the Oxford English Dictionary.

[Moscow Mule]

They weigh a couple of tonnes...

[Zippy]

Look at the size of this great big brute.

and I love the way it is holding its own fish bucket.

You need to go on a diet mate.

IGMC

[OwlHoot]

Look at the size of this great big brute.

and I love the way it is holding its own fish bucket.