tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post113820279235398999..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Isn't there a Scrooge McDuck Adventure about This?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-1138236436623464242006-01-25T18:47:00.000-06:002006-01-25T18:47:00.000-06:00Everything I know about ambergris is from one of D...Everything I know about ambergris is from one of Donald J. Sobol's "Encyclopedia Brown" stories. Then again, everything I know about anything is from an "Encyclopedia Brown" story.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473441336451528462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-1138213827171285652006-01-25T12:30:00.000-06:002006-01-25T12:30:00.000-06:00I suppose getting ambergris from sperm whale vomit...I suppose getting ambergris from sperm whale vomit is better than the way people used to get it - catch a sperm whale, kill it and look in the guts. Makes it more progfitable to find too.Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-1138210738934093342006-01-25T11:38:00.000-06:002006-01-25T11:38:00.000-06:00Thanks, Art. I had a feeling you'd know which one...<B>Thanks, Art. I had a feeling you'd know which one I was thinking of.</B>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-1138209816541045142006-01-25T11:23:00.000-06:002006-01-25T11:23:00.000-06:00You're thinking of "A Cold Bargain" in Uncle Scroo...You're thinking of "A Cold Bargain" in Uncle Scrooge 17, wherein Scrooge buys a ball of the world's rarest element, bombastium, at auction for "one trillion dollars and six kitchen sinks". At one point in the story, en route to the South Pole, the ball of bombastium (about the size of a grapefruit)falls overboard and into the blowhole of a passing sperm whale.<BR/><BR/>Art ScottAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com