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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Well, to be honest I am a porpoise. An Orca to be more precise."

[–] Poiar 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks it was a killer joke.

[–] Klear 6 points 1 year ago

Cetacean needed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orcas are dolphins, but porpoises are not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"how dare you?! I am an orca. That other name is offensive."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

"I am a dolphin, not a whale."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An orca isn't an Italian orc?

[–] Daefsdeda 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think tom scott did a video where he mentioned that in the original languange it was "whale killer" not killer whale but people tranlated it word for word, losinh the meaning.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Sir, you are not helping your client's case in the slightest...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not being a whaleologist, this joke took me 15 seconds to get, but got it I did.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I legit thought it was an orcas-are-technically-dolphins joke that I didn't quite get

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, that isn't the joke? Can you explain it simpletons like me?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Orcas are also known as killer whales. The joke is that the prosecutor is trying to get him to call himself a killer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Omg I can't believe I didn't get that. Thank you for explaining it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Killer whale

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

whaleologist

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Stamets, what the hell? Are you trying to break my upvote finger or something? It's starting to get sore...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arent they actually dolphins?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dolphins and orcas are both porpoises. :)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, dolphins and porpoises are separate families. Orcas are with the dolphins. Porpoises are actually closer with other types of whales like belugas and narwhals. At least per the most widely accepted taxonomy.

All of these are classified as cetaceans though (infraoder, above family) and of course have a common ancestor if you go back far enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Your Otter! This trial is nothing but a whale hunt!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real question is, are beluga wales good lawyers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why, because they're white?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wasn't there an episode of Bob's burgers about this? Where they had a trial of the wicked witch?