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Lunanuula
Lunanuula aka Kate is 26.51 years old, has been a member since August 8, 2006, has scored 1,383 submissions, giving an average score of 1.39, helping 8 designs get printed.
What is going on with the flippers on that whale?
So, let me start off by saying that this design is awesome, and as an aspiring marine biologist I love how many ocean themed shirts get printed on Threadless, although my bank account does not.

So I almost instantly grabbed this, but I'm hesitating because of the flipper on the whale. What is going on? A simple google search will reveal to you that spearm whale flippers look much like normal whale flippers, they don't have that line on them and they're a lot bigger and a lot less shaped like a rowboat paddle.

I know I'm being anal, but seriously, what was the idea behind that flipper?

Maltzmania
Maltzmania on Dec 15 '08 at 10:33am
these blogs make me lol
gtoast99
gtoast99 on Dec 15 '08 at 10:36am
hehe, sperm whale.
professorE
professorE on Dec 15 '08 at 10:37am
Flipper was a dolphin...
Torakamikaze
   Torakamikaze on Dec 15 '08 at 10:39am
I thought that was the squid
macko4231
macko4231 on Dec 15 '08 at 11:24am
Gasp! This must be another tragedy of t-shirt designers not being adequately educated in the field of the anatomy of whales.

You could always get it and sharpie in a bigger and more accurate whale fin, I guess. Or you could just wear it as-is and become the running joke of all of your marine biologist buddies.

"Pfff... Hahaha. Hahaha. Don't look now, but Kate's coming, and she's wearing that slightly inaccurate t-shirt! Haha. Don't say anything. Pfffffff hahahaha..."

Seriously though, that flipper DOES look weird.
professorE
professorE on Dec 15 '08 at 1:13pm
It actually looks a lot like this:
phones
phones on Dec 15 '08 at 1:50pm
NOBODY BUY THIS UNTIL I GET PAID NEXT WEDNESDAY, PLEASE! please.........:*(
Lunanuula
Lunanuula on Dec 15 '08 at 8:00pm
I wouldn't care about the accuracy if the style wasn't going for realism.



And you're right, ProfessorE, it does look a bit like that. It doesn't look like the pictures of actual whales I was looking at, but that picture is a really good comparison. I wasn't trying to be a bitch or anything, I was honestly curious about where the artist got the impression that sperm whale flippers looked like the one in the design. Thanks for helping me out with that.
165 days later
Szeretem
Szeretem on May 30 '09 at 6:24am
don't squid have 10 appendages? ;-D



seriously: beautiful drawing
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