Cetacean needed: Wikipedia whale diagram needs line-art

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It would be glorious if the whole chart comparing relative whale sizes, shapes, and conservation status was created as a shaggy dog story.

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The Pygmy Bryde’s Whale doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia page, let alone a paragraph. It gets one whole whopping sentence. Not sure it deserves to have its own row on this chart.

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You’re kidding, I assume. Poor Pygmy Bryde! Just because nobody’s written much about it in Wikipedia doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve even a line. It’s real, it’s alive and I hope it stays that way…

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We can task 30 or 40 of the folks who spend all their time drawing increasingly refined line drawings of the human penis, and knock this one out in no time

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Yeah, but don’t forget to scale the human silhouette by two, or the size will be way off.

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Wow, I thought the map of where Tucuxi live was a glitch, but no–inland dolphins!

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couldn’t they just use a picture of wikipedia’s founder?

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I sure hope they can find someone to pinnipedia worthy drawing for Jimmy Whales crab-sourced web site soon! I’d sure hate for it to flounder!

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Actually, xkcd beat them to it (look at the first ‘citation’).
what-if.xkcd.com/52/

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I’m not the first one to find it, but here’s the edit in question:

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The joke was added on 19 December 2012, by an anonymous user at IP:‎ 76.121.171.103.

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Whoa, cool! I actually designed a “cetacean needed” t-shirt in 2011! Now available on Zazzle . . .

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