20 years already - seems like yesterday

[mussels]

Its only a matter of time before someone on the boneyard asks how to get rid of a dead whale. Figure I'd post this to remove from any consideration.

Oregon regrettably exploded an 8-ton whale carcass 50 years ago, using 20 cases of TNT. Watch.

Oregon highway workers had to find a way to dispose of the rotting carcass of a 45-foot-long, eight ton whale in Florence, the closest beach town to Eugene, on Nov. 12, 1970. They decided to obliterat...

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[87Xfer]

Gross. I'm not getting the "20 years" part

 

[HooperScooper]

Gross. I'm not getting the "20 years" part

The OP was not a math major.

 

[mussels]

The OP was not a math major.

Yeah - saw that right after I posted. There are three numbers in the headline: 8, 20, and 50, so my odds of getting it right were only one-in-three.