Comments on: “All whaling vessels please proceed to waters of East Timor” http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/07/%e2%80%9call-whaling-vessels-please-proceed-to-waters-of-east-timor%e2%80%9d-quoting-bill_romanos-on-twitter/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:30:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sara Moreira http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/07/%e2%80%9call-whaling-vessels-please-proceed-to-waters-of-east-timor%e2%80%9d-quoting-bill_romanos-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1583542 Sara Moreira Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:00:28 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=54929#comment-1583542 Wow I had no idea, Keta Haluha! Thanks for your comment and welcome to Global Voices :) Hope to learn more from you soon. Wow I had no idea, Keta Haluha!
Thanks for your comment and welcome to Global Voices :) Hope to learn more from you soon.

]]> By: Keta Haluha http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/07/%e2%80%9call-whaling-vessels-please-proceed-to-waters-of-east-timor%e2%80%9d-quoting-bill_romanos-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1583258 Keta Haluha Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:16:23 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=54929#comment-1583258 You will be interested to know that people in West and East Timor use the ribs from beached sperm whales as part of the bride price for women from nearby islands..... and the teeth of the sperm whale sell for over 100USD/tooth to Chinese middlemen. You will be interested to know that people in West and East Timor use the ribs from beached sperm whales as part of the bride price for women from nearby islands….. and the teeth of the sperm whale sell for over 100USD/tooth to Chinese middlemen.

]]> By: ana boa-ventura http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/07/%e2%80%9call-whaling-vessels-please-proceed-to-waters-of-east-timor%e2%80%9d-quoting-bill_romanos-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1545423 ana boa-ventura Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:51:08 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=54929#comment-1545423 How thoughtful of you to quote Moby Dick as a response to Sara's beautiful post. You made me feel like reading that book again! Hard to believe that it was a failure during Herman Melville's life and is now considered one of the greatest literary works of all time! How thoughtful of you to quote Moby Dick as a response to Sara’s beautiful post. You made me feel like reading that book again! Hard to believe that it was a failure during Herman Melville’s life and is now considered one of the greatest literary works of all time!

]]> By: scott http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/07/%e2%80%9call-whaling-vessels-please-proceed-to-waters-of-east-timor%e2%80%9d-quoting-bill_romanos-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1545256 scott Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:01:43 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=54929#comment-1545256 You may also want to check out yonkly. It's the first "create your own" microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com You may also want to check out yonkly. It’s the first “create your own” microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com

]]> By: Giant panda (raiketak) http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/07/%e2%80%9call-whaling-vessels-please-proceed-to-waters-of-east-timor%e2%80%9d-quoting-bill_romanos-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1545115 Giant panda (raiketak) Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:13:12 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=54929#comment-1545115 But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity—nay, you may call it an oceanwide renown; not only was he famous in life and now is immortal in forecastle stories after death, but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions of a name; had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Caesar. Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did’st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? Moby Dick, Chapter 45 http://tinyurl.com/9holva But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity—nay, you may call it an oceanwide renown; not only was he famous in life and now is immortal in forecastle stories after death, but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions of a name; had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Caesar. Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did’st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?

Moby Dick, Chapter 45
http://tinyurl.com/9holva

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