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  "thread": {
    "id": 229,
    "subject": "Oosik",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-03-19T16:32:22+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-19T16:32:22+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0263@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Wesley Parsons (7065)",
        "address": "wrp at adorno.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-19T16:32:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Oosik",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "FWIW, yesterday I finally found scleroderma the puffball.  Yep."
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          "text": "On the zoological front I'm still looking for Oosik and Mattak,\nthough.  And Mamelta, presumably botanical, is still a puzzler.\n\nvizcacha,<<\n\nYou may already know this, but \"Oosik\" is described by people who\nare fans of walruses as an Inuit word for the penis bone of a walrus.  I\nquote:\n\n\"For a popular update on the impact of anthropogenic estrogenic\nchemicals on marine and terrestrial animals have a look at \"Hormone Hell\"\nby Catherine Dold, Discover, September 1996, pg 53.  A broad class of\nchemicals that includes the polychloro-dioxins are produced by\nincineration of chlorinated organic polymers like polyvinyl chloride (PVC)\nor \"Saran\" (plastic food wrap).  These chemicals bind estrogen (female\nhormone) receptors and decrease fertility for both males and females. \nMs. Dold recounts the evidence regarding the decrease in size of\nColumbia River otter bacalums, penis bones.  The walrus penis bone is\ncalled an oosik by Inuits.  It might be informative about estrogenic chemical\ncontamination of the Bering Sea to evaluate the time progression in the\nsize of oosiks.  There are 72 fresh ones at Cape Peirce right now just\nwaiting to be measured.  The oosik from the old guy\nwho died at the end of July from an abscessed tooth was 22\" long.\"\n\nPerhaps this means Oosik was fromthe East or West Pole <g>.\n\n\n\nSee http://www.faraday.chem.fsu.edu/walrus/walrus3.html\n\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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