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Originally Posted by Rob Stuart
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No one on board spoke any Norwegian, but two particular words kept on cropping up in the man’s urgent babble. One sounded very much like the English word ‘evolution’, but the other, ‘tommelen’, remained incomprehensible.
Amongst the other bits of flotsam they recovered were a number of objects that looked like large spears, apparently crafted from aggregated fish bones and seashells. ‘Tommelen!’ the whaler screamed when he saw the pictures. ‘Tommelen!’
Eventually Aberdeen got round to radioing them a translation. ‘Good God,’ the captain breathed, ‘it means ‘thumbs’...’
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It's well-written, Rob, but sorry - I don't get it! I may have missed some topical news item... so I'm guessing, but is the idea here that fishermen have lost thumbs overboard, in accidents with equipment, and that these thumbs have evolved into sentient and hostile sea-creatures?