TIL of byssus fabric, or "sea silk" because it was made from the filaments of Mediterranean molluscs, gathered by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, who wove them into clothes that "when treated with lemon juice, turn a golden colour, which never fades." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea…
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Unused research from my abandoned fanfic: using byssus, aka "sea silk" for the Goldcloak's cloaks. It was supposed to be a Velaryon trade good made from silk harvested from molluscs that "when treated with lemon juice, turn a golden colour, which never fades."

If anyone wants to use it, feel free to do so.

It's an actual thing that existed, made, highly prized, and sought after by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Its desirability wasn't limited to the ancients:

>According to the sixth-century historian Procopius, the Byzantine emperor Justinian I gave a gift of a sea silk cloak to five Armenian satraps. Since then, the fascination with this marine fiber has not abated, reaching its peak in modern times. The British admiral Horatio Nelson wrote of his intention to send his lover, Emma Hamilton, a pair of gloves made from byssus. Jules Verne chose to dress his narrator in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Dr Pierre Aronnax, in β€œsea-boots, an otterskin cap, a greatcoat of byssus lined with sealskin”.

>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_silk

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∴ Found myself a huge cluster of baby Porcelain Crabs all snuggled up in the mussels byssus threads during minus tides in Yachats, OR. ∴ ©Meghan Hurd
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You may have found pen shells along the beach, but did you know that the byssus fibers from these shells have used to produce silk? youtube.com/watch?v=vA2CX…
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My mermaid script for Hawaiian | While preparing for the upcoming Mermay, I created a syllabary for Hawaiian, the language my mermaids use. Its geometric design is to be carved in stone tablets that will then be held together with ropes made from byssus silk.
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Sea silk is produced from the byssus fibers of bivalves. I made a video about it and the pen shell used to make it! youtube.com/watch?v=vA2CX…
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Byssus is Creating the Mournful Soundtrack for the Battle Against the Empire antifascistneofolk.com/20…
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Italy's last surviving sea silk (byssus) seamstress bbc.com/travel/story/2017…
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Sea Silk - fabric made from giant clam byssus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea…
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Byssus: an animal product you probably never heard of. bbc.com/news/magazine-336…
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TIL: Sea silk is an extremely fine, rare, and valuable fabric that is made from the long silky filaments or byssus secreted by a gland in the foot of pen shells (in particular Pinna nobilis). The byssus is used by the clam to attach itself to the sea bed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea…
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TIL Byssus was a rare, golden fabric made from strands produced by a shellfish, and a pair of gloves made from it were so fine they could be stored in a walnut shell. italian-needlework.blogsp…
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Byssus: A kind of silky fabric made from the beard of mussels; popular in ancient Rome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bys…
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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies πŸ˜‚

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What starts with a W and ends with a T

It really does, I swear!

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Why did Karen press Ctrl+Shift+Delete?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

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So 2 trees got arrested in the town I live...

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

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I was almost upset that my coffee tasted like dirt today

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

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What is the scariest tree?

BamBOO!

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What is a a bisexual person doing when they’re not dating anybody?

They’re on standbi

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You've been hit by
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Geddit? No? Only me?
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My ten-year-old daughter came up with this at dinner tonight: What do you get if put a copy of Macbeth on top of a dictionary?

A play on words.

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I wanna hear your best airplane puns.

Pilot on me!!

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E or ß?
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Which actor drives the least?

Christopher Walken

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What did Spartacus say when the lion ate his wife?

Nothing, he was gladiator.

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Pun intended.
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French fries weren’t cooked in France.

They were cooked in Greece.

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No spoilers
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Should we create an English word for the 'day after tomorrow'?

Or would that be too forward thinking?

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Covid problems
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These aren't dad jokes...

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

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What did 0 say to 8 ?

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

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Spi__
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I had a vasectomy because I didn’t want any kids.

When I got home, they were still there.

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I dislike karma whores who make posts that imply it's their cake day, simply for upvotes.

I won't be doing that today!

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For Gotham
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The Ancient Romans II
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I'd like to dedicate this joke to my wisdom teeth.

[Removed]

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Where do you find a cow with no legs?

Where ever you left it πŸ€·β€β™€οΈπŸ€­

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