i need to go to sleep...

[kikiriki]

instead of putzing around online, watching celebrity poker showdown and reading trivial pursuit 20th anniversary edition cards. but before any sleep is had:

Q: What US state used a half ton of TNT to blow up an eight-ton wale carcass in 1998, covering folks a quarter-mile away with blubber?

A: Oregon.

ewysiwyg, please give the state of Oregon a resounding "Wow."