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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject: Mermaids |
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http://ph.news.yahoo.com/no-mermaids-us-government-030324213.html
The United States government has assured its citizens that, much like zombies, mermaids probably do not exist, saying in an official post: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found."
"Mermaids -- those half-human, half-fish sirens of the sea -- are legendary sea creatures," read the online statement from the National Ocean Service (NOS).
The agency, charged with responding to natural hazards, received letters inquiring about the existence of the sea maidens after the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network broadcast "Mermaids: The Body Found" in May.
The show "paints a wildly convincing picture of the existence of mermaids, what they may look like, and why they've stayed hidden... until now," a Discovery Channel press release says.
Conversely, the US government declaration offered no conclusive proof to deny the existence of mermaids.
The statement comes after another government agency, this time the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), declared there was no conclusive evidence for the existence of zombies.
The CDC had published instructional materials on how to survive a "zombie apocalypse," in what the agency now calls "a tongue in cheek campaign to engage new audiences with messages of preparedness messages."
The campaign was followed by a series of cannibalistic attacks in North America.
In one such attack on May 26, a 31-year-old Miami man stripped naked and chewed off most of a homeless man's face.
The Twittersphere was suddenly alive with people talking about the real and present danger of a zombie apocalypse.
The CDC was quick to respond to allegations of corpses rising from the dead to eat the living.
"CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead," a government spokesperson wrote in an email to The Huffington Post.
While zombies would be a big problem, popular folklore holds that mermaids are relatively benign creatures.
But the NOS statement associated the finned friends with more threatening mythological beasts.
"Half-human creatures, called chimeras, also abound in mythology -- in addition to mermaids, there were wise centaurs, wild satyrs, and frightful minotaurs, to name but a few," it said. |
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012 Location: We Are The World!
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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That's what they want you to think  |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah good point.
I sometimes question if I would give up living here on the land to swim and be with a mermaid all the time. Problem is though once women have control like that (and believe me I've experienced this) living is like dying. |
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Redfish
Joined: 28 Apr 2012
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Jaffazoid
Joined: 04 Dec 2011 Location: Ulsan
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:25 am Post subject: |
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Maybe NSFW but which would you choose?! |
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Redfish
Joined: 28 Apr 2012
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Jaffazoid wrote: |
Maybe NSFW but which would you choose?! |
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That's a hard decision...
Besides the obvious:
A. Would be able to talk whenever she wanted, ie. all the time.
B. Would have to stay in the water all the time
Can't make a quick decision on this one. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk
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