Merman

[Legs]

Fishermen claim to have spotted an amphibious creature resembling a human in the Caspian sea.

Gafar Gasanof, the captain of the Baku, an Azeri trawler, told Iranian newspaper Zindagi: "The creature was swimming a parallel course near the boat for a long time.

"At the beginning we thought it was a big fish, but then we spotted hair on the head of the monster and his fins looked pretty strange, the front part of his body was equipped with arms."

Eyewitness say the marine humanoid is about 5ft 6ins, of strong build with a protruding stomach, webbed hands and black-green hair.

Merman in the Caspian (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1373992.html?menu=)

[Dingfod]

I think Annova reporters have reading Weekly World News a lot lately.

[Legs]

warrenly, you are a stern sort of fellow aren'tcha?

I should have linked to Pravda (http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15170) instead of Ananova :doh:

[Dingfod]

Well! Who can argue with The Truth?

[Legs]

Well! Who can argue with The Truth?

Damn straight!

[JoeP]

warrenly, you are a stern sort of fellow aren'tcha?

I should have linked to Pravda (http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=15170) instead of Ananova :doh:
Hey, what happened to my post?

:champagne: Nasdrovye!

[Legs]

Nasdrovye :cincin:


p.s. I feel this thread would have received more attention had the merman been a 2 headed merman. :chin:

[Ymir's blood]

Or a mermaid.

[Dragoon]

Just one question: Are Iranian trawler-men known to drink vodka smuggled from the other side of the Caspian Sea - I mean, like whole bottles in one swig?

[JoeP]

"mermaid discovered with two tails" - that would have pulled in the punters

[Sauron]

Or a mermaid.

Or a mermaid stripper - long term relationship, anyone? :chin:

[The Lone Ranger]

Sea cows (manatees, dugongs) have often been suggested as having inspired tales of mermaids. Certainly, they don't look at all human-like up close, but from a distance it's possible that they could be seen as a combination of humanoid and piscine features.

Female sea cows sometimes hold their young in their "arms" and out of the water to let them suckle. From a distance, it's not too hard to see how sailors could mistake this for a "mermaid" holding her own young (with what appear to be arms and yet a prominently fish-like tail) out of the water to breast-feed.

Even the name of the order to which they belong (Sirenia) is reflective of the fact that they were once thought to be mermaids or something similar.

To my knowledge, no species of Sirenian inhabits the Caspian Sea, but several species of Pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) do. Perhaps there's an as-yet-unknown-to-science Sirenian living in the Caspian?

Cheers,

Michael

[Legs]

Who was that masked man? :chin:

[livius drusus]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/merman.jpg

[Crumb]

I feel this thread would have received more attention had the merman been a 2 headed merman.
Sigh. You would never make a journalist with that attitude, Legs.

"Two-headed merman found in Caspian, half decapitated"

You can have that one gratis.

[Legs]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/merman.jpg


:chuckle: liv

[Crumb]

Oh...k, I see how it is... :kssmyass:

[Legs]

Oh...k, I see how it is... :kssmyass:

Thats not it at all http://img247.echo.cx/img247/1751/slap2pj.gif it's just a am very visual, and appreciate visual stimuli such as the masked merman.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Pravda is now a private company that has to make money some how. It is today's Russia's equivalent to the Weekly World News. Flying saucers, Nostradamus, the lot.

OK, also some wire service rewrites for the big events. And an editorial page that is "brown red", that is same old fashioned commie.

The more modern leftist is "green red".

Derailing a bit, isn't it funny that in the USA "red" has come to mean right wing?

[Legs]

okay, will someone let me know when Reuters picks up this story :whup:

[Dingfod]

Pravda is now a private company that has to make money some how. It is today's Russia's equivalent to the Weekly World News. Flying saucers, Nostradamus, the lot.
I know. I was being facetious.