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North America’s 'Loch Ness Monster' Spotted Again
Live Science ^ | today | Joe Nickell

Posted on 03/07/2006 10:49:06 AM PST by GreenFreeper

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To: proud_yank

ROTFLMAO!!


41 posted on 03/07/2006 12:29:01 PM PST by Pragmatic Warrior (Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal!!)
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To: Hatteras
That used to be the wallpaper on my office machine.

People assumed I was a clinton fan, never actually seeing what's in he circle.

Austin is strange.

42 posted on 03/07/2006 12:29:26 PM PST by txhurl
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To: GreenFreeper
... is between 10 and 187 feet long ...

Sounds like a fish story.

"Shoot, yea, I saw it.!"
"How big would you say it was?"
"Oh, I reckon anywhere between 10 and a 100, uh, er, a 187 feet long."

43 posted on 03/07/2006 12:45:59 PM PST by manwiththehands
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To: ASA Vet

Oarfish held by SEALs. I remember that from a post here on FR.

I found a small one (6') on the beach once and am kicking myself for not recovering and preserving it. They are deep sea dwellers and striking to look at with their bright chrome color and bright red dorsal.


44 posted on 03/07/2006 12:50:14 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

Exactly, and it was me that posted the original too.


45 posted on 03/07/2006 12:51:50 PM PST by ASA Vet (Would you throw a bucket of water on Hillary if her broom were on fire?)
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To: Hoodlum91; Angelas; presidio9; Idisarthur; Hegemony Cricket; A knight without armor; new cruelty; ..
Thanks, Hoodlum.

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46 posted on 03/07/2006 3:05:58 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux
Come on down here and get yourself one of these. I think the state record is around 400lbs, caught in extremely shallow water to boot....


47 posted on 03/07/2006 4:07:32 PM PST by SandfleaCSC ( “Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”)
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between 10 and 187 feet long
Heh heh... that kinda narrows it down...
48 posted on 03/07/2006 6:18:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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did somebody say, Otter?

49 posted on 03/07/2006 6:24:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well maybe they are multiplying :)

Then you got you're really small ones and youre adults.
And ofcourse the males have horns but the females don't, and some have different colourations, and when their maul is open you can see teeth but if it is closed you can not, and the fins can be raised to look like manes.

That explains all sightings! Or, they're simply couple o' dozen different species and objects all mistaken for one beasty.


50 posted on 03/08/2006 2:23:13 AM PST by S0122017 (My sister is a communist.)
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To: GreenFreeper; EveningStar
"I ain't giving you no tree-fitty you goddamn Loch Ness monster!"


51 posted on 03/08/2006 2:41:57 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: GreenFreeper
So some eyewitnesses describe a long neck, some report humbs and even manes?
I know what the loch ness monster is! It's sooo obvious.

A chimeara!

Add a tail looking like a huge snail, another head looking like an eliphant, one like a toy submarine and one like a log of wood and my theory fits every observation! I can get on national TV with this.
52 posted on 03/08/2006 3:29:15 AM PST by S0122017 (My sister is a communist.)
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To: GreenFreeper
Nessie! She is the destroyer of worlds . . . or at least our home!
53 posted on 03/08/2006 5:28:38 AM PST by Chanticleer (Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. T. Roosevelt)
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To: GreenFreeper

One of these days we're going to discover sea monsters for real. I hope I can discover a mermaid. With long hair and a voice so sweet I will lose . . .

OOps, human voices. Human voices. Time to wakey.

parsy, the dreamer.


54 posted on 03/08/2006 8:07:52 AM PST by parsifal ("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
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To: GreenFreeper
IN all seriousness, one of the suggested explanations for "Champ" is a seiche that commonly occurs in the lake.

Water Monster or Wave?

"The warm and cold layers of these lakes do not usually mix. The boundary is very much like the boundary between the surface of the lake and the air above it. In the same way the waves we usually see move along the water-air boundary, the giant seiche wave moves along the warm water-cold water boundary. A giant 300-foot wave might be roaring along underneath the water, while the surface is smooth and placid.

What starts these waves? Scientists think that prevailing winds running the length of the lake can cause a build-up of the epilimnion (warm water) at the end forcing the hypolimnion (cold water) to the opposite end. When the wind stops, the warm water on the surface starts flowing back to its regular position. This is very much like getting out of the bathtub in our example. The cold water layer then suddenly rushes back to the end the warm water vacated. This giant, powerful wave of water then bounces back and forth between the ends of the lake to make a seiche. It can take 4 days for the wave to go the entire 60-mile length of the main part of Lake Champlain."

55 posted on 03/09/2006 8:05:04 AM PST by cogitator
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 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Note: this topic is from 3/07/2006.

Thanks GreenFreeper.

Blast from the Past.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


56 posted on 08/14/2012 5:14:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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