Posted on 01/16/2018 11:53:23 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Like any savvy investor, I am always on the lookout for signs that the economy may be overheating, that things may be getting a bit frothy. Of particular concern are exotic businesses that pop up at the very end of economic booms, selling products or services that will be the first items struck off the shopping list once things go south. You know what I’m talking about. Fantasy Capo di Tutti Capi camps. Cribbage with the Stars. Falconry Schools for the Blind.
Recently, several enterprises matching this general description caught my eye. The Sirens of the Deep Mermaid Camp in Weeki Wachee Springs State Park down in Florida is a perfect example. Here, for $450, women can slip into a tight, taut body-sculpting spandex tail with matching fins and learn how to convincingly impersonate the mythical denizens of the deep. The two-day camp teaches aspiring mermaids how to perform a variety of sophisticated thalassa-balletic maneuvers, including the archetypal “mermaid crawl.” (Will camp alumni have a legs-up, so to speak, at next week’s auditions to be professional Weeki Wachee mermaids?) The camp also shows participants how to hold a submerged pose when being photographed. As anyone familiar with this sort of thing will tell you, nothing is more humiliating for a faux-mermaid than not being able to hold a submerged pose. Why even bother attending mermaid camp if you can’t learn how to hold a submerged pose? Rank aquateur.
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Eat like Helen B. Happy:
http://www.papergreat.com/2015/01/vanished-place-old-south-bar-b-q-ranch.html
Isn’t there a swim race that uses the mermaid kick?
Ate there several times when I was in my teens. Sad to see the old places like that gone now.
Mermaid academies have been a thing for a while. Mermaids started trending in the fringe community at least 5 years ago. Quite a few places have mermaid festivals. I know a few professional mermaids. Not that big a deal.
The corporate tax rate was just slashed. We are about to enter into the greatest economic boom in US history. Bring on the heat.
If I identify as a mermaid, can I get disability because I can’t do a job on dry land?
Ping
Don't the people who perform at theme parks like SeaWorld have to learn the moves from somewhere?
-PJ
We have a young lady with a mermaid suit that swims in our pool
She was out on the deck the first time I saw her and I just had to stare
Wow. Saving the link. Gorgeous.
The camp is catering to grown up children and fantasy play.
What Would Happen If Merfolk Were Real?
https://letterpile.com/personal-essays/What-Would-Happen-If-Merfolk-Were-Real
Joe Queenan is a humorist or a "humorist."
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