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Double Amputee Fitted For Mermaid Tail
thedenverchanne ^ | February 26, 2009

Posted on 02/27/2009 2:40:44 PM PST by JoeProBono

A New Zealand double amputee never expected a response when she sent a note to a special effects company asking if they would create a mermaid tail to help her swim. Two years later, her dream came true.Nadya Vessey, who lost both her legs to an illness during her childhood, sent an e-mail to the Weta Workshop prosthetics department.

Weta is best known for their special effects work in the "Lord of the Rings" series, and the 2005 remake of "King Kong."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: amputee; mermaid
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1 posted on 02/27/2009 2:40:44 PM PST by JoeProBono
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To: Slings and Arrows

lol


2 posted on 02/27/2009 2:44:54 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn

3 posted on 02/27/2009 2:46:48 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Where there is a will, there is a way!


4 posted on 02/27/2009 2:47:29 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: null and void; Lakeshark; derllak; Pippin; Monkey Face; sweetliberty; grannie9; NicknamedBob; ...

Not my fault.
Honest.


5 posted on 02/27/2009 2:47:54 PM PST by Darksheare (We set his head on fahr, tah burn out tha DemUns!)
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6 posted on 02/27/2009 2:48:47 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Barbara Manatee
You're the one for me
Sent from up above
You are the one I love

Barbara Manatee
I'll be your mon amie
I'll take you to the ball
I hope you're not too tall

7 posted on 02/27/2009 2:51:49 PM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: JoeProBono; Lady Jag

Definitely not my fault.
Woodchucks in orbit, probably my fault.
Possessed appliances, probably my fault.
Town over run by trillions of spiders, probably my fault.
Real live mermaid, albeit prosthetically, not my fault unless she ends up some kind of uber underwater demolitions expert..


8 posted on 02/27/2009 2:52:04 PM PST by Darksheare (We set his head on fahr, tah burn out tha DemUns!)
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To: All

Heck, why not?!


9 posted on 02/27/2009 2:52:09 PM PST by adaven
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To: JoeProBono

Very cool. Not so buoyant that it floats to the surface and apparently buoyant enough not to sink her to the bottom. Matched to the specific gravity of the human body?


10 posted on 02/27/2009 2:53:57 PM PST by Ol' Sox
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To: JoeProBono
A New Zealand double amputee never expected a response when she sent a note to a special effects company asking if they would create a mermaid tail to help her swim. Two years later, her dream came true.Nadya Vessey, who lost both her legs to an illness during her childhood, sent an e-mail to the Weta Workshop prosthetics department.

Well done. Just don't let her swim with it in the ocean or shes' going to look almost exactly like shark bait.

11 posted on 02/27/2009 2:54:18 PM PST by Centurion2000 (01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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To: Ol' Sox
Video: Double Amputee Fitted For Mermaid Tail

(Partially cut off)

12 posted on 02/27/2009 2:59:10 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Alex Murphy

13 posted on 02/27/2009 3:00:57 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: All

14 posted on 02/27/2009 3:05:05 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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15 posted on 02/27/2009 3:07:08 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Darksheare

Okay, and what about the refrigerator overrun with spiders? Huh? What about that?


16 posted on 02/27/2009 3:09:01 PM PST by Lady Jag (Believe in your heart that you're destined to do great things)
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To: JoeProBono

One of my favorite XTC songs:

Mermaid Smiled

From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory
I saw the children at heart
That we once used to be
Borne on foaming seahorse herd
Compose with trumpeting shell
From lines across their hands
A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands
Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
Lost that child ‘til mermaid smiled

Summoned by drum rolling surf
As laughing fish compel
The young boy woken in me
By clanging diving bell
Breakers pillow fight the shore
She wriggles free in the tide
I’m locked in adult land
Back in the mirror she slides
Waving with comb in hand
I was lucky to remain beguiled
Grown to child since mermaid smiled


17 posted on 02/27/2009 3:09:18 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Lady Jag

That was likely related to something that was my fault.
Anything else happen nearby that was odd?


19 posted on 02/27/2009 3:15:13 PM PST by Darksheare (We set his head on fahr, tah burn out tha DemUns!)
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20 posted on 02/27/2009 3:20:21 PM PST by Spirochete
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