"What's a sailor to do?", I ask...They're only in town for the weekend...
Then again, some monster myths are based on pure fact:
"Cap'm she's opening her gaping maw...she's going to swallow the ship!..."
Posted on 05/25/2007 2:04:04 AM PDT by Caipirabob
NEW YORK—While sailing the ocean near Haiti, Christopher Columbus in 1493 reported seeing three mermaids from a distance. The Genoese explorer was not impressed.
Up close, the sea maidens were “not as pretty as they are depicted,” he wrote in his journal, “for somehow in the face they look like men.”
Many scientists now think that what Columbus probably saw was a manatee, an aquatic mammal that resembles a flippered hippo.
In a new exhibition opening at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) here this weekend, viewers can digitally superimpose the picture of a mermaid atop that of a manatee and see how Columbus and countless other sailors might have been fooled.
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"What's a sailor to do?", I ask...They're only in town for the weekend...
Then again, some monster myths are based on pure fact:
"Cap'm she's opening her gaping maw...she's going to swallow the ship!..."
Cue the pic of Ted kennedy.
Thank heavens they never saw that, there’d be no America!
Waiting for the Photoshop of hillary’s face on the manatee, New Orleans beer guy swimming next to the Santa Maria, etc.
How quickly we forget. Remember when the Yeti and Sasquach were believed to be mythical creatures?
Huh? Oh, what year is this?
never mind, I’m not here yet.
Haha! I got my manatee pic in first!
LOL!
I don’t have a manatee pic :( I feel soo deprived. Hopefully, our Great and Glorious Leader of Life (GaG LoL) POTUS will institute a redistribution scheme so I can have your pic.
Btw, your comment had me thinking someone hacked my account. I sure as heck didn’t remember making the comment you responded to lol.
To get your own manatee pic, copy mine:
Right click on the pic
Select “Properties” from the menu.
Click on Properties
Copy off the descriptive matter by pressing”select all”
Press “Copy”
Go to the bottom of your profile page
select “EDIT”
COPY THE pic properties into the page.
Go back to “Profile” and see what you have.
Good luck (it may take a few times but it’s easy once you learn.
Naa.
I’ll just wait for the Obamanards to send goons to your house and force you to give it poor manateeless folk like me.
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