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Global Warming KIlled Loch Ness Monster
Daily Record.co.uk ^ | Feb 13 2008 | Bob Dow

Posted on 02/17/2008 4:04:25 PM PST by Beowulf9

LEGENDARY Nessie hunter Robert Rines is giving up his search for the monster after 37 years.

The 85-year-old American will make one last trip in a bid to find the elusive beast.

After almost four decades of fruitless expeditions, he admitted: "Unfortunately, I'm running out of age."

World War II veteran Robert has devoted almost half his life to scouring Loch Ness.

He started in 1971. The following year, he watched a 25ft-long hump with the texture of elephant skin gliding through the water.

His original trip was to help another monster hunter with sonar equipment and quickly identified large moving targets.

He was smitten and returned the next year, which is when, he says: "I had the misfortune of seeing one of these things with my own eyes."

Since then, he has been obsessed with tracking down the creature with a staggering array of hi-tech equipment. It was this gear that took the famous "flipper" picture that year which created a stir around the world.

Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.

He still wants to check almost 100 contacts on the floor of the loch, believing one may be the monster's remains.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailyrecord.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: freepun; globalwarming; lochness
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To: Beowulf9

Now we can say Global Warming did in Nessie, Big Foot, various UFOs, and anything else that cannot be located/viewed/identified in the 21st century......


81 posted on 02/18/2008 2:54:49 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: we'll send Brezinski to Damascus, that's our foreign policy!!)
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To: Vince Ferrer
The only things that were not killed by Global Warming were killed by George Bush before Global Warming could get to them.

Dick Cheney is deeply saddened that he is not getting any of the credit.

He also fishes, you know!

82 posted on 02/18/2008 3:01:39 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If Liberalism doesn't kill me, I'll live 'till I die!)
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To: beezdotcom

You are correct. Dynachrome has killed too many brain cells.
LOL


83 posted on 02/18/2008 3:01:56 PM PST by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: Godzilla

HEY GODZILLA BABY how you been honey

BTW you going blame for everything
quakes, storms, Economy and if Hillary say win this election LOLOLOLOL!


84 posted on 02/18/2008 3:02:41 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: SevenofNine
and if Hillary say win this election

resistance is futile

85 posted on 02/18/2008 3:04:00 PM PST by Godzilla (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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To: Beowulf9

I would say they need to be loched up.


86 posted on 02/18/2008 3:08:52 PM PST by punster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nessie died of indigestion, after eating Man-Bear-Pig.


87 posted on 02/18/2008 7:04:26 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (http://www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html or try http://astore.amazon.com/bemasnebo-20)
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To: N. Theknow

Unbeknownst to most people, there is a secret underwater tunnel which connects Loch Ness with Lake Champlain on the New York-Vermont border.

...Where Alph the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea...


88 posted on 02/18/2008 7:06:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (http://www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html or try http://astore.amazon.com/bemasnebo-20)
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To: ApplegateRanch
He only wanted three fifty from me.

I once saw a movie which raised the supposition that the Loch Ness Monster was also Jack the Ripper so I guess it’s as true as the original post claiming that global warming killed it.

89 posted on 02/18/2008 7:14:39 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Beowulf9; Admin Moderator

I found the link they moved this story to.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/search.cfm?what=Loch+Ness


90 posted on 02/18/2008 7:46:34 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (A herd of goats; a billow of burkas; a murder of Muslims; a pack of idiots: Welcome to Islamistan!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Thanks. I don’t understand why they moved this but, and I hate to sound paranoid, but do they not want a lot of attention on this?


91 posted on 02/18/2008 7:59:01 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9
I don’t understand why they moved this

No (well, not much anyway) idea, but I'm glad I tacked it. Got to do thier 'reader survey' and enter their drawing. LOL

It looked like they changed the title, and added a bit more matterial to it.

92 posted on 02/18/2008 8:21:24 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (A herd of goats; a billow of burkas; a murder of Muslims; a pack of idiots: Welcome to Islamistan!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Thanks for the ping!


93 posted on 02/18/2008 10:06:34 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Always Right

ya beat me to it


94 posted on 02/19/2008 3:31:53 AM PST by FBD ("I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good president," ~ John McCain on NBC's "Meet the Press)
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To: redpoll

>”Actually, this makes sense to me.

A mythical event has killed off a mythical monster.”<

When you put it that way, G.W. does make sense! ;^)


95 posted on 02/19/2008 3:33:51 AM PST by FBD ("I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good president," ~ John McCain on NBC's "Meet the Press)
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