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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One of my saplings is a state champion synchronized swimmer. Total mermaid.
Ancient folklore says they sing their siren song to drive men onto the rocks or to drag them down into the watery black depths, evil.
Are you talking about all women, or just mermaids?
One of the filler pieces on a local PBS station is on a mermaid school in Montreal. I think one of the girls said she paid over 2000, but fits as a second skin, and really moves through the water.
“... 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.”
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Like Commercial Fishing for the Blind - featuring radar and compass navigation ...
I guess probably all of us, except some freepers.
We have the mermaid tail snuggie here so our mermaid is couch bound for now. But she wants that swimming tail next summer! Viva Mermaids!
I could have turned that place around :-) I would have marketed it as a Spring Break destination.
1) Expand the campground to pack in a thousand tents
2) Sell alcohol like Disney sells souvenirs
3) **IMPORTANT** Have the mermaid shows performed by the spring breakers!
Probably not a wholesome enterprise but it would be a heck of a venture. All fun and games until the giant clam malfunctions!
“Doing the Dolphin!!!”
It’s the new dance craze!
Isn’t that maggot Billy Crystal involved with the Weakly Standard?
Weirdorama. See I think that old drunk sailors were getting humped by dolphins and imagined they were beautiful woman with fish tales. Like that old Mickey Gilley song, the girls all get prettier at closing time.
How the mer made the maid.
There is actually a job market, a small one and learning how to swim well is always a good idea.
Kids go to space camp that haven't a prayer of becoming an astronaut. Adults go to bush craft who would die if they actually were in a survival situation..
Fond memories of taking my young daughter to Weeki-Watchee. Good clean fun for the very young.
The Spanish word for “Mermaid” is “Sirena.”
Check out MIAMI BEACH MERMAIDS.
“Weirdorama. See I think that old drunk sailors were getting humped by dolphins and imagined they were beautiful woman with fish tales. Like that old Mickey Gilley song, the girls all get prettier at closing time.”
Supposedly it was manatees that started the mermaid myth. Those salts were WAY overdue for shore leave.
WTH.
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