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Whether you are the Jaws type or The Little Mermaid type, you’ll love this clever swimsuit that features both! Link -via Geeks Are Sexy
Actually, it could also be a merman, not just a mermaid. And the other sign — is that, like, a pirate with a peg leg?
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This film shows how a young woman learns to be a mermaid at Weeki Wachee. Viewers see lessons in breath control, synchronized swimming, diet, modeling, announcing, and how to eat and drink underwater. Parts of a performance are shown. The film uses underwater photography.
It’s not easy. I think I’ll pass.
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Denmark’s iconic statue of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid normally sits in the Copenhagen Harbor, but left last week for temporary residence at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. On April Fool’s Day, she returned -as a skeleton! The skeleton display was made from human bones and a swordfish skeleton, according to Hanne Strager, the head of exhibitions at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
Her skeleton replacement was introduced to the media in a prank statement that said the Little Mermaid “had returned”.
The statement claimed it was the only remaining complete skeleton of a “Hydronymphus pesci”, a species said to be extinct since the end of the 17th century.
It claimed to have acquired the remains at the beginning of the 18th century, and that the only other skeleton of the specimen, in Saint Petersburg’s Hermitage museum, was “not as complete as Copenhagen’s” because of its missing tail.
After basking in the Copenhagen sun for two hours, the fake skeleton was returned to the museum where it would be displayed during the Easter holidays, Strager said.
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The Israeli town of Kirvat Yam is offering a hefty sum to anyone who can provide proof of the existence of the mer-people (meeple?).
“Many people are telling us they are sure they’ve seen a mermaid and they are all independent of each other,” Kirvat Yam town council spokesman Natti Zilberman told Sky News.
“I was with friends when suddenly we saw a woman laying on the sand in a weird way,” he said. “At first I thought she was just another sunbather, but when we approached she jumped into the water and disappeared. We were all in shock because we saw she had a tail. At least five of us saw it and we all couldn’t believe it.”
The town council, which is offering the reward, insists that the mermaid mania is not just a marketing ploy to attract tourists, though it does hope tourists will come out to try their luck at the $1 million prize.
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