Reconsidering Mermaids
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 22nd, 2006
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Often it’s merely a good line drawing.
Cryptozoologist Mark A. Hall passes along a delightful “editorial cartoon” for our consideration in rethinking some issues and comments involved in Merbeing theorizing and debunking. Enjoy!
Please click on the image for the full-size cartoon.
Thanks to Mia B. Smith, Permissions Coordinator at American Scientist, who informs me the copyright for this cartoon is Bill Long, 2005.
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OBSERVATION: The tail depicted on this manatee reminds me of the tail on the carving of the Emela-Ntouka, Elephant Killer in Loren’s earlier post!
haha, thats pretty funny!
There are very few people whose faces resemble that of a manatee, even fewer of them female, and none of those have ever been soberly considered “beautiful”.
Still a funny cartoon.
Gee….. I hope that bald sailor isn’t a female!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, no matter how ugly they all are
Whew….It’s a guy, but they’re still ugly.
Stosh-
Yeah, okay…but this situation is kinda a sssssssssssssssssssssttttttttttttttttttrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Those guys had been out at sea for way too long.
Ha! I love it! It seems like in the stories the lovely mermaids are always attracting the sailors-—but what if the mermaids are hot but the sailors aren’t exactly Brad Pitt?
I wonder if the ancient account of mermaids were refering to Oannanes and his race from the Sirius system
Hey, maybe manatees were the first to come up with “hair metal”, or heavy metal music played by people with long hair!
Ben Radford- May explain why you don’t see mermaids too often; they remember the sailors of the early 1700’s!