Americans....really?

[Pica Pica]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18692830

[supremecatoverlord]

Lololol.

[Constance]

I beg to differ.

[Pica Pica]

It's kind of sweet.

What makes me smile even more, there will be a great many people people who believe in mermaids merely because the government have said they don't exist. The government's main purpose apparently is to make huge, intricate plots and cover-ups.

Personally I can't believe in any New World Order stuff, because if your government is anything like ours, it couldn't organise a party in a pub.

[Pica Pica]

I beg to differ.

That is one good skelly.

[wiigirl]

I beg to differ.

Now thats a transition!! 

[Pica Pica]

Yeah, FtF

[Joelene9]

  Animal planet.  They had an animated SFX nature documentary on dragons several years ago. 
  Joelene

[Constance]

  Animal planet.  They had an animated SFX nature documentary on dragons several years ago. 
  Joelene

My son watched that as part of a research project his senior year of high school. His topic was could dragons evolve on earth.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

What do you think for the country that exercises shrimp.

[Devlyn]

I believe this thread comes at a perfect time, the eve of our Independence Day. It highlights the real American can-do attitude. Let's face it, most people trudge off to some factory job, or sit in traffic all day driving a taxi. But the real American, the one with that pioneering spirit, figures out a way to have the government hand over a huge grant to   study mermaids. That beats working any day of the week! Hugs, Devlyn

[Jamie D]

From article:

The inquiries followed May's broadcast of Mermaids: The Body Found, on the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network.

The programme was a work of fiction but its wink-and-nod format apparently led some viewers to believe it was a science education show, the Discovery Channel has acknowledged.


"There's a sucker born every minute" - Phineas T. Barnum

[MariaMx]

That is funny. Reminds me of the American tourists that came to Norway to see the midnight sun and sued to get their money back when they realized it was the same sun

[Marcia]

I know it was a long time ago but don't forget the panic that The War of the Worlds radio play made.

[Beth Andrea]

I are an 'Merican, an' let me tell you-all sumthin'...

Wait a moment.

I just noticed, when you reply in a thread, the first line is "Subject", and the second line is "Tags." The subscript for the second line says, "Seperate each tag by a comma"...It should be spelled "Separate".

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Gawd, I hate typso.

AND while I'm at it...what in teh name of tarnation does "eusa_angel" mean? Or show?

I know it was a long time ago but don't forget the panic that The War of the Worlds radio play made.

[ voice of like an NPR announcer]We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.[ /voice]

*sounds of chamber music playing*

[Cindy]

I met an American tourist in Hawaii who wanted his money back because he couldn't stand at the volcano's crater edge to watch the eruption.

[V M]

Before this turns into another anti-American rant...

I believe in mermaids, don't need the gov't or T.V. to tell me otherwise and up anyone's who doesn't like it

I'm also calling the spelling and grammar police!!!




LOL... Yes, being silly 

[Cindy]

Yes we have to careful of an anti-rant., seriously.

The ability for people to believe in the absurd is incredible and unfortunately it  is getting worse. We have people who do not believe in evolution,  I saw recently that one
teaching group are saying that the Loch Ness Monster is real and proves that evolution didn't occur and that all creatures were created 5000 yrs ago. They teach that garbage.

We have people who have no idea where a particular country is. We still have people convinced that the moon landings were fake

One of the nicest articles in the press at the moment is about the so called 'God Particle' the Boson. Supposedly so named by Higgs in his paper. Seemingly his quote was 'I cannot find that Goddamn Particle. The editors of the journal removed the damn, as being 'offensive', so we now have the ludicrous 'God Particle' no doubt some religious fanatic will run with it to prove that God exits because a physicist has said so, when he really said no such thing.

Oh well never let truth get in the way of  good fantasy

Cindy

[Padma]

I had a funny French moment a few years ago when a woman was telling me (or so I thought - this was all in French) that she'd heard the mermaids down by the sea shore. Turns out the French use the same word for 'foghorn' (sirène) - when she saw the expression on my face she almost wet herself - and then explained .

My new conspiracy theory is that the reason why the world's in so much financial tsuris right now is that all these governments are spending all our money on elaborate cover-ups .

[Beth Andrea]

Yes, there are those who believe in the (literal) Biblical version of Creation.

I've had 3 people--all from different families and states--tell me the Earth is 7,000 years old, or 13,000 years old. (depends on which church they belong to)

Man and dinosaurs co-existed.

Supposedly they have it down to the first day as being a Thursday, about tea-time. Oh wait, that might have been a Monty Python thing.