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There are no mermaids: US government

Started by georoc01 , Jul 05 2012 03:40 PM

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#1 georoc01

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 03:40 PM

http://news.yahoo.co...-212628320.html

Bummer, at least there aren't any zombies either..

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 05:50 PM

Wrong. We do exist!!
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#3 dive_sail_etc

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 05:48 AM

Wrong. We do exist!!

Yeah, what she said! :wub: :respect:
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#4 little mermaid

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 08:03 AM

:teeth: It's nice to know that my tax dollars are once again at work for something that benefits the citizens. Total waste of $$$ all they really had to do was ask, there are lots of us!!!!:dance: :dance:

Edited by little mermaid, 07 July 2012 - 08:38 AM.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 11:36 AM

:teeth: It's nice to know that my tax dollars are once again at work for something that benefits the citizens. Total waste of $$$ all they really had to to was ask, there are lots of us!!!!:dance: :dance:


Well, maybe they're doing this to keep us marine biologists employed. :banghead:

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Edited by Hipshot, 06 July 2012 - 11:37 AM.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 12:29 PM

http://news.yahoo.co...-212628320.html

Bummer, at least there aren't any zombies either..


Just another example of the Goverment spending $$$ to do a study of no value....


Heres a Mermaid!!!!! Caught this one in GCM

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Edited by Greg@ihpil, 06 July 2012 - 12:35 PM.

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#7 little mermaid

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 08:40 AM

:teeth: It's nice to know that my tax dollars are once again at work for something that benefits the citizens. Total waste of $$$ all they really had to do was ask, there are lots of us!!!!:dance: :dance:


Well, maybe they're doing this to keep us marine biologists employed. :banghead:

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Hope springs eternal, keep looking maybe you will find one of us!! :D

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 09:50 AM

They do exist.....Documented by Belowsurface and Marine Video..



http://www.marinevid...63caa63b7013b8d
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 08:56 AM

http://news.yahoo.co...-212628320.html

Bummer, at least there aren't any zombies either..


Just another example of the Goverment spending $$$ to do a study of no value....


Heres a Mermaid!!!!! Caught this one in GCM



Where does it say they did a study? Here is the link to the actual post on NOAA's National Ocean Website.

http://oceanservice....s/mermaids.html


Hardly a study! Somebody took five minutes to liven up the website for a couple days. Hardly a gross waste of money in this case.


Nice to see some humor out of Washington if you ask me.

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#10 drbill

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 09:55 AM

Curses... all these decades I've been searching for something that doesn't exist? Oh, wait... it's the government telling us this. Never mind.
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