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02-27-2003, 12:01 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
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The Legend of Mermaid...
Hey guys, I was wondering about the legends and mythlogies of the Mermaids. Every movie I have seen about them is that they can be hot, sexy, banging, salty, and sweet women, or they are really vicious, supernatural, ugly, screeching, and killer monsters of the sea. What are they? I have heard that there are some documented dtories about the mermaids like a mummified mermaid in a seahorse size. And I wanted to know if you guys believe the legend of mermaids?
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02-27-2003, 12:03 AM
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USA
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Charlestown R.I.
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Time for nighty-night Notaro.
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02-27-2003, 12:07 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
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Yeah, Scotch, you just reminded me that I need to fly back home and drink a wine cooler and go to sleep.
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02-27-2003, 08:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
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mermaids were originally thought of as creatures who lured ships too close to shore where they crashed on the rocks. As best as we can tell , it had its roots in the songs that the wind sometimes generates at very stormy areas like large points of land. these areas were typically stormy and rocky and had seals resting on the rocks. if you've ever seen seals , especially the grey ones , they sure do look like a person is looking back at you from the water. so combine the thoughts of a tired sailor , a year out at seas , longing for a babe , rounding the tip of South America where the wind howls and sings and the seals look back at you from the rocks and magically , they see Mermaids. they sail in to get a better look and then get caught in the currents and crash on the rocks. All sounds logical to me.
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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02-27-2003, 08:37 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Foxborough, Ma
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Quote:
Originally posted by Saltheart
mermaids were originally thought of as creatures who lured ships too close to shore where they crashed on the rocks. As best as we can tell , it had its roots in the songs that the wind sometimes generates at very stormy areas like large points of land.
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Saltheart....wouldn't that also go back to the tale of the Sirens in Homer's Odyssey?
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02-27-2003, 08:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
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Yes , same idea I think.
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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02-27-2003, 09:33 AM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
Posts: 8,618
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I get one every season, but the conditions have to be just right. The couple times I've lucked into them all shared a few things, brutally hot summer days, very little early morning action and I fished into the noon sun being stubburn, even to the point of going offshore 7 miles for some cod. Seems they only hit when your tired, overheated, frustrated and need something pulling badly  .
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02-27-2003, 09:41 AM
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Bass Whacker
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: NJ
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I remember taking a walk out to Naps one night before it got dark, and seeing 3 mermaids sunning in the buff  , I dont know who was more embarrased.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
August 29--a date that lives in striper infamy.
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02-27-2003, 01:26 PM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,550
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Seals are to sailors what sheep are to Mainers.
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02-27-2003, 01:27 PM
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Plug Builder in Training
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: wareham MA
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02-27-2003, 01:34 PM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
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I've never seen a mermaid with a blue nipple before.
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02-27-2003, 01:42 PM
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Plug Builder in Training
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: wareham MA
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did not want John to have to pull it from the page.
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02-27-2003, 05:38 PM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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I guess I will be fishing Naps more often..... 
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Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
Spot NAZI
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02-28-2003, 12:20 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
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02-28-2003, 02:23 AM
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Bass Whacker
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: NJ
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Blue nipples? Cold out?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
August 29--a date that lives in striper infamy.
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02-28-2003, 06:28 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Plugs work the best on them but try some rubber 
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02-28-2003, 11:05 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: S. Yarmouth, MA
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mrmacy, I had a similar experience once with one of those sugar cubes. It went something like this:
I was once out beachcombing, one very hot summer's day, when I thought I'd lay myself down to rest in a big field with tall eelgrass. I laid there in the sun, felt it caress my face as I fell asleep and dreamed. I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie, and that I was the star. This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an overfed, long-haired, weeping gnome should be the star of a Hollywood movie.
There I was. I was taken to a place, the Hall of the Merman King. I stood high upon a sand dune, naked with the world in front of every kind of mergirl. There were strong ones, tall ones, short ones, brown ones, black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones. Out of the middle came a merlady. She whispered in my ear, something crazy. She said:
Spill the wine, dig that mermaid.
Spill the wine.
Spill the wine, dig that mermaid.
Dig that Merrrrrrrrmaid.
I could feel a hot flame of fire roaring in my back as she disappeared into the sea. But soon, she returned. In her hand was a conch shell of wine; in the other, a glass. She poured some of the wine from the conch into the glass, and raised it to her lips, and just before she drank, she said:
Take the wine, take that mermaid.
Spill the wine, dig that mermaid.
Spill the wine, dig that mermaid.
Dig that Merrrrrmaid.
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02-28-2003, 11:15 AM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
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I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared, but soon she returned
In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
And raised it to her lips
And just before she drank it, she said:
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02-28-2003, 11:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: SOCO
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Do I,
Love that girl?
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02-28-2003, 11:37 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: SOCO
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no wait,
Do I,
Dig that groove?
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02-28-2003, 11:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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Quote:
There I was. I was taken to a place, the Hall of the Merman King. I stood high upon a sand dune, naked with the world in front of every kind of mergirl. There were strong ones, tall ones, short ones, brown ones, black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones. Out of the middle came a merlady. She whispered in my ear, something crazy. She said:
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OMG I nearly soiled myself laughing !!!!!
Very Good, TY
Macey:
YOU DA MAN, but I think you need a fishing diversion !!!
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Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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02-28-2003, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
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damn, it seems that everyone is loving this thread...
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02-28-2003, 03:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,990
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Lucy in the sea with dogfish 
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02-28-2003, 07:53 PM
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Fishing Chauffeur
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: raynham mass
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i dont know what your talkin bout
im an adult!!! 
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03-03-2003, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
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mrmacy, we are making this into a mildly adult-x thread... 
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