I don’t know about you…
…but this announcement makes me very, very sad.
Ah, but who believes the government, anyway? Today it’s “no mermaids,” but tomorrow they’ll say there are no unicorns, and that the space alien autopsy videos are bogus. The nerve!
When I was a child, mermaids featured prominently in my imaginative life. I loved loved loved the Hans Christian Anderson story “The Little Mermaid” (very different, and much darker, than the later Disney film).
And my brother and I used to watch this movie over and over on TV, where it was quite regularly shown. I absolutely adored it. This is just a series of vignettes from it, minus dialogue (or in a sense monologue; Ann Blyth as the mermaid is great in her silent role). But the entire thing can be found on You Tube—ah, wonder!:
Well, that’s very nostalgic but I’m not sure it can trump Splash as a tale about a tail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSK4KSZdBr4
How is it that criteria (there is no evidence) used for pooh-poohing the existence of mermaids proves the existence of AGW/CC? Science is getting as tricky as jurisprudential rationalization. Brave new world indeed.
They’re still denying the Innsmouth raid, I see.
For a different kind of mermaid film, try to find “Miranda” an English film, 1948 vintage, starring Glynnis Johns as a mermaid.
Just another “extinct” species awaiting rediscovery.
Missed that one back in the day. Must not have been able to rustle up the 10 or 15 cents admission. Bill Powell and Ann Blyth were must sees for my generation.
Now if they’d only figure out there is no free lunch.