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xoxoxoBruce 06-28-2009 02:00 AM

June 28, 2009: Mermaid
 
Hey look, a mermaid...
not one of those ugly Sea Cows drunken sailors fell for, or an animated Disney character, but a living, breathing, mermaid.
Would I lie to you, my oldest and dearest friends?


if it didn't involve sex or money, anyway.

http://cellar.org/2009/mermaid.jpg

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Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee when she was a child due to illness. At one point, reports Stuff, a child asked her what happened to her legs and she told him she was a mermaid. The idea stuck with her, so she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, two years ago asking for a mermaid tail. To her surprise, they said they'd do it.
Weta, is a special effects company. Think Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and Chronicles of Narnia.

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Nadya Vessey's prosthetic tail is mostly constructed from wetsuit fabric and plastic molds, and covered in a digitally printed sock.
If you want to eat this IOtD, you'll have to peel it first. ;)

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zippyt 06-28-2009 02:11 AM

its a Dolphen !!!!

xoxoxoBruce 06-28-2009 02:16 AM

SHE's a "Dolphen". :p

TheMercenary 06-28-2009 04:50 AM

Eat it? Wouldn't that be like having a peel and eat shrimp and opening it up only to find the meat missing? No thanks.

SPUCK 06-28-2009 05:08 AM

Exactly what "childhood disease" results in leg amputation?

Frenger 06-28-2009 05:37 AM

I wonder how well she can swim in that.

monster 06-28-2009 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SPUCK (Post 578304)
Exactly what "childhood disease" results in leg amputation?

it doesn't say "childhood disease", solet's go with cancer, infection, menengitis?......


I bet she can swim really well -think about how fast butterfly kick is, and here she doesn't have to work to keep her legs together.

Happy Monkey 06-28-2009 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 578288)
SHE's a "Dolphen". :p

No, a Sherk.

Rendrago 06-28-2009 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Frenger (Post 578305)
I wonder how well she can swim in that.

Here's a video:

http://video.libero.it/app/play?id=d...bd9b1a5fa5c8a8

Trilby 06-28-2009 04:05 PM

That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.

Mayor of Shekou 06-28-2009 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 578362)
That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.

I now have an image stuck in my head of her lining up lemons on the edge of the pool and smashing them with her tail...

lumberjim 06-28-2009 07:45 PM

its June!

delete this after you fix the title

lumberjim 06-28-2009 07:55 PM

Doesn't seem all that fluid ....

I wonder it it's a rigid construct. It seems like they should have gone with a stiff plastic/rubber compound so it has some spring to it.

I bet they could sell them

Medic63 06-28-2009 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 578399)
its June!

delete this after you fix the title

"Let's do the Time Warp again!" :D

xoxoxoBruce 06-28-2009 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 578399)
its June!

delete this after you fix the title

Um... I was just checking to see if you were paying attention... yeah, that's it.
Congratulations, you passed. :band:


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