bore me to tears

From comments: “When did you talk about mermaids?  I must have missed that one [smile].” ~Luke

I’ll take that as an urgent plea to republish my mermaid posts. Anybody, feel free to leave links to your mermaid posts in comments.

Originally posted in November 2007:

Mom, here’s YOUR math problem

Get it? Algae bras? Algebra? Telling jokes as a way to get out of math?

And, you almost missed out on the laugh because I had a such a hard time finding an appropriately wholesome mermaid picture on the internet to go with Sweet Pea’s appropriately wholesome – yet insanely clever – joke. (Unlike me until tonight, you probably already knew all about the Mermaid Parade held every year on Coney Island, the photos of which were of no help to me, at all.)

It was tonight that I also realized that most mermaids not only don’t even wear bras; they’re quite inappropriately seductive in their manner, which is really pretty interesting when you think about it too much like I started to do. Curvasious sea maidens moving fetchingly through the water with long, flowing hair, pouty lips, wide beckoning eyes, bare breasts – and legs fused together.

My other mermaid post from July 2009:

Rocking the boat

The claim that religion is simply “a different way of knowing” provides safe harbor for otherwise intelligent people to engage in the most ridiculous conversations. “Working from the same information, but different worldviews, we simply arrive at different destinations.” Some religious worldviews, however, leave you navigating deep seas without both oars in the water, causing you to drift rudderless toward insanity.

Islamic scholarship on the eating of mermaids.

HT: Pharyngula