Did mermen ever really exist?

[Drewbot]

Can you point to any living creature which is half in one genus, and half in another?

Why not?

What 'half-genus' is the Merman part of?

 

[fromdownunder]

Sea-horse, dragon-fly, saw-fish, sword-fish, star-fish and duck billed platty-puss.

...and

Norm

 

[jimbob]

Sea-horse, dragon-fly, saw-fish, sword-fish, star-fish and duck billed platty-puss.
Besides explain unicorns evolving into narwhales. I bet you can't! Check. Your move skeptic.

An appropriate response

 

[jimbob]

I'll see your Mermen, and raise you some Ningen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqnjlI72lY

well, the Youtube autoplay list is looking distinctly barking from following that link

 

[William Parcher]

If a sailor saw a woman being eaten feet-first by a shark they might think they are seeing a bloody mermaid. "What I saw was half human and half fish. There is no doubt about it. It was a bloody mermaid I tell you. A bleeding bloody mermaid!"

 

[jimbob]

If a sailor saw a woman being eaten feet-first by a shark they might think they are seeing a bloody mermaid. "What I saw was half human and half fish. There is no doubt about it. It was a bloody mermaid I tell you. A bleeding bloody mermaid!"

That is an insane point, well made and an amusing pun.

Perfect for this thread.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

You would be wrong. I hate Harry Potter, I have never dressed up in a Halloween costume, can't stand Dan Brown. UFO's? I'd love to spend time in Joshua Tree desert, just for the buzz. I love poetry.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, GS, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


You must be one of those people who only believes what you are told to believe.

Totally, man. Far out.

...Or, I'm just an average Joe Schmoe who immediately understands when he stumbles across yet another bored troll on the ISF. Turn the page, Eerie Indiana.

 

[Vixen]

I'll see your Mermen, and raise you some Ningen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqnjlI72lY

Q.E.D. ::

 

[Vixen]

If a sailor saw a woman being eaten feet-first by a shark they might think they are seeing a bloody mermaid. "What I saw was half human and half fish. There is no doubt about it. It was a bloody mermaid I tell you. A bleeding bloody mermaid!"

Mer-MAN. Mer-MAN. ~ Ben Stiller

 

[arthwollipot]

If merfolk ever existed, why don't we have any fossils?

 

[dann]

Will a mermaid fossil do?!

 

[abaddon]

Sea-horse, dragon-fly, saw-fish, sword-fish, star-fish and duck billed platty-puss.
Besides explain unicorns evolving into narwhales. I bet you can't! Check. Your move skeptic.

Alright, that was funny.

 

[Drewbot]

I think I figured out what those sailors were seeing when they came up with the ridiculous idea of MERMEN.

It was a Centaur swimming on the surface of the ocean.