Posted on 07/23/2006 1:12:46 PM PDT by NJRighty
CLEARWATER - Sixty years ago this summer, something scary happened on the beach. A monster emerged from the Gulf of Mexico and wandered around in the dark.
The Clearwater Monster didn't hurt anyone, but left lots of tracks, discovered the next morning on the sand.
The tracks looked like nothing anyone had ever seen. They weren't the kind of tracks left by dinosaurs, but they were large, about 14 inches long and 11 inches wide. They featured a narrow heel and three long toes. The tracks were more birdlike than reptilian, though not entirely birdlike. They were a dispatch from an unknown world.
The news made the papers. The news made the radio. The monster was the talk of Clearwater. A few citizens stepped forward to announce they had seen something mysterious on the beach that night, something alien, and if you didn't believe them, why, you could jump in a lake.
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On a recent afternoon in Clearwater, Tony Signorini answered the door of his house. He recalled moving to Clearwater after World War II. His new boss was Al Williams, a practical joker.
"Back in, I want to say 1946, though it could have been '47, Al gets his hands on a National Geographic. There was a picture of dinosaur tracks. Al said, 'You know, we could have fun with this.' "
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Naaah, there would have been CLAW marks.
This is what the government would LIKE you to believe.
I sense a Helen Thomas pic coming soon....
That was the year I was born. I'll be 60 in a few days. It took 60 years to solve this.
How long must we wait for the anthrax crime to be solved????? Please tell me it won't be 60 years!!
How prescient!
So, now we know what Helen Thomas was doing before her White House press corps days!
You are EVIL.
In all her photo shoots, the photographer yells, "Grimace!".(She thinks he is saying, "Grin, ace".)
Michael Moore doing a nudie.
...and a lingering, bad smell.
"I played there as a little girl before I got my first pair of shoes"
THE ARCHITECTS OF FEAR
"Because the world faces the possibility of extinction through nuclear accident, an international group of renowned scientists meets in secret session to find an answer. Their decision -- force the hostile nations to join together to fight an outside enemy, and bind them in fear of some unknown power."
"In order to create this fear they decide to create a MAN-MADE MONSTER from one of their own...a grotesque mutilation of the human body so that it will truly appear to come from another planet. The man chosen will be declared dead and will never resume normal life!"
"One said, "It couldn't be real. Another thought the tracks might have been left by a giant salamander."
Oh, sure.
Blame it on salamanders.
We're small but our shoulders are wide.
We can carry the burden......8:P
From my experience on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it’s possible illegal drugs were involved. Every time the Coast Guard caught a runner on the water bales of pot would wash up on the beach – even the occasional kilo of Coke.
I think I read somewhere that the use of illegal drugs could cause hallucinations.
I sense a Helen Thomas pic coming soon....
What a terrible thing to do to a hapless gator.....
When you post pictures like that, at least have the courtesy to put up an EYE CLEANER link!
:-)
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