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The things people choose to believe...

1248B
30-07-2004, 20:56
This is too funny!! :D

SWEDES: WE'VE GOTA SON OF NESSIE

SWEDES are going Nessie crazy - after tourist bosses claimed they hatched an egg taken from Loch Ness.

Cheeky water bosses at the Gota Canal hope the 'son of Nessie' will lead to a tourist boom.

They insist they were given the egg three years ago and it hatched recently.

The Gota Canal, which stretches for 220 miles, already attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year and has tourist offices at various points along its length.

Their 48-page brochure says: 'Representatives of our Scottish twin, the Caledonian Canal, presented us with a huge, light-green egg from the world-famous loch-monster, Nessie, in Loch Ness.

'The egg was lowered into the Vattern and now, in 2004, it seems that a baby Nessie has hatched.

'This summer we went on an expedition by boat to the place where the egg was left.

'To our great pleasure, we found an eggshell - and now more eyewitnesses are seeing inexplicable phenomena on the lake.'

Two towers have been built over Lake Vattern for Baby Nessie watchers, with books written for youngsters.

Going all the way to Sweden to stare at the surface of a canal with the believe that there is any truth to this. I mean the existence of Nessie has yet to be proven, and personally I doubt it ever will, how then to determine that a certain egg, if that part is true and I doubt it, is Nessie's? :rolleyes:
2_Live
30-07-2004, 21:01
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!
The things people do for money.
Are you sure this wasn't in the National Enquirer by the way?
1248B
30-07-2004, 21:07
It could have been! Easily! :D
Ludvika
30-07-2004, 21:10
Well, people belive in all kinds of strange things, like nessie. My grandparents live near a lake called Storsjön, and people belive that there's a monster called Storsjöodjuret in the lake. They even got special places along the lake were you can sit and watch. :)
1248B
30-07-2004, 21:15
Well, people belive in all kinds of strange things, like nessie. My grandparents live near a lake called Storsjön, and people belive that there's a monster called Storsjöodjuret in the lake. They even got special places along the lake were you can sit and watch. :)

The sitting&watching part sounds very "therapeutic"...

So, when was the last time this monster was seen? :)
L a L a Land
30-07-2004, 21:18
This is too funny!! :D



Going all the way to Sweden to stare at the surface of a canal with the believe that there is any truth to this. I mean the existence of Nessie has yet to be proven, and personally I doubt it ever will, how then to determine that a certain egg, if that part is true and I doubt it, is Nessie's? :rolleyes:

Rofl. I am a swede. Haven't heard of that. Where did you get it from?

Also seems like the towers would have been built at the shore at Vättern, not along the channel. ;)
Ludvika
30-07-2004, 21:20
The sitting&watching part sounds very "therapeutic"...

So, when was the last time this monster was seen? :)

I have no idea but it seems like they think the monster has got a son called Birger or something similar and is in the same lake. :rolleyes:
Urban Isle
30-07-2004, 21:20
I have a monster in bathtub, it wakes me up in the middle of the night and tells me, "I will set you ablaze!"
Ludvika
30-07-2004, 21:21
Rofl. I am a swede. Haven't heard of that. Where did you get it from?

Also seems like the towers would have been built at the shore at Vättern, not along the channel. ;)

Hi, I'm a swede too. :)
I haven't hard about either, I just know about the monster in Storsjön. :)
1248B
30-07-2004, 21:22
Rofl. I am a swede. Haven't heard of that. Where did you get it from?

Also seems like the towers would have been built at the shore at Vättern, not along the channel. ;)

I got it from the Sunday Mail.

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14459033%26method=full%26siteid=86024%26headline=swedes%2d%2dwe%2dve%2dgota%2dson%2dof%2 dnessie-name_page.html

I can't get the links to work anymore as html has been disabled.
1248B
30-07-2004, 21:23
I have no idea but it seems like they think the monster has got a son called Birger or something similar and is in the same lake. :rolleyes:

This is going to kill me!! LOLOLOLOLOL

Too funny!!! LOLOLOLOL

And who said that the Swedes have no sense of humour, huh? Tsk tsk tsk... Shame on them!!