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You Call that a Monster?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... another sighting of the Loch Ness Monster is reported.

Gordon Holmes of Yorkshire took this video of some kind of creature swimming in Loch Ness. "I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing, about 45 feet long, moving fairly fast in the water," Holmes told The Associated Press. His video made Nessie supporters more excited than New York Yankees broadcaster Suzyn Waldman when Roger Clemens returned.

AP reports that Nessie watcher and marine biologist Adrian Shine of the Loch Ness 2000 center has seen the tape and plans to study it over the next few months. I guess he has time on his hands.

After viewing the video, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. I would expect Nessie to be a bit more, well, fearsome looking. The creature in Holmes' tape looks like a big snake or eel. More yucky than scary.

11:23 AM ET | 06- 1-2007 | permalink

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Yeah well you look more yucky than scary to me, human. You want to see fearsome? Come out onto the loch in a boat and I'll show you fearsome. Oh and bring a camera. They make excellent grinding stones for my digestion.

Sent by LNM, Scotland | 2:44 PM ET | 06-01-2007

Now Nessie, I'm not trying to offend you. I think this video just doesn't do the real you justice. It's obviously some kind of imposter, an eel with an oversized sense of importance.

Think of me as brand protection. If you let someone water down your brand these days, it will cost you millions in royalties.

Sent by Tom Regan | 3:18 PM ET | 06-01-2007

At least if this video was a fraud, there were no strings or mirrors involved... maybe a large rock that was lying just below the surface of the water... but no little toys with long necks poking up out of the waves. This, in and of itself, is a happy find, is it not?

Sent by Jennifer Medford | 4:11 PM ET | 06-02-2007

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