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The Song Challenge:   Well, this should be a "cleansing" experience after the last two Challenge!s.  The Topless Mermaid:  'Most people just look and cheer' -- OSLO, Norway - A bare-breasted blonde mermaid perched atop a rock is making tourists gape in disbelief along a Norwegian fjord.  "One man once jumped off a boat and swam over to me," Line Oexnevad, 37 and mother of two children, said on Tuesday of her unorthodox job as a professional siren. "Most people just look and cheer."  Oexnevad, naked except for a long blonde wig and a costume fish-tail, said she has sat five times on a rock along the Lyse fjord in West Norway in the past three summers, hired as a surprise attraction for tourist boat trips and parties.  "The last time it was a bit cold," she said. "The mermaid in Copenhagen and me are the only mermaids I know of," she said. The "Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen is a statue inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.  Oexnevad, who also works at a hospital in nearby Stavanger, said she was no good at singing -- in legend, sirens sang to lure sailors. "Maybe next time I'll take along a cassette player," she said.

A Mermaid On A Rock! by Mbo
(Tune:  "The Mermaid")

It was Sunday morn when we set sail 
On a fjord-tourning rendezvous 
When I saw on a rock in the salty brine 
The answer to my dreams come true! 

A mermaid on a rock! 
She gave me quite a shock! 
A bare-chested large-breasted woman on the top 
With a cute little fishes' tail below below below! 
A cute little fishes' tail below! 

Well they pointed and cheered like a bunch of stupid fools 
All the folks by the rail next to me 
But I knew in my heart that I had to do more 
So I leapt from the boat to the sea! 

A mermaid on a rock! 
She gave me quite a shock! 
A bare-chested large-breasted woman on the top 
With a cute little fishes' tail below below below! 
A cute little fishes' tail below! 

Oh I swam and I swam toward the rock where she sat 
As fast as a hot knife through butter 
So I took off me pants, for more speed did I need 
And it worked like a charm as a rudder! 

A mermaid on a rock! 
She gave me quite a shock! 
A bare-chested large-breasted woman on the top 
With a cute little fishes' tail below below below! 
A cute little fishes' tail below! 

I arrived where she sat, and I stared like a cat 
At her glistening ladies' things and I said 
"You and my sea cucumbah could do the wavy rhumba" 
But she dropped her boombox on my head! 

A mermaid on a rock! 
She gave me quite a shock! 
A bare-chested large-breasted woman on the top 
With a cute little fishes' tail below below below! 
A cute little fishes' tail below! 

So beware of those mermaids, and take of me this advice 
Keep your head, or your wits they'll rob 
And never ever try your best pick-up line 
When she's got Gordon Bok on the knob! 

A mermaid on a rock! 
She gave me quite a shock! 
A bare-chested large-breasted woman on the top 
With a cute little fishes' tail below below below! 
A cute little fishes' tail below! 


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