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Bigfoot: The Patterson Gimlin Film - Part 3

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Put a fork in the Bigfoot. Done.

Does anyone have a decent picture of Gimlin's white one ton pickup from 1967?
I have one of the back end.
 
Blackdog said:
More naughty talk. :D
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I plan on going to the Salt Fork Conference this year. I will be incognito, selling pinecones, covered with peanut butter and rolled in My Secret BIGFOOT Grain Mixture. The Bigfoots love them.

Hang them around your campsite or house, I have had BIGFOOTS come around and pop the yummy pinecones right off the string, and into their mouths like POPCORN SHRIMP. I will embellish the story, by adding that "I once saw two male BF fight over a Pinecone..." $7.00/ Per Pinecone. Celebrity endorsement TBD.
 
Drewbot said:
I plan on going to the Salt Fork Conference this year. I will be incognito, selling pinecones, covered with peanut butter and rolled in My Secret BIGFOOT Grain Mixture. The Bigfoots love them.

Hang them around your campsite or house, I have had BIGFOOTS come around and pop the yummy pinecones right off the string, and into their mouths like POPCORN SHRIMP. I will embellish the story, by adding that "I once saw two male BF fight over a Pinecone..." $7.00/ Per Pinecone. Celebrity endorsement TBD.
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ROTLF.
Great idea! Fatten them all up. Spike those Pinecones.
...Dumb them all down. Uninhibited Bigfoots means easy pictures and DNA.
 
Teresa at BFF said:
In Gimlin's interview I think with John Green he stated that Patterson kept the camera in his saddle bag for quick retrieval in case something happened. He even stated Patterson used to practice his "quick draw" technique getting the camera out of the saddle bag.

The thing that bothers me about this is if Patterson was planning the film why would he need to practice his quick draw technique?
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You sometimes see this kind of thing with Bigfooters. They don't understand that hoaxing and lying go together. Gimlin is telling a lie to Green. Regardless of whether Roger ever practiced "camera quick-draw", he certainly would have no need to do that when he filmed the guy in the suit at Bluff Creek. Of course Gimlin can't say that to Green and so he tells the lies.

ETA: GuyInIndiana follows up with more of the same. They just don't get it.

But IF he was hoaxing/faking the film, why bother 'practice' getting out the camera for the quick draw? If he's just going to make a fumbling jerky film that's hoaxed anyway, it would seem way too much over-kill to practice for it... IMO.
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Hypothetical converstation bet. BobG and RogP while riding through the woods.

BobG-
What are you going to do if we run into one of those things?"
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RogP-
Don't you worry 'bout that, I been practicing my quick-draw tactic with ol' Betsy here < Whips Camera out a couple times> If we run into one, I'll be ready.
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BobG-
OK, but you best be on your toes, there's a gravelly sandbar up ahead...
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Later, BobG explains to John Green
Roger practiced pulling that camera out of the saddle bag all the time...
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How do you know Patterson ever practiced the quick-draw, even once?
Gimlin said he did.
How do you know Gimlin is telling the truth?
He just does that.
 
William Parcher said:
You sometimes see this kind of thing with Bigfooters. They don't understand that hoaxing and lying go together. Gimlin is telling a lie to Green. Regardless of whether Roger ever practiced "camera quick-draw", he certainly would have no need to do that when he filmed the guy in the suit at Bluff Creek. Of course Gimlin can't say that to Green and so he tells the lies.

ETA: GuyInIndiana follows up with more of the same. They just don't get it.
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Brilliant. It's so obvious no one thinks to say it. Thank you. Seriously.
 
Skeptical Greg said:
Actually, it is pretty well documented that Patterson participated in rodeos, and Gimlin trains horses ..
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And neither one makes them cowboys. That is my point. Yes, we have drugstore cowboys and rodeo cowboys and urban cowboys...none of them are real cowboys. Patterson had not even been in a rodeo for over five years. i wouldn't quibble too much with "unemployed ex-rodeo cowboy with no visible means of support." They have both also been described as ranchers, which is not true. Gimlin has been described as a "home builder,". Deceptive, at best. 'footers, including Meldrum, describe these two in romantic terms, as anything but what they really were, at the time of the filming, in a desperate attempt to give them the credibility we ascribe to the simple honest cowpoke. This is somewhat like calling the Patterson movie a "documentary." Patterson was an unsuccessful self-styled promoter, perhaps, and Gimlin was an intermittently employed day laborer who trained horses on the side.
 
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