Merged Bigfoot follies

[William Parcher]

I wonder how many other accounts never make it to the BFRO.

Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? What is that number?

My goodness, it must be huge.

 

[LTC8K6]

Thank you. That was very nice.

Hi, how have you been?

Bigfoot still hasn't been found.

 

[William Parcher]

Coelacanths didn't exist either - until they did.

Try to imagine that there has been no Coelacanth found in East and South Africa for 400+ years, and still none to this day. Never on a hook. Never in a net. Never washed up on a beach. Never...

 

[Cervelo]

What do you now think that it was?

Bigfoot?
Spirit?
Ostrich?

Baby T-Rex

 

[William Parcher]

Baby T-Rex

I'm tellin ya that I'm fascinated with the hillbilly woo.

 

[LAL]

LAL, I see that nothing has changed with you, has it?

This forum is still everything that you ever thought it was.

Yep. That's not exactly a compliment.

As far as the things that convinced me in the first place, no, that hasn't changed. BFF2 did get me buying LED lights and hanging out on Democratic Underground.

Coelcanths have a fossil record but, if sasquatches are descended from Gigantopithecus (or some other known hominoid), they do too. Giganto is thought to be extinct; so were coelacanths.

Did I get all the dots on the i's and crosses on the t's that time, guys?

 

[The Shrike]

BTW, this thread is being read.

I hope so. There's at least one guy at the BFF who could really benefit from reading some of the posts on page 93.

 

[River]

I guess you had to be there. When someone is still shaken by an experience that happened years earlier it tends to lend credibility to the account. Sadly she can't share it with her colleagues for fear she would lose all credibility with them. No doubt some would ridicule her as well.

The woman who found a fresh trackway preceded by a stench was visibly shaken as she talked about it.

I wonder how many other accounts never make it to the BFRO.

Coelacanths didn't exist either - until they did.

Must get stank spray/droppers on the stompers now. lol.

 

[Correa Neto]

Hey LAL, nice to read you again.

What has not changed?

I'm still not convinced by claims of "shaken" testimonies. No one should be.

I'm still not convinced by claims of people with "fears of losing credibility among peers" (especially when related to something which would generate fame, fortune and glory within the person's work field). No on should be.

A fish in the ocean is still different from a 3m-tall ape in a forest (a rather well-studied forets, BTW).

"Ifs" are still nothing but "ifs".

Not a single shred of reliable evidence to back bigfoot as a real creature has been presented.

Bigfootery continues to produce ridiculous claims and hoaxes.

The day of reckoning for footers has not yet arrived.

What has changed?

The number of promissed days of reckoning for footers which have came and gone with the same result-> 0 (zero) bigfoot: it increased.

The numbers of fails and hoaxes increased.

The number of ridiculous tall tales increased.

My perception of bigfootery changed; I now think the (hoaxers + loonies)/(naïve+gullible+ignorant folks) is quite larger than I thought it was before. Yes, my personal evaluation of Meldrum's bigfoot-related work nowadays is quite worse than before. Same is valid for Munns'.

Regardles of your seeminly unshakable faith in bigfoot's existence, I hope at least your peception of bigfootery has changed along these years and now you realize there are one too many hoaxers and loonies within it, including those at the higher positions. Including some you once considered as "the right stuff".

 

[Resume]

Coelcanths have a fossil record but, if sasquatches are descended from Gigantopithecus (or some other known hominoid), they do too. Giganto is thought to be extinct; so were coelacanths.

What sasquatch, where?

Did I get all the dots on the i's and crosses on the t's that time, guys?

More like you dotted the t's and crossed the i's.

 

[Resume]

A fish in the ocean is still different from a 3m-tall ape in a forest (a rather well-studied forets, BTW).

Well-studied, well-travelled, well-altered, well-exploited forest, by both the indigenous population and the later Europeans.

Once again, the myth of the pristine wilderness:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~alcoze/for398/class/pristinemyth.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0901/p09s02-coop.html
From the Monitor article.

"When Lewis and Clark headed west from [St. Louis]," wrote ethologist Dale Lott, "they were exploring not a wilderness but a vast pasture managed by and for Native Americans."

In sum, most researchers believe that at the time of Columbus the Western Hemisphere had been thoroughly painted with the human brush.

Yet not one footie produced to date.

 

[LAL]

I was told I was mentioned here and nice things were said. I had to see this for myself. I think I've seen enough now.

Hoaxers, loonies (Dyer? Bourtsev? Ketchum?) have nothing to do with the events in the PNW that convinced me. I'm not very interested in the never ending debate any more although the biologist's account did temporarily revive my interest in the subject.

I get quite enough demeaning comments on Amazon so I'll be heading back over there for yet another argument over canal travel in Italy in the 1500s.

Ciao.

 

[Resume]

I was told I was mentioned here and nice things were said. I had to see this for myself. I think I've seen enough now . . .

I get quite enough demeaning comments on Amazon so I'll be heading back over there for yet another argument over canal travel in Italy in the 1500s.

You mean like this one?

This forum is still everything that you ever thought it was.

Yep. That's not exactly a compliment.

 

[Cervelo]

I'm tellin ya that I'm fascinated with the hillbilly woo.

That's good....I'm very happy for you Billy!

 

[Resume]

I hope so. There's at least one guy at the BFF who could really benefit from reading some of the posts on page 93.

You can always tell when he lurks here because he gets all humid, then goes off on a "bigfoot skeptic" tirade. Like this gem:

They are responsible for derailing the march of science. All because they want to win an argument they don't know they already have lost.

Yes, yes, we are responsible for the derailing of science! Well, it's march anyway.

Oh Sensei, tell me more about this science.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

When did they not exist? Did I miss that timeframe?

Trick question. Would that be:

1. "When did they not exist according to the all knowing popular opinion of modern Science"?

Or,
2. "When did they not exist according to reality?"

Or,
3. Are you intending to argue against the morphological stability of coelacanths over the past 60 million years or so? Thereby negating the 1938 rediscovery? Chris B.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

I'm tellin ya that I'm fascinated with the hillbilly woo.

Me too. A guy in Munfordville KY claimed to have seen a Wolf and everyone said "There is no wolf population in KY" So he shot one and said "Now what?".

Recently, a lady in Paris KY said she saw a Mountain Lion, but again, everyone said "There are no Mountain Lions in KY" So , she called a Wildlife Official and he shot it, then turned it over for autopsy.

Hillbillies seem to be finding things that shouldn't be there. These "stories" even as odd or outlandish as they may be, seem to be based on fact.

Does it really matter if a breeding population is acknowledged by science or not if a Mountain lion attacks while you're grilling in the back yard?
Chris B.

 

[tsig]

Me too. A guy in Munfordville KY claimed to have seen a Wolf and everyone said "There is no wolf population in KY" So he shot one and said "Now what?".

Recently, a lady in Paris KY said she saw a Mountain Lion, but again, everyone said "There are no Mountain Lions in KY" So , she called a Wildlife Official and he shot it, then turned it over for autopsy.

Hillbillies seem to be finding things that shouldn't be there. These "stories" even as odd or outlandish as they may be, seem to be based on fact.

Does it really matter if a breeding population is acknowledged by science or not if a Mountain lion attacks while you're grilling in the back yard?
Chris B.

Lot's a bigfoot attacks while grilling in KY?

 

[Resume]

Hillbillies seem to be finding things that shouldn't be there. These "stories" even as odd or outlandish as they may be, seem to be based on fact.

They also see things that aren't there at all. Based on nonsense, hoohaw and legend. Of course that applies to all humankind.

 

[Resume]

Lot's a bigfoot attacks while grilling in KY?

A omniscient, hyper-intelligent, 9-ft forest-ninja-monkey gets the hungries.