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23rd January 2017, 02:04 PM | #121 |
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Bigfoot believers and Bigfoot skeptics are both plumb crazy. Each spends more than one minute per year thinking about Bigfoot. |
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23rd January 2017, 02:27 PM | #122 |
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I wonder how a checkmate was achieved with animals that aren't walking the earth such as the Mastodon and the Sabre-tooth cats and the Tyrannosaurs, and all the other fantastic creatures which are said to be extinct. Bigfooters would generally agree that they don't exist in living form even though they've never really looked for them. Nobody is crowd-funding a search for living Archaeopteryx.
When do we see grants given to check the oceans for living Ammonites? The Bigfooters say that you can't find something unless you are specifically looking for it. |
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23rd January 2017, 05:06 PM | #125 |
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Hilarious. That's why I come here.
Kind of reminds me of people who tatoo their 2-month long girlfriend's name on their forehead. The crack-head who tatoos their daughter's name on their boob. To show how committed they are. I have a plaster cast of my "drag". I leave a drag mark behind me when I unfurl Mr. Happy. Otherwise, it's my belt. Drewbot nobody to my knowledge has ever asked a sample of anyone who would matter - park service personnel, wildlife refuge managers, State Fish and Game people in charge of counting animals, etc. if bigfoot exists. "Scientists" aren't really the pool to sample from, but I think you are speaking loosely. |
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It isn't.
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24th January 2017, 09:52 AM | #129 |
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24th January 2017, 12:43 PM | #131 |
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That's an odd assertion, especially given the bizarre and untrue comments that follow.
I spent six thousand dollars on tires for my Supercub. This is not the little boy's kite club here.
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A passenger-sized blimp is an airship, as per FAA regulations. It has about the same license requirement as fixed wing pilots. You are just way out in left field here trying to make this sound crazy.
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You can't even train for what I was doing with an on-board pilot really. The airport jocks certified for pedestrian flying don't know their ass from a hole in the ground off-airport. I did multi-engine to keep my options open for smuggling across the southern border. Been across the northern border many a time, no customs. You just find someone to train you for that. Get licensed for it, lol. You do it yourself. I read a lot on the old school bush pilots. Then talked to some well-known ones, one dead now, a crash, and another with lots of steel in is body from near fatal crack-ups. And I've had mine. You can make what we do out to be insane. Or you can look at it like any other extreme activity where there's no licenses. Skiing and biking down cliffs or at a hundred miles an hour. Off road bike and 4wd extreme climbs. I have a pretty damned good idea what it takes to fly things, engine or no, and there's a good reason you don't need licenses to fly hang gliders, ultralights, and one-person blimps. Anyone can do it. But don't jump into my supercub and think you can skip off the water coming into a too-short gravel bar, standing on the brakes just enough not to nose over. Or take off on the water the other side of it. Land in a boulder field, trees lying down. brush whacking your struts, ripping your tail wheel off. Take on rotors. Even with a license you are not going to survive that. But you can fly their one person blimp the day you show up, I assure you. That is a remarkably reasonable rate of engaging an airship with great capabilities in terms of big game animal observation/enumeration. It is not crazy to have a person piloting a one-passenger model without a license. It's what the law provides. |
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26th January 2017, 01:14 PM | #134 |
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Hairless Bigfoot looks like a lizard.
Originally Posted by Ken Gerhard
http://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoologi...ss-sasquatches |
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26th January 2017, 01:58 PM | #136 |
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Speaking of the third monkey, what is with bigfooters and black leather? The goth Kenny Chesney hat they wear is the worst. Right up there with fingerless black Dog the Bounty Hunter gloves.
Ghosthunters seem to want to look like characters from the Matrix also. I dont get it. |
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La hoo za her. I'll admit my own fascination with these "losers" is not necessarily with the fact that somebody could deliberately deny their own reality in order to play a "funner" game of imagination, but that they (have the balls to) think they should be able to rewrite our cosmic reality with the results of that game.
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I always notice this, and I love it. Fingerless gloves are a must-have for any serious Bigfooter, just as a leather jacket is a must-have for any serious ghost-hunter.
Hats are optional, but obviously they're legit when it comes to being a serious card-carrying non-finder of monsters. |
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3rd February 2017, 06:07 AM | #142 |
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Remember the Ol' Bigfooter go-to story of the Bigfoots Banana-Peeling Elk Carcasses, at which time I posted the scientific study referencing bear predation, and the process of bears pushing on the carcass with their front feet, and ripping the skin off of the carcass with their jaws, during consumption?
Remember that? Well, I don't know how i'm going to explain this one as NOT BIGFOOT. Corkscrewed seal carcasses. No way a regular animal could possibly do this to a seal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EgJWFlm9ss |
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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6th February 2017, 07:09 AM | #143 |
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Can we just come out and say this?
"Bigfoot has jumped the shark." It has become a total mockery of itself with the NAWAC stories, The Good & Plenty Incident, The Bigfoot Larder Mounds of the PNW, BartoloJays' Thermal Image. |
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I think a drawing of a G'n'P-munching Bigfoot jumping a Greenland shark would be fitting.
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6th February 2017, 02:32 PM | #145 |
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Six strobe flashes in the first thirty seconds. In psychological warfare they use strobe flashes to stun, disorient, and disable the victim.
They call it a flash transition in film editing and it is never discussed for what its intended effect is: to zombify the viewer. We just loathe this so much that it's unwatchable for us. Between all those strobe flashes are fleeting glimpses of shaky-cam "action", quick-cuts, panning, zooming, and dramatic music. And what's behind it? One animal bites another. News at 11. |
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Bigfoot is everywhere, yet nowhere. LTC8K6 (Bigfoot) evidence doesn't look better on deeper analysis, it looks worse. David Daegling The Bigfoot hypothesis is tested daily. |
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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Looks like a health scare may have jerked this footer back to reality or he finally figured out he's been recording coyotes for the last two years......duh!
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...est-for-a-bit/ |
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Sorry for the derail, lads!
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You better be sorry mister! Now we can only hope they take that SPLIT THREAD and MERGE that SPLIT THREAD with a non-tainted one real soon and then we can wondrously read MERGED SPLIT THREAD every time we look at the thread title. I just love seeing that word MERGED alone or MERGED with SPLIT and THREAD, especially in a thread MERGED with 3 whole posts complaining about, say,
Now WE'RE sorry for the derail, lads. |
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lol, whenever I think of the word "merge," I just think of this:
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State-funded Bigfoot hunts to be outlawed
Dr Dyer has spent years attempting to track down the creature and earlier last year had organized a widely-publicized conference at the campus which was attended by high-profile speakers such as Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Rob Kryder. While the event was very successful, it ended up costing the taxpayer rather a lot of money - as did an expedition for the elusive creature that was undertaken by Dr Dyer a few days later. "When you're expending the resources of taxpaying citizens on what is completely pseudo-science, that's a betrayal of the public trust," said New Mexico Tech instructor Dave Thomas. - See more at: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com....6ePmxMNu.dpuf |
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That's actually a pretty big deal. And a textbook rebuff. The state legislature wants to pass a law banning Bigfoot "research" and its inevitable "expeditions" at the state's institutions of higher education (expense) because the head of the University of New Mexico's Gallup campus had a problem giving up all those Bigfoot chicks.
And while taking good advice isn't a known Don "The Snake" Meldrum skill, I'd suggest he keep a low profile for awhile. Wait, he's already doing that it appears. Maybe he finally did find a clue. UPDATE: Meldrum's almost last FB post on Feb. 3 - "This clip is 1.5 years old, but provides a succinct summary of the basis for the search for relict hominoids." Smooth move Ex-Lax. |
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I think the most important quote from the article is this:
"It's sad that we have to do this, that they don't have the ethics, that UNM doesn't have the ethics to stop this," said Munoz. "And now we have to draft bills to stop something that is not morally right." I wonder if Idaho State University will have the ethics to put a stop to the antics of the totally unethical Meldrum? |
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Clearly they are kow-towing to the Black Ops arm of the US Government.
The free thinking university professors are trying to blow the lid off the conspiracy, and the evil government bodies are trying to make it go away. |
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