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Quite.
What PBeaton posted was apt. Maybe he is a 'footer that is mocking, but that isn't an argument. "Social Interaction Impairment". lol. There's plenty of adventures to be had, with loads of real-life monsters. I'm getting too old for it. Leaving the Great White sharks, Antarctica, outer space, and etc. to the next generation. I'm a porn star now and have a lot of professional duties to execute. |
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I haven't found Van Curler's Bar yet, but you are smack dab in the middle of nowhere. I know Fairbanks isn't outrageously far away, but it's in the middle of nowhere too.
As for Lonesome Dove, one of the best westerns ever and IMO the roles of a lifetime for both Duvall and Jones. Amazing how a 6+ hour movie/show makes you wanna keep on watching. The dialogue can be quite Sorkin/Tarantino-ish, yet McMurtry was around long before they were. Are you lying? ETA: Brevity snips only. I always enjoy reading your stuff ABP. |
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Latitude 65.032
Longitude -145.43 That's the airstrip at Van Curler's according to USGS. Appreciate the moral support. When things are going right out there you think you have the world by the tail and it's so beautiful. Moments later it's disaster and you hate mother nature. One little slip-up hydroplaning across open water alone. I couldn't get my ski tips up over the ice on the other side and the current was taking my machine into a hole after I rammed into the ice. Times like that you suddenly have the strength of two men and can leap out into icy water. The old man did the same thing when we went back together. I made it, but the water spray killed my engine as I made the other side. He didn't make it, made a different approach after watching me. But the two of us together got his machine up and out of the creek. There was a guy they called the "Blue Parka Bandit" that hid out in this area. There's a poem about him by a friend of mine. He escaped three times from law enforcement after being caught for robbing gold miners of their poke on the Circle-Fairbanks trail. Maybe I slept in his hideout one night. The newspapers used some kind of metal sheeting to produce their papers. It's like the negative plate they ink or something. But it makes good siding for mining shacks so you can read stories from near a century ago. See the ads. Women's fashions, lol. |
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Someone mentioned some upcoming conferences.
These are always entertaining to read about. Especially when the local paper gets involved. SALT FORK CONVENTION http://www.auroraadvocate.com/latest...oot-convention San Fran Convention http://www.sfexaminer.com/believers-...ot-conference/ I know there is one coming up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, but can't find any non-Twitter info about it. |
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From San Francisco article...
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What is it going to take to get professional skeptics and reporters to talk about fabricated sightings and hoaxed footprints instead of honest mistakes made by folks who venture into the outdoors? |
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It's worse than that. In the S.F. article, it begins with someone allegedly fascinated by hoaxes who becomes a believer: casting the impression of skepticism being the default, giving rise to belief after investigation.
I didn't believe that. So I looked more into the promoter. He grew up in the Northern California Bigfoot hoax milieu and is making a living now at monster promotions of various kinds himself. In terms of press - which is going to sell deodorant and laundry detergent? "Bridge Trolls do not Exist". "Fairies are Fairy Tales" or Maybe there's a giant primate hiding in the woods? People with a conscience have a more difficult time calling out liars and frauds. They, on the other hand, have no conscience about calling scientists and skeptics all manner of nasty epithets. |
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It's gratifying when one of our own strikes out and makes waves beyond our little coffee klatch:
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com...uman-cryptids/
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OH my gosh, they really handed it to Ontario.
Well-deserved of course. |
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Someone stirred up a genius recently.
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...nking/&page=37
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It would be nice if such a person would sign up here, but that would take a bit more intellectual courage than is in evidence with these folks. Nahh, he can't possibly believe this crap. |
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Oh yeah...he believes every word of it. DWA is a great example of a footer who is firmly in the "it has to be real...look at all the reports!"
There's no way he'd have the balls to come here, meh it would just be like a discussion with OS, except there would lots of capitalized colored words for emphasis....its hilariously pitifully stuff! |
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Almost my favorite kind.
There's a popular subReddit called r/oddlysatisfying. He's probably a mod there. |
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Here's one for the follies:
COLORADO: HUNTER CLAIMS HE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY A SASQUATCH From the article: "Darrel Whitaker is convinced that the creature who attacked him was a sasquatch, but the GSPD investigators say it’s more probable that the attacker is simply a particularly large and hairy man." Funny stuff. EDIT: I didn't notice, at first, this was from the World News Daily. Isn't that about as reputable as The Enquirer? I'm not really up on rag news sites. |
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He certainly has his footie jammies in a bunch. He needs a new tune though; his report-reading mantra seems to be getting old, even with the footers, and that whole bigfoot is virtually proven thing just makes him look even dumber every time he types it. And he types it a lot.
On the plus side, that sasfooty character (and I mean character) has come out of hiding to talk about her backyard footies, in case anyone wants to see what out-and-out bigfoot ********ting looks like. |
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The bumping of many seven year old threads is interesting because it allows you to see that nearly everyone has abandoned the BFF. Most have probably abandoned the topic itself. It's a fun myth to play with but then it gets boring.
The arrogance and condescension of that guy is staggering. There's really no way that he could act that way talking about Bigfoot in everyday life so I suspect that he is mostly silent about it away from the web. |
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Sasfooty....she was a trip!
Cigarette smoking, cougar pelt wearing, levitating Bigfoots, all viewed from her deck for years. The most caustic, fourm rule manipulator I've every meet...well maybe there's one challenger LOL! I've always imagined her as a tremendously lonely outcast, who's only outlet is attention whoring on the web. It's a great read http://bigfootforums.com/topic/965-b...<br /> page=26 She would get hammered for her baseless claims, I think she submitted some ridicules photo of a hovering Bigfoot at a second story window (her avatar) and an apple that was half eaten by a Bigfoot in a horse pasture.....which of course looked just like this apple She always stood by her baseless claims with the typical knower/hab arrogance mixed with a little martyrdom that her fellow footers feed into and supported, a few are members of this fourm. |
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Those bigfoot must be getting mighty tired hiding from all those campers this Memorial Day weekend.
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That was pretty funny, makes me miss the BFF a bit. I didn't know she was claiming her avatar was a picture of a Bigfoot baby she took, I suppose the Rastafarian monkey avatar she had before was of a Bigfoot that comes to her house to buy weed. I liked the part where she said she had a friend enhance the picture and it revealed the baby's face. Sounds like someone watches too much crime drama shows on TV. I also found it odd that I saw the exact same monkey baby on Nat Geo Wild last night. Normally her troll game is tight, it seems she is getting a little sloppy.
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I totally forgot that OS existed, lol.
So much to laugh at in that post, but what got me was this: The most common one by far is what people often call "sasquatch". Variations such as the "dogman", "mothman" and others have also been released in certain locations over the years Mothman is a type of Bigfoot? You learn something silly every day, and forget something more important because of it, ask Homer Simpson. |
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Nothing can compare to a guy who used to post on Youtube, and very likely on the BFF under a different name, but his YT name was "Dragonsidheblade."
I remember him being on Blog Radio talking about how he was hit by lightening 3 separate times, frequently spoke, "telepathically", to a female Bigfoot on his land who would leave gifts for him on Mother's day, such as a turtle shell. A 10-foot tall "Bigfoot Chief" who smoked Marlboro reds... and so much more amazingly funny stuff that you'd struggle to contain your bladder-water while reading/listening. Him and his mate, who I only remember as being called "Billy," who apparently had "bad knees," thus earning him the nickname "Billy with the Bad Knees," used to go out into the wilds of Texas and plant stuffed animals in the bushes, taking pictures of them from a distance and claiming they were baby Bigfoots. Good times. Bigfootery these days is sorely lacking in that kind of entertainment. |
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I think it goes beyond footers....some sort of Internet narcissism or simple attention whoring, this behaviour is seen everyday on this fourm covering numerous absurd claims. This is one of the best responses to the "gamers" I've seen recently.
"It's as if you are a singularly fantastic presence on the planet. I'm skeptical of virtually everything that you say. You talk about yourself all the time here, so the arguments are drawn onto you rather than the object of your claims. It tests the forum guideline of "attack the argument, not the arguer" because you force the argument to be about you based on personal anecdotal experience." The claim can be as fantastical as alien engineered Bigfoots to I went to the Qutachia mountains but the claim appears to have little to do with the motivation it's just a tactic in some sort of bizarre gotcha game. |
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Still at it.
http://bigfootforums.com/topic/5116-...foots/?page=91
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I think that any effort by a subculture to promote a myth as reality is going to include characters with strident arrogance who act like confident know-it-alls. We've seen numerous people like that throughout the history of Bigfootery.
I don't really know how a myth like this stays alive in perpetuity without the crazy blowhards being attracted to the subject like moths to a light. |
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Here's a funny one:
http://bigfootforums.com/topic/52153...nerty/?page=10
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https://www.google.com/search?q=home...=1496356928116 There is another credule posting on the Urban Bigfoot thread who posits footie made a similar glyph in the mud in a Cook County Forest Preserve. Are these folks just ignorant, or are they trying to fool the ignorant? Or both? |
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