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10th May 2009, 02:47 PM | #1 |
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Why would bigfoot hide from huamns?
Bears don't, deer don't, other species don't so why should they? Primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees don''t. Ant who has been to Florida on a cruise can see the relatives of monkeys used in tarzan movies actually make it a point to come into contact with humans. There was an escaped Orangatang in Florida that seemed relieved when it was recaptured . Sasquatch would be taken care of actually. Food, veternary care and such. If it is a hominid it might even be able to vote. Kidding. I think that the fact that Omra is never seen and the videos of it are obvious fakes that this is proof of its non existence.
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10th May 2009, 02:48 PM | #2 |
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Huamns are SKARIE!
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Ever tried to find a Royal Bengali Tiger in Sunderban? They are harder to find than Bigfoot (according to all the home-video's that is )
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10th May 2009, 02:53 PM | #4 |
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Isn't it supposed to be spelled "Houyhnhnms"?
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10th May 2009, 02:56 PM | #8 |
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10th May 2009, 03:02 PM | #9 |
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Huamn is a homonym of Houyhnhnm.
Sorry Cain- as proud owner of a wifi keyboard that regularly generates styff loke thos, I should be more tolerant, but it has been a quiet night. |
10th May 2009, 03:44 PM | #10 |
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Can we please vote on this?
I am so in favor of Bigfoot. |
10th May 2009, 03:59 PM | #11 |
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Bigfoot knows what we would do to him if we caught him...and his lady.
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10th May 2009, 04:04 PM | #12 |
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I can now, reluctantly, reveal that I am Bigfoot. It shouldn't be too hard to work out why I choose to communicate with you humans only via the JREF forum, and the occasional email.
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10th May 2009, 04:45 PM | #13 |
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Because Bigfeet know they are tasty. They are related to Ateles saporis:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news...ies_discovered |
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10th May 2009, 04:59 PM | #14 |
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It is kind of obvious Cain. Even the Rarest animals on earth, from Snow Leopards to the Sumatran Rhino, have been tagged and videotaped in incredibly remote areas hard to access. Sasquatch, however, lives in one of the most populated countries in the world, yet is NEVER videotaped, or manages a way to leave no dent on the ecosystem, because he's not real.
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10th May 2009, 05:02 PM | #15 |
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Because he's delicious and he knows it.
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10th May 2009, 09:27 PM | #16 |
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Bigfoot is a brilliant elitist, and is offended and sickened by the unintelligent by comparison human race.
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10th May 2009, 11:15 PM | #17 |
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I've posted this before, but it bears repeating.
The reason they remain hidden has to do with the fact that bigfoot beasts lay eggs and carry their young in pouches. Why don't we see more them? Because they spend so much time squatting on their eggs. So, while they are tall, they spend lots of time squatting (hence the name saSQUATch. Why are the footprints so unusual? Fallen arches from squatting. Why are they so big? They have dinosaur DNA. Some posit that dinosaurs were warm blooded. Clearly they laid eggs. We already have marsupials. Bigfoot as an egg-laying giant marsupial is not without precedent. Why don't we ever catch one? Their very survival depends on hiding extremely well during their long periods of squatting. Fits right in with evolution, or don't you believe in that? Why don't we ever see a baby bigfoot? Two words: Pouches. Why the strange way of walking? Again, pouches, sometimes with their young in them. Why do they look like they are wearing suits? Pouches. Why do the mournful howls? Wouldn't you if you had to spend so much time squatting on fallen arches? Why the foul smell? No time for bathing with all the squatting. Reproduction trumps cleanliness every time. Why no hair samples? They collect fallen hair for warming the eggs and creating soft places in the pouches. Moccam's Razor, baby! |
11th May 2009, 07:22 AM | #18 |
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Bigfoot avoids humans? Because to him we smell bad, look worse; carry weapons with a propensity to pretty much antagonize every living thing on the planet. Why to most animals have a fear of humans? The animals listed in the beginning of this thread are in the minority. Bigfoot hides/avoids humans because it knows perhaps what happened to the Dodo, Passenger pigeon and American Buffalo. I've been in the woods apparently alone only to hide or make myself unavailable to humans I encountered. This thread is mentally challenged.
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11th May 2009, 07:35 AM | #19 |
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The animals you've listed do try to avoid humans, unless they are nearly domesticated. The monkeys on the silver river in Fl., escaped from domesticity. (Actually, they were simply left behind) Now they approach humans for food.
Big foot doesn't need people for anything, so it tends to hide harder. |
11th May 2009, 07:56 AM | #20 |
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Eric's been gone for a while so I shall channel him.
Being interdimensional beings they are only here for short periods as a vacation from their own dimension. Who wants to be bothered on vacation? Also, with their powers to quantumly locate humans and especially humans with cameras, cell phones with cameras, or sketch artists it's so easy to avoid humans as it doesn't even take an effort, so it's no big deal. Except blond women, they will hide and watch anyone woman with long blond hair but we're not sure why. |
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11th May 2009, 07:57 AM | #21 |
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What about the invisible bigfoots? How do you know they avoid humans?
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11th May 2009, 10:42 AM | #22 |
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Perhaps bigfoot is also familiar with the thousands of other animals that are doing just fine despite their daily interactions with human? Perhaps bigfoot is familiar with operations to bring back the Mexican grey wolf or Jaguars to the american southwest? Perhaps the bigfoot sit around at night and discuss the millions of acres mankind has set aside around the world in order to protect and preserve species of all types? Perhaps there is a power struggle within bigfoot society with some preaching isolationism and other wanting to have their own mankind protected animal preserve in the PNW? Perhaps bigfoot isn't real? I agree this thread is mentally challenged. |
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Bigfoot hides from humans because he can! Look, if you had the chance to make a bunch of hikers, rednecks, campers, scouts or tripped-out totem-guide searchers seem like fools by walking right next to you and not knowing it, wouldn't you do it? Those "guttural screams" are actually sassquatch laughter!
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12th May 2009, 10:48 AM | #25 |
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Back in the Stone Age their species challenged ours to a game of hide-and-seek.
If we ever find Bigfoot, it'll be our turn to hide. |
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What kind of animal would spend its whole life trying to avoid humans? REAL animals do avoid humans, but spend their time reproducing, eating, playing, and protecting, yet they are still found. Sasquatch displays none of those.
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Bigfoot isn't hiding from humans. He is just keeping a low profile from Revenue Canada...
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Perhaps because Bigfoot doesn't exist?
Or if Bigfoot exists he's more like a supernatural bieng than a natural flesh and blood one. |
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Every time anyone is about to get a good video of one, in swoop the UFO aliens with their anal probes and abduction equipment.
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15th May 2009, 04:13 PM | #33 |
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This type of thread would be another Pinned thread on the BFF
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I saw bigfoot once. It looked exactly like a black bear, but that only shows its craftiness.
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Ya sometime ago a couple of guys named Roger and Bob caught one on film
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26th June 2009, 12:57 AM | #39 |
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Any Number of Reasons
1) To them, we stink.
2) To them, we're dirty 3) If you prefer (bigfoot) science, we're contaminous. |
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MOTSarella! You've been so scarce.
Going by reports, Bigfoot doesn't really hide from humans consistently. They keep coming out and screaming at us like dying ladies, chucking things at us, putting the stink on us, talking to us, etc. BTW, I'll stick with good old regular science. How and why would Bigfoot work out in its head that humans harbour a contagious pathogen and avoid us at all costs accordingly? it's not like we have evidence of Bigfoot keeling over dead from small pox and the like. |
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