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Old 8th May 2013, 06:33 PM   #1681
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Originally Posted by jerrywayne View Post
I haven't looked at much of Munns' recent stuff. I did see one segment where he recreates Bob H.'s suit as it was once described by Bob, and it was obviously not realistic enough to pass for a real Bigfoot. This is a straw-man, though. Bob H. did not create the suit, he simply recalled elements of it that Munns has exploited to defend his position. The suit was Patterson's baby. Patterson would have continuously modified it until it took the shape he desired. Munns' recreation of Bob H.'s remembered suit had sags and creases as a finished product; such conditions would have been too obvious and would have been fixed by Patterson.
Add to that the probability that Patterson was a much better artist and craftsman than Munns and Bill just comes across as being inept at suit making.
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Old 8th May 2013, 06:35 PM   #1682
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It's basically countless pages of lies and deception by people whose lives are made up on the internet. Sometimes I go there and just wonder what the hell's going on.


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Old 8th May 2013, 07:05 PM   #1683
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I hear ya OS. I stay far away from habituater threads over there. They will cause me to burn through warning points pretty quickly and I am sitting on 3 as it is.

I saw someone accidentally confuse you with Toejam ( Sasquatch Ontario) today too and cringed. That was right after I was called the "resident poo-pooer of all things BF". That one made me chuckle. All I was doing was showing them outside commentary that Toejams current audio is obviously a fake. But they get cranky when you turn the lights on and their woo shines less brightly.
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Old 8th May 2013, 07:13 PM   #1684
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There is no possibility of bigfoot being real. There would be real evidence supporting it if that was the case. Real animals leave real evidence. Hoaxes leave hoaxed evidence. Which have you ever seen for bigfoot?

Footers keep claiming to see it, claiming to have it living in their backyards. They trade things with bigfoot. They bump into bigfoot.

Yet there is not one single trace that is verifiable, ever.




Exactly what did Bill Munns prove OS? Explain that one too me.
That you can make munney from pandering to bigfooters.
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Old 11th May 2013, 07:59 AM   #1685
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Local poll shows extraordinarily high percentage of Bigfoot believers.

York Nebraska has a poll showing that only 7.7% of the voters believe that Bigfoot does not exist. I bet that's even fewer doubters than are within the BFF membership. The folks who posted comments seem to all be eating the same cheesecake.
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Old 11th May 2013, 04:13 PM   #1686
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From the comments

"I have some great news! The article, "Novel North American Hominins" is now available from the Sasquatch Genome Project at http://sasquatchgenomeproject.org/

The fact that Bigfoot is real has now been proven incontrovertibly, by the existence of three whole Nuclear Genomes that have been sequenced by the University of Texas at Dallas, DNA Laboratory, that came from 3 alleged Bigfoot DNA samples (Blood, Saliva and Flesh) from the USA, (Washington State and Minnesota) and Canada (British Columbia), that were submitted by three different researchers.

If these three genomes had all been very dissimilar from each other, then there would not be adequate and convincing proof of the existence of the alleged new species.

Only one of the three could be a bigfoot, and the others would have to be some other species.

The fact, however is, that the three sequenced genomes aligned very well with each other, and most importantly, possessed consistent homology, a very important characteristic of these genomes.

Consistent Homology is the key factor in the DNA evidence that is now available to Science..

Homology indicates an origin of a common (single) ancestor. This is truly a very significant finding.

Wikipedia has 2 very important comments regarding the concept of Homology.

“The concept of Homology is fundamental to the field of comparative biology.”
“Homologous [Etymology 1] traits of organisms are therefore due to descent from a common ancestor.”

Now we have the very best type of incontrovertible, scientific evidence, produced by a well respected"



Well, gee, I wonder who may have posted that?
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Old 11th May 2013, 06:46 PM   #1687
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Sounds Mulderish to me.
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Old 11th May 2013, 08:57 PM   #1688
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They obviously do not allow skeptical comments. I made one after registering a username there. It never was approved, despite all of the kooky kool aid ones that were. And wow, 85 percent of people in york nebraska believe in bigfoot? Lol, sure.....

That poll is perfectly accurate, just like the comments.

Bigfootery is becoming more of a sickness, than hobby for some. It is a mental illness to imagine huge monsters and see things that are not there. There is no bigfoot. There are plenty of humans acting like a fool though.

Is York by any chance trying to get bigfoot tourism going? If so, in nebraska? This here sassmanach thing sure does spread like lies on hit. Like Slies on fhit. Like the whole of bigfootery smells.
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Old 11th May 2013, 11:46 PM   #1689
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3 alleged Bigfoot DNA samples
That ends it, right there. No provenance whatsoever.
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2 prints, same midtarsal crock..., I mean break?
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Old 13th May 2013, 08:49 AM   #1690
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Originally Posted by Jodie View Post
Sounds Mulderish to me.
Seems too amateurish for Mulder. Mulder likes to drown the reader with apparent "facts" that at first can seem to make sense, and he generally writes well. Plus there's almost always some dig at us ivory-tower scientists in his writings, St. Meldrum excepted of course.
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Old 13th May 2013, 03:53 PM   #1691
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Now it's almost not as funny as it is amazing that so many formerly normal appearing people, nowadays known as Bleevers, could both consciously refuse to see any of the obvious reality and also be simultaneously hoodwinked 'into the Bigfoot faith' by a couple of ne'er-do-well practitioners of the very same institution they violently hate and ridicule whenever the news is dream killing. Almost sounds religious. Meldrum good because he says "Bigfoot Lives!" The Shrike bad because he says "Are you sure?"

Now what is still funny is people like Muldur and Sweaty are so adept at pretending they know 'the truth', they actually forget they're just pretending. Curiously, exactly like their heroes Don and Melba. Of course Bigfoot lives. When you're pretending.
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Old 13th May 2013, 04:14 PM   #1692
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Looks like they did allow my comment after three days
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Old 13th May 2013, 06:27 PM   #1693
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Years back, Curtis Peeples wrote an excellent book on ufology: WATCH THE SKIES! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. He took the flying saucer phenom and listed its evolution over the decades. For instance, the human looking "contactees" of the late 50's eventually morphed into "alien greys" a few decades later.

I wish some author would do the same for the Bigfoot story. For instance, Wild Man to Giant Indian to Ape or local sparse populations of the PNW to a states wide distribution or nomadic ape to habituated forest people or the advent of a bipedal foot with midtarsal break or the proliferation of blobsquatches or researchers early hope of a quick end to the mystery and the later belief that definitive proof is not necessary. Etc., etc.
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Old 13th May 2013, 07:03 PM   #1694
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Originally Posted by Jodie View Post
Sounds Mulderish to me.
Moldy?
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2 prints, same midtarsal crock..., I mean break?
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Old 15th May 2013, 03:39 PM   #1695
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His rhetoric certainly is.
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Old 18th May 2013, 06:39 PM   #1696
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What the hey!

http://www.human-resonance.org/sasquatch_genome.html
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Old 18th May 2013, 07:11 PM   #1697
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Originally Posted by jerrywayne View Post
That was entertaining and better written than TheMelba's piece of crap paper.
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Old 18th May 2013, 07:12 PM   #1698
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From that site:

The Sasquatch Genome Project confirmed the novelty of hair root samples collected in thickly forested areas of London, Putnam, Overton and Clay counties in eastern Tennessee. The indigenous Cherokee tribe once protected a sacred 4.5-acre subterranean lake now called the Lost Sea, within Craighead Caverns. The lake's pure waters are the result of filtration through piezoelectric calcite of the limestone bedrock, becoming intensely ionized by focused infrasound standing waves that converge on the area. Nearby Knoxville, Tennessee (36.01°N 83.94°W) lies exactly 6,244 miles from Giza, which comprises 25.0% of the Earth's mean circumference distance -exactly one quarter (circled in red, below).





Infrasound resonance in this area is responsible for earthquake-like tremors experienced in West Knoxville on May 14, 2007, which accompanied the formation of an intricate crop circle mandala in nearby Madisonville on the very same night. Another crop formation event took place on May 11, 2011, rendering the octagonal refraction pattern of calcite, the main constituent of the local bedrock. Further along this 25.0% alignment to the northwest, infrasonic levitation of large sandstone boulders has also been documented in multiple locations in Indiana's Limon and Yellowwood State Parks.

Nexrad radar installations throughout the US also display an unmistakable alignment with the resonant field of focused infrasound emanating from the pyramids of Giza, Egypt (above). Driven by the artificial ultra-low frequency emissions, fine canopies of water vapor condense above the hotspots to be seen by Doppler radar. This phenomena was discovered by Nikola Tesla in 1899 during his Colorado Springs research, published with notes and observations on standing wave resonance in 1978, and reflected upon at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Annual Meeting of May 18, 1917:

In Colorado I succeeded one day in precipitating a dense fog. There was a mist outside, but when I turned on the current the [water vapour] cloud in the laboratory became so dense that when the hand was held only a few inches from the face it could not be seen.

Colorado Springs (38.92°N 104.82°W) is located 6,861 miles from the Great Pyramid. This distance comprises 27.56% of the Earth's mean circumference, or 55/200 when expressed as a fraction. Infrasonic induction of intense piezoelectric heating was measured by investigators at 800°F after a small boy suffered burns when his shoes melted on a Rockrimmon neighborhood playground on June 3, 2008. Relative geopositioning of all of these infrasound-related incidents reveals resonant distance intervals.




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Bobbie Short of Bigfoot Encounters has died. I know she posted at JREFF on occasion and she liked skeptics and skeptics liked her. I always admired Bigfoot Encounters for the depth of articles she was able to find and post. So sad.

RIP, Ms. Short.
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Bobbie Short of Bigfoot Encounters has died. I know she posted at JREFF on occasion and she liked skeptics and skeptics liked her. I always admired Bigfoot Encounters for the depth of articles she was able to find and post. So sad.

RIP, Ms. Short.
I'm sorry to hear that. I agree. Curiously, despite her near obscurity to the rest of the general public, she is was one of THE FACES of Popular Bigfooting today IMO. The density and durability of her website being the biggest reason. Wasn't ever flamboyant, phony or a moneygrabber. Always thought she presented things with sincerity and nary a bias either way as to something's veracity beyond the initial posting of it (because it was 'Bigfoot related'). In the big picture she might have really believed in Bigfoot, and I think she did, but there is no evidence I've seen that she attempted to use her website to make everyone else believe it too by running lines, lies and falsehoods. Of course those things being pretty much what EVERYONE in Popular Bigfooting does these days. I'd offer this, if somebody believes in Bigfoot now who didn't previously, I'm positive they didn't arrive at that belief through any perusal of her website. And for that she can be appreciated and remembered honorably.
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