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Good logic there Janet. I’d agree with that.
… or are as easily fooled by admitted hoaxers in this matter as they are in so many others.
The statement is a true one. It is, truly, a fact that thousands of Americans and Canadians are prone to hallucinations, or compulsive liars, or unable to recognize bears, deer, and vagrants. I didn’t realize that that was in dispute. Why is this worthy of comment?
Actually, it’s bad logic. It’s a false dilemma.
Since this is a comment on a Weird Earl rather than on a Staff Report, I’m moving it to another forum. There doesn’t seem to be a forum for comments on Weird Earls, but given the context of this one, I’m gonna sorta arbitrarily vote it for Great Debates: to what extent are Americans and Canadians gullible?
To a large extent.
Well, it appears that I spawned a forum floater. I didn’t know where to put it and am more than a little surprised that this has ended up in GD. It probably deserves to sink like a rock.
Actually, I was in a bit of an odd mood and the quoted comment tickled me. To use the non-existance of thousands of deluded people as a premise to substantiate the existance of bigfoot amused me. It seems to me that the reverse reasoning works just as well, and the quote seemed to be carefully worded to accommodate either interpretation.
That is all. I’ll leave you Great Debators to your thing and retire somewhat abashed to lurking in MPSIMS.
If Bigfoot exists, where are the dead ones? If nobody’s ever caught a live one, maybe that’s just because they’re too clever to get caught. But there’s never just one of any animal, not unless it’s the last of its kind. If a self-sustaining breeding population of non-human hominids has inhabited North America since prehistoric times, where are its bones in the fossil record? And why has no one ever recovered a Bigfoot carcass, or even a pile of odd not-quite-human bones picked over by scavengers? We don’t even have apes or monkeys in North America, never have had, not even in the Pleistocene. I’ve been to the La Brea Tar Pits museum in L.A.: You’ll see the bones of dire wolves, cave bears, sabre-tooth tigers, giant sloths, all kinds of extinct mammals and birds – but no non-human primates of any kind.
Same reasoning applies to the Loch Ness Monster. Has any paleontologist ever dug up a plesiosaur or other dinosaur fossil dating from a post-Jurassic period?
I think there are monkeys in Central America, but certainly no apes anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, except for homo sapiens.
What’s the proper taxonomic nomenclature for Man of Big Feet, should he exist?
Homo Magnapedus? 
No, Homo corresctus! We SubGenii are of mixed human-yeti descent. (The yeti, you know, from antediluvian Atlantis.) But we prefer to be referred to as “SubGenii.” Slang terms such as “halfsquatch,” “mediumfoot,” or “tolerable snowman” are highly offensive to us, innocuous though they might seem to ignorant Pinks.
Sorry, that’s Homo correctus.
Excellent.
Y’know, all the films I’ve seen of bigfoot look basically like a big Ken doll wearing a bear rug. If this guy’s feet are as big as they say, well…shouldn’t he have some other notable anatomy?
Not to mention the “Notyeti”.
…he said as he looked at his sask-watch.
(I know, I know, kinda weak)
Well, when The Republic of Cascadia is created, the sasquatch will have their own militia.
Mike Phelps’s build – 6 feet 4 inches, 195 pounds, broad shoulders, slim hips – conforms to the classic swimmer’s physique. But he is a type within that type, with a bizarrely long torso and short legs – an inseam of just 32 inches – that help him ride high in the water like a long, thin sailboat. The body below hip level is what tends to sag in the water, creating drag, or resistance, so Phelps, relative to his overall height, has a short lower body to keep afloat. ‘‘He has the upper body of a man who is 6-foot-8 but not the legs to go with it,’’ says Jonty Skinner, USA Swimming’s national team director of technical support. ‘‘It’s an advantage.’’ Another Phelps oddity: unlike most people, for whom height and wingspan are nearly identical, his wingspan is 6-foot-7, 3 inches longer than his height. He is that rare person with short legs but long arms – that is, long levers for pulling water.
He has size 14 feet, and his hyperflexibility allows him to flex them probably 15 degrees beyond average, almost parallel to his shin, so they operate like big flippers. That is an obvious advantage, but there are lots of big feet in swimming, most notably Ian Thorpe’s size 17’s. Phelps’s flexibility, says Scott Heinlein, his physical therapist, is ‘‘an all-over thing – feet, knees, hips, elbows, back. But most elite swimmers either start out flexible or become so through training. The difference with Michael is control of that flexibility in the water.’’
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Well, FWIW, I dont know of any reports from south central california of bigfoots [bigfeet?] and I can pretty much guarentee that there are more species on earth that never have showed up in a fossile record that have shown up in the fossile record [la brea tar pits or in rock]
And as to never finding real live [well, actually dead] corpses of them… I happen to know that I have deer, turkeys, pheasants, a mated pair of golden eagles, owls out the wazoo, foxes, racoons, opossums and feral chickens, but I have almost never seen bodies when out walking around in the woods…as a matter of fact, the only dead deer i have actually seen are road kill. Pretty much everything else gets disassembled into meals by other creatures, or fed bugs and gotten coverec by leaves and other detritus. I expect you would literally have to hit upon the dearly departed yeti within a matter of 24 to 48 hours to actually find much of it at all.