Sasquatch

[xjay]

New show on Discovery Channel this month: Best Evidence.  The first of 13 shows will deal with Sasquatch.  Best Evidence first airs Jan 25th.  Check local listings for times.

[jdb]

Check local listings for times....

Suspension of dis-belief not included
May contain some reinactments
Partial mental disassembly required
Ask you doctor if BF's are right for you

In the event of priapism report immediately to the nearest BF Stats and research centre.

Have a nice day, jdb

[xjay]

Hi JDB!  I need to ask you a question about some of the Sasquatch evidence that is at hand.

There are hair samples that are classified as "unknown primate".  These hairs have been studied by Bigfoot skeptic and non-skeptic alike, persons of science and experts in their field of study.  It has been scientificly determined that these hairs are indeed hairs (not something resembling hair) and that these hairs are primate hairs.  When matched against every known primate, there proves to be no match, thus having the "unknown primate" status.  My question for you is this, what creature do you think these hairs are from?  This is very powerful evidence that something unknown is alive in North America, a yet to be discovered primate.  It's not unlike a research ship having a 20 ft. long squid tentacle on on a very large fishing hook and realizing that the Giant Squid does exist.  For what ever reason, this very good piece of scientific Sasquatch hair evidence is ignored or not accepted.

[jdb]

Hell man, I wouldn't have a clue as to why the hairs are ignored, nor by whom - why ask me?

Taking a guess...maybe a Gov. cover-up or that BF's - in league with Aliens from some distant planet, of course - are keeping the news surpressed for personal reason's?

Thing is, if the creatures are indeed out there, then why would anyone want to expose/ prove their exsistance? They would just be hunted down and kilt, paraded around in side shows, or be forced into some minimun wage job to make ends meet.

I say and let them be, if they be: and everyone should just mind their own beeswax, jdb

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by jdb
[Ask you doctor if BF's (bigfoots) are right for you.

Would that be a podiatrist?

[Rowdy]

You sure these "hairs" aren't some sort of Ronco invention found in the trash?

[xjay]

Ronco is the first thing they ruled out, lol.  

JDB, you may be absolutly correct about letting them be.  I don't think they want to be "discovered".  It must be the challenge that drives some researchers forward.  Others might be seeking a place in the history books.  I think it is important for the truth of these creature's existence to be common knowledge.  The truth is that they do exist.  Why not be ready to accept it once the evidence is presented to prove it.

Why ask you?  Because you want to act like you know something.

[jdb]

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/biology/hair.htm

"New hairs must be compared to that of a known sample. No known sample, thus new hairs mean little to nothing - at present." - jdb


http://www.bfro.net/REF/THEORIES/MJM/whatrtha.asp

"The most commonly heard argument against the Bigfoot-Giganto hypothesis is that 'we should have found their bones in North America by now...' but we haven't so explain that, Buster!" - jdb


Here's my personal theory, set forth over several cups of coffee this morning:


The BF Ganga Hypothesis

By now, some teenage BF would have stumbled onto the Green Bush of Giggles and turned his buds on to the stuff.

That under the influence of Ganga, hormones, and peer pressure - while suffering from the muchies and cotton mouth -  someone's fridge would have been raided, someone's car boosted, someone's daughter knocked up....

Thus, that there has never existed anywhere, at any time, a teenger, of any species, that has not been caught, and even more so while in the act, of doing something wrong, proves there are no teenage BF's, thus no BF's of any age, thus BF's are nothing more than fodder for folk stories and never, for any reason, should they be forced to work at Wendy's and made to wear paper hats.

Author: jdb
Published: TN 1.10.07


Notes
See G.A. Mantell, The Fossils of the South Downs; Or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex (London, 1822).
Waiter Hantzschel et at., "Coprolites: An Annotated Bibliography", Geological Society of America Memoir no. 108 (Boulder, Col.: G.J.A, 1968) pp. 1-132.
See J.W. Harshberger, "The Purpose of Ethnobotany," American Antiquarian 17, 2 (1896): 73-81.
See Volney H. Jones, "The Vegetal Remains of Newt Kash Hollow Shelter," University of Kentucky Reports in Archeology and Anthropology 3, no. 4 (1936): 147-65.
W.S. Webb and R.S. Baby, The Adena People. No. 2 (Columbus: Ohio State Press, 1957).
Richard S. MacNeish, "Preliminary Archeological Investigations in the Sierra de Tamaulipas, Mexico," American Philosoghical Society Transactions 44, no. 5 (1958).
See Eric O. Callen and T.W.M. Cameron, "A Prehistoric Diet Revealed in Coprolites" New Scientist 8, no. 190(1960): 35-40.
See Paul S. Martin and F.W. Sharrock, "Pollen Analysis of Prehistoric Human A New Approach to Ethnobotany," American Antiquity 30, no. 2 (1964): 168-80.
Callen's reputation stems from a series of articles: "Diet as Revealed by Coprolites," Science and Archeology (London: [?], 1963), pp. 186-94, "Food Habits of Some Pre-Columbian Indians," Economic Botany 19, no. 4 (1965): 335-43, "Analysis of Tehuacan Coprolites," in The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Yalley: Yol. 1. Environment and Subsistence (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967), pp. 261-89, and "Les Coprolithes de la Cabane Acheuleene du Lazaret: Analyse and Diagnostic," Memoires la Societe Prehistorique Francaise 7 (1969): 123-24.
Results of this research are published in Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., "Prehistoric Diet Southwest Texas: The Coprolite Evidence," American Antiquity 39, no. 3 (1974): 2J 74, "Pollen Analysis of Prehistoric Feces from Mammoth Cave, Kentucky," in Archeology of the Mammoth Cave Area (New York: Academic Press, 1974), pp. 203-9, "Pollen as an Indicator of Prehistoric Diets in Coahuila, Mexico," Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 45 (1975): 87-106; Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., and Glenna Williams-Dean "The Coprolites of Man," Scientific American 232, no. 1 (1975): 100-109; and Burleigh Trevor-Deutsch and V.M. Bryant, Jr., "Analysis of Suspected Human Coprolites Terra Amata, Nice, France," Journal of Archeological Science 5 (1 978): 387-90.
See "Tehuacan Coprolites."
Ibid.
Such as John Green, The Sasquatch File (Agassiz, B.C.: Cheam Publishing, 1973) and John Napier, Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1973).
John Green, Year of the Sasquatch (Agassiz, B.C.: Cheam Publishing, 1970).
On the Track of the Sasquatch (Agassiz, B.C.: Cheam Publishing, 1969).
Green, ibid., and Sasquatch: The Apes among Us (Saanichton, B.C.: Hancock House, 1978); Napier, Bigfoot.
See Martin F. Brown, "The Microscopy of Mammalian Hair for Anthropologists," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 85, no. 3 (1942) : 250-74.
See Charles L. Douglas, "Biological Techniques in Archeology," American Antiquity 31, no. 2. part 2(1965): 193-201.
From: Manlike Monsters On Trial: Early Records and Modern Evidence, Marjorie Halpin & Michael M. Ames, eds. (British Columbia: UVBC Press, 1980)

[RecycleMichael]

Impressive footnotes on Big Foot.

[jdb]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

Impressive footnotes on Big Foot.

Thank you.
It's because I want to act like I know something, jdb

[xjay]

Did you PM or call your friend to set your joke up for you? LOL! And who got forced to work at Wendy's, bummer!

You almost understood part of the info.  The whole reason the hairs are considered "Unknown Primate" is because they are Primate hairs and there will have to be a Sasquatch (dead or alive) to collect hairs from before the sample hairs can be matched.  That much is understood.  That doesn't mean you get to say "ha-ha" and run out of the room.  It means that further research to obtain the needed body will continue.

As Dr. Meldrum has stated, a Sasquatch is a rare creature.  If they are similar to the known great apes, only four births during one of the females life span may take place.  Life spans for great apes in the wild are around 35-40 years.  The death of one of these creatures is also going to be a rare thing, and remains quickly disappear.  This is a very good question and one we all hope to learn the answer to in time, but not having a body of a dead Sasquatch does not mean these creatures do not exist.  Just give us a little more time man...just a little more time!  We'll get one for you.  It's a shame it has to come to this though.[xx(]

[jdb]

Nope, the line just dropped in my lap.

I was asked why the hairs were being ignored.

Answer is the hairs mean nothing until there is a known sample to compare with.

The same as having a fork but no piece of pie.

NOW, I am running out of the room....

"Leave the creatures alone!" - jdb

[xjay]

JDB, you've got me by the short hairs...and you're really starting to be a bit of a buzzkill!  I think Bigfoot likes me, but one of these days if you notice I havn't posted in quite sometime that could mean I was wrong about that.[?]

[jdb]

Boy, not a peep from xjay concering, "The BF Ganga Hypothesis" by yours truely...but the rest of the scientific community sure take's notice:

"Ambassadors, government officials, public health officials and business leaders gathered yesterday to honor jdb, the 2007 bright, hopeful for the George Brown Award, CRDF's highest honor, for his ground breaking work in the field of Big Foot research." More >

Suppose that's the way it goes though; no one is ever recognized for their merits on the local level.

Now I must go rent a tux, jdb

[xjay]

I must have missed it. [8][][8]