Real or Legend, What's Your Favorite Cryptid?

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FLORALBUNNY

Friday, March 16, 2012 2:18 AM

Yep. Was hearing about it on Beeb overnight. Will be interesting to see if it pans out.

bun

OONJERAH

Friday, March 16, 2012 4:09 AM

Top: Dumbo octopus
Low left: Blob fish
Low right: Axolotl

RIONAEIRE

Friday, March 16, 2012 5:51 AM

The little guy on the bottom left is really cute.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

FLORALBUNNY

Friday, March 16, 2012 5:19 PM

Who's the handsome dude upper right?
And where do you get these images?

bun

WISHIMAY

Friday, March 16, 2012 6:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FloralBunny:
Who's the handsome dude upper right?

Yer kidding, right?? Morgan Freeman (otherwise know as GOD) Robin Hood, Brice Almighty, Dark Knight, Shawshank Redemption, Sum of all fears,Unforgiven, Seven, Deep Impact, March of the Penguins, Mandela..ect.

I think I remember he narrated the bible on tape?? I'd listen to that man read a phone book.

FLORALBUNNY

Friday, March 16, 2012 7:29 PM

Eeek, no. Morgan F. is part of our DNA by now. I meant the upper right of the photos. The bulgy yellow guy.

bun

WISHIMAY

Friday, March 16, 2012 10:45 PM

Sorry, I just heard "handsome dude" not directionals.. I think that is the baby dumbo octopus, growing into the thing on the left....
That's the one I think looks like a pokemon.

FLORALBUNNY

Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:19 AM

Oddly, I was thinking Pokemon as well.
I was also thinking Dale Chihuly, looking at all of these except for Morgan F.

bun

OONJERAH

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:47 AM

An Irishman's Diary [the British Isles learns of Yeti?] =>
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0317/1224313474014.ht
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Lieut-Col Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury's 1921 expedition to Mt Everest:
"On October 12th The Irish Times reported that the expedition had failed
to conquer Everest but “that everybody will be glad that at last partial
success has crowned the heroic efforts”. A path had been found “which has
proved that ascent to the top of Everest’s 29,000ft is feasible for expert
and dauntless climbers under favourable weather conditions”.

"In fact, it took over 30 years – until May 29th 1953 – when New-Zealander
Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay became the first
climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest."

Then - "But an extraordinary sequel to the Howard-Bury expedition was about
to unfold. An Irish Times story on Friday, October 21st, 1921 carried a
headline guaranteed to thrill readers: “Wild Hairy Man – Strange Footprints
on Everest”.

"The report quoted remarks made by Howard-Bury: “We distinguished hare and
fox tracks, but one mark like that of a human foot, was most puzzling. The
coolies assured us that it was the track of a wild, hairy man, and that
these men were occasionally to be found in the wildest and most inaccessible
mountains.” And thus was born a 20th-century yarn eclipsed only by the Loch
Ness Monster.

"On October 31st, The Irish Times carried a further report, from Calcutta,
which stated that: “The coolies from Mount Everest bring confused stories
about strange wild men . . . who are apparently known to the Tibetans as
Meetogh Kangmi or “abominable snowmen” and small colonies of these people
are believed to exist on the slopes of Everest”. The creatures were “never
seen by any of the white members of the Expedition” but “one coolie described
their feet as being turned outwards, and reported that they were supposed to
be clothed only in their own hair. They are reported to live on wild animals,
and to be hostile to civilised people, but it is quite easy to evade them”.

OONJERAH

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:49 AM

Bigfoot? He's not so elusive =>
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/27/entertainment/la-et-bigfoot-20
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"Imagine a hulking, growling, 8-foot-tall woodland creature so elusive
that professional trackers can't find it, scientists can only speculate
about it and believers can't prove -- definitively -- that it exists.
. . .
"There's been a real upswing in scholarly interest along with this huge
undercurrent of popularity among the general public," said Jeffrey Meldrum,
the Idaho State anatomy and anthropology professor and primates expert who
wrote "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science" as a companion to a Discovery
Channel special of the same name. "There's something about the human psyche
that really connects with this icon."

. . . . .The worst and most frequent consequence of paranoia is that it's self-fulfilling.

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