Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 6.17

- Bigfoot investigators hope DNA test will confirm existence of two man-beasts – “California Bigfoot investigators were shocked over Memorial Day weekend when they found strange markings and hair on their pickup truck windows.” From Mark.
- Black supremacist Nation of Islam pushes white-dominated Scientology – From the Southern Poverty Law Center, “Although both the Nation of Islam and Scientology embrace extraterrestrial theories as well as self-improvement programs aimed at lifting members to higher and higher levels, they nevertheless make for extremely surprising partners.”
- French government warns of mass suicides over apocalypse fears – “The tiny southern French hamlet of Bugarach has drawn scrutiny from a government sect watchdog over droves of visitors who believe it is the only place in the world that will survive a 2012 Apocalypse.” From Appleman.
- iPod magic – A magic trick with a skeptical message. From Alexrkr7.
- Cute Animal Friday! Baaaaby snow leopards! Sleepy duckling is sleepy and fat cat doesn’t care. Rare baby gibbon and his teddy bear surrogate mom.
“I’ve shown people — non-believers — this photograph and this totally freaked them out.”
He also added, “Scientists are baffled, there has never been this kind of evidence, this will finally vindicate or suspicions.”
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Why is it that every time I read one of these “sighting” stories the scene in <i.Bull Durham where Costner coaches Robbins comes to mind?
Same sound bites over, and over, and over again.
Best quote from bigfoot article:
“Of course, if you take a DNA sample and it comes back near-human or primate, then it would match both Bigfoot and a homeless person,” Coleman told AOL Weird News.
Because homeless people are also mythological near-humans?
Oh wow…that is just special.
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COTW, from a man of few words ;-)
So is Gonzalez the victim or the perpetrator of the hoax?
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I know if I was a Bigfoot (or a homeless man), I would definitely seek out a Bigfoot hunter’s truck to leave my footprints and snot on. Maybe he had an I <3 Bigfoot bumper sticker so Squatchie would know which truck to mark up.