California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid Some muy importante legislation is stuck in the cogs of Californian bureaucracy – an Assembly Bill to recognize Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, as the official state cryptid. In the pseudoscientific field of cryptozoology, a cryptid is an animal that supposedly exists in the wild for which there is little credible evidence, such as …
Didn't someone also use this as essential proof of NON-visitation by ET? Was it xkcd? Some scientist?
The fact that with billions of quite powerful cameras in everybody's pockets we still have no sharp, in-focus, well-lit photos of Greys or Reptiloids probing your nether regions (*), is indeed where absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
(*) oh yes, you just *know* it would show up at least on some fringe porn site! Never mind social media. There'd be a friggin Only-Friends!
More to the point, the now astronomical number of cameras in the hands of the general public SHOULD have resulted in an equally astronomical number of grainy, out of focus, shaky, badly composed, off-center, obscured-with-thumb, portrait-instead-of-landscape photos of UFOs, bigfoots, Yetis, ghosts (or whatever) ... and yet we haven't seen this huge bump in such pictures.
William of Ockham might have been overheard to mutter something about lex parsimoniae ...
> The fact that with billions of quite powerful cameras in everybody's pockets
In my experience, most people who take lots of pictures with cell phones take photos of themselves with the front camera.
So, unless Bigfoot is in the same duckface* group picture it will continue to be elusive...
99% of them are total amateurs, me included. while driving the car, I once saw an airplane that looked to be in distress flying very low, even with my phone out of my pocket on the console, while unlocking it, pulling up the camera app, focusing, I crashed the car and missed taking video of the plane crashing. Ok, that last part didn't happen, but by the time I did get the phone ready to take some vid, the plane was out of view, and I don't know if it crashed either...
I do agree that someone should have mistakenly got one on camera... or hit one with a truck, train, or car...or found a corpse.
that one in the corner,
Nobody needs Lemsip. It's vile stuff. What you need is a couple of teaspoons of honey and the juice of about half a lemon in a mug, then stir in some hot, but not boiling, water. You can take Paracetamol with this if you're running a fever. I'd also recommend a glug of the cooking whisky - if you're feeling flush a glug of peaty single malt goes quite well instead. I'm not a huge fan of the peaty ones, so if I get one they tend to get relegated to cooking whisky anyway.
It works better as medicine, because it tastes so much nicer, and it's comforting to hold the hot mug. Also breathing the lemon through your nose helps unblock it as well. Plus medicinal whisky and Paracetamol as required.
The other problem with Lemsip being you can't have more than one every 4 hours, because it has a dose of Paracetamol in it, whereas taking that separately allows us to control the time and have more than one whisky medicinal lemon drink of an evening.
True story, the Bigfoot museum is in a Boring Oregon, yes that is the town's name. Fun fact, Boring's sister city is Dull, Scotland. We also have Beavertown, Nimrod, Drain, Climax, Halfway, Butteville, Idiotville and Wankers Corner. I think that as the population moved west they ran out of names.
https://northamericanbigfootcenter.com/
"Beavertown, Nimrod, Drain, Climax, Halfway, Butteville, Idiotville and Wankers Corner."
I would imagine half of America are honorary burghers in the last municipality with the residue distributed among the foundations along that pioneer trail.
Hillsgate is noticeably absent from the list.
I'm fairly certain that bigfoot tourism is about as full as it can get.
Just for the record, although I'm not a believer in the critter, the parts of California, Oregon and Washington which are best known for sightings are actually quite beautiful places to spend time. They are well worth your tourist dollars, even without the chance of a bigfoot sighting.
I grew up in the area, and I second Jake: It's lovely country to visit, so much so that locals are somewhat ambivalent about tourism: yes they need your tourist dollars, but they don't want folks to decide to stay and wind up ruining paradise. I vaguely and perhaps wrongly remember the chorus from a local folk song popular during my childhood: "Bring your money, bring your dope / and we all sincerely hope / that you don't forget to leave when you get through."
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"Silly goose. Everybody knows bigfoot's not real." -The Tooth Fairy
"Take note Puerto Rico, you need a Cryptid too and I know a guy" -El Chupacabra
"Next thing you know he'll be climbing down chimneys and leaving Marijuana edibles every April 20th" -Santa Claus
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There is rather more evidence for the actual existence of that creature though. Some people have said that they think it is just a human in an orange ape-like costume.
However, they have been totally unable to provide any verifiable evidence that it is human, and there is a growing body of expert opinion that there is some evidence that it may be an extraterrestrial.
"Or has an extraterrestrial puppet master"
If there were ever reptile like people, they would qualify.
I am not sure these puppet masters fully realize how dangerous a narcissist is. His last VP came within a hair of being lynched. Only the actions of a very brave civil servant saved his life.
I am sure the orange cryptid and his followers will claim the brave officer who foiled his lynch plans was a DEI hire. If so, then please give us more DEI hires. We need them.
In the future, when the moment comes where the puppets turns against the "masters", there will be no DEI hires left to safe them.
I've been saying for years that Elongated Muskrat is an alien trying to get back to his home planet. Think about it. If an alien from a slightly more technologically advanced society crash landed here, then they would first need more money. Maybe his father owned an emerald mine, maybe he did not. Next step, Paypal. Then a pumped up stock (Tesla) and then start building spaceships.
Also, everyone I've seen in the family have the look of a bad skinjob.
Come on, it's clearly an alien mind-control parasite worm! It's even visible in all the photos, orange and wriggling on its host head. Similar specimen has been putatively seen on a certain right‑pondian politician /clown/ as well.
"Ya know, stabilizing that video makes it look even more like a guy in a suit (not that it was ever in doubt)."
Just looking at the gait it's clearly a modern human (male.)
Unless the lasses on the west coast like their trade quite a bit rougher than their sisters elsewhere and we cannot discount "Boffin claims Bigfoot DNA reveals BESTIAL BONKING" we would have to assume this cryptid is unrelated to modern humans and unlikely to share the same gait.
Bestial Bonking and California - who would have ever thought of ever placing those two side by side?
Dr Melba Ketchum, apart from likely having interesting fantasies, didn't explain where the human female originally obtained the non human primates to conceive her bigfoot offspring.
I don't think there ever were any great apes or non modern human hominids in the Americas (no Neanderthal or Denisovans.) Before anyone suggests grizzly bears - there's rough and there's suicidal.
I am sure other states and nations will want their own national cryptids. Australia has its Bunyip. Although there must be a distinction drawn between the cryptid and the fabulous. While the Welsh Wyvern or St George's Dragon are fabulous beasts they aren't credible cryptids.
"a significant bulk of those have come from California (463), with only Washington having more (724)"
Seems like Washington state has the better claim on Bigfoot / Sasquatch.
Is this a case of California "sniping" Washington (State)'s cryptid?
Maybe Washington should retaliate by nominating "Valley Girl"* as their own state cryptid?
Next up: Nevada (home of Area 51) and New Mexico (Roswell) will vie for "Little Green/Grey Men" as their cryptid?
Coincidentally, the "snipe" (as in "snipe hunt") is also a cryptid.
*We're pretty sure that Valley Girls do exist, so, maybe they don't qualify as cryptids?
I, personally, helped contribute to this hoax.
An abalone diver's weight-belt, and home-cast RTV feet on wellies, worn by my 6'9" cousin, gave us the stride and depth of prints ... Mendocino County, mid 1970s. We talked about putting a hairy suit on him and timing a dash across roads just barely in the view of drivers coming around corners, but decided that we didn't want to be the cause of accidents. We left all kinds of footprints all over logging country.
I, personally, helped contribute to this hoax.
Best I managed was helping make some crop circles. But seems very Californian. A state with bored, underemployed actors and FX artists who's day job is creating and portraying monsters. Add in circus performers and stilt walkers, and you get Bigfoot and probably a lot of other pranks.
Of course there is evidence for the god of the USA. You held a piece of the god in your hand yourself while reading the quote. All god's followers are required to return the pieces to one of god's houses.
'Americans have “In god we trust” enshrined on their money.'
It's a misprint (misstamp? miscast?) - they dropped the "L".
(In fairness, I'm prepared to believe the people who originally put the phrase there believed what they were saying. I'm more likely to believe the current lot just love money...)
"...Hergé contacted his friend Bernard Heuvelmans, the author of On the Trail of Unknown Animals. After re-reading Heuvelmans' description of the Yeti, Hergé went on to research the cryptid species as much as possible"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_Tibet
icon: any reports of giant penguins in the Himalayas?
