Of Bigfoot et al
I am a believer in most things weird. I know ghosts exist and would love to think that Big Foot and Nessie and all the rest are real as well. Just imagine how much more exciting life would be with 7 foot tall primates and throw backs to the jurrasic period running around.
So yesterday I was watching some discovery channel about the hunt for big foot. I should have known what I was in for when some supposed expert says, with a straight face, that the mountain gorilla was believed to be a legend until 1958 when one was spotted in africa. Uh Huh. Let's get this right oh he who sounds like he knows. It was 1901. At least he got the continent right.So now two teams are converging on the forest. One team male one team female. Both are searching for Bigfoot. First of all it's an all woman team because it seems that Bigfoot is drawn more to women than men. So the women strap their cameras to the trees, cut up apples and then move about the forest singing lullabyes and Christmas Carols. I KID YOU NOT. One owman who had been camping in the area earlier and had been visited by something in the night playing with her tarp, brought, a tarp. I think bubble wrap would have been better.
Team two, the men, with their expert whatever just strapped cameras to trees and then set out bait to draw the Bigfoot in. NO apples for them, these are manly men. Instead they hung Onions in the trees, cd discs and wind chimes. And in another place along with the onions cds and windchimes they sprayed with trees with a essential oil of wintergreen. Isn't that sort of like taking coal to Newcastle? There in the WOODS for god's sake. Don't you think there was enough tree smell already. They weren't even spraying the trees to mask human scent. Instead they sprayed the trees to make them smell like...well... trees.
Yabba yabba yabba.The women are wandering around the woods in ecstasy over broken twigs and mooshed down grass. While the men are stringing more cds and onions. Personally I thought they ought to add some glitter glue, markers and paper and let bigfoor create his own tree art.
So the show grinds on, the people go back to retrieve their cameras and share with us, endless pictures of deer and elk until one of the women gets all excited about something dark in the lower right hand corner of one picture. Couldn't even see the thing even when the show kindly circled it. What is it, what could it be, could it be... just the rear end of a truck passing by on THE ROAD! Come on ladies. A road? Why not just set your camera up in a MC Donalds parking lot and see what you get. As for the men. They got more pictures of deer with some elk thrown in for good measure. Sheesh. What happened with these two groups. Were they sitting around one day and just decided hey let's go find big foot without giving it any thought.
If it had been me, well I probably would have been out there yelling "Soooeeee bigfootbigfootbigfoot' but then I don't claim to be ann expert.
All was not lost, I then wandered over to ancient egypt night on another discovery channel and to my delight involved were two of my favorite egyptologist. Dr Nassar somebody or other and Nadia what's her name. Dr. Nassar is Egypts head guy and a tomb or a mummy case can not be opened unless he gives his permission and is in attendance. You would think this would be old hat for him but he was as excited as a kid on Christmas each time something was opened. In fact, one time, he played father and told the photographers and journalists crammed into a tiny tomb that if he heard one word out of anyone, they were all out.
As for Nadia, she is thes arftifacts expert and was as thrilled over a mummy case of pillows as she was over what she thought would be an unknown mummy. Her unknown mummy case was without mummy. Instead it had clothing and jewelry and ornaments and textiles and the like and when someone asked her if she was disappointed she was in raptures telling them that what they had found was better than a mummy. These things that they just found they had never found before. I love the enthusiam of the two. Especially Nadia doing her work in a hot tomb while dressed in long sleeves with the muslim head scarf on. Sweat rolling down her face, she's beaming at the camera and thrilled with her work.
So I guess last night started with the ridiculous and ended with the sublime.
So yesterday I was watching some discovery channel about the hunt for big foot. I should have known what I was in for when some supposed expert says, with a straight face, that the mountain gorilla was believed to be a legend until 1958 when one was spotted in africa. Uh Huh. Let's get this right oh he who sounds like he knows. It was 1901. At least he got the continent right.So now two teams are converging on the forest. One team male one team female. Both are searching for Bigfoot. First of all it's an all woman team because it seems that Bigfoot is drawn more to women than men. So the women strap their cameras to the trees, cut up apples and then move about the forest singing lullabyes and Christmas Carols. I KID YOU NOT. One owman who had been camping in the area earlier and had been visited by something in the night playing with her tarp, brought, a tarp. I think bubble wrap would have been better.
Team two, the men, with their expert whatever just strapped cameras to trees and then set out bait to draw the Bigfoot in. NO apples for them, these are manly men. Instead they hung Onions in the trees, cd discs and wind chimes. And in another place along with the onions cds and windchimes they sprayed with trees with a essential oil of wintergreen. Isn't that sort of like taking coal to Newcastle? There in the WOODS for god's sake. Don't you think there was enough tree smell already. They weren't even spraying the trees to mask human scent. Instead they sprayed the trees to make them smell like...well... trees.
Yabba yabba yabba.The women are wandering around the woods in ecstasy over broken twigs and mooshed down grass. While the men are stringing more cds and onions. Personally I thought they ought to add some glitter glue, markers and paper and let bigfoor create his own tree art.
So the show grinds on, the people go back to retrieve their cameras and share with us, endless pictures of deer and elk until one of the women gets all excited about something dark in the lower right hand corner of one picture. Couldn't even see the thing even when the show kindly circled it. What is it, what could it be, could it be... just the rear end of a truck passing by on THE ROAD! Come on ladies. A road? Why not just set your camera up in a MC Donalds parking lot and see what you get. As for the men. They got more pictures of deer with some elk thrown in for good measure. Sheesh. What happened with these two groups. Were they sitting around one day and just decided hey let's go find big foot without giving it any thought.
If it had been me, well I probably would have been out there yelling "Soooeeee bigfootbigfootbigfoot' but then I don't claim to be ann expert.
All was not lost, I then wandered over to ancient egypt night on another discovery channel and to my delight involved were two of my favorite egyptologist. Dr Nassar somebody or other and Nadia what's her name. Dr. Nassar is Egypts head guy and a tomb or a mummy case can not be opened unless he gives his permission and is in attendance. You would think this would be old hat for him but he was as excited as a kid on Christmas each time something was opened. In fact, one time, he played father and told the photographers and journalists crammed into a tiny tomb that if he heard one word out of anyone, they were all out.
As for Nadia, she is thes arftifacts expert and was as thrilled over a mummy case of pillows as she was over what she thought would be an unknown mummy. Her unknown mummy case was without mummy. Instead it had clothing and jewelry and ornaments and textiles and the like and when someone asked her if she was disappointed she was in raptures telling them that what they had found was better than a mummy. These things that they just found they had never found before. I love the enthusiam of the two. Especially Nadia doing her work in a hot tomb while dressed in long sleeves with the muslim head scarf on. Sweat rolling down her face, she's beaming at the camera and thrilled with her work.
So I guess last night started with the ridiculous and ended with the sublime.
posted by ---me--- at Monday, April 07, 2008
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