JMG
Poking the internet ants nest with a stick of derision since 2003

Let's discuss cryptozoology.

Off you go...
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:36, archived)

Comma beast
Apparently it exists
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:36, archived)

She does look like a looming mental patient
I think she will grow up to look like Susan Boyle.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:37, archived)

clickin dis

( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:38, archived)

I've never been harsh about Comma
but if I was, it would look a little like that.

She looks like the kind of person who brings her own marmite sandwiches everywhere.
( WormuIus, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:38, archived)

marmite!
yeast is an animal!
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:39, archived)

brings makes
sandwiches everywhere

I like Comma's online persona. I am kind to no-one though.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:39, archived)

BEHEMOTH

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:36, archived)

The Russian for hippo
is "begemot" (except in Cyrillic) from the name "behemoth".
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:38, archived)

I knew that.
But it's more likely a protoceratops, by my reckoning, based on the same fossils found in Mongolian gold mines that inspired gryphons. Although in Hebrew it simply means "ox" (curiously, feminine plural).
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:45, archived)

I always read that as if Michael Jackson was saying it.
BE-HEEEE moth
( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:39, archived)

I saw a chimaera once
Shot poisonous spikes at me. Terrible stuff. I escaped by hiding behind the sofa.
( Theoban What of it, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:37, archived)

The Americans REALLY love Bigfoot.
The Chupacabra sounds much cooler - it sucks goats dry and leaves just their skins.

And all we get stuck with is Nessie and Pookha.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:37, archived)

you mean piston really <i>is</i> human?

( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:37, archived)

To be fair
Bigfoot is a feasible creature, the Chupacabra is just a load of old sweaty mexican bollocks.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:38, archived)

is it really?
maybe in Nepal or somewhere like that, but I would have thought America would be pretty well-documented.

Plus all the grainy footage looks like a man in a suit. With saggy man-breasts.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:39, archived)

like you can get a suit
in mykeys size range..
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:40, archived)

I dont beleive it
but there are vast tracts of nothing in the US. It really is a huge place. I've been to woodlands in oregon where you can sit on the top of a hill and not be able to see any signs of civilisation in any direction.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:41, archived)

Ah, I didn't think there was all that much space
but thinking about it, it is a whole continent.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:42, archived)

pookha?

(Just Harry What should I put here?, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:38, archived)

a black dog
huge with red eyes. Seen on roads, crossroads, things like that. In Devon specifically, I think.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:40, archived)

I once owned an Esquilax
It had the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit.
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:37, archived)

I owned a Unicorn
A witch had shapeshifted it into the semblance of a gerbil however and I was unable to convince the scientific community of it's significance.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:39, archived)

i owned a unicron
but he was destroyed by a bunch of robots
( manolith hooray for me, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:40, archived)

I think a unicorn was just a dickhead horse.
THis is still my favourite JMG sketch in the last few weeks. www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/onsite/jpg/jmgbreath.jpg
( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:38, archived)

ok
Invention of the term "cryptozoology" is often attributed to zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, though Heuvelmans attributes coinage of the term to the late Scottish explorer and adventurer Ivan T. Sanderson. Heuvelmans' 1955 book On the Track of Unknown Animals traces the scholarly origins of the discipline to Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans and his 1892 study, The Great Sea Serpent. Heuvelmans argued that cryptozoology should be undertaken with scientific rigor, but with an open-minded, interdisciplinary approach. He also stressed that attention should be given to local, urban and folkloric sources regarding such creatures, arguing that while often layered in unlikely and fantastic elements, folktales can have small grains of truth and important information regarding undiscovered organisms. Loren Coleman, a modern popularizer of cryptozoology, has chronicled the history and personalities of cryptozoology in his books.

Another notable book on the subject is Willy Ley's Exotic Zoology (1959). Ley was best known for his writings on rocketry and related topics, but he was trained in paleontology, and wrote a number of books about animals. Ley's collection Exotic Zoology is of some interest to cryptozoology, as he discusses the Yeti and sea serpents, as well as relict dinosaurs. The book entertains the possibility that some legendary creatures (like the sirrush, the unicorn or the cyclops) might be based on actual animals, through misinterpretation of the animals and/or their remains. Also notable is the work of British zoologist and cryptozoologist Karl Shuker, who has published 12 books and countless articles on numerous cryptozoological subjects since the mid-1980s.
( manolith hooray for me, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:39, archived)

I'm not much the wiser
but thanks for the effort.
( wynoh kills threads by his mere presence, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:41, archived)

it was copy/pasted from wikipedia

( manolith hooray for me, Mon 11 May 2009, 16:56, archived)