Doofuses look for Bigfoot and get a tv show out of it - we should do the same

DavidBrown

DavidBrown

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I guess Animal Planet has really gone down hill if one of their highlight shows is one about a team of doofuses looking for Bigfoot.

We should all get together and do a ZooChat brand cryptozoology show. We can pretend to look for imaginary creatures, film it, and then all go tour the zoos of the world.

Let's start in New Zealand. Chlidonias, what imaginary creatures are there that we can look for in New Zealand, or maybe we should just invent our own? Were-kiwis? Ghost Moas?


Bigfoot a go-to guy for Hollywood and Madison Avenue - latimes.com
 
I though Animal Planet had already gone downhill when it made 'Lost Tapes'- a delightfully awful Blair Witch Project style-cryptozoology programme that I think has simply begun making up monsters as they go along.

Funny you should mention moas though, because the book 'Beasts That Hide From Man' (by cryptozoologist Karl Shuker) has the best part of an entire chapter devoted to the possible existance of the turkey-sized upland moa Megalapteryx didinus into the mid-1800s and possibly the modern day.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Funny you should mention moas though, because the book 'Beasts That Hide From Man' (by cryptozoologist Karl Shuker) has the best part of an entire chapter devoted to the possible existance of the turkey-sized upland moa Megalapteryx didinus into the mid-1800s and possibly the modern day.
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Yeah I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. I think that so many myths and legends are based on humans actually laying eyes on some of these creatures.

Michael Crichton's book, Eaters of the Dead, combined a narrative of medieval Arab traveller Ibn Fadlan with the Beowulf saga. In it he explained the myth of Grendel, his mother, and their followers, to be a last bastion of Neanderthals that persisted into the Middle Ages.

I quite like the idea of there being coelacanth-like creatures or pygmy mammoth-like creatures surviving into historic times. If the climate in a region of their habitat did not change in thousands of years, and man did not fully explore, let alone colonise the area, it seems reasonable to think that some species survived much later than their peers.
 
DavidBrown said:
I guess Animal Planet has really gone down hill if one of their highlight shows is one about a team of doofuses looking for Bigfoot.

We should all get together and do a ZooChat brand cryptozoology show. We can pretend to look for imaginary creatures, film it, and then all go tour the zoos of the world.

Let's start in New Zealand. Chlidonias, what imaginary creatures are there that we can look for in New Zealand, or maybe we should just invent our own? Were-kiwis? Ghost Moas?
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is that the show where the fat guy fries up bacon because the smell attracts Bigfoot but then he eats all the bacon himself? Animal Planet went downhill a long long time before that show! I was actually thinking about doing some filming on some of my trips and turning them into documentaries but I'm too much of a card to stop them turning into comedies and that would just be really lame. It'd be like The Goodies meets Bear Grylls.

As for NZ we have the Moehau Man, which is our version of the Bigfoot. It is of course complete rubbish and nobody believes it, but that doesn't stop those crazy foreign cryptozoologists suggesting it is a last-surviving Moriori (!). Then there's the taniwha which is a Maori dragon of sorts. Jeremy Wade equated that one with giant long-finned eels (all his River Monsters shows are crap but the long-finned eel one, "Flesh-ripper" was appallingly bad; I couldn't stop laughing throughout!!). Then there are the real ones (i.e. extinct species) like the moa, Harpagornis and kawekaweau.


nanoboy said:
Michael Crichton's book, Eaters of the Dead, combined a narrative of medieval Arab traveller Ibn Fadlan with the Beowulf saga. In it he explained the myth of Grendel, his mother, and their followers, to be a last bastion of Neanderthals that persisted into the Middle Ages.
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is that the one that the movie "The Thirteenth Warrior" (Antonio Banderas) was based on?
 
Chlidonias said:
is that the one that the movie "The Thirteenth Warrior" (Antonio Banderas) was based on?
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Indeed. You needed the epilogue from the book to put the Neanderthal thing into context.

I bought a copy of the book to give as a gift to a friend and the package just arrived 5 minutes ago, coincidentally.
 
nanoboy said:
Indeed. You needed the epilogue from the book to put the Neanderthal thing into context.

I bought a copy of the book to give as a gift to a friend and the package just arrived 5 minutes ago, coincidentally.
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Ok, I was wrong. I bought two books at the same time online for two different friends as gifts. Clearly bookdepository thought that it would be cost effective to send two separate packages because this package only has "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook" - this friend is a bit of a tool as a manager, so I bought it as a joke. "Eaters of the Dead" might show up in a few days I guess.

[Is anyone familiar with Dogbert and Dilbert? They are too funny, but I digress.]
 
hahahaha I love it when idiots remove themselves from the gene pool
 
1. What was a 15-year old doing driving anyway? What's the legal driving age again? :p

2. It's funny: I just posted on a thread saying:

"...but I wish Animal Planet would actually show programs about animals these days.

Who honestly cares about the Hand-fishing Hillbillies?! And how long are those fools going to be looking for BigFoot?!" And then I found this thread. :D
 
AnaheimZoo said:
1. What was a 15-year old doing driving anyway? What's the legal driving age again? :p

2. It's funny: I just posted on a thread saying:

"...but I wish Animal Planet would actually show programs about animals these days.

Who honestly cares about the Hand-fishing Hillbillies?! And how long are those fools going to be looking for BigFoot?!" And then I found this thread. :D
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Check out the latest posts on the 'Cryptozoology' thread in the General Discussion forum. We had a discussion there about this that you might enjoy.
 
AnaheimZoo said:
Who honestly cares about the Hand-fishing Hillbillies?! And how long are those fools going to be looking for BigFoot?!" And then I found this thread. :D
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Not bothered about hand fishing, but catfish are cool fish, I have handled Wels Catfish in my time and read about their behaviours, worth checking out. Just inside their bottom lip is a 'pad' that is hard and as rough as heavy sand paper. Fantastic barbles (feelers) from their mouth, tiny eyes and a dorsal fin that looks like it is on the wrong fish!

I'm still looking for Bigfoot, but have a few new tricks up my sleeve for this one......
 
It's not unheard of for 15 year olds to be driving. Anyone at age 15 can get a learner's permit. In many areas, especially rural areas, people as young as 14 can get what is known as a "hardship license." The hardship is usually for those kids who would have no other way of getting to school except to drive themselves. It was quite common for some of my classmates to have hardships when I lived in rural east Texas.
 
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