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2006-11-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-04 10:34|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's been said of academia that "The battles are particularly fierce, because the stakes are almost infinitesimally small."

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-04 11:39|| 2006-11-04 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 ...he has collected what he says are footprints, hair and feces from the ape-man.

Unless the samples are crap (heh), hair and feces means DNA. That alone should tell you if you have a new species.

Posted by SteveS 2006-11-04 11:51|| 2006-11-04 11:51|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the key word in the article is "tenured".

Posted by .com 2006-11-04 12:10|| 2006-11-04 12:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Some got ridiculed, and some gave all.

It might be appropriate for us to have a moment of silence for Jordi Magraner, who was killed in Pakistan's NWFP shortly after the start of the war.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-11-04 13:53|| 2006-11-04 13:53|| Front Page Top

#5 There's an easy way to test his claims. Subject the hair and feces samples to DNA analysis.

The fact that there's no mention of such testing is all the evidence I need that the guy is not to be respected.

Posted by lotp 2006-11-04 14:06|| 2006-11-04 14:06|| Front Page Top

#6 It's all a hoax, the footprints are fakes, the films are guys in ape suits...

...and there's therefore absolutely no reason for the rest of you to start pulling my hair out or sticking me with needles.

We're clear on this, right?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-11-04 15:07|| 2006-11-04 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, you'd be heard more easily if you could manage to rein in your chupacabra pal - but it's true those latin types do have their own ways.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-04 15:44|| 2006-11-04 15:44|| Front Page Top

#8 AS, you're family. Just stay away from this idiot, okay? Even broken clocks etc etc.

Posted by lotp 2006-11-04 15:46|| 2006-11-04 15:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, it's not-to-leave-this-forum, but chucacabras are a hoax invented so that the cryptozoology people in the SW would have a wild goose chase to go on and stop bothering all the pterodactyls.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-11-04 16:06|| 2006-11-04 16:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Ahh .... clever!

Posted by lotp 2006-11-04 16:24|| 2006-11-04 16:24|| Front Page Top

#11 That's too bad... the chupacabras could have chased away all those illegals flooding that region, for it is a well-known fact that these critters strike fear in the hearts of the most hardened and callous coyotes.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-04 17:07|| 2006-11-04 17:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Heh, I remember this one, an another furry being.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-04 17:16|| 2006-11-04 17:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh, well, this one is completely OT, but I'm off to bed, so I'll indulge myself.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-04 17:33|| 2006-11-04 17:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Heh. Suffering the ~~one shot, one kill~~ slings and arrows of True Love.

Posted by .com 2006-11-04 17:37|| 2006-11-04 17:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Maybe they never heard of DNA in Idaho.

Posted by Unique Anginenter5677 2006-11-04 18:14|| 2006-11-04 18:14|| Front Page Top

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