Bigfoot: I want to believe

[Jeff Lebowski]

lol.

[SoCalCoug]

lol.

at what?

[clackamascoug]

at what?

He's embarrassed, and at this point it's all about damage control. I'm surprised he didn't respond with "She's a witch... burn her!"

[Jeff Lebowski]

at what?

Anyone who believes in Bigfoot.

$100 says that this DNA evidence will be discredited. You interested?

[Viking]

Anyone who believes in Bigfoot.

$100 says that this DNA evidence will be discredited. You interested?

I'll take the bet, simply because I think it'd be really interesting to see Clackamas somehow your superior in one regard.

I could not care less about bigfoot nor do i have an opinion as to its existence. I just have great utility in seeing you lose, more so than the pain in writing a $100 check to you.

[Slim]

Please bless this is for realzies.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'll take the bet, simply because I think it'd be really interesting to see Clackamas somehow your superior in one regard.

I could not care less about bigfoot nor do i have an opinion as to its existence. I just have great utility in seeing you lose, more so than the pain in writing a $100 check to you.

Great!

Wait a minute. Is this a real bet or one of those "I promise I will stay away from the board for 12 months" bets?

[Viking]

Great!

Wait a minute. Is this a real bet or one of those "I promise I will stay away from the board for 12 months" bets?

Ha. I always pay.

Here's rooting for the crazy dude from Oregon.

[clackamascoug]

Ha. I always pay.

Here's rooting for the crazy dude from Oregon.

He was making the deal with SoCalCoug, not me. If the offer extends to me with legitimate terms, I'd consider the deal as well. It wasn't made to me, that's why I didn't wet tee shirt the easy money bet.

(... and I'm pretty sure that I'm at least 20% as good as lebowski in a data field of 100 measurable determinants, so you know... it's not a total runaway.)

[Non Sequitur]

Anyone who believes in Bigfoot.

$100 says that this DNA evidence will be discredited. You interested?

Scientifically speaking, are the odds that Bigfoot exists less than the odds that God and angels exist?

[Paperback Writer]

Scientifically speaking, are the odds that Bigfoot exists less than the odds that God and angels exist?

If only JS Jr., Sidney Rigdon, or Oliver Cowdery had collected DNA evidence.

[The_Douger]

I want to see if the peer review holds up.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I will take money from any of you.

[falafel]

I will take money from any of you.

I don't want to bet, but I've got a five dollar bill with some obscene drawings I'd like to get rid of. You interested?

[creekster]

I am with Lebowski on this one. While I look forward to seeing what the paper says, I think it is almost certain to be without legitimate basis.

My son and I watched this show about moonshiners other day. It included a segment about one of these Arkansas backwoods guys hunting for a feral hog that might threaten his still. He showed the signs he looked for, found tufts of hair, scat and markings all within an hour or two of setting out to look for a particular hog. This guy knows the Arkansan woods like most of us know our tv remotes. If there was any basis for the existence of Bigfoot, one of these sorts of guys would have found a carcass or a pile of crap or some such long ago.

Similarly, we just went on a swamp tour with some guy who grew up in a cypress swamp, here in florida. He told us tales of the swamp ape. Afterwards we asked if he really thought there was anything to it. He laughed and said he knew everything that lived in the swamp, had hunted, tracked and killed everything in the swamp and that while he liked the ape stories, there just "warn't no setch thang." The reason there isn't any better evidence of Bigfoot is because there isn't any such beast as Bigfoot.