Trivia 9 Edition
Bigfoot a big hoax:
Fabled ape a wife in a gorilla suit
Michael Higgins ~ National Post ~ Saturday, December 07, 2002
The family of the man who first brought Bigfoot to public attention has revealed
how he fooled the world for decades with wood carvings to create "footprints" and
by filming his wife in an ape suit.Ray Wallace, 84, died last month from heart failure and his family have now
revealed that Bigfoot was nothing but a hoax."The reality is, Bigfoot just died," his son, Michael, said.
Some experts on the American Abominable Snowman had for years questioned
Mr. Wallace's amazingly close relationship to the creature.In August, 1958, a bulldozer operator who worked for Mr. Wallace's construction
company in Humboldt County, Calif., found huge footprints circling and then
leading away from his rig.The Humboldt Times newspaper in Eureka, Calif., coined the term Bigfoot in a
front-page story about the phenomenon and a myth w as born.Over the years, Mr. Wallace took pictures and 16mm film of Bigfoot engaged in
numerous activities, among them a pregnant Bigfoot sitting on a log, a Bigfoot throwing stones and a Bigfoot eating frogs.Mark Chorvinsky, editor of Strange magazine, investigated the "pregnant Bigfoot" and in a skeptical 1994 article posed the question, "Is the 'creature' in the photograph a 'real Bigfoot' or a 'guy-in-a-suit?' "
It now appears it was most likely a "gal-in-a-suit."
Mr. Wallace's family revealed many of the photographs were in fact relatives -- usually his wife, Elna -- dressed in a hairy ape suit with giant feet stuck to the bottom.
Mr. Wallace created the original tracks in 1958 when he asked a friend to carve 40-centimetre-long feet.
He and his brother, Wilbur, then wore them to create the Bigfoot prints.
The most famous evidence for Bigfoot's existence, the so-called Patterson film, a grainy, cinefilm image of an erect ape-like creature, was taken by Roger Patterson, a rodeo rider, in 1967.
Mr. Wallace said he told Mr. Patterson where to spot a Bigfoot near Bluff Creek, Calif., Mr. Chorvinsky said.
"The fact is, there was no Bigfoot in popular consciousness before 1958," Mr. Chorvinsky said.
"America got its own monster, its own Abominable Snowman, thanks to Ray Wallace."
"He did it for the joke and then he was afraid to tell anyone because they'd be so mad at him," said Mr. Wallace's nephew, Dale Lee Wallace.
But Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, said he has casts of 40 to 50 footprints he believes were made by authentic unknown primates.
"To suggest all these are explained by simple carved feet strapped to boots just doesn't wash," Mr. Meldrum said, citing 19th-century accounts of such a creature.
© Copyright 2002 National Post
MATH IS THE KEY
As we know, math is the key to unlock the great mysteries of the universe...
...here's a recent solution.
Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?
We have all been to those meetings where someone wants over 100%.
How about achieving 103%?
Here's a little math that might prove helpful.What makes life 100%?
Let's use mathematics and logic to figure it out!
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is represented as
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
then,
H A R D W O R K
8 +1 +18 +4 +23+ 15+
18 +11 = 98%
K N O W L E D G E
11+ 14 +15+ 23+ 12+5
+4 +7+ 5 = 96%
But,
A T T I T U D E
1 +20 +20 +9 +20+ 21
+4 +5 = 100%
And,
B U L L S H I T
2 +21 +12 +12+ 19+ 8
+9 +20 = 103%
It stands to reason that
hard work and knowledge will get you close,
attitude will get you there,
but bullshit will put you over the top.
So, the next time someone
claims to be giving over 100%,
you know what they are doing!!!
1. If you divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10, what do you have?2. Seven months of the year have 31 days; how many months have 28 days?
3. A doctor gives you 3 pills with instructions to take one every half hour. How many minutes would the pills last?
4. A farmer has 15 pigs, all but 9 die. How many does he have left?
5. Carl the butcher wears a size 12 shoe, is 6 feet 3 inches tall and wears a 42 long suit. What does he weigh?
6. A man takes a barrel that weighs 50 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less than 50 pounds. What did he put in it?
7. Twelve pears hanging high, 12 men passing by. Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there. How can this be?
8. What runs around a house but doesn't move?
9. If one child has 5 2/3 sand piles and another has 2 1/3, and you combine them, how many sand piles do you have?
10. Your mother's brother's only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?
11. What runs but cannot walk?
12. Joe was out for a walk and it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
13. According to recent studies, how many birthday does the average person have?
14. How much dirt is in a hole that has a dimension of 6 feet long x 3 feet wide x 4 feet high?
15. An electric train is traveling South at 70 mph, the wind is blowing 30 mph to the East. Which direction is the smoke going to travel?
Scroll Down and highlight the blank space to see the answers:
Thanks, Amar
1. 70
2. 12 months
3. 60 minutes
4. 9 pigs
5. He weighs meat
6. He put a hole in it
7. Each was the name of one of the man passing
by
8. A fence
9. 1 sand pile
10. Your father
11. Water
12. Joe is bald
13. 1 birthday
14. None.
15. Electric trains don't blow smoke.
Excerpts from employee performance evaluations "The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead."
"Takes him two hours to watch '60 Minutes'."
"Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled."
"One neuron short of a synapse."
"It's hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm."
"If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean."
"If you gave him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change."
"If he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week."
"The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming."
"Donated his brain to science before he was done using it."
"A prime candidate for natural de-selection."
"Has a photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on."
"If you see two people talking and one looks bored, he's the other one."
"He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room."
"When his I.Q. reaches 50, he should sell."
"He would argue with a sign post."
"I'd like to go hunting with him sometime."
"He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier."
"Got a full six-pack, but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together."
"This employee should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better."
"This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot."
"He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them."
"This young lady has delusions of adequacy."
"He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle."
"When she opens her mouth, it's only to change feet."
"Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap."
"This employee is not really so much of a has-been, but more of a definite won't be."
"I would not allow this employee to breed."
"Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig."
Thanks, Sparkdog
