I thought they were going to tell us they'd found an old hippie chick wandering about Russia, lost from her isolated communist commune and unsure of what was going on around her. Is it wrong of me to be a little disappointed that was not the case?

/woulda been cool to read they had dna recovered from a pair of Birkenstocks
//or dna recovered from armpit and/or leg hair
///or dna recovered from armpit and/or leg hair found in an ancient pair of Birkenstocks

TheYeti: And?

It was YOU!

I think we should make Sarah Palin go retrieve it.

I would have assumed Lebanese or Italian.

Maybe Yeti is the bear's name!

FatherChaos: [media.comicvine.com image 281x343]

Wanted for questioning in Russia.

Man, Rolling Stone really was run by a bunch of assholes.

"Yeti terrorized Russia?"

"No, Yeti stayed in the woods.  A black bear terrorized Russia.  We're not sure how he got loose."

"Howie got loose?"

"Scared silly by the bear.  Poor Howie ran off screaming and he was never seen again."

"Andy was never seen again?"

"Mauled by the bear.  He never knew what hit him."

"Newwut hit him?"

"DAMMIT FRANK THAT'S NOT EVEN A NAME"

I watched a few minutes of that searching for bigfoot series on one of the cable networks, and they were showing amateur video of what was so obviously a bear standing up in some bushes, and then dropping down to all fours, that it took me all of 3 seconds to figure out what it was. I assume they spent the entire show trying to figure it out, and concluded with it being a big unanswered mystery, but I changed the channel.

You ain't seen nuthin yeti

No Time To Explain: MANBEARPIG!

/of all the people who go hunting, you think we'd have carcass if the thing in a museum by now
//crazy must be contagious


Or a fossil record.

Awesome story in this book regarding a possible bigfoot sighting.

Science works, biatches!

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? --Sherlock Holmes.

I can imagine the cryptozoologists laughing and asking how probable is it that a black bear might get loose in Russia, thousands of miles from their native land.

This makes me laugh because in the case where the scientists claimed that the UFOs were street lamps, it was, in fact, true. It was pretty obvious to an unbiased observer that the alleged UFOs were "flying" in the same formation as streetlamps (on the streets of Washington, DC) and that they were merely an artifact, a reflection due to the camera lens.

Now, you could claim that the airforce does a lousy job of using radar to detect flying craft, even over the nation's capital, and that UFOs don't show up on radar, and that the Government is in league with the UFOs, and that no aircraft could fly over the Captal for some reason, or so forth, but in the end, it really was street lamps, either reflected by the camera lens or reflecting from low clouds or haze, and thus a mundane and plausible event rather than a highly unlikely one which requires packing Occam's Razor into your shaving kit.

I'm prepared to accept powerful evidence for powerful improbabilities, but as far as I am concerned, a fuzzy dot proves nothing.

Real Women Drink Akvavit: I thought they were going to tell us they'd found an old hippie chick wandering about Russia, lost from her isolated communist commune and unsure of what was going on around her. Is it wrong of me to be a little disappointed that was not the case?

/woulda been cool to read they had dna recovered from a pair of Birkenstocks
//or dna recovered from armpit and/or leg hair
///or dna recovered from armpit and/or leg hair found in an ancient pair of Birkenstocks

No, I was hoping something similar. That it was some crazed hippie or hillbilly who had decided to "return to nature" and was terrorizing the Siberian wastes with his...wastes.