supposed "chemtrails" ?

Think of it this way

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Just because many people have heard of it does not make it true. We've all heard of Jackalopes and Nessie, don't make them any more true.
 
Re: Think of it this way

Originally posted by thed
We've all heard of Jackalopes and Nessie, don't make them any more true.
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Well... having hunted extensively in the Mid-Western United States, I can state unequivocally that Jackalopes exist. In fact, while on a trip near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I was forced to shoot one of them on the last day of mule deer the season.

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They are lightning-quick and rather aggressive, subsisting solely on the dropped sandwiches of frightened tourists. It was fortuitous that I spotted him before he had finished working around behind me, or I might not have been here to tell the tale.

Peace.
 
Goofyfish

Don't suppose you have a bagged a <a href="http://www.sewergator.com">Sewergator</a> as well?
 
Do I detect a slight flavoring of sarcasm, thed?

Modern folklore tells of discarded pet baby alligators flushed down toilets into the sewers of New York. There they grew fat on rats and confronted startled sanitation workers. Is there factual basis for such wild tales?

Loren Coleman ("Alligators-in-the-Sewers: A Journalistic Origin," Journal of American Forlkore, 92:335, 1979.) compiled a list of 77 encounters with erratic or out-of-place alligators for the period 1843 through 1973, including one 5.5-foot specimen found frozen to death in Wisconsin in 1892. Only one in the 77 is a sewer specimen, but it is from New York City.
The New York Times of February 10, 1935, reported a 125-pound alligator, almost 8-feet long, pulled out of a snow clogged sewer on East 123rd Street. Obviously half-frozen from the cold, the animal snapped weakly at its captors. "Let 'im have it!" the cry went up. The only known sewer alligator perished un der flailing snow shovels. No one could explain how the alligator got into or survived in a New York sewer.
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Peace.
 
Originally posted by gotanygum
...these are just a couple out of many allegations concerning the phenomenon called chemtrails...
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And here is a page that gives a pretty good explanation of how regular old jet contrails spread out under certain atmospheric conditions to create the patterns being attributed to the government conducting weather experiments.

Peace.
 
Originally posted by goofyfish
Do I detect a slight flavoring of sarcasm, thed?
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No, no, not at all, at all. Ulo Melton who maintains sewergator.com is a student of folklore like myself. Jackalopes, sewergators and other cryptozoological phenomena are stock trade. I have a Chucacabra round the house somewhere and lot's of dead Goats :)

Loren Coleman ("Alligators-in-the-Sewers: A Journalistic Origin," Journal of American Forlkore, 92:335, 1979.) compiled a list of 77
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I know Loren as well, sort of. I participate on the Snopes UL mailing list along with Loren and Ulo. As well as other grandees of the subject. Loren is currently working on the Mothman legends.

I'll point out I am a student of the subject, not an expert. Brunvand, the Mikkelsons and others are way above of my league.

Th "20,000 leagues above me" ed
 
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