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lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 792 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 23-01-2013 16:40 Post subject: I thought FT would know better. |
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The March edition of FT has a white yeti on the cover. I feel duty bound to point out that the yeti is black, brown or reddish but never white.
There are rare reports of white sasquatch and even rarer reports of white almasty but never white yeti.
I thought FT would have known this.
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| Timble2 Imaginary person Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Total posts: 7110 Location: Practically in Narnia Age: 58 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 23-01-2013 17:01 Post subject: |
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| That's quite a myth-take. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17711 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 23-01-2013 20:22 Post subject: |
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| I have a genuine yeti-skin scarf. |
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| SameOldVardoger Great Old One Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-02-2013 00:10 Post subject: Re: I thought FT would know better. |
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| lordmongrove wrote: | The March edition of FT has a white yeti on the cover. I feel duty bound to point out that the yeti is black, brown or reddish but never white.
There are rare reports of white yeti and even rarer reports of white almasty but never white yeti.
I thought FT would have known this. |
I believe most people think of the Yeti as white. I don't think they coined the name "Abominable Snowman" because it is black, brown or reddish.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c-A3I-c1ssI/TsXBIWN10mI/AAAAAAAAFZw/5OYogrgTSas/s640/abominable-snowman.jpg |
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| lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 792 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-02-2013 02:32 Post subject: |
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| Most people are wrong. There has never been a sighting of a white yeti. The name comes from a mistranslation of the Sino-Tibetan name metho-kangmi meaning abominable man of the rocks. It was wrongly translated as abominable man of the snows giving rise to the false notion of a white creature. The yeti is not and never has been white. |
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| Bigfoot73 Great Old One Joined: 19 May 2009 Total posts: 1075 Location: Leeds Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-02-2013 06:33 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | There has never been a sighting of a white yeti. |
Well if it was white and in a snow-covered landscape it wouldn't exactly be glaringly conspicuous would it? |
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| davidplankton Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Total posts: 201 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-02-2013 08:18 Post subject: |
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| It isn't a Yeti on the cover of the latest FT though, it's a representation of a Shurale. Look closer and see it has a horn sticking out of its forehead. |
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| lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 792 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-02-2013 13:42 Post subject: |
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| Bigfoot73 wrote: | | Quote: | | There has never been a sighting of a white yeti. |
Well if it was white and in a snow-covered landscape it wouldn't exactly be glaringly conspicuous would it? |
The yeti dosn't live i the snow, that's another myth. It lives below the tree line in wooded valleys. Above the snow line there is very little to eat as opposed to in the forests. It is thought that occationaly a yeti will move from valley to valley and leave tracks. It may also eat animals killed by avalanches but for the most it keeps to the forest. |
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| lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 792 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-02-2013 13:44 Post subject: |
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| davidplankton wrote: | | It isn't a Yeti on the cover of the latest FT though, it's a representation of a Shurale. Look closer and see it has a horn sticking out of its forehead. |
Only just got the issue today. They are off my pedantic hook! The horn may represent a garbled account of a saggitall crest. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5719 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-02-2013 20:30 Post subject: |
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| Wasnt there a series of BF sightings of a sandy or dirty white colour? |
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| lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 792 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-02-2013 15:38 Post subject: |
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| Kondoru wrote: | | Wasnt there a series of BF sightings of a sandy or dirty white colour? |
Yes there have been white sasquatch sightings in North America but not white yeti in Asia, they are all black or brown. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5719 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 04-02-2013 15:42 Post subject: |
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| Picky. |
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| Sergeant_Pluck Great Old One Joined: 10 Apr 2012 Total posts: 504 Location: The Hague, Netherlands. Age: 40 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-02-2013 13:58 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | There has never been a sighting of a white yeti |
There was never a sighting of anything, until someone saw it. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2106 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
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| SameOldVardoger Great Old One Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-02-2013 19:10 Post subject: |
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That's good evidence, just like my incredible photo posted earlier in this thread. |
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