WRI 27: Mystery Ape
August 4, 2008 12:44 am UncategorizedWinners Declared. Fort and Forteana. Cryptozoology. Mystery apes & their rights. The gibbon: a primate on the cusp. Curative oils, open heart surgery.
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steph :
Date: August 4, 2008 @ 10:57 am
I would not have predicted that you two would make such a common species-ist…, er, let’s call it “oversight”: you left Humans out of the Ape family.
As for “genuine” absinthe, everyone making it now (and like Mark said, that means “at this very moment!”), will swear to you that they are making the real deal. (That includes someone who sits very close to me……..)
widelyr :
Date: August 4, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Man is not an ape! Did Charles Fort teach you nothing?!?
widelyr :
Date: August 4, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
we consider only one authority on the topic of the true Absinthe: Paul Verlaine.
neil :
Date: August 4, 2008 @ 8:18 pm
What a shocking and upsetting episode. First, the Tour de France was won by an ape, and this has always been so. Man is the greatest, arguably (and poorly so) of the great apes. The great apes are a select category that is made up of Orangutans, Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Humans.
Secondly, and more upsetting than this shocking ignorance is the charge of fraud I must make. I was not announced as a winner yet when I look at the topic lists and listen to the broadcast I read and hear my efforts. What are the Yetti, Sasquatch and Bigfoot if not the lead off hitter in the cryptozoology lineup? Fran actually mentions the Yetti and Sasquatch by name!! This is so unfair, must I walk around town topless because I have been denied what I have clearly and fairly won, a Widely Ranging Interests T-shirt?
Francis :
Date: August 5, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
Alex posted his Charles Fort entry before you posted yours. As I say to my one-year-old daughter, stop being a baby.
As for the Man is an Ape canard–next thing you’ll be telling me we evolved from monkeys or some other primate. It is to laugh.
neil :
Date: August 5, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
I shall wander the streets of New York without a shirt in protest, except during the week when I would not normally be wearing a t-shirt.
Alex :
Date: August 6, 2008 @ 6:10 am
Neil, I live in new york, perhaps we can work out some kind of time share thing on the shirt.
Great episode guys - and thanks for the shirt!
neil :
Date: August 6, 2008 @ 6:32 am
Alex,
That is an extremely generous offer, one I am happy to accept. I wear a medium or large. My beef was never with you or any of the other winners, but only the “judges”, your entries were all excellent and t-shirt worthy.
Neil
p.s. I’m going to a barbecue this weekend, will you have the shirt by then?
widelyr :
Date: August 6, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
No, he will not have the shirt by then. But then again, he will not NOT have the shirt by then, which, if I understand your not-wearing-shirt policy, should work nicely. Enjoy the BBQ, fellas! And don’t forget the WRI secret handshake!
Flora Smithy :
Date: August 12, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
I do believe the “mystery spots” can be explained by science. Mad, no disappointed maybe.