mea culpa

I forgot the skunk ape a couple days ago in my discussion of possible undiscovered large primates. The skunk ape is the "bigfoot" spotted across the south east of the United States, particularly in Florida. Unlike the bigfoot and yeti this ape apparently has a pungent odor.

For the record I don't think there's any possibility of this animal existing. At least as an undiscovered ape. An escaped chimp or orangutan hanging out in the swamp? Perhaps that would account for the one pretty decent photo of the "skunk ape" it does look a lot like an orangutan.

Also for the record, bigfoot has been spotted, supposedly, in at least 49 of the 50 states. Stupid Hawaii...throwing off my numbers.

Man, I must seem like some crazy cryptozoologist or conspiracy theorist with all this talk of UFO's and Bigfoots (Bigfeet?).

Had one of those amazing archaeologist discussions today...you know the kind. Loud. Indoors. Terribly inappropriate. Lots of locals staring in horror. It revolved around the lovely sex terms found on Urban Dictionary. (By the way...should I use "on" or "in" for that...is it in the UD, as though it were a real book? Or is it "on" as in "online" or "on that page?") After explaining to the unenlightened about the Pirate, the Superman, and other lovely maneuvers...I came up with my own. First we talked about "the Munich" wherein you sweat buckets while having sex and thinking about the terror attack and slaughter of the Israeli Olympic team (straight from Eric Bana in the movie "Munich"...that was a really messed up scene. I can't even begin to describe how odd it was to you who haven't seen the movie). Ashley and I were having trouble putting it into perspective for Adam and Kim (our table mates...much to the horror of the other patrons we were going into more and more detail). I came upon the analogy...it's kind of like fantasizing about September 11th during sex. So our new move is called the Nine-Eleven. As in "man, I'd go nine-eleven on that ass" or perhaps "dude, I'd totally knock down her towers." I'm not sure exactly what that would entail...I'm going to try to insert it into the vernacular by using it in conversation.

Natalie Portman? I'd totally crash a plane into that ass...