Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Top 10 Cryptids

I was amused by this list of creatures that might or might not really exist.

It reminds me of the spitting cobras. Herpetologists had been warned for years by the natives that some cobras could spit venom. They scoffed. Right up until they found some and ran screaming out of the jungle...

This stuff makes good inspiration for writing.
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You are lucky to have had passing encounters with possible cryptids.

I tend to consider most cryptids to be "potentially" extant (or formerly extant; some may have been hunted to extinction) unless the descriptions are so far out that they don't sound physically viable.
If I had seen that link anywhere else I'd've thought "I need to email that to Ysabet".
I do love weirdness.
It reminds me of the spitting cobras. Herpetologists had been warned for years by the natives that some cobras could spit venom. They scoffed. Right up until they found some and ran screaming out of the jungle...

LOL! I didn't know that before. That's awesome.
I had heard about the spitting cobra "myth" long ago. A few years back, I saw a documentary about the discovery of real spitting cobras, which have tiny holes in the front of their fangs. And it included an account of the scientists who discovered them and were rather freaked out. I laughed so hard that I almost fell off the couch.

Just because you are a white man with a degree does not mean you know more about a jungle than the people who live there.


Just because you are a white man with a degree does not mean you know more about a jungle than the people who live there.

Which really should go without saying, but those idiots tend to think of the locals as ignorant savages.
*laugh* Yes! Which is why one of my favorite forms of humor is pretty much any variation of:

Dark Folks: "Warning about X."
Pale Folks: "X is superstition."
Dark Folks: "Cautionary tale about messing with X."
Pale Folks: *ignore, ignore* ... "Aaaaa! Why didn't you TELL us about X!"
*Singing* Let's talk about X, baby, let's talk about you and me...*/singing* :-D
*snort* *titter* *laaaaauuuuugh*
:-D