Thursday, April 06, 2006

Deja vu

Some familiar names, Cornell, and NPR get excited about some really flimsy Pearl River evidence in 2002 here. (If you have time, listen to both 9-minute segments of Christopher Joyce's report.)

I wrote about the Pearl River parallels previously here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Whoa holy pecker woods ... have you people with dutch names playing these tantilizing recordings of banging ever lived in the rural south?

I don't know if perhaps this is a strange culture, but I got news for you, taking your wheel chair bound granny out into the woods to fire off a machine gun is not really unusual. From this video you can hear a strange sequence of "banging". Why? Yep, extremely old people with poor reflexes, as well as drunk people, even bored and plain ol dumb ass people, shoot erratically. Got it? Watch the video again if you don't.

Sure most people would find this strange ... but I got news for you. This is why you hear banging in the woods in Louisiana. There are lots of people with guns. and they shoot them off. No one except you is particularly "tantilized" by this banging.

So please, can we just stipulate that a recording of a "bang" is not something we should accept as "proof" of an IBWO??

Anonymous said...

Yeeup, gotta say from these nawthawn woods thar a lot o gunshots out thar too. And unless we have a sound sonogram of every gunshot under all foliage conditions... I can't see how a double-knock can be separated from a gunshot. Shaww, we don't have them southern crackers, but the woods are crawling with deer and turkey in upstate NY, and we do,
believe it or not, have some hunters in the northeast.
Herds of 60 deer are not uncommon
anymore.
And every gunshot sounds like a double knock if there is an echo which there usually is. I felt sick when I heard all these double-knocks that came from guns, sounding so similar to the Cornell recordings.

Paul Sutera - w/a wide collection of orange hats.

Anonymous said...

Any of you guys or gals, stock traders?

You know how right at the end of either a stock rising or falling there is one last throw in the towell? A sort of last big movement where shorts and those left behind have to buy into the ridiculous high levels?

Or conversely, where the longs have to finally sell to save what little capital they have left on a falling stock.

Well that's called Capitulation to us stock traders. It's the silly season.

I'd say Cornellians are reaching their silly season. Capitulation is not long off.