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Methinks is more fond of the "Got Pecker" shirts that they have in Brinkley. Now, at the risk of being risque, if you could get that on the boxers (as shown in "I Believe") you'd have a big seller.
Humans! Perhaps, just as we are from another planet, your True Believers are simply another from planet to. A planet where black is white, kentin’ is everywhere, double knockin’ is diagnostic, and trailing edges are white. In short, a world where everything is weirdly skewed.
Bizzaro World
This would explain a lot. (and continue to keep you distracted while we work)
abducted by aliens ahahahahahah
Hahahahahahahahaha
Kneep……..kneep…..
Tom,
Duuuuude! You've got to get some gear for this site!
Sign me up for a t-shirt with my all time favorite:
"Lord God! What a mistake!
Oh my heavens! Now www.fishcrow.com has finally come up with the definitive proof of the Ivory Bill's existance.
He has used Morphometrics to prove it once and for all.
"Morphometrics. The process of identifying a species based on its profile is known as morphometrics."
I am humbled by this guy's genius.
Si Si, the carpinterio is pinin' for the Skeptic Gear himself, but currently just can't pull it off ... I just want the Fitzmoustache Ivory Bill Shirt with the caption.
"Right under your nose all along"
We could have such a howl when the Cornell Laywers come after the site with a "cease and desist". Tom would be a martyr for protecting his sources and the poor sense of humor of the "belivers" would be displayed to the world.
I never cease to be amazed at how humorless the TB's are ... I mean even it you belive with every fiber of your being, you can't deny that the whole set up is funny. The fuzzy video, the frame captures the severed wings held monty python style behind the tree, the unflinching hand on the paddle - the ARU "double knocks" that sound just like the granny with the machine gun.
The ditty's and poetry ...
And finding the IBWO in the moustache
I mean you can't deny that this is funny stuff - no matter what your "opinion" is.
I mean where is the corresponding sense of "fun" and delight in the "beliver" community?
A cheese burger named after the bird? A haircut with red tint? Even these are deadly serious signs of how nature leads to economic development on the part of the eco promotors. The "locals" are "benefiting" from the bird ... and this helps justify the "value" of the bird. A self defeating line of thinking if ever there was one.
No it is simply more fun to enjoy the comic side of the woodpecker story than to flagelate oneself for having impure thoughts about the motives and intergrity of the high preisthood.
Besides, we started off with an earnest discussion of the "evidence" and though sibley et al. but it down plain as day - the evidence NEEDS to remain forever "controversial" ... and so it shall.
Viva the Skepitco, may they one day have T-shirts, and pecker boxers, in addition to their dark sunglasses.
Relating to the comment about Fishcrow's morphometrics...
What the clip purports to show is that the Pileated head doesn't fit the "perched IBWO" body. Can the Pileated head be "scaled-up" to match the body? Why does the Pileated head match on the bigger Pileated image shown but on a much smaller (farther away) "perched IBWO"... the bigger head looks too small? So he must be changing the size of the pileated head to match
the bird body in question.
I just don't understand how you would know the right size to scale a pileated head if you are fitting it to an IBWO body.
It all depends on his measurement technique for the image. But still it gets pretty shaky even if you get that right... there is still the assumption that if the bird is a 20" IBWO with 'x' number of pixels, then the appropriately sized Pileated perched on the same branch would be x (pixels) - y (pixels)...where y is the adjustment factor for the difference between IBWO and southern Pileated Woodpecker.
So then you must scale the head to match the number of pixels if the bird was a 16" to 18" Pileated.
That's a lot of room for error.
That and the distance to the tree.
And this measurement underpins a lot of his analyses. Did he measure that with a "wheel"? Or a surveyor's equipment. A wheel isn't much good and a tape measure useless in such terrain. Surely the great polymaths of this forum can leave the realms of poetry and find the flaws in Mike's analyses better than I can? Especially if the Alien comes from an advanced civilization....
Paul in New Paltz
Ah, Carpenterio and Paul, Methinks this can come full cirle here. We take Fishcrow's morphometrically challenged piece, and inset Fitzcrow's head on it to create a hybrid FitzFishCrow.
We can even rotate it so that if faces forward, and inset a photo of Tom into the moustache.
(BTW Paul, you need no polymath to debunk Fishcrow, you did it yourself.)
Well CLO started the measurement ball rolling downhill and into the gutter with their use of modified perspectives to make their photos and measurements fit their story. And now Fishcrow is just following the big boys in his analysis. So he actually should be telling people he is actually using More Faux Metrics.
Tom;
Me thinks (sorry Mr. Me Thinks) you should re highlight the Eirik Blom article. It makes more and more sense each time you read it. If your thinking with your head and not your heart.
To the Believers:
Think about it, really think about it, in your logical halves; do you really thnk IBWOs successfully eluded positive identification for 62 years? Don't answer that question.
Do you really believe they became elusive, ghost like super skulkers. Successfully breeding, expanding their range, yet nobody can catch a full look.
As each day goes by; the whole story seems like a very bad dream. Whimpering away in the sunlight of analysis.
Shouldn't all labels on Ivory-billed merchandise say "Made-up in the USA"?
I smell a T-shirt competition brewing here.
How about a shirt showing a cheerleader shaking two IBWO pom-poms. Underneath it could say:
"OH, NO! C-L-O! IF IT WAS THERE, WHERE DID IT GO?"
HI:
How about " I Don't Believe" merchandise!
"More Faux Metrics"
hahahahah...that was good! Is google keeping this site for posterity?
How about a Ralph the Alien t-shirt, you know like the Roswell alien, with the caption "I'm bug-eyed for Ivory Bills!"
I feel a poem coming on.
How about "Now you see it. Wait, no you don't!"
Or "I believe! 8 to 10 pixels can't be wrong."
I believe they peddle the same
type of merchandise at the
Big Foot(too many people have
seen it so it must be true) Store in California and the Nessie
Museum (same as above)in Scotland. Is the same company pushing all of this crypto merchandise?
I vote with Methinks. Put the "Got Pecker" on the boxers and you'll sell a million.
Maybe ladies underwear too. oooolala!
How about "I went to Arkansas to get a Woody and all I got was these boxer shorts"?
Well I guess there is no such thing as bad publicity so thanks for the mention. Maybe you'd like these designs better? I Don't Believe and I Want To Believe. And what about got pecker? I'll let you know when I make the first million. :o)
Got any blurry t-shirts for sale?
Are those boxer shorts real? Are we being spoofed? Oh my god. I hope not. Because if not then I have just solved all my Christmas shopping chores.
Got women's underwear with "got pecker"?
Please respond soon!!!! This is so cool.
got pecker camisole and thong. more got pecker stuff
These t-shirts and other IBWO merch have been moved to a different store. The old links will be deleted in the coming months. You can now find everything at Magnificent Frigatebird: All Ivory-billed Woodpecker designs. Thanks.
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