Common sense

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From a 5/19/05 "John Stiles" post:

...so far there is absolutely zero, nada, zilch-point-none, proof, definitively, that the I-bill exists. There's more proof of Bigfoot than the I-bill woodpecker! There is proof however, that if you've got a UFO sighting or Bigfoot sighting and now an Ivory beaked peckerwood, then you got cash flow!

From another "John Stiles" post from 5/20/05:

I been thinkin about how "stupid" people think we Arkansans are...to fall for such a crock!...

From a "pointman" post on 6/23/05:

...I emailed the Cornell bird lab to ask for a picture of the woodpecker and here's the response...

Got any real clear pictures of the bird found in Cache River or not?
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Anne Hobbs
Public Information Specialist
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
http://www.birds.cornell.edu

Nope. The best we've got are ones from the four seconds of video footage and they're pretty blurry. We're hoping to get clearer ones at some point.

From a prescient post by "4hunting" on 12/1/05:

Remember Pearl River!!!!!!!!!!...My belief is that one will see this deal die down here in Arkansas after this winter & most likely one of the other 6 locations will start getting the lime light & the hoop-ha will start all over again....