Hello! You’ve got that “I know something you don’t’ look on your face. What’ve you been up to, huh? Sit down, pour yourself a steaming mug of coffee, sample a doughnut or a dough-no-nut and talk to me… Did you see where Microsoft is using Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti to promote their Internet Explorer? Privacy is their theme and of course these creatures like theirs, to be sure. To me, these creatures, real or imagined, have always been an interesting topic.
For decades, large, hairy, manlike beasts called Bigfoot or Sasquatch have been reported by eyewitnesses across America. But there’s never been conclusive proof of their existence. Not one has been killed by a hunter, struck dead by a speeding car, or even died of natural causes far as we know. In the absence of hard evidence like teeth or bones, support comes down to eyewitness sightings and ambiguous photos and films. Since it is logically impossible to prove a universal negative, science will never be able to prove that creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster do not exist, and it is possible that these mysterious beasts lurk far from prying eyes.
Having flown over the Rockies many times, I can tell you that there are inaccessible valleys where I am sure no human has ever been… so in my books anything goes. In remote locations such as these, who knows what lives there?
In the South Pacific, the island of Papua-New Guinea is similarly mountainous. Tribes live their whole lives in one of thousands of valleys and it is thought that many there are tribes that have yet to come into contact with the outside world. An estimate is that there are 750 different languages spoken on the island.
Mind you, if you looked at how many languages are spoken in, say, Toronto or New York, there’d probably be more than a hundred, eh? I recall the Toronto Tax bill being printed in I don’t know how many languages, including Thai!
Anyway…gotta get back to baking that first million…
Catch ya tomorra!
Bob
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