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Is it OCD of me that I simply cannot resist the urge to point out that those snakes are not poisonous, they venomous? Ah, I feel so much better now

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Yep, hamburgers are a good choice. And blacken up some hotdogs over the fire while yer at it, too. Oh yes, and sumpin to wash 'em down with Let the Summer begin!!

I would not get caught dead eating the head of a rattle snake.

A poison is ingested. Venom is injected.

I missed this earlier. And I will give credit where credit is due. Dmaker is speaking the truth. As for the rest of it? I dont play Dungeons and Dragons. I dont hang out on Dungeons and Dragons forums and tell them how dumb they are wasting their lives playing it. And I dont belong to a anti Dungeons and Dragons forum where we talk about Dungeons and Dragons players and how dumb they are to waste their time playing the game..... Why? Because its an even dumber waste of time....... And I will say this. Anytime your in the back country for any reason? Its not role play.... No matter if I’m scouting for Elk tracks or Bigfoot tracks? The trails are just as narrow, the cliffs are just as tall, and the rivers are just as wide. I dont care if your scouting for pink unicorns and leprachauns? One slip may be the end. No joke. Its no game. I’ve had horses roll over me and crack ribs, Mules upside down in creeks, bucked off, hypothermia at 10,000 feet in the Bighorns of Idaho in late October. This isnt a “game” for pot smoking, cheetos munching, kids rolling fantasy dice in their parents basement. Bgfoot may be a myth. I dont know for myself. But the rest of it? Is stark reality. I dont even know if you dont live in western north America? If you really even comprehend it. And no that one summer trip to Yellowstone doesnt count. And I guess thats why I bristle at the notion that this is just a role playing game. It may be for some? Sitting around the campfire at some state park campsite in Ohio and tell spooky Bigfoot stories while eating smores, do some wood knocks and whoops, listen to forest sounds and get freaked out together and convince each other that Coyote howl isnt really a Coyote at all...... yah I get the comparison. Thats not me. Try rolling out of your bed roll at 2am in the morning 50 miles from the trail head because the Stock are going ape shit on the highline. You know Griz are in the area as well as Blacks, Wolves, Cougars......because you have seen their tracks, or them. Your out there in your long johns with a rifle and a flashlight...... by yourself. I dont care how skeptical you are..... in the back of your mind? Bigfoot may just be a myth to you sleeping in your warm bed. But out there in the vast wilderness, in the pitch black, when you know something is out there? He haunts the recesses of your mind. He does mine. And I dont have any problem admitting it. When I crawl out of that tent I am ready to face anything with a metallic taste in my dry mouth. I can control my fear but I will not lie and tell you its not there. Its always there. Maybe its because of some ancient artifact in my DNA. Maybe its the experience I had as a child. Maybe its because I too ate smores and listened to stories around the campfire as a kid. Illogical or not? Its there. I would be lying otherwise. And I bet you my bottom dollar? That these scofftic JREFers? Deep down, way down inside, in the pitch black on that camping trip when a heavy branch snaps close to camp? Its there as well. Its visceral. And its probably why they hang around here..... Its like a morbid fascination that they just cannot tear themselves away from. Or maybe its just because they like to make fun of us weak minded folks that cannot 86 it like they can!

1 Quote Thanks ioyza for your feedback. The more I experience and learn, the more questions I have. I think my realization that they really are a kind of people and not a dumb animal was my turning point. For whatever reasons, it is a position many research groups staunchly refuse to even consider. Filtering out data before you reach any final conclusions is a gross error when using the scientific method. Collection and consideration of empirical data is a lynch pin of inquiry yet eye witness information is prematurely discounted if it doesn't meet their preconceived ideas and positions. A glaring manifestation some professed experts are not qualified. They lack formal training or experience. Formal training and experience has to be matched with the college degree. Otherwise rookie cops fresh out of the academy, medical school graduates, passing the bars exam etc., would make these folks all experts. Not so by a long shot!! Before the family group presented themselves to me in Oklahoma, I had a profound experience with what some people call mind speak, picture talk or mental telepathy. Since then, it has occurred on multiple occasions out in the field. At no time have I felt threatened...well at least while I was Squatchin. I was out hog hunting one time with my LR-308 fitting with a night vision scope and 20 round magazine (30 is too bulky) and got "Zapped" by something possibly a warning me to back off. I was in a full hog hunting mode and probably didn't look too friendly easing up to that grove of trees trying to locate the source of the stirring noise. The jolt felt was like I had taken a taser hit in my left hand. Needless to say I was outa there quick!! I have attached a brief night vision video clip I had taken the night before the Oklahoma meeting. I was still in the hunting stalking mode. I was alone in the land owners orchard trying to spy on the sneaky raiders who were known to come into the orchard through a path and gap in the trees. I was about 75 yards from this gap videoing and watching. No one was at or near me. I was hidden under a canopy of trees in near pitch dark. To even see me would require excellent night vision. In the video, the directional microphone picks up a distinctly female voice say "Nanni-hoish-ka-nay!" I am Cherokee, but suspect this is spoken in the Choctaw tongue. If there's any fluent Choctaw please correct me if I'm wrong. Nanni in Choctaw means fish. Hoish in an exclamation such as Oh my, Alas, Yikes ect. and ka-nay is don't let him or them! I guess it would be aa slang term such as, watch it-he's fishing, or don't let him catch you!! Again any fluent help would be appreciated. The bottom line it is a whispered warning to a third party. Just who and what, I have no absolute conclusions. I never heard it at that time, but the sensitive directional mic picked it up along that treeline. . Sorry folks here's the video Nanni hoish-ta-nay.mp4