Debunking Humor...

[Mendel]

Indeed - a shout out to all the experimentalist who are helping keep science real and practical.

OI! Humour!

Get back on topic!

 

[John J.]

We are all just curious folk,
Though sometimes we make a joke.
To other topics, we're attracted,
And at times we get distracted.
Please forgive our random acts
As we flit to other facts.
Don't try to keep us on one path,
(I thought your Special Skill was math!)
Directing traffic on this site
Resembles herding cats, at night.

Ann K., for a moment I thought the ghost of Robbie Burns himself had accessed your keyboard.

 

[Ann K]

Ann K., for a moment I thought the ghost of Robbie Burns himself had accessed your keyboard.

OT: my grandfather was a poet, of sorts, and published a lot of Victorian treacle (his own, and others) in Leland Scots, an almost incomprehensible dialect. I have a comprehensive book of Burns' poems, given to my father by his twin sister on their twenty-first birthday.

 

[John J.]

An American writer called Lue
Thought UFOs were probably true:
"I've taken the Gimbal
as my favourite symbol-
The others are plastic and glue."

 

[JMartJr]

There once was a man from Nantucket,
If you saw UAPs, he'd debunk it!
His debunks were insightful,
and downright delightful,
but he didn't know the rules for finishing a limerrick...

 

[John J.]

A diligent lady at AARO
Had such mail, it came by the barrow
"They all say they see
Alien UAP,
But I've checked, it was only a sparrow."

 

[elvenwear]

There once

but he didn't know the rules for finishing a limerrick...

A common problem.


There once was a woman from Imbil
Who saw something. Looked like a cymbal.
It spun in the breeze.
Hundred eighty degrees.
Didn't accept the gimble rotation explanation, though. A pity.

 

[John J.]

Last one from me for now... you can have too much of a good thing. And my poems.

A Bigfoot, his hair long and messy,
"Borrowed" the cameras from Jessie.
He said,
"You can't take
photographs of this lake
while I'm water-skiing with Nessie."

 

[Mendel]

Not every hoax is an amateur hoax and involves cryptids:

Shanwei zoo, chow-chows.

 

[John J.]

Shanwei zoo, chow-chows.

Bizarrely, not the first time this has been tried

Chinese zoo under fire after dyeing dogs to resemble pandas

May 10, 2024, 11:20 AM GMT+1 / Updated May 10, 2024, 1:00 PM GMT+1
By Larissa Gao
HONG KONG — A zoo in China has been accused of trying to deceive visitors with a pair of dogs dyed black and white to look like panda bears.

Videos circulating on Chinese social media show the two "panda dogs" in an exhibit at Taizhou Zoo in the eastern province of Jiangsu that opened on May 1. Though the animals are patterned to look like pandas, which are endemic to China and an international symbol of the country, their wagging tails give them away.

Zoo officials told Chinese state media that they were Chow Chows — a fluffy dog breed originally from northern China — painted black and white to resemble giant pandas, adding that they had clearly advertised them as "panda dogs" and did not make any false claims.

NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-zoo-panda-dogs-rcna151606, 10 May 2024.
Screengrabs:

Also "Chinese zoo defends dyeing dogs black and white to look like pandas", The Independent, Tom Watling, 10 May 2024
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/pandas-dogs-painted-chinese-zoo-b2542801.html

-Would note that the reddish-brown flooring at Taizhou Zoo, May 2024, looks a lot like the reddish-brown flooring at Shanwei Zoo, September 2024 in Mendel's post.
Are hoaxers recycling a hoax?

I mis-heard some of the comments made by zoo visitors in some footage at first,
I thought they were saying,
"...this is a Shih Tzu."

 

[Mendel]

There are more limericks (plus the ones above) at https://www.metabunk.org/threads/limericks.13661/ .
(You may need to register on the forum to see them.)

 

[FatPhil]

Bizarrely, not the first time this has been tried

Unless it's something old being regurgitated.

 

[elvenwear]

Now that the term UAP has supplanted the term UFO, perhaps we can repurpose the acronym.

Henceforth, the term UFO should refer to unidentified Furry Object.

 

[Mendel]

Now that the term UAP has supplanted the term UFO, perhaps we can repurpose the acronym.

Henceforth, the term UFO should refer to unidentified Furry Object.

Uninteresting Fuzzy "Orb".

 

[FatPhil]

Unless it's something old being regurgitated.

This idea goes back way before the Taizhou incident.

Sichuan café can turn your pooch into a 'panda dog'
Source:Global Times Published: 2019/10/22 18:04:52

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1167594.shtml

Is this a panda or a dog?
June 9, 2020 | 11:36am
Meet the world's first "panda dog." When a man in Leshan, China, noticed his chow-chow looked like a giant panda, he dyed the pooch's hair black and white

https://nypost.com/video/is-this-a-panda-or-a-dog/

 

[Mauro]

This idea goes back way before the Taizhou incident.

Ah, Italians came first by ten years...

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...tale-circo-orfei-cani-truccati-panda/1291825/

Orfei circus [a famous Italian circus], raid of Forestale [law-enforcement corps specialized in protecting woods and wildlife]: two dogs disguised as pandas.

A fee was charged for pictures of the puppies. The owner has been indicted of animal mistreatment and fraud.

22 December 2014

 

[derwoodii]

 

[John J.]

Inspired by our new findings upthread, I've done a bit of research and frankly, I don't think pandas are anywhere near as rare as the Chinese Communist Party would have us believe:

(Note the fencepost. Pretty sure if we had a wider-framed photo with a bit of sky, it would show a Calvine- or Dechmont/Livingston- type UFO.)

 

[Mendel]

Flying panda

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcSO1dkCmH0

 

[Ann K]

Inspired by our new findings upthread, I've done a bit of research and frankly, I don't think pandas are anywhere near as rare as the Chinese Communist Party would have us believe:

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(Note the fencepost. Pretty sure if we had a wider-framed photo with a bit of sky, it would show a Calvine- or Dechmont/Livingston- type UFO.)

Ach, look at the wee coos! Belted Galloways, or are these the Dutch ones?

 

[LilWabbit]

 

[John J.]

Ach, look at the wee coos! Belted Galloways, or are these the Dutch ones?

Um, I don't know how to say this... but I think they're Panda Cows. Honest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_cattle
"What is a Panda Cow?", The Week, 08 January 2015 https://theweek.com/articles/488345/what-panda-cow

OT: my grandfather was a poet, of sorts, and published a lot of Victorian treacle (his own, and others) in Leland Scots, an almost incomprehensible dialect.

Scotland's other Bard wrote a poem about a coo, er, cow;

"On yonder hill there stood a coo
It's no' there noo
It must've shifted".

William McGonagall (March 1825[2]​ – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet and public performer. He gained notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall

I think McGonagall was a great man. His works raise a smile, and better a terrible poet than a terrible surgeon, bridgebuilder or railway signalman.

 

[JMartJr]

I object! This unacceptably blurs the distinction between cows that are small, viz:

and cows that are far away, thusly:

 

[Ann K]

@JMartJr

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0

 

[JMartJr]

Not hilariously funny, but on a whim I stopped by Morris Costumes today to see what Halloween decorations they have this year.

Morris is of course well known in the world of bunk/debunk discussion for the original Mr. Morris's claim to have made the Bigfoot suit for the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. The very nice lady working the counter today was not aware of that history, but did let me take a few pics in the store, I was pleased to see that SOMEBODY either remembers the story, or at least somebody left an amusing Easter Egg for bunkers and debunkers who happen by, that nobody has since taken down!

They also had a very nice "bust" prop of one of our large-pedal-extremity friends up on a high shelf.

It is nice to see a bit of our common history as folks interested in this stuff!

 

[FatPhil]

A fair chunk of the start of this guy's stand-up routine (up to ~15m) is about debunking, he even uses that precise term:

Source: https://youtu.be/watch?v=aEnGRBHbyw4

 

[NorCal Dave]

Source: https://i.imgur.com/YF5krgl.png

Clearly, Bigfoot and Aliens are much smarter than squid.

 

[Mendel]

Clearly, Bigfoot and Aliens are much smarter than squid.

The squid are simply hoping for that influencer career.

 

[JMartJr]

Clearly, Bigfoot and Aliens are much smarter than squid.

Or less vain?

 

[LilWabbit]

Source: https://youtu.be/3BrCvZmSnKA?si=gva1hhNU2X9cNrLB

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Even better than this?


Yes


Too bad it was 6 years ago...

 

[Mendel]

"Recreated dream"

 

[outlier]

View attachment 72109
"Recreated dream"

We don't need to recreate this.

 

[derwoodii]

 

[JMartJr]

I think I've been "alien abducted" by one of them racetrack UFOs...

 

[FatPhil]

View attachment 72177
I think I've been "alien abducted" by one of them racetrack UFOs...

Nope, that's got epicycles, that's a planet.

 

[John J.]

We've now got a thread about claims of Skyquakes,
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/skyquakes.13681/#post-324585,
and Metabunker @owntheissue started a thread inspired by their own experience of hearing an extraordinarily loud sound in November 2014, a sound that others tens, even hundreds of miles away might have heard
(thread Help me debunk my own "unidentified" audio experience).

I'd never heard of skyquakes before owntheissue's thread; doing a bit of reading there was a well-documented case of an anomalous "boom" heard on and around Bell Island, Newfoundland Canada in 1978. It attracted the attention of the Los Alamos National Laboratory; scientists there were researching "superbolts", lightning events of great power that were first detected by US Vela satellites on the look-out for foreign nuclear tests.

Anyway, "Skyquake" sounded like a James Bond film title to me. Maybe not a very good James Bond film...

Theme song, performed by Adele, to the tune of Skyfall (sort of):

Run VT:

Outro song, performed by Shirley Bassey, to the tune of Goldfinger (sort of):

I do wonder if I drink too much coffee.

 

[Mendel]

there's gotta be some way to debunk this

 

[RTM]

We have all seen that documentary about an NHI biologic who murdered members of the US military in Central America in the 80's. We were lied to, this shocking new documentary discloses what really happened.

 

[Duke]