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07:07 August 21st, 2008

Trekking for beasts - are we there Yeti?

Posted by: Robert Basler
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half-human-120.jpgWelcome to another installment of Haven’t These Guys Ever Seen a Movie Before?

From Nepal comes a Reuters story about a bunch of mountain climbers heading off on a trek  to find the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti. Pathetically, they’re equipped with cameras and telescopes, instead of, you know, flame-throwers and hand grenades.

One of the climbers says - and I’m not making this up - “I want to shake hands if I meet him.”

Yeah. Right. I’m afraid I know where his telescope is going to end up, and it’s way too dark to see anything in there.

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[...] Trekking for beasts - are we there Yeti? - Reuters BlogsFrom Nepal comes a Reuters story about a bunch of mountain climbers heading off on a trek  to find the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti. Pathetically, they’re equipped with cameras and telescopes, instead of, you know, flame-throwers and hand grenades [...]

- Posted by Chile goes intergalactic - Brisbane Times | Trek Mystique

Just what I always wanted. My own little mountain climber. I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him and pat him and pet him and rub him and caress him and…

- Posted by Krista

You’ve been holding onto that photo for three years waiting for a story to use it in, haven’t you?

- Posted by Charlene

Maybe I have, Charlene. My work here is finished now.

- Posted by Robert Basler

would you look at the bulge in that girls shorts !!! holy pubis, Batman !!!

- Posted by gspears3

[...] Haven’t these guys ever seen a movie? Don’t they know that by tonight their top parts will be one place, and their bottom parts someplace else? No, I guess first they have to scoff at warnings, and explain that an animatronic dinosaur could NEVER turn against people. [...]

- Posted by Ubuntu Security » Blog Archive » Razor-sharp gnashing teeth? What could go wrong?

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