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The “Abominable Snowman” is a creature from the same family as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and the Yeti. For thousands of years, people all over the world have claimed they have seen these giant, ape/human-like creatures in forests and mountains across the globe.
Science knows little about this ancient species but what we do know is this: They are faster and more cunning than any other species on earth because no matter how many people see them in however many countries, they always manage to escape before anyone can kill or even photograph one properly. The fact that a corpse or skeleton of one has never been found either, tells us they are either immortal or have their own funeral and burial system that hides their bodies more effectively than the impotent minds of humans can discover.
Bigfoot scientists, or Podiatricgrandeologists as they are known, are eager to find out more. A new show will be on Spike TV this fall called “Ten Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty.” They’re actually offering 10 million bucks for “real evidence” of the existence of Bigfoot, so many of these questions should be answered soon. I can’t wait!
If you have a personal experience or story about Bigfoot to share, I’d love to hear it in the comments section!
Meh. Another “reality” show.
I agree. I hate those things. :o)
When I was about 5 or 6, I had a recurring dream that I removed a picture of the Abominable Snowman from its frame, cut out the shape of it with scissors, whereupon it sprung to life and began to chase me around the neighbourhood. I eventually lured it up into our attic and slammed the door behind it. Later I would bring it food and eventually it became fat and docile, not unlike myself. Paging Dr. Freud!
Wow. That would make a good Pixar movie.
It is not the photographers fault. Bigfoot is blurry.
LOL
When I was a teenager in the late 70s, there was an upscale housing development named Muirfield being built near our farmhouse in Dublin, Ohio. There were reports of a bigfoot-like creature sighted in the construction area. It supposedly had white fur, red eyes and left marks on trees with it’s three toed claws. My sisters and I were so scared we slept with our parents who must have thought we were morons but they humored us anyway. My stepfather suspected someone was marking up trees with a three pronged gardening tool and I’ll bet he was probably right.
We had a vacant house on our street that had that same monster living in it. I don’t know why the police don’t do more to protect children from these things.
Nice. I did a similar cartoon a while back, but yours is so much better. http://plattcomics.blogspot.com/2012/02/absolutely.html
Yes, this is definitely one of those puns that’s going to be rediscovered again and again. :o)
I haven’t seen bigfoot, but I did see a UFO, once. Maybe Bigfoot was flying the thing :D
That must be in the Himalayas, because I see a K2 on the rock at the right. :) Never knew they named a mountain after your daughters.
Hi Dan,
Greetings again from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
About the abdominal snowman, (I got a kick out of bigfoot´s content expression – I hate abdominals!)
Cheers,
Erasmus Miranda
Is it safe to guess, based on the BizarroSymbol ™, that the mountain they’re climbing is the great K2?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2
In today’s world, you’re never safe!
Oh ye of little faith.
I went to school with him. He still goes by the nickname “Big”. His real name is Frank, and when he was little, he collected Smurf figurines. He cunningly disguises himself by shaving off all that hairiness (I presume that’s what he does, anyway. Didn’t have much facial hair going on.) He’s hiding out in Germany, so perhaps the contestants of that show would like to concentrate their efforts there?
All I ask is that they not shoot and taxidermy him.
Ya gotta watch Harry and the Hendersons…. how could you not believe? :-) Thanks Dan for the big smile on my face right now.
This comment may not be suitable for a Bizarro comment, but I think you will enjoy it, bizarre or not.
In 1962 I took a biology course from Lawrence Swan who had accompanied one of the Everest expeditions as a biologist. Once every semester his classes would ask for the Abominable Snowman Lecture. He would stand up, put his hands behind his back, rock back and forth a couple of times, and announce in a loud voice, “Requiem for the Abominable Snowman.” What followed was his description of what he found one day while walking a trail in the Himalayas. I won’t try to duplicate his showmanship so here’s the bare bones of his experience. He came upon some Yeti tracks in the snow and followed them. He says he had his heart in his throat all the time especially when the tracks went around a blind corner in the trail and he couldn’t see what was on the other side. Steeling himself, he stepped around the corner and discovered the Yeti. Not quite in the flesh though. What he found were fox tracks that took up where the yeti tracks entered a darkened area. Thus, yeti tracks are fox tracks that the sun has melted to form larger “footprints” and that return to being fox tracks when the fox walks on frozen snow that has no chance to melt.
Nevertheless, we are still looking for Yeti’s, Sasquatches, or Bigfoot and I think that’s fine. Why take the fun and the adventure out of life? I think Dr. Swan felt the same way because he never seemed to talk about his discovery except for an amusing lecture on a fine summer’s day when no one wanted to study anyway.
Lest you think he was just a showman, Dr. Swan had the privilege of naming a zone of fauna, the Aeolian Zone, because he discovered some airborne spiders (webs like sails) who live high in the Himalayas and, as discoverer, got to name the zone. After all these years I remember him as a good teacher and a very humorous man. I also have never forgotten the Abominable Snowman.
Great story, thanks!
When I was about four or five, my “new” step-aunt taught me this ditty. I had a great deal of trouble pronouncing the two similar words. “The Duchess and I were invited to tea. Her rumblings abdominal were simply abominable, and every body thought it was me.” With that confusing early introduction, I mis-spoke for years, and even now in my sixth decade, I sometimes have to pause to be sure I use the correct word and not “abdominable.”
I first heard that one as a limerick.
It was just as I thought it would be.
I sat next to the Duchess at tea.
Her rumblings abdominal
were simply phenomenal
and everyone thought it was me!
Hey Dan, why does a guy as opposed to belief in myths like you believe in nonsense such as natural medicine?
I meant it in very general terms. A low-fat, vegan diet plus very moderate exercise is far more effective in preventing (and often treating) most illnesses than any amount of pharmaceuticals. My point is that people are more willing to take handfuls of pills each day than change their habits.
Cartoonist Chuck Ingwersen also notes that Bigfoot himself is dismayed by the poor photographic evidence:
http://wordsandtoons.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/bigfoot-facebook.jpg%3Fw%3D450
The reason why they cannot be photographed correctly is like what Mitch Hedberg said: “I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographer’s fault.”
When I was a very small child, I thought I saw bigfoot when I went out to eat with my parents once.
Later in my childhood, though, I figured out what it was that I’d seen….Ronald McDonald. The clown shoes threw me, but then again, I was only 5.
That still happens to me all the time. :o)
I’ve never seen one in the wild, but my husband does have big feet….