Funniest show on tv today

[Blue Meanie]

Sitcom...I'd have to say that 2 Broke Girls is pretty funny. Big Bang has lost a little luster this season for me...but it still is up there as a quality comedy show.

Late Night...Craig Ferguson is the man. He has the best show in late night. Geoff Peterson rules!!!

[johnnystorm]

The Turtle-Man show is just as goofy..the idiot who sticks his arm inside walls to pull out possums & raccoons & then does this weird Xena imitation yell. It's on Animal Planet too, but I forget the title.

[Brazoo]

Technically, they HAVE found remains. They've found numerous hair samples that have undergone extensive DNA testing and come back as an unidentified species of primate that doesn't match any known animal.

If you've got a hair sample that's a primate, and it's not human, not gorilla, chimp, or orangutan...what is it then?

I've heard a lot of rebuttal against these claims. One quick source I can point to is a great debate/conversation on Skeptic's Guide to the Universe with Eric Altman from the Penn Bigfoot Society as a special guest.

Here's a link to that episode:
The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 26 - 1/17/2006


Quickly, here's some of the main points:

• Big Foot researchers have not checked hair samples against all mammals, There's too many species, that would be way too expensive. The DNA they checked it against didn't match the animals they checked for - but that doesn't mean they're from a new species. It's possible they match something that hasn't been compared to yet.

• Most hair samples are checked against humans or local animals and other primates, that leaves a lot of other possibilities.

• Unknown primate hair samples by Dr. Heron Fenerbahce (sp?) - are at best unknown, not proof of Big Foot.

• Unfortunately there's a lot of fraud and hoaxes in the Big Foot field of research, so you can't rule out fraud or hoax when you find hair samples that don't match the sample of animals you're comparing it to. It's not that difficult for someone to access hair from an unusual species and place them for people to find.

• At best, an unknown (as in unknown hair sample) only proves it's unknown. It doesn't prove Big Foot. That's two separate equations.

[samurainoir]

Shows that make me laugh out loud... Mdern Famiy, 30 Rock, and Community.

[Brazoo]

"30 Rock" is great - I also love "Eastbound and Down" which is coming back soon.

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is amazingly funny. "Bob's Burgers" is great...

[Bill]

This season of Philadelphia wasn't that great, but overall that show is hilarious.

[Brazoo]

This season of Philadelphia wasn't that great, but overall that show is hilarious.

I agree - but I thought "Chardee MacDennis" was unreal!

[cjefferys]

Shows that make me laugh out loud... Mdern Famiy, 30 Rock, and Community.

Great taste Ed, I was going to mention these same three shows, along with "Always Sunny..." (and yes, this season was a bit uneven but there were a few gems).

[HumanWolfman]

But no one has ever found remains. It's not just you that hasn't run across them, nobody has knowingly found remains.

I'd like nothing more to believe that there's a race of giant, stinky, hairy hippies living out there in the woods, but I gotta see the evidence like you did to actually believe.

Actually, not finding remains may not be the best example to disprove the existance of Bigfoot. mountain gorillias have only been discovered in th last 100 years. In fact, dinosaur bones were only discovered within the last 200 years or so and they lived here in the millions for hundreds of millions of years. I have flown over most of this country by plane and there are millions upon millions of acres of land where few, if any, men have ever walked. Damn near anything could live there.

[Brazoo]

Actually, not finding remains may not be the best example to disprove the existance of Bigfoot. mountain gorillias have only been discovered in th last 100 years. In fact, dinosaur bones were only discovered within the last 200 years or so and they lived here in the millions for hundreds of millions of years. I have flown over most of this country by plane and there are millions upon millions of acres of land where few, if any, men have ever walked. Damn near anything could live there.

Yeah, but but I find that then we get in this kinda back and forth game with contradictory ideas - to me, these ideas seem to suit whichever part of the theory is being argued. If you don't believe in Big Foot people ask 'what about all these sitings across North America?' and when you ask why one hasn't been captured you hear 'because it's isolated in really remote areas'.

For me to make sense of it - it can't be spotted all over the place AND be extremely isolated. I can't reconcile that logic.

Mountain gorillas were very isolated and have a small population - so it makes sense that they were hard to find. Dinosaur fossils have actually been found for thousands of years - the thing is people only understood what they were in the 1800s.

[Hector]

"Big Foot might exist? Mmm...I'd better get ready for a new client then..."