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The Mothman Craze Erupts in Point Pleasant
The Daily Mail ^
| 11/14/2002
| Chris Stirewalt
Posted on 11/14/2002 5:35:04 PM PST by ex-Texan
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To: RadioAstronomer
I get it...and he runs around with a muscle-bound sidekick dressed in a blue suit...right? :-)
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posted on
11/15/2002 12:51:45 AM PST
by
Aracelis
To: ex-Texan
There was a time when a myth of a sea monster was circulating around Santa Cruz. "Our" monster was called "BoBo." Haven't heard much about BoBo for years.
To: ex-Texan; WVNan
If any Freepers live near Point Pleasant, I expect you to drop in tomorrow and send us all a full report.Paging WVNan!
To: Constitution Day
You'd better read
this. We ain't gonna hear from WVNan for a few days.
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posted on
11/15/2002 6:11:26 AM PST
by
TomServo
To: TomServo
Oh man. I am so sorry to hear that.
Thanks, TS.
To: ex-Texan
I live near there. I would not cross the street (or the river) to see a "Mothman." I cannot think of a more boring way to spend a day than to spend it in Pt Pleasant.
To: ex-Texan
I attend the drive-in across the river from Pt. Pleasant a few times every summer (Located a half mile north of where the Silver Bridge disaster occurred), and I was told what Hollyweird and Richard Gere did to the story of the Mothman was not dissimilar to Ben Affleck's take on Pearl Harbor.
How do you take a story that allegedly happened in 1967 and NOT portray it as 1967?
To: Piltdown_Woman
THE TICK! "Spooooooooooooon!"
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posted on
11/15/2002 6:34:13 AM PST
by
hunyb
To: Wondervixen
I grew up and still live in WV. I remember vividly the night the Silver Bridge collapsed and I listened on the radio to the news reports. I have heard stories of the Mothman for decades so when the movie came out my wife and I couldn't wait to see it. (I know a guy who swears he saw it.)
It was unbearably boring.
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posted on
11/15/2002 6:48:22 AM PST
by
Taliesan
To: The Great Satan
Yeah. It was Bender who saw them. It was probably Gray Barker who wrote about them and referred to them as Men in Black.
Keel followed up on it and "documented" it as a widespread thing.
Barker essentially made it up and even probably was one of the "Men in Black" that scared the rather nutty Bender in the first place.
Barker's influence on society is also pretty big. All sorts of crazy ideas that have infested our pop culture come from him.
To: ex-Texan
I'm worried about Springheels Jack, too.
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posted on
11/15/2002 7:45:21 AM PST
by
boris
To: hunyb
THE TICK! "Spooooooooooooon!"My favorite cartoon character! :-) Remember "Cha"? LOL
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posted on
11/16/2002 10:08:45 AM PST
by
Aracelis
To: ex-Texan
If any Freepers live near Point Pleasant, I expect you to drop in tomorrow and send us all a full report.It's only about 40 miles north of here, but I'm not going anywhere near that nutbag convention. I deal with enough losers and freaks every day of the year here in Huntington. And at least at Star Trek conventions, the attendees know it's fictional. Well, most of them anyway.
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posted on
11/16/2002 10:15:04 AM PST
by
Timesink
To: far sider
I live near there. I would not cross the street (or the river) to see a "Mothman." I cannot think of a more boring way to spend a day than to spend it in Pt Pleasant.If those people had a brain, they at least would have scheduled the convention for the same weekend as Bob Evans. They probably could have pulled in a number of stragglers from the extra-chromosome set (® Algore).
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posted on
11/16/2002 10:19:33 AM PST
by
Timesink
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