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2buckets · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East

I've seen Yeti and Bigfoot footprints, the Adam's peak print is MUCH bigger.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Maybe the yeti and bigfoot prints that you saw were babies...

VS

2buckets · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East

If they were babies, would they be walking on their own in the Himalayas and the Cascades?

posh · Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430

They would have found a fossilised skeleton by now.

BretHarte · Joined: 17 Aug 2011 Posts: 94

The jinn hides the fossils and the circle continues.

Honolulu Lou · Joined: 14 Dec 2011 Posts: 8

Hello...I am a South African trying to get a job in that part of the world. My question is why someone like VS keeps butting in as she has not ben there for at least a decade.
I'd like some real info...

It's Scary! · Joined: 17 Apr 2011 Posts: 823

Questions are supposed to end in question marks or did they not teach you that in South Africa along with civility?

It's what it is!

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Isn't it interesting that in a whole thread of silliness, he only chooses to attack one poster? And this thread just screams out that it needs answers from someone on the ground RIGHT NOW!! Laughing

Misogynist? Or just a garden variety troll?

VS

(PS... if it starts with "My question is..." would it end with a question mark? Where is JohnSlat?)

It's Scary! · Joined: 17 Apr 2011 Posts: 823

How about:

posh · Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430

Hang on! I wanna get back to Adam's footprint in Sri Lanka! And where the hell was Eve? Or didn't she get a visa? Or she was Canadian?

Come to think of it, how does a footprint survive 2,000 years?

johnslat · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject:

It's an "embedded question," and it's a noun cause (plus an adverb clause) functioning as a complement. So, no question mark, even if you reversed it and had the noun clause (plus adverb clause) functioning as the subject:

Why someone like VS keeps butting in as she has not ben (sic) there for at least a decade is my question.

My question is whether Honolulu Lou (an apt user-name, actually, since he/she seems to be quite a lulu) would care to point out to us any instances where veiledsentiment's posts on the Middle East have been factually inaccurate.

She not only spent extensive periods of time there in the past, but she has a good number of very reliable people there now that she keeps in contact with.

So, Honolulu Lou - does that answer your embedded question? And I await your answer to mine. Fortunately, my long stay in the Kingdom helped make me a very patient guy because I suspect I'll be waiting until hell freezes over.

Regards,
John

Dear posh,

And where's Eve? Why, buried in the Garden of Eden, of course.

"The Tomb of Eve, also known as Eve's Grave and Eve's Tomb, is an archeological site located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (21�29′31″N 39�11′24″E). It is considered by some Muslims to be the burial place of the Biblical Eve of the Abrahamic faiths. Richard Francis Burton mentions seeing it in The Book Of One Thousand Nights And A Night. The site was sealed with concrete by the religious authorities in 1975 as a result of pilgrims praying at the tomb."

Regards,
John

2buckets · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East

Adam was more than 2000 years ago, this isn't J the C.

This was an epoch when giants roamed the earth, both divine and mortal.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

2buckets · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East

VS,

You're skirting close to theological issues here which may bring the wrath of G-D down upon us.

You do remember the recent evangelical debacle, don't you?