Re: keep digging...

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Posted by sbogill on October 11, 2002 at 00:51:10:

In Reply to: Re: keep digging... posted by Dwight Good on October 11, 2002 at 00:10:26:

:Oh, now I am delusional?? LOL. I'm not the one with the strong taste of foot in mouth right about now, eh?

Actually foot is not half bad if served with a nice wine sauce and some fava beans. heh heh heh..

I just seem to have a problem with someone making wild and outrageous claims without a shred of proof. I guess you don't have a problem with it. It's like I said a long time ago in a prior thread dealing with this same topic: Don't pee on me and tell me it's raining. I'm not going to buy it.

Finding a mutant like that is a once in a lifetime occurrence (if even that). I think I remember you making the statement on one of our herp hunting expeditions that based on your own research the odds of finding an albino snake in the wild where 10,000,000 to one. I don't know where you came up with those figures, but since you are quite the researcher, I will stipulate to them for the sake of this discussion. ...and K.E. has what? 4 or 5 of them? Yeah! Right! So when it gets right down to it we are now to believe that 4 or 5 people all within the same vicinity found these mutant snakes within the time span of a few years?

And remember, he's only going on hearsay as to the locality of them, since he didn't collect them himself. For all he ACTUALLY KNOWS they came strait from the pet shop and directly into his hands. For that matter, he admits that at least one of the DID IN FACT COME FROM A PET SHOP. All he has is the word of the individuals who "collected" them? That might be good enough for you, but third or fourth handed info is not good enough for me when dealing with a subject such as this.

Basically this is a dead topic to me. I'm not going to change your mind and you're not going to change mine. I'm ready to drop it and move on to another topic (hopefully one we can agree on).

By the way, I need to tag a disclaimer on to this and my above posts. I think that K.E. is basically an honest guy who has a high degree of integrity. I think he believes his own claims and is not trying to intentionally mislead anyone.

Follow Ups:

one more for ya, bs gills.. Dwight Good 10/11/02 (5)
- My last post on this topic (lets move on) sbogill 10/11/02 (4)
  - one more thing before moving on... Dwight Good 10/11/02 (3)
    - Ont the matter of finding several morphs in one area...... FroggieB 10/11/02 (2)
      - More on that subject Aaron 10/13/02 (0)
      - Sorry Dwight, I meant to post under SBOGILL's post! n/p FroggieB 10/11/02 (0)
Re: The proof is in the snake!! K.E. 10/11/02 (5)
- In regards to your comments.. sbogill 10/11/02 (2)
  - Re: In regards to your comments.. TheVE 10/12/02 (1)
    - Re: In regards to your comments.. sbogill 10/13/02 (0)
- great post KE, but.... Phil Peak 10/11/02 (0)
- Re: The proof is in the snake!! goyotle 10/11/02 (0)