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Post by wilderbean on Jan 30, 2007 19:46:48 GMT -5
Clover, the La Chupacabra didn't link! WhatdoIdowhatdoIdo!*really hyper* S'alright, I'm calm now.
Also: GO LA CIGAUPA! Those dudes tottally deserved her awesome wrath. Story ideas sprouting...characters emerging...Omigod! It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!! *really, really hyper*
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Post by Clover on Feb 1, 2007 17:29:13 GMT -5
Yeah.. the Spaniards wern't particularily nice guys. They could be real assholes when they wanted to be---which tended to be with some regularity. I was actually told this story by my father when I was... well, very young. I suppose about ten or so. My grandfather's side is Spanish, from the area of Cadiz in Spain, and my grandmother was of Sangre Pura stock, the upper crust Dominicans--- they tend to be descended from the original Spanish settlers...the ones that wiped out the native peoples, and made money off of the plantations. Ironically enough, though I didn't know her personally, my abuela's family has some interesting geneology--supposedly, our family is descended from a 'haf-breed', that is, a Spaniard who took a Taino bride. Which means, hardee har har, there are quite a few of my extended relatives [they tend to be closer to Abuela Aracelis' family line], that have their own personal Ciguapa stories. But I digress. I was told this by my father, while I was camping with my Abuela Aracelis' side of the family, in the Mountains of Bonao, which has a very high concentration of Ciguapa stories. It made for a fun night, I can tell you that. =__= And now, onto the Chupacabra stuff: INFORMATION en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra <---Wikipedia resource, in english. skepdic.com/chupa.html <--some other information science.howstuffworks.com/chupacabra.htm <--another english language source VISUALS www.unexplainedstuff.com/images/geuu_03_img0527.jpg And the rest are just... nutty. Heh, yay for ideas, though. XD
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Post by wilderbean on Feb 3, 2007 5:50:10 GMT -5
Thanks Clover, you're a babe!
That stuff about the 'Anomalous Biological Entities' was funny...you forget how weird people are sometimes. Not often, though.
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Post by bubbles on Feb 3, 2007 11:02:33 GMT -5
"[...] mass media conspiracy to keep the truth hidden from the people, probably to prevent panic"
Wtf, mass medias LOVE panic. If they knew anything, they'd jump on it and make the world freak out.
"Holy shit Joe! Forget terrorists on tonight's report, that's so five minutes ago. Aliens are the in thing now!"
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Post by Clover on Feb 3, 2007 19:44:52 GMT -5
Yep. XD Nothin' like the media to make it funny.
But since the American government has had a significant role in Puerto Rico since the fifties---I mean, far be it from me to be a rabid conspiracy theorist, but there are a few funny things that I could totally see spawning a hubbabaloo.
Heh... I'm not so sure about the babe--- I love myths and mythology and legends... I'm the sort of girl that knows every single legend, spooky story or even remotely creepy goings-on within a five mile radius of anywhere I go. XD Bt there's such a lack of real spine-tingling stories, so I'm glad La Ciguapa got you interested. Oh! Also----I called my father and grilled him about the Ciguapa, since I felt I was missing something--- he told me another tidbit: You're not supposed to look them in the eye, should you meet them. They can bewitch with a gaze, and thats how they lure you away from your people, and into the woods. So...if you take a trip to the Dominican Republic and just happen to be in the mountains, at night, alone, and randomly have a bit of Spanish in you---and you see some naked, long haired chick with backwards feet coming towards you, just... uh.... stare anywhere but at her eyes. XD In this case, being politically correct is kind of a bad idea. ^_^;;
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Post by wilderbean on Feb 5, 2007 6:34:24 GMT -5
Okay, so if I'm lost in the mountains, alone, somewhere in Mexico, and I see a naked woman with her feet bent backwards, I'm not to...
Hold the phone! I have no Spanish blood in me!! I'M SAVED!!!
I know what you mean about spine-tinglers, though. I haven't heard any decent Stephen-King-types for so long now... Ooh, if anyone out there knows some local horrors, please share them! I know that I'm changing the purpose of this thread, but it's mine anyway and I can do what I like with it. So there.
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Post by wilderbean on Feb 5, 2007 6:35:21 GMT -5
Stephen King quote:"People say I must be a terrible, heartless person, but I do have a heart...in a jar...on my desk..."
*chuckle-laugh-snort*
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Post by Clover on Feb 5, 2007 11:56:39 GMT -5
It's actually not Mexico. It's the Dominican Republic.
But I do have a friend who lives in Mexico--I could ask her for some of the urban legends. There has to be something, since hey... the Aztecs wern't as passive as the Taino--- the DR natives kind of just gave up. The Aztecs didn't. mmm.. ghost stories.
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Post by wilderbean on Feb 6, 2007 4:08:41 GMT -5
Oh I'm sorry...I was typing very late, and in my head Dominican Republic looks like Mexico....*has brain issues*
Poor Aztecs. Fat lotta good fighting did them.
Bloody Spaniards*grabs a weighty history book and throws it at them*
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Post by redsky on Feb 6, 2007 17:18:40 GMT -5
It strikes me as being kinda really really wierd that the Aztecs had a prophecy that their gor, Quetzalcoatl, would return, as a white man, at the same time as Cortez arrived...
If it hadn't been for that, they would have kicked the shit out of them. (I mean, as opposed to them kicking the shit out of them)
*Picks up Wilderbean's history book and throws it at the Spaniards so that it bounces off their heads and hits the Aztecs*
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Post by Clover on Feb 6, 2007 18:55:52 GMT -5
Just one of those little historical "double you tee effs" that the universe loves to throw at people. But yeah... what a coinkidink, eh? Poor bastards.
But yes.... heh... the Spaniards weren't all that nice... but hey! hey hey, no throwing stuff at people, dead or not. [As a bit of an aside, I have a chess set, and the whites are Conquistadors, and the blacks are Aztecs [how racist! XD].... I always play the Aztecs, so they'll actually -win-. XD for once.. ]
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Post by wilderbean on Feb 6, 2007 22:33:11 GMT -5
I used to play Age of Empires 3, but I stopped cos it made me sad I couldn't be the Aztecs and such; all we get to be is stupid settlers from France or Spain etc.
Come ON! What did the French ever do for anyone!?*reaslises they created Canada, and hangs her head in shame*
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Post by Clover on Feb 7, 2007 18:49:58 GMT -5
Awwe..... poor Aztecy babehs. *sniffle* They just got PWNED all over the place. =__=
Ummm.. they kind of might have found Canada, and founded New Orleans... and created baguettes... but other then that? XD Not mu--- well... the drinking age in quebec is directly related to their French heritage...sooooo... VIVE LE FRANCE!
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Post by redsky on Feb 8, 2007 16:44:34 GMT -5
Haha! Play Age Of Empires 2, The Conquerors Expansion! It not only allows you to play as the Aztecs, it includes an entire campaign for them! It may not have fancy third dimensions or realistic stuff, but it's got it where it counts!
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Post by Clover on Feb 8, 2007 22:32:45 GMT -5
XD Heeeee, score for video games. XD I was always more a fan of the 'Lets Play God' games. Like, say, the Sims and SimCity and what-have-you. XD
Nothing like creating your own civilization. [Though ironically, I started an entire writing/rp world based on the Aztec mythology/civilization. And I'm visiting Mexico over the summer, so I'll be hittin' the pyramids like, whoah.]
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