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A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
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Peter O'Toole: [looking at a nude scupture] "Where precisely were you in the early part of the sixteenth century?"
Audrey Hepburn: "I don't know, but that's not how I was dressed."
A romantic comedy -slash- heist film, How to Steal a Million merges the genres as only the 1960's can. It's gorgeous: colorful and stylish almost to the point of gaudiness. Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole charm as they scheme to steal a statue from one of the top museums in Paris.
Delicious and sweet. It's a lovely dessert film that could probably be 20 minutes shorter with no real harm.
For people who've already watched and rewatched TOPKAPI, THE PINK PANTHER, and GAMBIT a few times too many, this should satisfy any craving you have for a fix of glossy, 1960s caper fluff. William Wyler probably wasn't the director most temperamentally suited to all-out frivolity, dragging his running time out beyond the two-hour mark, but does preside over mostly impeccable performances from his cast. Eli Wallach, who replaced George C. Scott mid-shoot, is fun to watch playing a Ralph Bellamy-type role a million miles removed from Tuco, and O'Toole seems right for Hepburn, refreshingly unlike the older men Hollywood usually paired her off with; he's probably her only co-star as willowy and fey as she is.
One of Hepburn's more forgettable films, but it's still a Hepburn film.
I'd make the case that Audrey Hepburn is the best "movie star" in Hollywood history- she's so effortlessly charming, and capable of both dramatic and comedic performances. Of course, I may be letting my hormones get the best of me, but I'll watch her in just about anything. Regardless, "How to Steal a Million" is mildly enjoyable. Not a must see, but not bad at all.
I don't know that this is generally considered a "great" film, but by my own personal ranking system, it gets my vote! It's witty and entertaining, with a charming performance by O'Toole. Hepburn is lovely as usual.
Audrey enlists Peter to help her steal a sculpture from a museum, that her art forger father has lent for exhibition, BEFORE it can be analyzed for insurance purposes.
This is froth, creating the giddiness derived from the intoxicating bubbles that emanate from a bottle of old aged champagne kept in the cellar since 1966 and bottled by actors and direction that are sadly passé in today's so-called romantic comedies.
The body movements, facial expressions, vocalizations and pure beauty of these headline stars cannot be matched today and because of film history will not be forgotten. Amazingly, the stars are confined (by choice) in a broom closet in the museum overnight in order to complete their caper and you are there with them and their charm. Claustrophobia was never so divine.
Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn make a gorgeous couple, and I'll spend the rest of my life lamenting the fact that they didn't make more movies together. I adored them together here; so witty, so romantic, so complementary, and I just want more films with them!
It's with Audrey of course it's great
The plot is silly as all get-out but it's still a frothy romp of a movie, bouyed by a stylish and effervescent Audrey Hepburn. I laughed out loud in the very first frame with Peter O'Toole's face in it. He certainly has a Peter Wimsey-esque thing about him.
Sheer perfection.
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Audrey and Peter make a fantastic Meet-cute. The film takes its sweet time to actually get going, so best sit in for a lot of build-up to a pleasantly enjoyable heist scene with a fantastic punch-line. Otherwise, overlong by at least 15 minutes. Rent it, not worth owning.
Corny, dated and coincidental, but retains charm. The leads work it a little hard, not to mention Boyer. Eli Wallach forever works as a comic support, and is nice to see attired more formally and seemingly at ease.
A light, silly movie. I'm not a huge Audrey Hepburn fan, but she's solid here, and Peter O'Toole is awesome as usual. His role isn't that great, but he always can elevate any material he's in. Might have been a little outdated even when it was released, but it's innocent nature keeps it enjoyable.
RIP Eli Wallach.
A delightful heist movie with some nice subtext about the mental state of art collectors.
And of course O'Toole and Hepburn are just wonderful.
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Not much on this board about Lexington. I am going to Keenland for a week in April and would like some recs for places to eat. Coming from NJ so please, no deli or sushi. Would love some local favorites like a hot brown. We don't get served grits very often. High end or low end, as long as it's good. Breakfast and dinner mostly, will be at the track for lunch. thanks in advance.
Atomic Cafe in Lexington is one of our favorites.
There are some great places in Midway if you don't mind driving--Holly Hill Inn is probably the best-known.
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The orginal Malones screams spring meet...its a must
Thanks for this. We're looking for the same thing. Coming from Toronto. We hope to make it to Keeneland again for a meet. We'll probably have breakfast one morning at the track kitchen, my son loves that sort of thing, but what else might be around. Is there anything in the Versailles, Lexington or even Georgetown areas? Like the orginal poster has requested - local favourties- Fried chicken, biscuits?
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Here's a link to the Inn at Shaker Village: http://www.shakervillageky.org/dining/
Claudia Sanders is in Shelbyville: http://www.claudiasanders.com/
Miguel's in Midway is owned by a family friend: http://www.miguelsmexicanrestaurant.com/
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Just thought I'd open this older post. We're finally getting to Keeneland again, a year late, and was wondering if there's any new favourites we should know about? We're going to be staying in downtown Lexington for 4 days at Easter but will do a day trip to Louisville. Will probably go to Wallace Station, and maybe to the White Line Diner but am still looking for southern cooking, soul food perhaps. Ambience is not important - it's all about the food. We're travelling with our 14 yr old son who gets a kick out of eating at chicken restaurants - if the chicken on the sign is wearing funny costumes. So far we've eaten fried chicken where the advertising features chickens in cowboy attire, sombreros, plaid golf pants, curly wigs and aprons, beards, moustaches and we're always on the lookout for more when we travel.
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We made it to Keeneland for this meet. And the "tornado" got to Versailles before we did so we tended to stick closer to downton Lexington where we were staying. And let our son pick the restaurants. Some hits, some misses. We did get to Ramsey's, the favourite choices being the fried catfish,baked sweet potato, summer squash and peanut butter pie. The waitress was so nice and was happy to bring me some green sweet relish to put in the tartar sauce. We ate at a Mexican restaurant in a suburban residential area not far from the Fayette? Mall. Satisfying but nothing outstanding but as we were up to our axles in water it was time to pull over and eat. We drove out to Wallace Station but it was ridiculously busy so we continued along the Old Frankfort Pike to Frankfort to the White Line Diner. My husband and son had the pulled pork which they thought was decent but my son wasn't crazy about the spicing. I had the scallop po'boy which was really good, But don't look for it on the menu. Apparently Rick's seafood order from Cincinatti came with scallops instead of oysters, The blue cheese mac and cheese was a nice variation on the theme. None of us were crazy about the bread. It reminded me of an elongated english muffin that fell apart on contact. We also went to the bakery in Frankfort and bought a few baked goods, the cheese danish was nice. The chocolate shop in town was a disappointment. The bourbon chocolates were alright but far too sugary for my taste and the fudge was no better than inexpensive grocery store brands. On a late night we stopped at Tollly Ho for a midnight snack. Burgers were good old school burgers. Portions were huge. Onion rings and fries were what you'd expect. The limeade was a refreshing change. Although I must say I enjoyed every gallon of the unsweetened tea I drank on this trip! If you're at the Kentucky Horse Park try the lunch there. They had decent pulled pork bbq sandiwiches, soup beans with cornbread and a few other regional specialties. I enjoyed the bread pudding, which was drizzled with some dark chocolate. As caferias go this was a good one. Other sweets we enjoyed were Doughdaddy donuts (which I enjoyed much more than our Tim Horton's donuts).. We walked through the very tiny farmer's market near the hotel after breakfast at Della's Diner. I bought pimento cheese and beer cheese. Interesting. My son bought Easy Cheese in a spray can at the grocery store. Not sure if I really care to try either again. But we're all hooked on Ale 8 One and loaded the back of the pick up truck with cases of it. Oh yes, and a couple of bottles of bourbon for my husband. My son enjoyed the battered and deep fried dill pickles. And as for the funky chicken we didn't get any of that until just before we crossed the border at Port Huron into Canada.
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Thanks to all. Murray's menu looks good. A little taste of bluegrass while i'm there. Claudia Sander's looked good too but I'm not driving halfway to Louisviile for fried green tomatoes. Please keep the suggestions coming. Buiscuits? Hot brown?
Skip the food... stick to bourbon. Only kidding of course. Midway is worth the trip. People have already made some fine suggestions, but you might also consider Wallace Station. It's owned by Ouita Michel, who also runs the aforementioned Holly Hill Inn. Wallace Station would be a great choice for taking-out and picnicking at the track.
Holly Hill Inn
426 North Winter Street, Midway, KY 40347
Wallace Station
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Holly Hill Inn
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Interesting you should suggest Wallace Station. It's going to be featured on an upcoming "Triple D" episode with Guy Fieri. As are several other Kentucky d.d and ds, two of which are in Lexington. I've never been to the Shaker Village but my sister stayed and ate there and enjoyed it.
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Hi Roadpony,
I don't think it has aired yet. I guess keep checking the Food Network website or Flavortown USA site for updates. I know it's not tonight's episode.
We never made it to KY this spring, maybe October for the fall meet or yearling sales. Looking forward to some local specialities!
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Not sure if you got a chance to see it or not but if you scroll to the bottom of the page linked here you can watch it.
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From Lexington
Take Leestown Road (U.S. 421) west toward Frankfort. Midway is approximately 11 miles beyond
New Circle Road.
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Thanks for letting me know where the "other" Midway is!!!!
I really thought some of these Midway places sounded great - but when I looked Midway up on Google maps, it was west of the Land Between the Lakes area. I'll be in Lexington/Frankfort and can make it to this other Midway. thanks so much.
Columbia Steakhouse. Downtown. Tons of racing memorabilia. Cold Beer. Great Steaks. Been doing it for years.
just got back and thought i'd report. first night we just went for some pizza at mellow mushroom. good beer and lovely coeds to watch but i usually don't eat pizza outside of nyc and this place verifies why. the next evening we ate at murray's. it was a beautiful night and we ate on the patio. that made it a worthwhile night. but the place had glorified bar food. no beer on tap and $11 for a bourbon. menu was uninspired. and the college waiter was out of bill and ted's excellent adventure. whoa dude. funny but not in a haha way. we had lunch at the track so nothing to report there. the next night we ate at dudley's. nice looking place with a small but nice bar. food was very good if uninspired. i had a salad with goat cheese and about 4 pieces of lettuce. i had the steak frites and my friend had the pasta. all tasty but like i said, nothing to wow. the last day we went for breakfast at stella's. nice place with nice ideals and tasty local food. i had eggs with country ham and a side of biscuits with gravy and cheese grits. no lunch needed that day! the buscuits were outstanding, flaky and delish. the gravy was also terrific, very peppery. the grits were just sooo good. not mushy like i've had in the past but cheesy chewy deliciousness. it's like the difference between instant oatmeal and steel cut oats. and the ham was just great. this is the kind of place i love to eat at when i visit a new area. all local providers and all regional food. you should support them. for dinner we went to jonathan's. never mentioned on this board and that is a shame. it's the epitome of what i asked for. the chef uses local ingredients to cook some high end bluegrass/ southern food. it is what a chowhound wants. it's a little pricey but not outrageous. my friend had local asparagus in an appetizer. i chose an appetizer that basically was bluegrass cooking in 1 dish. grit fries( like fried polenta but with grits) in a pimento cheese sauce with a banana pepper relish. it was amazing. simple ingredients that tasted great and was kentucky in 1 dish. if he added a burgoo dipping sauce i think he would have all the local specialties in 1 dish. and my main was shrimp and grits. not bluegrass but still southern and darn good. as you can tell, i don't get grits in nj so i certainly had my fill this week. and dessert was a trio of homemade ice creams. bananas foster, mint chocolate truffle, and derby pie. wow, a terrific ending to a fine meal. this place should get more recognition. thanks to all and next time i'll get to try a hot brown.
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I second the Tulip... one of our favorite nice places. French inspired... steaks, fish dishes, mussels and fries, frog legs, ect..
... months later, Keenland is going on again, and I'm headed to Lexington. If i had all the time, i'd check these places out. None fancy by any means, just good food and good memories.
A.P. Suggins: fried chicken and white gravy
Le Matin: baguette (dude goes back and fourth from France and picks up ingredients)
Halls on the river: Fried banana peppers and frog legs
Billy's BBQ: Mutton and Burgoo.
Columbia's steakhouse: lamb fries
Winchell's: hot brown, fried green tomatoes, extreme hot wings
Joe Bologna's: Bread stick floating in garlic butter
Gold Star Chili: Though fast food, its hard to come across chili spaghetti (Cincinnati chili).
I'm sure I'm missing some other old favorites, but there is my list for anyone who's interested.


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Bise Rawalpindi Board Result 2014
BISE Rawalpindi Board
Rawalpindi is the city situated in the potohar region of Pakistan. It is commonly known as Pindi. It is the only city which is near to Islamabad. It is the 4rth largest city of Pakistan. It is very small city but has its importance it is smaller than Hyderabad and multan.this city gain its importance after building of Islamabad as capital of Pakistan. It is also important because Pakistan Military headquarter is situated in this city. Many tourists from the world who want to visit northern areas use this city as a stop during their journey and enjoy its hilly areas. This city is completely covered with hills. Islamabad airport is located in Rawalpindi as both city uses this airport so from this statement you can think that how near is these both cities are.
Education is most important part of any country. Through education any countries economy can change. In Rawalpindi there are many school and colleges situated in this city. These school and colleges are providing world class education. Some of the institutions are as follows; Army medical college , college of mechanical and electrical engineering, military college of signals and many others so these are some of universities which are providing excellent education to the students.
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Board of intermediate and secondary education Rawalpindi is the administrative body of intermediate and secondary level education. It was established in 1977. It was previously combined with Sargodha board actually Sargodha board is dealing this city intermediate and secondary education. Then it was divided into two Sargodha board deals only with Sargodha district and Rawalpindi board deals with Rawalpindi education. BISE Rawalpindi deals with district Attock, district Chakwal, district Jhelum and district Rawalpindi. This board has many functions as of other boards it is conducting exams for secondary and intermediate level in a crystal clear environment. It gives students healthy environment to study and explore themselves. It keeps doing activities for students which boost up their confidence as well as maintain their mental and physical health.
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Chairman of board of intermediate and secondary education Rawalpindi states his message in which he says that BISE Rawalpindi is the board which gives its services in a fair environment. It will always give quality education, it gives opportunities to the students, parents and teachers to contact them and cooperate with them by following rule and regulations. It will try its best to maintain quality and achieve its target of making education system more advance and better. It will make its examination process transparent. This message is also on the website of BISE Rawalpindi and many other information related to Rawalpindi board is available on their website.
Board of intermediate and secondary education Rawalpindi is the board which deals with Rawalpindi education. They are performing their function very well and give every problem solutions to the students and their parents. Hope they continue to improve themselves. Hope you all like this article. Keep visiting to our website for more updates and information. Thanks.
- 1 February 17, 2014 at 9:08 am
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- 3 March 22, 2014 at 12:30 pm
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mara nam danish mehmood hay my 8th class ma phrta hon o my karial govt boy high school my phrta hon
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please inform me about the result of 8th and 5th class . 8th class roll no is 90-305-131. 5th class roll no is 40-305-171
- 21 March 29, 2014 at 5:16 am
result kb aye ga 5 aur 8 ka
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8th class 90-305-131
- 24 March 30, 2014 at 4:29 am
- 25 March 30, 2014 at 11:28 am
8th class roll no 72-160-163
- 26 March 30, 2014 at 12:43 pm
I already know I am fail
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Plz send me datesheet of sargodha board icom part 1…
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- 29 May 14, 2014 at 9:10 am
mary 1st year ki roll number slip mucja nahi mily plz help me?
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show me my roll no of class 10 rawelpindi…
- 31 July 1, 2014 at 8:33 am
plz give me my result my roll num is 949614
- 32 July 3, 2014 at 9:57 am
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- 34 July 4, 2014 at 3:18 pm
Plz show my result of federal board ssc part1 my roll numbr is 977286
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- 36 July 10, 2014 at 3:11 pm
rawalpindi board ka result kab ay ga ssc I KA PLS JALDE BATAO
- 37 July 10, 2014 at 3:15 pm
SSC part I ka result kab ay ga jalde batao na my rool number is 618073
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rawalpindi board 2014 ka 10th class ka result kab ae ga . Roll no.848904
- 39 July 21, 2014 at 9:09 am
ye pindi bord maly reslat buhat let show krty hain
- 40 July 21, 2014 at 10:48 am
matric part one ka result kab ha
- 41 July 24, 2014 at 5:49 am
rawlpindi board ka result kb ana ha date bta da 9th or 10
- 42 July 24, 2014 at 3:00 pm
i am student of class 10th my roll no is 845705 please jaldi btain….
- 43 August 20, 2014 at 11:29 pm
9th ka result 21 aug din 10:10 bjy ayega.
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lagta ha pindi board ka is saal 9th ka result dene ka irada nahi ha ya phir lambe ghaple hain


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Lions teammate: Calvin Johnson gets even stronger, faster
Before the Lions broke minicamp earlier this month, a reporter asked receiver Nate Burleson to name a teammate who had a standout spring or surprised him in any way.
Burleson's answer, without much hesitation: Calvin Johnson.
"I know it sounds corny," Burleson said. "You wouldn't think a guy like that could come back and get better, but he does."
Johnson emerged as the NFL's most dominant receiver last year. He set career highs with 96 catches for a league-leading 1,681 yards and 16 touchdowns; he finished the year with three 200-yard receiving games in the last four weeks, including the playoffs; and he led the Lions to the postseason for the first time in 12 years.
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Every year there are a few players whom I expect, for scouting reasons or for analytical ones, to take some kind of step or leap forward in performance. I've got eight such names for 2013, with varying degrees of confidence that I try to explain...Blog | March 19, 2013
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Ricky Kearns, of Point Pleasant, WV, and other members of his family witnessed a strange flying creature on the night of October 20, 2014, as they sat outside, gazing up at the sky.
The teenaged boy reported:
I'm mind blown right now and this is why I'm writing to you. This happened to me about an hour ago. My dad, my baby sister, and I were outside in the hot tub. We were just talking … [My little sister] spots this giant winged creature flying across the sky . . . I'm [now] terribly upset that I didn't immediately get out and grab my phone to video or take a picture. I was in all honest awe and didn't even think that I would resort to a dead end on diagnosing this sight. It was WAY UP in the sky, and it's wings were flapping slowly, so explaining that it was a large creature high up rather than a small creature flying low. But it was glowing.
This part of West Virginia is near the border with Ohio, near where the Kanawha River meets the Ohio River. Ricky estimated that it had "at least a 25-30 ft wingspan."
Oklahoma (mid-Sep-2014)
The eyewitness in Oklahoma City reported:
I have always thought Bigfoot was really cool but never paid any attention to really anything about pterosaurs existing today . . . This morning at around 8:30 it went from bright morning to a black sky in just a few minutes. . . . it was such a freaky change in weather . . . On my way back from the store, I was watching the sky and saw a few birds and this really big bird with leathery wings and a long tail with a lion tuft type of thing. This is what the shape suggested. I didn't see any feathers. I didn't see a crest on it's head but I was looking up almost directly under it so I don't know if I could tell that from that angle. It wasn't flapping. Mostly gliding but slight movement from the wings they definitely seemed bat like.
New Mexico
Early in September of 2014, two men were gazing through their telescopes one night. One of them reported:
This sighting was between 2-2:30 in the morning as my buddy and I are avid astronomers i.e.: Star gazers, or as I have come to calling it "Star geekers" . . .
He answered questions that I (Jonathan Whitcomb) put to him:
Q: Could you estimate the length of the sighting in seconds?
A: Not counting what I saw fly through my field of vision (about 3-5 seconds) while I was attempting to center the Andromeda galaxy in my telescope (which I am now fully convinced was the creature btw) I would have to say between 6-8 seconds.
Q: Did you notice a tail?
A: I thought I noticed "something" trailing not far behind this 'thing' although my friend says he did not notice anything. Was there something that attached the trailing 'thing' to the main body? No. In my estimation there was about 10′ between the main body and the little something that trailed it. So to say that I noticed a tail…no sir I can not, in so far as I did not see anything that connected the little glowing "bit" that trailed and followed the main body. This is the best that I can answer this question.
Searching for Ropens and Finding God – by Jonathan Whitcomb
From page 180 of the fourth edition of this nonfiction book:
Sighting reports often suggest only a lone eyewitness, meaning the one reporting the creature was alone and took no notice of anybody else who saw it. Yet I was surprised earlier in 2013, when I analyzed the more credible accounts, for apparently 43% of sightings involve two eyewitnesses. I also learned 47% thought they were alone, although some unobserved persons may also have been witnesses.
Flying Creature
Do you call the police? The newspaper? Animal control? A nearby university? A brief reflection makes it obvious: None of those will do. Other American eyewitnesses have been called "crazy" for reporting what they have seen.
I hope you'll contact me, Jonathan Whitcomb. As far as I know, I am the only person on earth who has devoted anything like a full-time effort, over years, to interview eyewitnesses of apparent living pterosaurs or ropens, promoting the idea that these flying creatures are not extinct but very much alive.
Screen Shot of the top of the Wikipedia page "Ropen" (from about August 20, 2014)
The Ironic Reasoning Behind the "Ropen" Deletion
Supposedly, it was "lack of appropriate weight to the mainstream view" that killed off the page. Bigfoot, watch out, for you may be next. What's ironic about the loss of one page from Wikipedia? I tried, earlier this month, to add a mainstream viewpoint to that page, to prevent the whole article from being deleted. That's when, within a few minutes, my contribution itself was deleted. Why? Because, said that self-appointed editor, I had selectively quoted a paleontologist in such a way as to leave an impression that was misleading. What nonsense! Any person who would have taken the trouble to compare my quoting with the original source—that person could have seen that the meaning was exactly the same.
The big irony is that I was trying to contribute material that was contrary to my own personal beliefs, to save the "ropen" article from deletion. Perhaps the self-appointed editor who deleted my attempt assumed that I must have quoted wrongfully (because of my beliefs); yet how could that editor have done all of the following, within about five minutes, and still have had time to consider it carefully?
It took me hours to create that paragraph, including the research and the necessary formatting of the references and careful consideration of the quoting of the paleontologist. Yet that editor deleted the whole thing within about five minutes. To be brief, I soon gave up on trying to contribute anything, ever again, on Wikipedia.
Twisting the Point of the Mainstream View
If the biology professor in Minnesota was so concerned about the mainstream view being portrayed, why did he not add a paragraph about the improbability of living pterosaurs, on that Wikipedia article? He did at least imply, in his post, that he had little confidence in Wikipedia in general, but then why did he keep mentioning that Wikipedia page? Was it only a coincidence that "Ropen" was marked for deletion at about the same time as the publication of that professor's blog post? I don't know. But if the mainstream view is so decidedly against the possibility of any living species of pterosaur, why did not one biologist or paleontologist contribute just one small paragraph to explain that? Their lack of involvement caused the extinction . . . not the demise of all species of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs but the article about the ropen.
What next for cryptozoology? Will Bigfoot be blasted off the face of Wikipedia? From the length of the objections to the existence of the big fellow, on the Wikipedia "Bigfoot" article, it seems unlikely, for both sides are well represented. Still, it brings up a point on which Professor Myers and I seem to agree: Wikipedia is not always dependable.
Lie on Wikipedia "Ropen" Article?
There lies a weakness in Wikipedia, although a solution seems hard to come by. When proponents of the "mainstream view" on a subject seem reluctant to state their orthodox opinions, in sufficient content-size, a fringe theory can appear to be unbalanced in an article, favoring too much an unpopular point of view.
Netherlands (near Amsterdam)
He answered that the creature was 30-40 meters away, and it was 1.5 meters long with a wingspan of two meters. He said, "It was coming out of the city and flying to a big canal," passing by him from left to right. . . .
Lake District of England
One night in about October of 1996, the man was camping with friends, in a field, . . . between Little Langdale and Coniston. Soon after sunset, . . . the man looked at the moon-lit clouds and noticed a dark shape moving under the cloud cover. . . . at first assuming it was a balloon, he became aware that it was moving against the wind and was "undulating slightly." . . . As he watched it pass overhead, the shape was obviously not like a balloon, more like a "manta-ray fish but with a short tail." The undulating motion was then seen to be the flapping of the wings of the huge creature. The wingspan he estimated at thirty-five feet.
Spain, mid-2007
The sighting was in mid-2007: "I hope you are the Jonathan Whitcomb who has been investigating pterodactyl like animals . . . I assure you I am NOT LYING—I've got literally no interest in making something like this up. Apart from the two people with me at the time, I haven't mentioned this to anyone . . ." ". . . last summer, some friends and I drove from England (where I live) to [Benicassim, near Desert de les Palmes]) for a music festival. One night, whilst sitting on the ground by the tents . . . I saw what I at first assumed was an owl gliding over the campsite . . . it passed right over us, probably about 30-40 ft high, and as I watched it, I realised it was definitely no owl I'd ever seen before." ". . . the colour of suede/sand, looked like the same sort of texture as suede (i.e no feathers), had a long thin tail, and didn't flap once. I only saw it for a few seconds (as the campsite was lit up, illuminating it from beneath), but it fairly quickly passed into the dark, out of the reach of the light. . . ." I judge that report of the flying creature in Spain highly credible, although not as lofty a credibility as some daylight sighting reports that I have received. This report was probably of a ropen, yet daylight encounters can prove the case.
. . Spain 1, Netherlands 1
These two countries tied 1-1 in something completely different: modern sightings of apparent pterosaurs. . . . northwest of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland) . . . [and] in Spain, perhaps near "los desert del palmas."
. Sightings of Live Pterosaurs in Europe
Europe has its share [of pterosaur sightings], although I suspect that several things cause fewer eyewitnesses to share their experiences with me. . . . In the Netherlands, about five kilometers northwest of Amsterdam, a number of years ago, on a hot summer afternoon, a featherless creature flew "coming out of the city and flying to a big canal."
Two Nonfiction Paperback Books on Modern Pterosaurs:
Live Pterosaurs in America
Searching for Ropens and Finding God
State of Washington
I got an email from another eyewitness in October of 2012: ". . . It flew over me, and my home on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State, just yesterday. Seriously, it flew low, made no noise, and cast a shadow as if it were a small aircraft. It freaked me out . . ." He got the impression it may have been featherless but he's not sure. He also said, "At first I thought pelican, but I know pelicans and this was much larger with less head weight, much larger wings, somewhat short considering the wing span, greyish in color . . . freaky." [from page 232 of the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God (third edition)]
State of Oregon
In May of 2010, a man and his wife were driving, at mid-day, on the I-84, by the Columbia Gorge in Oregon, when something flew across the highway. The man reported, "It was pretty good size and the thing that really stood out was that it had a long tail and unusually shaped wings, different from a bird because they seemed to be more curved." [also from page 232]
State of Arizona
A lady was collecting rocks with her son, near Tucson, Arizona, in about late 2011, when they found something most unexpected. . . . Whatever it was, it acted like a baby, notwithstanding the wingspan appeared to be six to eight feet "at least." The poor thing was in panic, hardly able to stand upright while flapping its wings at the two humans who were only about fifteen feet away. The lady told me, "It was almost toppling over onto its face."
. . . the top of its head had a "knot protruding" . . . the arms "grew into the wings." The beak was narrow, with no teeth. But they had no time to wait for teeth to grow. . . . [They] left the area when they thought of the mother of the eight-foot-wingspan baby. . . .
Now let's turn to the book Live Pterosaurs in America (3rd edition).
Desert Sighting in California
"I have been haunted for close to twenty years by what I saw in the desert. . . .
- Q: What desert was this?
- The [Anza-Borrego] State Park.
- Q: What time of year was it?
- To the best of my recollection it was in the spring
- Q: How well did you see the form or shape of the creature?
- Well enough to remember some details and to never forget what I saw. We were sitting in the late afternoon shade of a ridge, on lawn chairs, enjoying the solitude and peace and quiet of the desert when it passed over. I caught the sight of it with the corner of my eye and looked up. It was soaring along the side of a plateau not far from us. We knew what it looked like. In fact, I remember saying '. . . that looks just like a Taradactyl!' . . . What I saw was large and very much alive. . . . Its skin, I say skin because there were no feathers, . . . looked like dull leather sort of dusty looking. It seemed to soar like a large raptor. The back of the head was pointed.
San Fernando Valley, California
. . . my girlfriend and I saw a creature last night (9/21/2009) . . . [It] baffled us. It was a very large, winged creature that was gliding maybe 100 yards above us. We stared at the creature in disbelief because it was so strange . . . it didn't look like a bird really. . . . my girlfriend has 20-20 vision and she told a few minutes later that it had lights on it. That didn't strike me as right so I asked her if she was sure and she said they weren't lights exactly, but that the wings had a glow or reflection. . . . I begin my search for "flying creature" on Google. One link led to another and eventually I discovered something known as a Ropen. That was it! The description matched exactly what we saw, down to the glow. [Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition, by Jonathan Whitcomb]
Not all sightings of apparent pterosaurs in the United States are reported in the two books, although over two hundred of the pages document American "pterodactyl" sightings. Consider the following Utah sighting.
Grantsville, Utah
South of the Great Salt Lake—there's where we find Grantsville
When I was 14 years old, I lived in Grantsville . . . There was a small play ground . . . One night, my brother Dallin [and] step brother Jonathon and I were sitting on top of a small exercising trampoline . . . We had a blanket wrapped around us as we starred up at the night sky pondering many things that 13 and 14 year old kids ponder. There was a small farm next to our apartment complex . . .
. . . Dallin suddenly noticed something and started yelling . . . a giant bird . . . At [about that] time, the animals in the farm next to us started going berserk. . . . Jonathon . . . started staring up at the sky and yelling similar [things]. . . . I was slightly reluctant [thinking it could be a joke] as I began sliding down the slide to see what all of this was about.
. . . Suddenly as I looked up at the night sky, the farm animals started up again and then I saw it. . . . A beautiful phoenix soaring above me in the night sky and soon after disappearing as if into thin air. I was awestruck. I began to wonder what type of animal this was. But within minutes higher up in the sky I saw it again and appeared soaring above us and then vanished again. I had a very scientific mind for my age at the time and soon developed a theory that this creature was a bioluminescent and nocturnal bird that would "disappear" using the same effect that happens to our eyes when we are in a bright room and suddenly the lights go out. There is a space of time where we can see nothing. I decided it used this to help it hunt. I did not even hear about ropens until nearly a decade after.
Searching for Ropens and Finding God – spiritual true-life adventure
Excerpts from Title Page:
This flies high above a common true-life adventure, revealing the early stages of what may become the most unsettling scientific discovery since Copernicus and Galileo. It soars above disputes about religion, revealing why an official discovery of an extraordinary animal was delayed for so long. . . . Three American Christians—one middle-aged LDS-Mormon high priest and two younger Protestant Young Earth Creationists—explored parts of Umboi Island in two separate expeditions in 2004, interviewing native eyewitnesses of the elusive ropen. They returned home even more convinced that long-tailed pterosaurs live, even thrive, in Papua New Guinea.
Excerpts from Introduction
Expect answers in this book: why my associates and I traveled to a remote tropical island to search for living pterosaurs and why so few professors have given us any hope that they still live. . . . After reading this book, if one person finds a reason to live and abandons thoughts of suicide, what a reward for all of us involved! This is not a textbook for preventing suicide, yet I suggest each of us can find ways to bring meaning into the lives of persons around us, motivating all of us to keep living and learning.
Page 87 of the book (Jonah Jim's sighting on Umboi Island)
Although this sighting was in the southwest Pacific, rather than in North America, it ties together the pterosaur appearance and the apparent bioluminescent glow of at least some of these strange flying creatures.
During an outdoor family gathering one night, this young man saw the ropen not as a vague, distant light but as a creature—close. In addition to the glow, he saw the long tail. I recorded no notes, for his description resembled Gideon's, but later I would realize how important was Jonah Jim's testimony: The glow that flies around at night is the same kind of long-tailed creature seen by Gideon and his friends. We had assumed that; now direct eyewitness testimony made it obvious.
Now let's look at North America:
Page 165 (sighting in Canada)
. . . across the river from Detroit, in April of 2012, about one hour after sunset, a man saw something like a flying bat, but it was six times too big and it had a long tail. He sent me an email just a few hours after the sighting—I'll call the eyewitness "DK." He impressed me with his objectiveness: During our email exchanges, he kept searching for some way that he might have misidentified a non-ropen for what had looked more like that cryptid than anything else.
Page 163 of the book (encounter in Mexico)
I received the following Youtube message in 2007:
"ok. we are from Guadalajara jalisco in mexico… my inglish its a little bad… here in Guadalajara are 'la barranca de huentitan' search in google , its a canyon…
"at that time she lived near the site… she was with her mom at dusk, the two frightened by what they saw, just describe it as something very large and with a long tail it was flying in circles not far from them, she said that gave them a lot of fear and they get in to his house, obviously was not a bird or anything they have seen before, and what they remember most is a long tail, shaped diamond at the end."
Page 183 (sighting at night in Virginia)
"I was seventeen at the time of this encounter. It was very late at night . . . I have no plans to be held in ridicule by my family, friends or the general population for that matter. I would REALLY like a logical explanation for what I saw . . . in the summer of 1999. [I'm] open to the possibility that there is another explanation . . . it was certainly not in my imagination, as there were two of us who saw, felt and heard something that night.
"I went swimming with a friend at a local reservoir where there was a tree with boards nailed into it for a ladder and a plank for a diving board. . . . located in the back of a U-shaped inlet . . . My friend went back there along the edge of the waterline trying to locate [the tree]. . . . I was standing straight up in the middle of the U section with the water about as high as my hips . . .
"It came from the direction of the moon and . . . all I saw was its silhouette. I could see it was big even before it was close. . . . [It] mostly glided but it came very fast. "I have not before nor since ever been so petrified in my life. . . . I felt incapable of moving my legs. I just stood there, facing it until it literally got about 20 to 30 feet away and it 'stopped' and hovered . . .
"The wings were somewhere between 15 and 20 feet wide . . . bat shaped without feathers, the head's silhouette looked like a point . . . but what I was looking at more than anything else was its large, sharp talons. Right before it started hovering, in those few seconds I had, I thought it was going to pick me up."
From the size of this nonfiction book, Searching for Ropens and Finding God, it has been labeled "the Bible of modern pterosaurs."
Five Eyewitnesses of Pterosaurs in Cuba
. . . four kids, in three separate sighting encounters, saw a large flying creature that was most likely the same species as the two that would be seen in 1971 by the U. S. Marine Eskin Kuhn.
Sightings of Pterosaurs in and Around Kentucky
Last July, I was visiting my friend at his home. It was just a little after sunset, so it was still daylight outside. . . . We were outside, sitting on his deck . . . My friend shouted . . . 'what in the blue h*** is that?' Approaching us from the east . . . were two very large animals. . . ."
St. Louis and North Carolina
. . . something HUGE above me in the sky. It looked like a pale greenish white and smooth-skinned. It didn't appear to have any feathers, and it had the tail with the diamond shape on the end. . . . I just looked up the Rhamphorhynchus . . .
It seems the best thing we can say about the "dragon" image below is that its origin is questionable. I care little about that, however, for even a child can understand that shooting a crow out of the sky cannot cause the extinction of the Snow Goose, notwithstanding how threatening it might appear to all birds.
Nuovi ritrovamenti divisi in due parti dell'ingegnere civile olandese Cornelius Meyer
A dragon (above) was reported to have lived in Italy in the 1600's
I never felt comfortable with the above image. To the best of my memory, I never included it in any of my blog posts as evidence for a pterosaur living in human times. But my living-pterosaur associate David Woetzel included it with seventeen lines of text in its support in his scientific paper "The Fiery Flying Serpent" (Creation Research Society Quarterly, Volume 42, March 2006). A recent scientific paper, however, seems to have destroyed the credibility of the image and at least part of the story behind it ("Late-surviving pterosaur?" by Phil Senter and Pondanesa D. Wilkins. 2013. Palaeontological Association. Article number: 16.1.6A).
Nevertheless, the recent paper takes a narrow view, ignoring potential positive aspects of living-pterosaur investigations from the 1990's to the present. Some of my associates and I, including David Woetzel and Garth Guessman, have explored on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, searching for the nocturnal flying creature that the natives call "ropen." The eyewitness testimonies we recorded, when combined with many other sighting reports from various areas of the world, make the case for modern living pterosaurs. And with the concept of pterosaurs living into the twenty-first century, obviously they would have lived in the 1600's.
Woetzel wrote, "It seems to be a credible pterosaur specimen" and "some have suggested that it could be a fossil or faked composite, but it is much too accurate to be considered a fabrication." In my opinion, those particular words in his scientific paper have now been shown to be incorrect, notwithstanding the many points and paragraphs, on other historical evidences, that may be much more accurate; the story of this "dragon" image, however, made up only a tiny fraction of Woetzel's paper. Senter and Wilkins, in their early-2013 paper, actually discredited only a tiny portion of Woetzel's paper.
"The Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur Scaphognathus crassirostris: A "Living Fossil" Until the 17th Century" (Adapted from a paper presented at the 1998 International Conference on Creation, Geneva, PA)
This paper by John Goertzen appears to be the source of Woetzel's information on the seventeenth-century "dragon" of Italy. In this 1998 scientific paper, Goertzen referred to this image, noting similarities with an Egyptian sculpture. The 2013 paper by Senter and Wilkins now makes his writings on this dragon image highly questionable, to say the least.
But "Late-surviving pterosaur?" actually says nothing substantial against the countless eyewitness testimonies from sightings of living pterosaurs within the past few decades. It is extremely narrow, apparently written with the assumption that all other ideas about extant pterosaurs are equally flawed.
Scaphognathus crassirostris (a "basal" pterosaur)
Many pterosaurs of the suborder Rhamphorhynchoidea (long-tailed) have lived at some time in the past. Goertzen seems to have assumed that Scaphognathus crassirostris (Sc) may have been a species that survived until at least a few centuries ago; perhaps he is right. But if the above image accurately depicts the head crest, then another species may better explain the living-pterosaur evidences from human history. Many of the sighting reports that I have received over the past nine years point to a much more pointed head crest, much like a horn coming out of the back of the head.
The big point, however, is this: overwhelming eyewitness evidence makes the case for modern living pterosaurs, regardless of the questionable aspects of old images of dragons with wings.
When a Child Sees a Pterosaur
What happens when a child reports a sighting of a live pterosaur or "pterodactyl?" Will an adult care what the child says or believe the account? Children often spend much time outdoors, so they observe what flies overhead. But what if a child reports the same large featherless flying creature that some adults report? If many persons reject the reports of adult eyewitnesses, those skeptics will probably reject the report of a child.
Third edition of Live Pterosaurs in America – nonfiction
Excerpt from the above cryptozoology book:
She was twelve years old, at most (around 1995), when she walked out into her backyard one morning to check on the dog . . . [She] found the poor animal cowering around the side of the house, apparently trying to hide behind a banana tree. The girl had no idea what was wrong . . . Fearing it was sick, [The child] was about to run back into the house to tell her mother. . . . She turned her head and saw what it was that had terrified the dog.
. . . in the neighbor's backyard, was what she first thought was a tall man . . . He was "draped in a long black coat or cape," facing away from her. "Dracula" came to mind as [the girl] tried to understand what she was looking at. The "man" turned, and revealed a face that terrified the child: It was non-human. . . . the creature . . . unwrapped its bat-like wings, dark leathery wings. The girl had never seen anything remotely like them.
. . . it was nothing like [any bird or bat]: too big, and without feathers. The girl was frozen in fear . . . [It] began to walk towards her. . . .
Child Care
For several days, I questioned the eyewitness by emails, and I interviewed her by phone three days after the sighting. She admitted that she did not have time to determine if the three "dragons" had no feathers, for they flew over her car while she was driving on a freeway. Her first impression was that they were large and not birds, assuming it was some kind of stunt, perhaps with kites. She realized they were not kites when she saw their tails move.
She was driving north on the Interstate 5, just east of a golf course on the east side of Griffith Park, in Los Angeles, on Sunday, March 3, 2013. The flying creatures flew almost exactly over her car in the opposite direction. It was just minutes before sunrise, so the sky was no longer dark and she could see the undersides of the "dragons." They were light colored and had a peculiar shape.
She admitted that she had no confidence in estimating how high they were flying or how large they were. She mentioned nothing to me about the nearby Los Angeles River, but I was struck by its proximity. It's common for a sighting in Southern California to be near a storm channel or river bed (see "San Fernando Valley Sighting" below). In this case, the creatures were only 150 feet away from the Los Angeles River, a major storm drainage channel, flying parallel to it.
Question: "Did you see any neck on any of them?"
Answer: "Yes, that was another thing that tipped me off that they were not birds. They each had a distinct neck between body and head, that was more narrow and clearly visible."
Question: "Did you see any feet on any of them?"
Answer: "I did not notice their feet."
Question: "Is it possible that what appeared to have been tails were actually their feet held behind them?"
Answer: "I suppose it's possible but they looked a lot like tails to me. Long and thin with a bigger point at the tip."
Approximate location of sighting near Colorado Street overpass
Top arrow: direction of "dragon" flight — bottom arrow: direction of car — blue: banks of L. A. River
Griffith Park Dragons?
This morning . . . [within five minutes of 6:10 a.m.] I saw three "dragons" flying over the 5-North freeway between Griffith Park and Glendale. They appeared to be several feet long, with a head:body:tail ratio that was certainly not that of a bird.
Sightings of Pterosaurs
A few years ago, a psychologist, Brian Hennessy, was interviewed concerning a reported sighting of a large "prehistoric" creature seen on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. The psychologist was not analyzing the mental health of the eyewitness; that psychologist, Brian Hennessy, was himself the eyewitness.
Pterosaur Sighting in South Carolina
The huge featherless creature swooped down over the highway, maybe only "twenty feet" high and only "twenty five" feet in front of the car.
Are bats Food for Pterodactyls in Los Angeles?
During my teenaged years in Pasadena, when I enjoyed watching small bats at night, my younger sister had a friend, Dianne. She told my sister about the big "pterodactyl" she had seen flying around the mountains north of Pasadena.
San Fernando Valley Sighting
Only a little over a mile north of the Los Angeles River
A couple was walking their dog at about 10:30 p.m., near the corner of Burbank Blvd and Woodman in the city of Sherman Oaks, California, when they saw a "very large, winged creature" gliding about 300 feet overhead. The woman described glowing or reflective portions of the wings; she described them to me in a way that suggested they were much dimmer than the bright flashes of ropens.
Long tails and lack of feathers are two of the more common descriptions, in eyewitness reports from around the world. And we have just enough other common descriptions* to make it obvious: People from a wide range of countries and continents are observing the same basic kind of flying creature. By far the best explanation is that witnesses are observing real creatures.
* Consider these: Rhamphorhynchoid-like tail flange and head crest (not a common combination in pterosaur fossils but not entirely unknown, either).
Quoting from a Cryptozoology book
From the nonfiction book Live Pterosaurs in Australia and in Papua New Guinea:
I partially agree with the general concept of extinctions, but without committing myself to any time frame. Most species of dinosaurs and pterosaurs appear to have been extinct for some time; nevertheless, after many years of investigations, my associates and I assert that at least two species of pterosaurs live in the southwest Pacific. . . .
The first discovery of a pterosaur fossil by a Western scientist, in 1784, was decades before Charles Darwin began writing about his ideas on extinctions and evolution. Before Darwin, Western scientists had assumed that all species of pterosaurs were extinct for a simple reason: Those who discovered the fossils had no experience with any similar animal that was living. Also important, probably no scientist at that time had considered that a few species of pterosaurs might still be alive, rarely seen because they're both uncommon and nocturnal. . . .
Darwin emphasized extinctions. In time, the concept of many extinctions in the distant past was accepted by many scientists. That created an atmosphere unfriendly to any eyewitness account of a live pterosaur, to put it mildly. . . .
How hard it is for many Westerners to abandon the idea that all pterosaurs are long extinct! The word "science" has been tied to both men who walk on the moon and to declarations that all dinosaurs and pterosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. How shocking to encounter a cryptozoologist who is cutting down a longstanding tradition about pterosaur extinction!
Credibility of Georgia Pterosaur Eyewitnesses
Flying creatures observed in the state of Georgia, according to the reports I have received from eyewitnesses, resemble apparent pterosaurs of other states . . .
Live Pterosaur in Georgia?
Reports of living "pterodactyls" in Georgia, during the past seven years, probably relate to sightings of some flying creatures in South Carolina and Florida . . .
Live Pterosaurs in America by Jonathan David Whitcomb (third expanded edition)
On Amazon, a reviewer of the second edition wrote the following (by "stevie" quoted in part):
This is an updated review of the book and I am changing my rating to 5 stars. . . . I remember stumbling on this subject (cryptozoology, living dinosaurs, extinct animals) in recent years. I always find myself fascinated by the subject . . .
I couldn't get enough and their are so few books on the subject. I highly recommend this. . . . Whitcomb painstakingly reviews every account for credibility and reason. This man is not a crank. . . .
On top of this, I have great respect for a guy who follows his dreams so passionately. He has traveled to Papua New Guinea to search for the creature . . . After Whitcomb traveled to New Guinea, he started to collect more stories from North America concerning the pterosaur like creature . . .
If you are interested in reading about this subject, this is definitely the book to get . . . this author has really done a lot of work researching this issue. . . . I do believe the author tried hard to deliver these stories and was very good at it. This is well written and very hard to put down. [Five stars; "Oddly fascinating"]