Saturday Word: Voluntold & Cryptid

[theidolhands]

I'm sorry I missed last week due to technical difficulties with my web browser. Therefore, I shall double your pleasure for today's vocabulary!

vol·un·told [vŏl'ən-tōld]:
origin: American (slang, possibly military); portmanteau of volunteer + told.

verb
A combination of "volunteer" + "told".

When one feels they must do something despite being

Comments

[calzephyr77]

I love voluntold. It's cheeky and makes being the messenger a little easier sometimes.

[theidolhands]

True!

[trellia_chan]

Even as a skeptic, I love, love, love cryptozoology! :-D I've spent many an hour reading through the loooooooong list of Wikipedia entries on the subject. They dazzle the imagination, and it's always fun when one of them actually does turn out to be real! X-D

We have a monster allegedly living in one of our local reservoirs, Lake Dillon. They call the monster "Blue Dilly." *grin*

And whatever that satellite image is, it's neat!

[theidolhands]

Well, you are the most open-minded skeptic I've met!

(I mean that)

It's one thing to use caution and judgement, it's another to try to explain away things like the Dyatlov Pass Incident with avalanche and noise frequency. Skeptics can sometimes sound crazier to me than those who are obsessed with Mulder's ideas!

[trellia_chan]

I'll take that as a compliment. ^_^

Ooh yeah, the Dyatlov Pass Incident was weeeeeeird. And sadly, one of those times when we can speculate until we're blue in the face, but we'll never *really* know what happened to them.

warning: somewhat graphic

[theidolhands]

Especially since Russia "lost" a lot of the files.

My only real question is wether there really weren't any other footprints, since they were obviously in a fight (the ones who didn't freeze to death) and they were killed with a great anger with an emphasis on eyes and speaking. [OT babble]If there weren't any footprints, and the only analogous gear were the Russian military "spats" then I suspect something that could fly/float over the snow is what slammed into them with all that force and would provide a platform from which to remove their organs; I'd also propose that the spats were pulled off in the fight from the scrapes and wounds on the upper hands and arms

[kryptyd]

Yay! It's my name!

[theidolhands]

Ha, ha, ha! That's true!!