tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post7057350402878536064..comments2024-03-28T16:07:39.689+00:00Comments on Retro-Forteana: The Loch Ness Centre and ExhibitionAndrew Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-9544608123689296142016-08-11T13:17:12.167+01:002016-08-11T13:17:12.167+01:00Yes Kid, I have to admit I thought your original w...Yes Kid, I have to admit I thought your original wording was funny (but this blog always strives for political correctness, so don't tell anyone I said that). I just wanted to prove I was clever enough to work out her relationship to you (even though I needed a pencil and paper to do it).Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-35091923537734447152016-08-11T11:50:28.066+01:002016-08-11T11:50:28.066+01:00By that I mean '...remove MENTION of that part...By that I mean '...remove MENTION of that particular in-law...'.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-54709399581355148652016-08-11T00:17:37.914+01:002016-08-11T00:17:37.914+01:00Of course I do, Andrew, but it's a famous '...Of course I do, Andrew, but it's a famous 'mother-in-law' (sometimes 'wife') joke that seems somehow diluted if you remove that particular in-law from the equation.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-75839584260395095702016-08-10T12:57:28.751+01:002016-08-10T12:57:28.751+01:00Thanks Tony - that's interesting background. I...Thanks Tony - that's interesting background. It's a pity that Nick Witchell, with his higher public profile these days, hasn't written an updated book to bring these points out -- but I guess he's far too busy with other things.<br /><br />And Glasgow Boy is absolutely right about the eye witness audio recordings. The exhibition leaves you in no doubt that there are mysteries associated with the Loch - it's only "skeptical" in the sense of looking for the most probable explanations rather than the most exciting ones.<br /><br />As for Kid's mother-in-law joke ... you do realize that your "great grandad's mother-in-law" was your own great-great grandmother (or one of your eight great-great grandmothers, to be precise)?<br /><br />Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-57600777818938486332016-08-10T10:58:50.368+01:002016-08-10T10:58:50.368+01:00Do bear in mind that Nick Witchell's book was ...Do bear in mind that Nick Witchell's book was written long before we began to sceptically assess evidence in the nineteen-eighties. His book accepts many of the pictures being real which are now known to be either mistakes or fakes. He, like me, was also influenced by the Dinsdale film of a boat. Discovering that wasn't an animal had a major effect on me, as did discovering that the Rines underwater photograph of a flipper from 1972 was retouched with a paintbrush before being released. <br /><br />All of that has now been dealt with and Nick is in no way to blame for coming to the same conclusions many of us did when we were hoodwinked by the Academy of Applied Science and its evidence.Tony Harmsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16607137729796535784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-1432783292740561032016-08-10T10:19:14.666+01:002016-08-10T10:19:14.666+01:00To add some balance to the sceptical dominance of ...To add some balance to the sceptical dominance of the exhibition, they added an end section a few years back which included audio eye witness testimonies of the monster. No attempts to explain these away as logs or dogs, just the eyewitness relating what they saw.<br />Glasgow Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03597014995112568086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-49138717832848449162016-08-08T21:34:51.703+01:002016-08-08T21:34:51.703+01:00My great grandad's mother-in-law used to swim ...My great grandad's mother-in-law used to swim in Loch Ness. Mystery solved.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-21997768145964687192016-08-08T17:16:56.619+01:002016-08-08T17:16:56.619+01:00Interesting. Colin - I didn't know that. I jus...Interesting. Colin - I didn't know that. I just looked it up on Amazon and they have second-hand copies of Witchell's book (from 1975) starting at £0.01 + p&p!Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-87376249763158565222016-08-08T14:53:15.095+01:002016-08-08T14:53:15.095+01:00In the early '80s I bought a book about the Lo...In the early '80s I bought a book about the Loch Ness monster written by Nicholas Witchell - yes, the BBC newsreader !! Many years later I heard him speaking on the radio and he said he'd written the book while he was still a student. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-40429445426164190372016-08-07T21:24:37.981+01:002016-08-07T21:24:37.981+01:00Thanks very much for the feedback Tony - I'm r...Thanks very much for the feedback Tony - I'm really glad you found the review and enjoyed it. Now I will have to find a copy of your book and read it while it's all still fresh in my mind!Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-92080968213784701122016-08-07T20:33:10.169+01:002016-08-07T20:33:10.169+01:00Nicely written. I was the one who set this place u...Nicely written. I was the one who set this place up in 1980, but it is a lot better today than my first attempt.<br /><br />My own book can be found here: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/tony-harmsworth/loch-ness-understood/paperback/product-20367026.html" rel="nofollow">Loch Ness Understood</a>. It took over twenty years to write and takes each piece of evidence individually and explains what is known about it. <br /><br />My own view is that the sightings were of a freshwater North American sturgeon introduced to Loch Garry in the late eighteenth or nineteenth century. They can grow to about twenty feet and can live for three hundred years. One big old fish could have been the cause of it all ... perhaps? That is the beauty of a mystery. You can't be certain.<br /><br />Nice to see the exhibition getting a good review. Some people expect to be conned and get disappointed when they aren't. Ironic eh?Tony Harmsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16607137729796535784noreply@blogger.com