excellent; I expect that “to Bigfoot” may also come to mean “hoax for fun/profit.” “Bigfooters” refer to their outdoor activities (scaring each other while they sit around campfires) as “squatching.”
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bowarcher:
January 5th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
excellent; I expect that “to Bigfoot” may also come to mean “hoax for fun/profit.” “Bigfooters” refer to their outdoor activities (scaring each other while they sit around campfires) as “squatching.”