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minordrag still a drag
Great Old One Joined: 21 Jan 2002 Total posts: 1136 Location: Hovering just above the roof. Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 07-09-2002 19:28 Post subject: |
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| That'll learn those pesky kids. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 07-09-2002 19:32 Post subject: |
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| somewhere in Norway is a very hungry pacifistic Zombie |
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| Anome_ Faceless Man
Great Old One Joined: 23 May 2002 Total posts: 5380 Location: Left, and to the back. Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-09-2002 08:29 Post subject: |
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| Chriswsm wrote: |
somewhere in Norway is a very hungry pacifistic Zombie |
You've got to feel sorry for them. After all, it's a simple mistake to make: "Pathology" and "Take-Away". Especially in Norway. When you're eyes aren't quite in the sockets properly. And it's been a few days since you last tasted human flesh.
Actually, when I first saw the subject, I thought they'd finally found the collective mind of the Australian Democrats. (A political party that was once described as a Monty Python sketch gone horribly wrong - an image not helped by the interim leader referring to dead parrots in a press conference recently.) |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 08-09-2002 12:08 Post subject: |
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| I wondered where that had gone. |
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| littleblackduck Great Old One Joined: 16 Aug 2001 Total posts: 470 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 12-09-2002 19:10 Post subject: Igor, you peasant oaf! Not again! |
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| If Igor lost the good brain in the middle of the road, then what brain did I just put into the Monster? |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 13-09-2002 20:18 Post subject: Poetic irony in this! |
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i can't help but find poetic irony in the phrase "Human Brain Found In Middle Of Road". the mass's tastes and values usually gravitate towards the middle of the road. creatively, the majority of musicians and artists in general are "middle of the road" types. i also find that as a whole, no one can make a quick "yes" or "no" decision anymore...it's always "Well...um..."
add your own "brains are mainly mundane" observations here  |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 18-09-2002 00:42 Post subject: |
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A friend of mine told me a similar story today. He knows somebody who was driving down an Interstate freeway near here, not very well lit when out of town, when she suddenly drove over a human head! She kept going before pulling in at the next stop and called the cops, obviously a little distressed. It turned out to belong to a local John Doe who's body was found on a nearby rubbish tip. Made the local news.
The freeways in the US can be a little spooky as there is no street lighting in some of the rural areas, so to come across that would be decidedly freaky  |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-03-2004 11:32 Post subject: Bizarre Finds |
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A general thread for odd things that turn up.
| Quote: | Bizarre Corio Bay find
Monday, March 8
SAM BISHOP
VOLUNTEERS scouring the Corio Bay foreshore netted one of the more bizarre finds of Clean Up Australia Day 2004 - a safe containing an Australian passport and naturalisation papers.
The safe was found by site co-ordinator David Burrell in scrub near the foreshore in front of the Shell Refinery during the clean-up which yielded enough garbage to fill two mini-skip bins.
The door to the safe was found a few metres away on the sand, and Mr Burrell thought nothing of it until he stumbled on the heavy steel safe while cleaning bottles, cans and papers from under bushes above the tide-line.
``It was definitely one of the more weird finds, yes,'' Mr Burrell said.
The safe, which also contained unopened mail and some soggy papers, was taken to Corio police station where detectives from the Crime Investigation Unit sifted through the papers to find the safe's owner.
Besides the safe, Mr Burrell said the garbage mopped up by his team of volunteers was mostly papers and bottles, while up to 50 syringes were collected from the foreshore.
The safe made it on to the annual list of strange finds, which included a leopard-print lounge suite, a glass eye, dentures, a ukulele, garden gnomes and a pay phone.
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http://www.geelonginfo.com.au/readarticle.asp?articleid=10795 |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-04-2004 19:14 Post subject: Lost & found |
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| Quote: | Treasures From The Toilet
Workers Fish Plenty Of Toys And Sundry Items From The Sewage System
Wisconsin State Journal :: FRONT :: A1
Monday, April 26, 2004
Brenda Ingersoll Wisconsin State Journal
Once or twice a year, the chief engineer who runs the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District takes an urgent call from someone who has lost a diamond ring or false teeth down the toilet, sink or bathtub.
"But I can't remember a time when we've actually been able to find those things," said Jon Schellpfeffer, now in his 30th year at the Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant, a sprawling, 50-acre complex in the town of Blooming Grove and Madison.
"It's just about impossible, with 40 million gallons of water. There isn't much hope," he said pointing out how much waste water the plant treats each day.
But with that much water flowing to the plant, a lot of strange things have washed up over the years: Garfield the cat and Piglet, a bowling ball and golf balls.
And toys. Lots of toys.
Many of these items end up in the first-floor control room at the Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant. There you'll find four shelves, containing scores of objects rescued over the past 20 years, with an explanatory sign: "Toys of the Underworld."
Most of the objects are children's toys, but there's also a man's gold watch, a five-dollar bill and a couple of singles, a set of dentures, sunglasses, dice, golf and pool balls, a set of car keys and a rusty horseshoe.
There's a toy fire hydrant, a toy SUV, little speedboats, a toy telephone receiver, toy soldiers and other small dolls.
"There's probably a lot of kids with broken hearts or, you never know, it was probably sort of a kick watching things go down the toilet," Schellpfeffer said.
The items all washed up against the separator screens that block out solids from raw waste water flowing into the plant. The screens, at each of the system's four major pumping stations in Monona, Fitchburg, at Brittingham Park and on Wingra Drive, are there to prevent objects from clogging the massive pumps.
"Within the last few years, a bowling ball managed to get as far as a pump," Schellpfeffer said. "Someone threw that in a manhole, more than likely."
The separator screens have a raking mechanism that rises along the screen and deposits solids in a bin. Station maintenance men put the contents of the bin on a truck to take to a landfill, but sometimes something bright glimmers amid the "bunch of gooey, raggy material," Schellpfeffer said.
"The guys will fish them out, clean them up and put them on a shelf." |
http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=wsj:2004:04:26:370364:FRONT
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17897 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 28-04-2004 19:34 Post subject: |
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I used to run a playgroup with a woman whose husband had been a drain worker. She had many intriguing tales of 'found objects' in the sewers, including more than one full-term baby.  These were usually discovered when tenants complained of blocked drains.
Lovely thing to tell a pregnant woman, which I usually was in those days... |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Total posts: 11704 Location: Vermilion Sands Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 13-05-2004 21:31 Post subject: Forgotten Legs |
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| Quote: | Swimmers leave city pool legless
Absent-minded swimmers forgot to collect their artificial legs after visiting a Stoke-on-Trent attraction.
Ten prosthetic limbs were among the more unusual items from 3,000 effects left behind last year in lockers at Waterworld in Festival Park.
During an annual review of operations, staff found the lost items list also included false teeth.
Chief executive Mo Chaudry said she was "flabbergasted" to discover such things had been abandoned at the pool.
"We regularly find some of our customers leave behind items of clothing and jewellery but I still can't believe a person can leave the park without their legs," she said.
"We've spent nearly £500,000 improving our changing facilities this year but perhaps we should have just put up signs reminding people to make sure they have their limbs, teeth and other body parts with them when they leave."
All the legs were subsequently retrieved by their owners.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3709099.stm |
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| Philo_T But, this one goes to 11! Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Total posts: 1339 Location: slaving away in the bit mines Age: 47 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 13-05-2004 21:36 Post subject: |
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My guess for the scenario is that they go swimming with their friends and family. They leave their leg in the locker and have someone roll them to/from the pool in a wheelchair. When they leave, they change back to their clothes, but in the confusion of everyone getting ready, forget their limb.
oh. ok. I'm at a loss too.... |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-05-2004 21:46 Post subject: |
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Perhaps they like getting legless?
Well someone had to say it
I've also merged this with the general 'Lost & Found' thread.
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 14-05-2004 09:01 Post subject: |
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Ah, the perfect place for my grim story!
My Dad served his engineering apprenticeship for Salisbury Corporation, who, during the 1960s were the arm of the council responsible for the maintenence and repair of car-park lifts, dust-carts ect. They also kept Salisbury's elaborate sewage system running, which due to Salisbury's geographical situation, pumped lots of sewage uphill using valves.
The valves would often block with debris, and the sewage would back up into the street. When it did, the Corporation were sent out in a little Austin van to see what the problem was. After a bit of poking with a long stick, the accumilation of dead leaves, fat or bog-roll would disappear off through the system. One old boy was especially fearless, and would stick his arm down to shift a really sticky lump, till the day he came across a big chunk of something. It was a dead cat so decomposed that the head and skin came off in his hand like a glove, leaving the rest still stuck in the valve!
Minging!
There was, like Escargot's story, a dead baby found once, too.
At around the same date my Dad found, and rescued from a skip, the entire set of original keys to Salisbury Cathedral Close, that were going for scrap when they changed the locks. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17897 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 14-05-2004 09:17 Post subject: |
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Those keys- wonder what happened to them?
I once found the assistant manager's complete set of keys to the local Nat West Bank in the street. Handed them in to the police and they were recovered right away. Was brought a big box of chocolates by a very relieved bank manager!
The keys were outside the bank in the gutter, in a black vinyl pouch. Maybe black is the wrong colour for something as portable and important as bank keys.  |
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