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Posted: 23-09-2013 18:04 Post subject:

Maybe someone was trying to recall the name of a certain American stand-up comic?

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Posted: 23-09-2013 21:37 Post subject:

Er, thanks... (I think)

The sorting office scenario seems reasonaby possible. But having worked as a postie myself, I know we put mis-sorted stuff back in the general sort area. But if we knew who had that round, we'd give it to them direct, not bother writing stuff on it. But it may have been a wind-up going on involving Carrot top - but as I rarely see the postman round here, because of the building lay-out, I don't know if my postie qualifies as a red top.

As for my SS handlers, they should know I can't reach Newton Abbot by that time any way...

Especially as I'm having internet problems, third night in a row now. I'm posting this from another machine as a result, but that has similar problems. Even our communal TV is playing up, frequently claiming "No Signal"...

Posted: 23-09-2013 23:31 Post subject:

Reading Brian Aldiss' Heliconia trilogy again has reminded me of a weirdness from a few years ago. One chapter in Heliconia Spring describes a perceived supernatural event where the shaman Shay Tal cast her arms across a cold winter lake as the attacking Fagors entered the lake and made the water turn instantly to ice freezing the attackers in their pursuit.

I saw this exact reaction happen right before my eyes too. I prepare a couple of water bottles in the freezer for camping trips to go into the icebox the next day. On one occasion I was finalising the packing, and took the bottles out. One was frozen solid but the other was still liquid after 12 hours in the freezer. I set it down curious as to why this was and then watched in amazement as the whole thing underwent a chemical reaction from the top down and within 5 seconds the whole bottle was frozen solid same as the other. I subsequently learned that there is a mundane explanation which is that the water was in a state of stasis and only needed movement to act as a catalyst to start the freezing process, but it was pretty cool to see it happen.

Posted: 24-09-2013 00:06 Post subject:

Posted: 24-09-2013 07:56 Post subject:

Super cooled liquids. I've had that happen, too. You put plastic bottles of water in the freezer, they're cooled right down below freezing point, but the water is still liquid until it's agitated in some way. Instantly, the freezing process starts, ice crystals start forming and the water becomes solid ice as it moves from one steady state to the other.

Posted: 24-09-2013 09:33 Post subject:

I got into work early and felt like I had a headache coming on, so I took out a paracetamol from a packet in my handbag and put it on my desk, I turned my head for a split second to pick up my cup of water to take it with, and it was gone! I've looked under my desk, in my bag, under my laptop - no, the small pill has disappeared. So that's two things that have vanished into thin air at my desk in the past two weeks!! Mad

Posted: 24-09-2013 10:20 Post subject:

Whatever you do, don't sit on that desk.

Posted: 24-09-2013 10:41 Post subject:

Posted: 24-09-2013 22:05 Post subject:

One, after school, I was sitting in the corner armchair in our living room in front of the tv, absorbed in what I was watching. My mum was cooking in the kitchen, and we were otherwise alone in the house.

After a while I heard the door from the kitchen into the living room open, and my mum came through. She entered to my left and walked through to reach the door leading upstairs. I had 'seen' her walk through, most definitely, although I continued to watch the tv.
I then heard her walk up the stairs, so presumed she was going to the bathroom or whatever.

Literally a couple of seconds later she opened the kitchen door and shouted for me to come and get my dinner. WTF??????

I asked her had she just gone upstairs and she said no, how could she, she was cooking!

Never left me that one Shocked

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Posted: 26-09-2013 11:16 Post subject:

Reading the above about disappearing pills has reminded me of 2 occasions of mundane objects spontaneously Appearing in the last few days.

About 3 days ago, I walked upstairs, I was gone about 5 minutes and when I went back down, a blue plastic carrier bag was at the bottom of the stairs. It wasn't there before I'm sure of it - I would have had to step on it, and it was bright blue on a beige carpet - not easily missed. Everyone else was in other parts of the house and denied any knowledge, so I just forgot about it until...

This morning at about 7am I went for a shower, on returning to my bedroom a microfibre cleaning cloth was in the middle of the floor. (The only other person in the house was my 4 year old daughter who was half asleep at the time and the cloth wasn't there before going into the bathroom).

Now I know I haven't used this particular type of cloth for at least 2 months, when the last one "disappeared" when I was cleaning the bathroom and I assumed I had put it in the bin by accident.
Incidentally the "found" cloth was clean, like it had just been washed and dried.

Our house has recently been sold and we are in the process of planning our move, I wonder if the fairies have decided to return all the things they have taken from us before we go? If that is the case I hope they return something a bit more valuable than a bag and a cloth! Laughing

Posted: 26-09-2013 12:12 Post subject:

Autumn has arrived where I live and I have been taking my umbrella to work each day for the past few weeks. I live about a 10 minute walk from my office which makes for a nice commute.

Yesterday morning I could not find my umbrella anywhere. I looked all over the flat and to make matters worse it was raining.

Eventually I had to leave without it and bought a new umbrella from a nearby cornershop on my way to the office.

This morning when I walked into the lounge my original "lost" umbrella was lying in the middle of my sofa.

I was sitting on the sofa last night watching tele so I would have certainly noticed it there if it had been in place the previous evening.

My familly is currently away visiting relatives elsewhere in the country so I am living all alone at the moment.

I now have 2 umbrellas but I am somewhat bewildered as to where my original umbrella went for 24 hours.

Has anyone else suffered from what is apparently a trans-dimensional umbrella? ... and no, I didn't buy it from the famous trans-dimensional gas station featued elsewhere on this site.

I am seriously bewildered about this umbrella issue.

Posted: 26-09-2013 14:48 Post subject:

Could you have found the umbrella and put in on the sofa, then put a coat or something on top of it and forgotten about it? Then if you grabbed the coat in your rush to leave you might not had noticed the umbrella.

I've done similar things. Wink