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cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 1005 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
 Posted: 15-12-2011 10:24 Post subject: Strange Folk Part 3 |
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Hi everyone!
Rather than bump the big thread "Strange folk 2" I thought I'd add my odd people to a new thread. TBH, I just need to off load them from my Fortean mind! 
I currently live in Birmingham UK, and we have an awful lot of "strange folk", most are totally harmless, just on another planet.
We have a very tall, skinny black man, in his late 40's, who wanders around a small part of our city centre carrying either an old electric guitar or a basket ball. He's always very chatty and seems to be in a rush, but never seems to leave one of our smaller shopping malls. I've never seen him play his guitar but he is known to just start singing at the top of his lungs in the middle of rush hour.
We also have a very short, elderly gent who dresses like a fancy dress pimp. He has a suit (a different colour every day) and lots of thick, gold necklaces, and to top it all off, he wears a glitter covered hat (again, each day its a different colour to match the suit!). He's a legend, most people seem to have seen him and he never seems to bother anyone. One of these days I'm going to have to strike up a conversation with him.
I know that the running man of Birmingham has been mentioned on these MB's before, again he's one of those odd people, that you see from time to time, who makes your day!
We also have a gent who walks around thetrain station, going up to people and telling them that they should smile because Jesus loves them!
..oh, and of course these's me  |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 15-12-2011 13:30 Post subject: Re: Strange Folk Part 3 |
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| cherrybomb wrote: | | We also have a very short, elderly gent who dresses like a fancy dress pimp. He has a suit (a different colour every day) and lots of thick, gold necklaces, and to top it all off, he wears a glitter covered hat (again, each day its a different colour to match the suit!). He's a legend, most people seem to have seen him and he never seems to bother anyone. One of these days I'm going to have to strike up a conversation with him. |
So that's where Gary Glitter ended up...!  |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 1005 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 16-12-2011 10:12 Post subject: |
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lol, he's not THAT scary!! 
I was born and bread in Penzance, no there are a lot of odd people down there, but that's another story! |
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| Dingo667 I'm strange...but true Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Total posts: 1977 Location: Deep in the Fens, UK Age: 46 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 16-12-2011 17:44 Post subject: |
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I just remember a lady I used to see when driving to work. I think it was in Roxton, Bedfordshire [near the Black Cat Roundabout]. This lady, in her 60s always looked like a Barbara Cartland book cover. Large brimmed hats, long [gold] gloves, long flowery dress and a parasol with lase trim. As much as I thought she was mad, I quite liked her for it. Maybe she just liked that look and went for it. Brilliant.
Another one from the 1980 comes to mind. This was in Hannover, Germany. There was a guy who was naked apart from underpants, in all weather. He had a boombox playing some horrid schmalz music, whilst he was dancing with a Barbie doll. He was serious! [I might have written about him before] and everybody knew him. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 16-12-2011 17:57 Post subject: |
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| Dingo667 wrote: | | I just remember a lady I used to see when driving to work. I think it was in Roxton, Bedfordshire [near the Black Cat Roundabout]. This lady, in her 60s always looked like a Barbara Cartland book cover. Large brimmed hats, long [gold] gloves, long flowery dress and a parasol with lase trim. As much as I thought she was mad, I quite liked her for it. Maybe she just liked that look and went for it. Brilliant. |
I've been driving past that roundabout for years and never saw her. Mind you, I never went through Roxton itself. |
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Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-12-2011 23:40 Post subject: |
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| I drive past that roundabout too and I've never seen her, maybe she's an apperition that ony certain people see. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 17-12-2011 00:21 Post subject: |
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| My goodness, we all live near the Black Cat roundabout. |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-12-2011 00:27 Post subject: |
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| Sandy is closer than MK. |
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| Dingo667 I'm strange...but true Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Total posts: 1977 Location: Deep in the Fens, UK Age: 46 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 18-12-2011 13:50 Post subject: |
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Just to clear it up. She wasn't standing on the Black Cat Roundabout
I was only mentioning it so people could figure out where Roxton is. She stood in Roxton at a bus stop, near a T-junction. If it wasn't Roxton it must have been the next nearest village but I'm sure it was Roxton.
Just a little extra about the BCR. When we lived in Wyboston in 1993, there was actually a dead black cat lying just before the roundabout for weeks! |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 18-12-2011 17:44 Post subject: |
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| Dingo667 wrote: | | Just to clear it up. She wasn't standing on the Black Cat Roundabout |
Now that would be Fortean. |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 1005 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 20-12-2011 20:53 Post subject: |
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I have another to add!
On the bus home from work today, an old lady got on with a pram. I didn't pay much attention, until the girl sat in front of me said "OMG, she's got cats!" Under her breath. Yep, the little old lady had a pram with a mesh cover full of cats! |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-12-2011 23:23 Post subject: |
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| You appear to be a strange folk magnet. |
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-12-2011 09:24 Post subject: |
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| My wife had cats. Took me years to cure her |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 1005 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 21-12-2011 15:40 Post subject: |
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| Ronson8 you are on the money with that They seem to love me, maybe I'm one of them but don't know it yet |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21362 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-12-2011 20:52 Post subject: |
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| cherrybomb wrote: | | On the bus home from work today, an old lady got on with a pram. I didn't pay much attention, until the girl sat in front of me said "OMG, she's got cats!" Under her breath. Yep, the little old lady had a pram with a mesh cover full of cats! |
I already posted on one of the earlier Strange Folk threads that I sometimes see a woman on the buses here with a dog in a pram.
But last time I saw her, I saw something I'd not noticed before - it's not a regular baby pram (although it looks like one), but one specifically intended for pets! There must be a lot of these women about if manufacturers find it worthwhile to market buggies specially for pets! |
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