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liveinabin1 Great Old One Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Total posts: 2140 Location: insert witty comment here Gender: Female |
 Posted: 23-02-2013 12:39 Post subject: FT 299 |
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Well lucky old me had this brought to me in bed by the other half this morning!
Liverpool Leprechauns,
Electronic Crop Circles
Cumbrian Weresheep
New Bermuda Triangle
Is Elvis still alive?
'R' Marks the Spot.
On the subject of the woman who found Dick the III by having an attack of the vapours while stood on a letter R, I think that the R stands for restricted. If you look at the picture of the car park you will see that a car further along is struggling to fit into a regular sized space. The space marked with R is smaller and on a bend. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-02-2013 19:11 Post subject: |
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| Mine arrived today, haven't read any of it yet but I had a flick through (alarming horror squirrel pic!) and the leprechaun article looks terrific. Also looking forward to the Elvis one - he must be dead by now, surely? |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1111 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 27-02-2013 21:31 Post subject: |
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| It would be interesting to see if you can get any odds on Elvis still being alive. |
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| liveinabin1 Great Old One Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Total posts: 2140 Location: insert witty comment here Gender: Female |
| Posted: 27-02-2013 21:42 Post subject: |
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| I had hopes for the Elvis article too, but it was a bit of something a nothing. It could have been a longer item, over a couple of issues. One with 'sightings' and next issue with the whole thing with 'Jesse'. I would have like to have heard more about 'Jesse' but there was very little info really. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-03-2013 18:51 Post subject: |
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| The Elvis article was fine, but didn't add much more than the previous one did (can't believe how long ago that was!), so was probably best as a primer or refresher. The question remains, who is the Jesse in that photograph if he's not Presley (and he probably isn't)? |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 01-03-2013 20:07 Post subject: |
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Mine turned up today. I am a happy camper!  |
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| 47Forteans Live Fortean And Prosper!
Great Old One Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Total posts: 1727 Location: In A World Gone Mad... Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 02-03-2013 01:49 Post subject: |
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| Is there such a thing as an unhappy camper? |
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| liveinabin1 Great Old One Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Total posts: 2140 Location: insert witty comment here Gender: Female |
| Posted: 02-03-2013 16:19 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | The Elvis article was fine, but didn't add much more than the previous one did (can't believe how long ago that was!), so was probably best as a primer or refresher. The question remains, who is the Jesse in that photograph if he's not Presley (and he probably isn't)? |
And here is my problem with FT. There is a certain amount of assumed knowledge. I understand that there should be some assumed knowledge but I have found that many FT articles have been closed to me because I just don't know about something.
Take Jesse in the Elvis article. All the item seemed to say about him was that he was a dead twin, who's twin? The only other thing was that a psychologist said she knew who he was. Now to people who know a lot about the story of Elvis will know who this was and what it means, but I don't. And because of this I didn't get much out of the article because I was left with a lot of un answered question. A box out with a time line, almost a glossary would be useful for a lot of items.
But maybe its just me. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-03-2013 17:01 Post subject: |
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| 47Forteans wrote: | | Is there such a thing as an unhappy camper? |
Not really, they like to moan about holidays ruined by rain. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 02-03-2013 18:53 Post subject: |
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Some campers have more fun than others! 
(Apologies to any non-Brits who may find the above link incomprehensible.
We can't help our sophisticated sense of humour.  ) |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-03-2013 23:16 Post subject: |
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| escargot1 wrote: | Some campers have more fun than others!
(Apologies to any non-Brits who may find the above link incomprehensible.
We can't help our sophisticated sense of humour. ) |
Knowing they filmed that on a freezing cold day says a lot about Great British pluck, too. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-03-2013 23:29 Post subject: |
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| Was the lack of Mythconceptions this issue the reason the ghosts section regurgitated the ancient urban myth about the woman whose husband goes for petrol leaving her alone in the car then the police arrive and tell her to get out of the car and don't look back and... well, you know the one? |
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| PaulTaylor Yeti Joined: 27 Jan 2013 Total posts: 79 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-03-2013 12:58 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Was the lack of Mythconceptions this issue the reason the ghosts section regurgitated the ancient urban myth about the woman whose husband goes for petrol leaving her alone in the car then the police arrive and tell her to get out of the car and don't look back and... well, you know the one? |
I didn't even notice the absence of Mythconceptions this month. Odd, because it's one of my favourite items. Perhaps there are no more myths left to dispel. I hope that's not the case. |
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| PaulTaylor Yeti Joined: 27 Jan 2013 Total posts: 79 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 04-03-2013 16:53 Post subject: |
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I found the Elvis article unexpectedly fascinating. Generally, I couldn't give a sasquatch's hairy behind whether people think the King is alive. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how much ambiguity seemed present in this particular discussion, and how important the questions of personal belief and emotional need were to the story.
Also, I've just read a letter on page 69 by Rose Titus, in which she mentions her cat which could say "Now" and "Wow! Wow! Wow!" Our cat, Cracker, died last year. He seemed fascinated by nocturnal aviforms, as he would frequently sit on the windowsill at night saying, "Owl! Owl!" It seems cats are a loquacious bunch. I'd also like to second Rose's call for more cute animals (from Outer Space or otherwise) in Fortean Times. There was a time when virtually every issue had at least one page I could pass to my girlfriend to elicit "Awwww!"s. Now, whenever she catches me reading a fresh issue, and asks, "Are there any cuties?", my answer is invariably, "Not this month."  |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-03-2013 19:54 Post subject: |
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| This ish's horror squirrel not good enough for you, huh? |
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