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Posted: 23-03-2013 09:58 Post subject: FT 300

Just about to run my bath when it dropped through the door.

Title is Apocolypse Not - what happened when the world didn't end.
Also:
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Bearded Lady Burial
Indiana Bird Monster.

Right, must run as the bath is about to run over.

Posted: 23-03-2013 13:15 Post subject:

I was hoping for some kind of 300th Issue Anniversary feature, with reprints of bits from early editions through the decades, and short sidebars from the authors reappraising their opinions from days gone by or validating their beliefs based on new evidence. Each decade's pages designed in the style of that eon...

I'm a sucker for those kind of issues.

Posted: 23-03-2013 22:30 Post subject:

Mine had arrived by the time I left for work. So far, I'm not disappointed. Cool

Posted: 23-03-2013 23:40 Post subject:

I've only flicked through mine so far, but it looks pretty good. That over-hyped apocalypse stuff really left us all at a loose end. Good to see Mythconceptions in this issue. Once again, very little in the way of cute animals. Apart from some knotted squirrels. What's with the cynophilia in the last few issues?

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Posted: 24-03-2013 10:08 Post subject:

This is true. Have eaten more than half the front page though.

Posted: 24-03-2013 21:51 Post subject:

No sign of mine yet...I suspect it's stuck in a snowdrift somewhere!

Posted: 25-03-2013 19:10 Post subject:

Just read the Apocalypse Not articles, excellent stuff, amusing and despairing when you find out that the doomsayers have already lined up some new dates. You'd like to think that once it was proved to be nonsense at least some of them would accept they were wrong, but they just shift the goalposts.

If only they didn't capture the popular imagination so much, it only encourages them. Though I wouldn't put the blame solely on the New Agers as the articles tend to do, the Christians were at it longer.

Posted: 26-03-2013 03:49 Post subject:

I am disapointed this issue doesn't celebrate the previous issues, although there is hope the fortieth anniversay does that. Take note editors - we want special issues for the important celebrations in Forteana!

Posted: 26-03-2013 10:24 Post subject:

Posted: 26-03-2013 13:05 Post subject:

We thought we'd put off blowing our own trumpets until the 40th anniversary as doing so twice in one year might be a bit much.

Posted: 26-03-2013 19:23 Post subject:

The Apocalypse Not articles were a fine way to mark the 300th issue, you have to look forward as well as back.

I hope the forum piece about celebrity Fortean encounters squirreled away in autobiographies yields some letters, that section was looking a bit bare this ish, with most of the second page too caught up with, er, whatever that bloke was going on about in his missive.

Posted: 27-03-2013 01:20 Post subject:

The picture of the... *ahem* ..."device" on page 52 took me by surprise (as it were Confused

). Looks painful for the wearer, let alone anyone trying to "gain entry", so to speak... Shocked

Sorry, I've lowered the tone now... Razz

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