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gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
 Posted: 10-08-2013 23:14 Post subject: FT 305 |
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| Anyone else get theirs? Haven't had a chance for an in-depth read, but delighted to see Crook Frightfulness has finally made an appearance. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 10-08-2013 23:58 Post subject: |
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Mine arrived while I was at work. Not opened it yet.  |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 11-08-2013 14:26 Post subject: |
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Got mine yesterday. Like what I've read, so far.
I would have made more of the "Cumberland Spaceman" mystery apparently being solved, though  |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 11-08-2013 19:32 Post subject: |
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Had more of a read today, and almost every letter was a winner, even the IHTMs were all quality (not sure the earworm is all that supernatural, mind you), and I'm now pondering whether elks exist because I've never seen one either, and if there's a curse of doom on 10 Downing Street. Plus good to know Emergo made it to Newcastle, I thought it was an American phenomenon.
Crook Frightfulness was well worth the wait, a terrific article, so well researched and very revealing in light of the article which followed it. Both seemed like the product of deranged minds, but when more than one person claims similar kinds of mysterious persecution, many more, you wonder if they're feeding one another's psychosis or if there's really something to it. |
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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: 12-08-2013 02:19 Post subject: |
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| Still waiting for my copy to arrive! When it does, I shall be giddy with glee! |
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| DrWhiteface Great Old One Joined: 09 Jun 2010 Total posts: 356 Location: Head Fool, Fools Guild, Ankh-Morpork Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 12-08-2013 07:12 Post subject: |
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| Wretched postal service taking its own sweet time to deliver to the Fools Guild. (Prepares custard pies to throw at said postal service!) |
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| los_grandes_lutz You have no new messages
Great Old One Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Total posts: 332 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-08-2013 23:11 Post subject: |
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Strange tales of Homeland Security +++++Spoiler alert+++++
Druggie thinks the world is watching him because once upon a time someone stole some night vision glasses and then stayed at the druggies house. Please!
I'm not even going to start on the invisible midgets and other such rubbish, but can someone answer one simple question. If it all started over some stolen night vision glasses, why on earth would any government agency be following this unimportant person years later, when obviously he would no longer have access to the glasses. Why not follow, say.... someone who IS a threat to the country?
And please don't say it's because this unemployed druggie who sleeps in a caravan behind his mother's house is a danger to the most powerful government in the world.
If this is the level that FT are going to drop to, I will seriously question if I want to renew my subscription.
BTW, yes of course I'm working for "them"  |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-08-2013 19:18 Post subject: |
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| Funny, I saw the article as a modern complement to the Edwardian article right before it, obviously delusional but curious all the same because it's an experience shared by many people. There is a panel in the second article which pretty much says all this stuff is impossible. I do worry what it might do to suggestible minds, however. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 16-08-2013 19:30 Post subject: |
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| Mine turned up just a couple of hours ago. I haven't even opened the plastic wrapper yet! |
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| DiocletianX Tadger
Yeti Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Total posts: 30 Location: Glasgow Age: 36 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-08-2013 21:37 Post subject: |
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| los_grandes_lutz wrote: | Strange tales of Homeland Security +++++Spoiler alert+++++
Druggie thinks the world is watching him because once upon a time someone stole some night vision glasses and then stayed at the druggies house. Please!
I'm not even going to start on the invisible midgets and other such rubbish, but can someone answer one simple question. If it all started over some stolen night vision glasses, why on earth would any government agency be following this unimportant person years later, when obviously he would no longer have access to the glasses. Why not follow, say.... someone who IS a threat to the country?
And please don't say it's because this unemployed druggie who sleeps in a caravan behind his mother's house is a danger to the most powerful government in the world.
If this is the level that FT are going to drop to, I will seriously question if I want to renew my subscription.
BTW, yes of course I'm working for "them" |
That is the worst article I think I've ever read in nearly 20 years of FT. Complete garbage. I'm really shocked and pissed off that they published it.
Seriously, WTF. |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-08-2013 22:55 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | ... I do worry what it might do to suggestible minds, however. |
i think i know where youre coming from |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-08-2013 22:56 Post subject: |
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| good cover though ... especially after last months pub sign |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-08-2013 22:59 Post subject: |
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| HenryFort wrote: | | gncxx wrote: | | ... I do worry what it might do to suggestible minds, however. |
i think i know where youre coming from |
Yeah, after certain recent posts here I'm wondering if the article shouldn't have been the sidebar and vice versa. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 19-08-2013 09:44 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | | Funny, I saw the article as a modern complement to the Edwardian article right before it, obviously delusional but curious all the same because it's an experience shared by many people. There is a panel in the second article which pretty much says all this stuff is impossible. I do worry what it might do to suggestible minds, however. |
I think I'm going to call this the Summer Madness issue. The weather was great yesterday, so I read it almost cover to cover, sitting on my favourite quiet terrace and drinking Brand pils out of the bottle.
I enjoyed it, even the Homeland Security craziness. It really did complement the Crook Frightfulness article. It reminded me of the sort of stuff PK Dick used to come out with, back in his crazy druggy days. I can see what gncxx means, there's a real Fortean nebulousness about the article - how much of this should we believe, if at all? The Crook Frightfulness article did provide a bit of historical context. The invisible midgets were worthy of John Keel and I enjoyed the insider's hatchet job on Keel as well.
A good issue. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
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