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escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
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Mine arrived days ago but I've put it somewhere safe and can't find it.  |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 19-09-2013 20:38 Post subject: |
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| Why has the letter from Geoff Clifton been printed in a second edition? |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 22-09-2013 09:15 Post subject: |
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Does everyone get the same advertisement inserts? Scanning one that came with mine (Amazing New Book - Uncovers The Truth etc - Wow...again?), and flipping over to the recommendations, I actually thought it was a parody.
Sometimes I'm almost tempted to buy them and have a bit of a giggle - but the 'almost' bit always kicks in.
| gncxx wrote: | | ...Taxidermy stuff is something I always find quite eerie, especially when made into artworks, but I can't deny it has its fascination (not the bottle opener in a deer's arse, I can live without that).... |
Stuffed animals make me cringe, I don't care in what context or how well done. One of my local pubs has a stuffed kingfisher in a glass case. Seeing a kingfisher in the wild is akin to being tapped on the eyeball by the angel Gabriel, seeing one in a glass box is an insult to nature. Generally I can't get over that feeling however good the product.
| Quote: | | ...I've heard the Alec Guinness warning to James Dean before, the John Simpson one is interesting, though, might have been a prank, yet still sinister... |
When the request for biographical examples of Fortean style weirdness came up I recalled a couple: there is, I think, an example in Daniel Farson's Never a Normal Man, the details of which I can't recall; and there are several really quite unnerving episodes in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart . (I'm actually a little surprised that the latter isn't better known in Fortean circles.)
| Quote: | | Liked the weirder IHTM too, the weirder they get the paradoxically easier they are to believe: e.g. aliens under the bed, why make that up?... |
Yes, it's the weirdest and, I find, the most mundane that ring true. I find that the 'why make that up?' test works at both extremes. |
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| barrytonic Grey Joined: 01 Jul 2009 Total posts: 1 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 24-09-2013 19:22 Post subject: |
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| Monstrosa wrote: | | Why has the letter from Geoff Clifton been printed in a second edition? |
I had quite the deja vu moment when I read that. I found the ''Speakers were denouncing me and arousing men against me'' men against me'' very amusing under the picture of Lucy Pringle in the Stonehenge Surprise article, a remnant of the Crook Frightfulness article lingering on. None of which diminishes the great pleasure I take in reading this publication. |
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| Mal_Content Great Old One Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Total posts: 779 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-09-2013 12:51 Post subject: |
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| The leaflet advertising the latest book i'll never read, seems to have forgotten to put the name of the author. Not sure I'd want to pay extra for a signed copy of an anonymous book. |
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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: 09-10-2013 20:30 Post subject: |
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| old benjamin radford wasnt at his fortean best re crop circles ... seemed a bit of a lame and lazy runthrough to me not on a par with his usual pieces ... alan murdie was fantastic as ever and the guy emerging from the vietnam jungle after 40 years with salon quality hair deserves a mention |
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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: 12-10-2013 02:53 Post subject: |
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| HenryFort wrote: | | old benjamin radford wasnt at his fortean best re crop circles ... seemed a bit of a lame and lazy runthrough to me not on a par with his usual pieces ... alan murdie was fantastic as ever and the guy emerging from the vietnam jungle after 40 years with salon quality hair deserves a mention |
Best comment on an article ever!  |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 12-10-2013 08:01 Post subject: |
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Spent a pleasant couple of afternoons on a sunny terrace last week, drinking beer and reading FT No.306 from cover to cover.
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