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Insanely unlikely coincidences

Started by biggytitbo, December 09, 2016, 09:41:28 PM

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Depressed Beyond Tables

Quote from: Dr Rock on December 12, 2016, 12:29:23 AM
One of several portable cassette players from 1969. Doesn't say how long it could survive in the desert.





Probably last longer if you used Sure. The spray not the roll on.

Feta Yeldman

Quote from: Serge on December 11, 2016, 09:53:51 PM
Although I agree that it is an odd coincidence that those lyrics turned up on 'Abbey Road', surely the inspiration for someone writing them on the door is that they're from a children's rhyme rather than them having somehow heard it in advance?

It was someone who stayed behind at the ranch, Colleen "Collie" Sinclair and Sue Bartell. Someone had to look after the horses

Feta Yeldman

Quote from: Depressed Beyond Tables on December 12, 2016, 12:47:17 AM
Probably last longer if you used Sure. The spray not the roll on.

Hunter S. Thompson famously dictated his Hell's Angels reports into a Minidisc.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Depressed Beyond Tables on December 12, 2016, 12:04:50 AM
Sting from The Police Band has never been stung by a wasp. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers have been stung by wasps and bees. Sting's real name is Gordon Bee.


Ahh I have some good Police trivia which i presume isnt an insanely unlikely coincidence but some kind of family in-joke. Stuart Copeland founded the Police, his brother Miles the IRS and his other brother Ian the FBI. They were all sons of CIA agent Miles Copeland Jr.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Feta Yeldman on December 12, 2016, 05:50:41 AM
It was someone who stayed behind at the ranch, Colleen "Collie" Sinclair and Sue Bartell. Someone had to look after the horses


I think the attempt to tie Watson to it was part of the phony attempt to link Helter Skelter and The Beatles to the Manson family murders, which were of course more about the murky drugs underworld of Hollywood than crazy ideas about an apocalyptic race war.

Mr Eggs

My cock perfectly fits in my hand. Some spooky shit right there. And if i rub it, a little wet ghost pops out!

My cock is haunted

Eight Taiwanese Teenagers

Quote from: Mr Eggs on December 12, 2016, 09:08:29 AM
My cock perfectly fits in my hand. Some spooky shit right there. And if i rub it, a little wet ghost pops out!

My cock is haunted

Ok this is weird.

So are my ghoulies.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Mr Eggs on December 12, 2016, 09:08:29 AM
My cock perfectly fits in my hand. Some spooky shit right there. And if i rub it, a little wet ghost pops out!


Isnt that ectoplasm?

Pepotamo1985

Quote from: non capisco on December 11, 2016, 11:24:05 PM
I was on a book swapping site a few years ago, fancied reading Stephen King's 'It' again and guess what, Cook'd and Bomb'd? The copy I got off someone in the post was the same copy I had as a teenager, my own juvenile scribblings of REM song titles on the back inside page and all.

I wonder who got the power pack?

Icehaven

There was a thing on TV on one of the magazine programmes years ago, (probably That's Life!) about a man who was walking past a telephone box and heard the phone ringing, so he answered it, and it was his secretary. She started talking, and he stopped her and asked how she could possibly have known he was walking past that phone box at that time, and she said ''What do you mean, aren't you at home?'' Turned out she'd intended to ring him at home but must have got a digit wrong, and the phone box number was one number different to his, and he just happened to be passing at that exact moment. It's slightly too boring to be completely made up, although there could well be some affair cover-up involved. That kind of crazy shit just doesn't happen in this dull modern world full of mobiles. 

doppelkorn

I remember that story. Might it have been on Strange but True?

biggytitbo

Quote from: doppelkorn on December 12, 2016, 12:34:42 PM
I remember that story. Might it have been on Strange but True?


Wasnt Strange But True the one with the BBC Micro receiving messages from 1547 or something? I mean, what are the chances of that happening?

Icehaven

Quote from: doppelkorn on December 12, 2016, 12:34:42 PM
I remember that story. Might it have been on Strange but True?

Quite possibly, or something like that. It would have been the early 90s probably. Or late. Or the late 80s. My sense of the passage of time is shit, I can only tell it's 2016 because so many famous people have died.

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Cerys

Quote from: biggytitbo on December 12, 2016, 12:53:48 PM

Wasnt Strange But True the one with the BBC Micro receiving messages from 1547 or something? I mean, what are the chances of that happening?

Pretty high.  It's not that long before teatime.

Serge

I was watching a bit of an old 'Q.I.' last night when they mentioned a story about a police ID parade where the defendant was a large black man and they couldn't find any other black men of his size to stand alongside him so blacked up a few white men but left their hands white. Today, I was finishing off a Simon Armitage book in my lunchbreak and lo and behold, the exact same story cropped up. Admittedly, this isn't really insane or all that unlikely.

MojoJojo

Quote from: biggytitbo on December 11, 2016, 05:43:45 PM
Maybe slightly weirder, someone at Spahn ranch wrote lyrics from the White Album and Abbey Road on a door, even though it was released after the murders took place:

I haven't dug through the details, but weren't the arrests after the release? There is also some faff to do with UK/US release dates being different.

Also, and maybe my memory of this is wrong since it's pre-internet, but wasn't it fairly common for tracks from albums to be played on the radio for promotion before they were released? I think it's easy to forget that pre-internet it wasn't a binary locked-down/freely available mechanism, and dedicated fans could have access to stuff that wasn't generally available.

non capisco


Icehaven

We were half watching some slightly silly American film about surfing yesterday (Catching Mavericks if you're interested. Or if you're not.) and we started talking about how Newquay's the place for surfing in Britain, and about Cornwall and Devon in general, and I mentioned the time I went to Bude and saw the bizarre GCHQ listening station you can see from the cliffs there. Then I looked back at the TV and the two main protagonists were surfing past a cliff...which had a listening station much like the one in Bude on. I'm sure there's listening stations on cliffs all over the place but it was still weird.

Noonling

Today an invoice I looked at was 0217, and the very next invoice from someone else was 02170. Wild.

BlodwynPig

Quite a lot of times i am thinking of a word and that word is sang on the song im listening to. But then again ive got Fuck Fuck Fuckkkkkk by The Fucks on heavy rotation

ZoyzaSorris

My kid and his new best friend from nursery both have a supernumerary tooth, these have an incidence rate of 0.3-0.8% (so for any two given kids an approx 0.0009-0.003% chance they'll both have one). OK, not insanely unlikely, but quite a co-incidence. *cue twilight zone music*

Icehaven

Quote from: ZoyzaSorris on February 04, 2019, 01:58:29 PM
My kid and his new best friend from nursery both have a supernumerary tooth, these have an incidence rate of 0.3-0.8% (so for any two given kids an approx 0.0009-0.003% chance they'll both have one). OK, not insanely unlikely, but quite a co-incidence. *cue twilight zone music*

To anyone else like me who had to Google 'supernumerary tooth', unless you enjoy waking nightmares don't do an image search.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: ZoyzaSorris on February 04, 2019, 01:58:29 PM
My kid and his new best friend from nursery both have a supernumerary tooth, these have an incidence rate of 0.3-0.8% (so for any two given kids an approx 0.0009-0.003% chance they'll both have one). OK, not insanely unlikely, but quite a co-incidence. *cue twilight zone music*

Me too! What are the chances eh?

Quote from: biggytitbo on December 09, 2016, 11:54:07 PM
about a steam driven machine from the future that is projected back in time to exterminate a woman from Victorian times who was going to give birth to a man who would later be arrested for a series of vicious assaults on industrial mangles.



Coincidentally Mrs Mangel from TV's Neighbours was killed when she was hit by a man in a steam powered Ford Escort.  Spooky really, when you think about it.

hummingofevil

Last week's FA Cup had a match where both managers were born on the same day. Random draw and all that.

Once walked past the same person outside the same pub twice when visiting York (he was also not from York). Got chatting to him in the pub first time I was there and second time we were walking in opposite directions and crossed over at same spot. That was fun.

Chollis

Saw my doppelganger on a beach in Spain when I was about 9. Exactly the fucking same. He just had slightly lighter skin and less freckles. We both just stared at each other for ages, dumbstruck. Tried to communicate but he was one of them bloody foreigns.

Managed to get a few snaps, so if anyone wants some photographs of two sexy 9 year old boys in swimming trunks just PM me

Quote from: Chollis on February 04, 2019, 02:38:33 PM
Saw my doppelganger on a beach in Spain when I was about 9. Exactly the fucking same. He just had slightly lighter skin and less freckles. We both just stared at each other for ages, dumbstruck. Tried to communicate but he was one of them bloody foreigns.

Managed to get a few snaps, so if anyone wants some photographs of two sexy 9 year old boys in swimming trunks just PM me

In a similar vein, the current Ryanair TV ad features a young boy who is the absolute spit of my son. Was genuinely taken aback when I saw it.

Bingo Fury

I've probably posted this one before, but here it is anyway. When I was a kid, the first car I remember my dad having was a Vauxhall Victor. After a few years, it was nearing the end of its useful life so he sold/part-exchanged it at a second-hand dealers and drove away in his new purchase, a Vauxhall Viva. Fast forward eighteen months or two years, and I come home from school one lunchtime to see the old Vauxhall Victor parked outside the house. I knew it was the same car because I remembered the licence plate number. "Mum," I said, when I got in the house, "Why is the car outside?" "Oh, your dad's home for lunch today," she says. "No ... I mean, why is the OLD car outside?" So my parents trooped out to see what I was talking about and saw that it was indeed our old car. It turned out there were workmen doing a job in the house next door and one of them had bought it from the dealer my dad sold it to, and because the road narrowed a bit he'd parked it directly in front of our house.

And then there's the one I definitely posted before about helping a girlfriend move into a new flat to find that she was sleeping in the same room in which I'd had a one-night-stand with someone I never saw again a couple of years previously, which in a city of more than 450,000 people I thought were pretty impressive odds.

Buelligan

Quote from: hummingofevil on February 04, 2019, 02:25:25 PM
Last week's FA Cup had a match where both managers were born on the same day. Random draw and all that.

Happy birthday for yesterday guys.