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Earwig
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Originally posted by Doulos:
Strange and unexplained - why does the ice-cream van come round our road at 9.30pm? What is he selling? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) And who is buying it?
I always wondered about the one I could hear at 8.00am, in the industrial estate near me. Turns out it was a pie and coffee van. Imaginative idea, but I'd much prefer a '99 to start my day. Mmm, sugar highs. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Janine
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- Why does my hopelessly lost item only ever turn up 1.) after I replace it, or 2.) after I inconvenience someone else by getting them to help me hunt for it?
- Why do my children bother the h-e-double-hockey-sticks out of me by displaying all of my most irritating qualities? Could they not have made up some of their own?
- Why is it so many topics I wonder about are so obscure that any thread I start usually dies a quiet death as it sinks to the bottom of the Boards? Haven't I anything in common with anyone else on the Ship?
- Why am I sitting here typing when I could be doing something really productive, like flossing my teeth or returning unwanted phone calls?
- Why does it only ever and always rain after I wash my car?
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Meg the Red
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Why does the wind switch direction so that I'm always cycling into it? And it changes instantaneously; if I turn a corner, it does too.
It knows.
Hubby calls it "The Meg Effect".
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Left at the Altar
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Originally posted by Iole Nui:
It was on TV last night that eels can travel several miles overland as long as there is rain on the ground. Ha!
Obviously, LATA's goldfish are some form of modified eel, and took advantage of an unexpected rainstorm to leg it. Er, fin it.
Case closed.
Well, the certainly looked like goldfish and not even one bit like eels.
I noticed a dirty big crow in the neighbour's tree yesterday. I'm blaming it.
Now for revenge.
New question: Why, in a train, bus or tram with numerous vacant seats, do the weirdos always sit next to me?
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Moth
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A couple of years ago, all our goldfish disappeared overnight, together with a marsh marigold in a pot. It had to be thieves, as no heron would take a large plant. But whoever heard of goldfish rustling?
We have only three 'everyday' desert spoons. Over the 20-odd years of our married life, all the teaspoons (and some of their replacements) have gone, and now virtually all the desert spoons. The forks are getting rather thin on the ground, but the knives remain undiminished. Admittedly, my boys do tend to eat with spoons and forks, but are rarely bothered with the niceties of a knife. Coincidence?
I have an irritating list constantly in my head of things I need to find. Top at the moment is SC's Oyster card. I do get tired of looking for things. Why don't things just stay where you expect them to be?
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Catrine
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Originally posted by Moth:
We have only three 'everyday' desert spoons. Over the 20-odd years of our married life, all the teaspoons (and some of their replacements) have gone, and now virtually all the desert spoons.
Do not fear, for this is a common occurrance, even worthy of a BMJ article here
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Left at the Altar
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Originally posted by Moth:
But whoever heard of goldfish rustling?
Maybe it's a huge illicit industry that we're only just learning about.
I'm very peeved, because my goldfish cost $14 each. They were big ones. I hope what ever ate-took them dies of some hideous over-eating of fish disease.
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nickel
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$14 goldfish! wow, those must have been big! My sympathies on your loss. I suspect a neighborhood cat....
Ambrose Bierce is my mystery. Last I saw, he was in the basement going just ever-so-slightly moldy. Twelve volumes couldn't have just wandered off to Mexico, now could they?
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kentishmaid
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
New question: Why, in a train, bus or tram with numerous vacant seats, do the weirdos always sit next to me?
I think they feel the negative vibes, the way that animals and computers smell fear. It's the only possible explanation. They seem to home in on me, too.
[ 02. November 2007, 09:35: Message edited by: kentishmaid ]
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by kentishmaid:
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
New question: Why, in a train, bus or tram with numerous vacant seats, do the weirdos always sit next to me?
I think they feel the negative vibes, the way that animals and computers smell fear. It's the only possible explanation. They seem to home in on me, too.
It isn't that the weirdos sit next to you, they will sit next to anyone rather than place themselves even amongst the existing passengers.
Example: there is a guy in our office who always gets the same bus and always sits in the same seat. Occasionally a friend of mine also gets this bus. He has found that if he sits in the first guy's seat, he will sit next to him rather than anywhere else.
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"I can explain it to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you." (late Ed Koch, sometime mayor, New York City)
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Joyeux
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Unexplained disappearances:
- That one CD that has that one song that perfectly fits my mood for the next 3 minutes
- Pair of hose not all stretched out
OTOH - I spent 11 1/2 months looking for my candle snuffer, only to find it on the table in my living room, where I had placed it 11 3/4 months before...
Now, had it really been hiding there, in plain sight the whole time, or was it elsewhere, and used Quantum Tunneling to arrive?
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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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This thread. This thread disappeared for 2 1/2 months and now it's back again--
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Originally posted by Iole Nui:
Tweezers are certainly a mystery.
Even if they don't go missing (which they often do, and now we know where to) they seem to be made of some strangely soft substance masquerading as metal. Either that or eyebrow hairs are in fact the most tough and abrasive things in the universe, and could be used for carving diamonds.
Whichever, it's certainly the case that while you can use many knives for years without needing to sharpen them, and other metal implements don't seem to noticably wear away, tweezers cannot survive a 5 minute session of tweezing without becoming mysteriously worn, with concave surfaces, quite unable to grip an eyebrow hair EVER AGAIN.
As you pointed out, we now know that our tweezers have migrated into ReginaShoe's husband's medicine cabinet. I WANT MINE BACK! it was really good and didn't yield to the impossibly tough and abrasive eyebrow hairs which are, in fact, strong enough to carve diamonds.
The reason we don't use eyebrow hairs to carve diamonds is the rash of tragic accidental blindings which occurred in the dismal attempt to do so.
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amber.
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Pens and pencils: I counted out how many we had, three months ago - 47 of them. Two are left. Where can the other 45 be?! Ever thrown away an end of a pencil or a pen that's run out of ink? How often, compared to the amount you buy/acquire? And each and every washload reveals at least one unpaired sock.
Son had a theory when younger that there is a sock-and-pen-eating-monster in each home. He may be right...
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Gill H
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My tickets for Hairspray have disappeared too (I put them in a 'safe place' ... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) And since I paid with theatre tokens, that's £120 worth of tickets I won't see again. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
Re the fish - we were watching Finding Nemo the other night. Maybe they made a break for freedom in the beak of a passing pelican?
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Eutychus
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Originally posted by amber32002:
Pens and pencils: I counted out how many we had, three months ago - 47 of them. Two are left. Where can the other 45 be?! Ever thrown away an end of a pencil or a pen that's run out of ink? How often, compared to the amount you buy/acquire? And each and every washload reveals at least one unpaired sock.
Son had a theory when younger that there is a sock-and-pen-eating-monster in each home. He may be right...
Oh, that one has been dealt with in the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (at least for biros). They sneak off through wormholes in the space-time continuum to a planet devoted to the biroid lifestyle.
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Low Treason
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On the other hand, our little spate of missing biros was tracked down to Galatea the biro-collecting cat.
We always tried to keep one of those little biros that you find in bookmakers* by the phone message pad, but they never lasted more than a couple of hours. Consternation, followed by Dark Suspicions and even allegations and hard words...
Then after weeks of this, the culprit was caught carrying one of those conveniently-cat-sized pens in her mouth. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Later we found her cache under the kitchen stove, together with some walnuts and a few strange grey fluffy objects which might once have been tomatoes.
Kleptomaniac pets - that's the solution!
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Chorister
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Why is it when we unlock the choir vestry door on Sunday, we find the choir robes have changed places on the hangers so several people can't find their cassocks and surplices. They were hung in the right place last week.
Is it the church ghost feeling frisky again, or a troubled cross-dressing burglar in need of treatment (or counselling ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) )?
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the parsley sage
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Originally posted by Gill H:
My tickets for Hairspray have disappeared too (I put them in a 'safe place' ... And since I paid with theatre tokens, that's £120 worth of tickets I won't see again.
My family worked out a year or so ago that "a safe place" is THE worst place to put something, unless you actually want it to disappear (although, in this case, your "safe place" will obligingly keep said object safe for you, and reveal it everytime you open that cupboard/drawer/secret compartment)
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Jengie Jon
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Originally posted by amber32002:
Pens and pencils: I counted out how many we had, three months ago - 47 of them. Two are left. Where can the other 45 be?! Ever thrown away an end of a pencil or a pen that's run out of ink? How often, compared to the amount you buy/acquire? And each and every washload reveals at least one unpaired sock.
Son had a theory when younger that there is a sock-and-pen-eating-monster in each home. He may be right...
I think I have just solved the reason that I needed a five litre box to store all the pens in my office in. Nothing to do with me having a liking of buying pens then! Uhm Douglas Adam's Biroid wormholes must need fixing.
Jengie
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ElaineC
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I'd go for the local feline population. My daughter once left our fish tank open, turned her back for a minute and when she looked again one of our cats was calmly catching herself a guppy or two.
Gill H
I lost some tickets for Sadler's Wells. Fortunately I had booked online and was able to print out the confirmation email. I took that to the theatre and new tickets were issued. Clearing out several weeks later I found the missing tickets behind a cupboard.
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Ginga
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Trin (even though you posted that months ago and probably aren't checking this thread any more...),
I saw one of those on a flight from the UK to Florence. Apparently there was one on the way back as well, but I was asleep. They're really odd - you feel a bit like a Disney movie has torn a bit of a hole in the world and is trying to get through. One of the ones with stylised smoke, like Hercules or Mulan.
No idea what it is, though. Not living, I'm pretty sure of that. Unless it's a dragon.
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Carex
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Originally posted by Meg the Red:
Why does the wind switch direction so that I'm always cycling into it? And it changes instantaneously; if I turn a corner, it does too.
It knows.
Hubby calls it "The Meg Effect".
So YOU are the one responsible for this!
I remember riding up the canyon from Cromwell to Queenstown (twice, actually) against the wind and thinking what a glorious ride it would be coming back down with the wind at my back. But, of course, it was still into the wind.
I should have known it was your influence, however, as during all three trips I stopped to eat lunch beside a stream called Roaring Meg.
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Athrawes
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Where has my clock key gone? It's an antique striking clock, and the key is *always* put into the back of the clock immediately after winding it. 2 weeks ago I went to wind it and it was gone. I have looked everywhere, including the frige and outside the loungeroom windows, but no key.
To whoever was missing Susan Cooper, it is here, merrily consorting with other children's books I am sure I never bought.
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Seelenbräutigam
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Pens. Why is it that I've held on to my cheap Home Federal Savings Bank pen for a year and a half now, but three of the four gel pens I bought just last week are gone missing? At least they both still have ink, I guess...
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amber.
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
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Originally posted by amber32002:
Pens and pencils: I counted out how many we had, three months ago - 47 of them. Two are left. Where can the other 45 be?! ...
I think I have just solved the reason that I needed a five litre box to store all the pens in my office in. Nothing to do with me having a liking of buying pens then! Uhm Douglas Adam's Biroid wormholes must need fixing.
Jengie
Aha - that explains it. Whilst you're contemplating, any chance you could check the sock drawer at home and see if you can find 73 odd socks including some pink stripy ones, a Bart Simpson one (blame son, not me), and a dark blue rugby sock? If so, can we have them back too please?
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Caty S.
I read, therefore I am.
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I have a Wallace and Gromit sock that I'm sure I never had before, if that's any help.
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amber.
Ship's Aspiedestra
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Originally posted by caty the southerner:
I have a Wallace and Gromit sock that I'm sure I never had before, if that's any help.
You never had Wallace and Gromit socks before, and now one's appeared? That certainly is strange and unexplained...!
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Caty S.
I read, therefore I am.
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Originally posted by amber32002:
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Originally posted by caty the southerner:
I have a Wallace and Gromit sock that I'm sure I never had before, if that's any help.
You never had Wallace and Gromit socks before, and now one's appeared? That certainly is strange and unexplained...!
Some people would say that I must have accidentally acquired it when staying with someone who owned Wallace and Gromit socks. I think this is far too simplistic an explanation.
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Moth
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Originally posted by caty the southerner:
I have a Wallace and Gromit sock that I'm sure I never had before, if that's any help.
I've lost one! Give it back!
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Joyeux
Ship's Lady of Laughter
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In response to the missing fish...
I found the answer!
Marmaduke has them.
Of course, he doesn't particularly want them, so we're still searching for a prankster.
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piglet
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
Where are the other socks?
In my tumble-dryer.
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Always Waiting
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
New question: Why, in a train, bus or tram with numerous vacant seats, do the weirdos always sit next to me? [/QB]
Or, in my case, why is it that when the bus is full up, nobody sits by me? It seems even the three-tonne guy with body odour that would floor a skunk has a more appealing seat than the one next to me...
I've been assured by people that even when I'm trying like anything to be a scary semi-goth/punk, I'm still "cute," so it can't be that they're scared of me. (Sadly, this is cute in the "wee elf" sense, not cute in the "can't wait to sit beside you on the bus and chat you up" sense.)
Talk about ways to make a girl paranoid...
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