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emuboy said:
If she was an Aussie living in Melbourne, she would have seen all 21 AFL/VFL clubs including University in action. As it is, Kane Tanaka would have seen Halley's Comet twice in her lifetime - as a 7-year-old girl in 1910 and at age 83 in 1986. She was 70 when the World Trade Center was completed in 1973, and 98 when it was destroyed in 2001. She was 9 when the Titanic sank in 1912, and 82 when the wreck was found in 1985.
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She was 88 years old when Freddie Mercury died.

IIRC, she was born almost 2 years after Queen Victoria's death.
 
RedmanWasHere said:
She was 88 years old when Freddie Mercury died.

IIRC, she was born almost 2 years after Queen Victoria's death.
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Yes, Queen Victoria died in 1901 so just two years earlier. She has seen five British monarchs - Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI and Elizabeth II in her lifetime, and was already 50-years-old at the time of the Queen's 1953 Coronation.

As I noted on another thread, the day after Kane turned 100 Greta Thunberg was born in Sweden. I wonder if Greta will still be around at age 119 in 2122?
 
The ASIO Director General has recently given some interviews, and he has a most ironic surname for a man in charge of a security agency - Burgess - the same as Guy Burgess, a British spy of the 1940s and 1950s who along with Kim Philby, Donald McLean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross formed the infamous MI5 Cambridge Five spy ring.

It's funny how often these ironic names come up. For example in football, Richmond once had a player named Richmond, Ross Lyon played for Fitzroy, Archibald Swannie for South Melbourne, while the Adelaide Crows once had a player named Andrew Crowell. In the WAFL in the early 2010s the Claremont Tigers had a ruckman named Andrew Ruck.

A few years ago there was a controversy at the WACA Ground at Perth when several women were told they were wearing inappropriate clothing during a test match, one of them a young sports journalist covering the cricket. Her name? It was Lily Marsh.

Strangest of all was the story of a family from France who had to make a most unusual insurance claim for damage to their roof after it was hit by a meteorite. The name of the family? It was Comet.
 

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emuboy said:
The ASIO Director General has recently given some interviews, and he has a most ironic surname for a man in charge of a security agency - Burgess - the same as Guy Burgess, a British spy of the 1940s and 1950s who along with Kim Philby, Donald McLean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross formed the infamous MI5 Cambridge Five spy ring.
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There was a great quote from Harry Pierce in Spooks lamenting the rise of the modern spy.
You see you always knew where you were with a public school traitor. Just look for the pipe-smoking sixteen year old sodomite with a copy of E.M. Forster under his arm.
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emuboy said:
Is that kind of like meeting a baker with the surname Baker, a car salesperson having a surname like Ford or Holden or a road-worker having a surname like McAdam?
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Yes. Such as a funeral director with the name Grave/s
 
RedmanWasHere said:
Come again?
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John McAdam was an engineer and a pioneer in road construction in the 1800s. It would be like meeting a sheep farmer with the surname MacArthur or if you went on a cruise and the captain's name was Cook.

Another one that seemed apt was a scientist in the early 1930s who was an expert on amphibians and urged the government not to bring in cane toads to control the cane beetle population in Queensland, stating that Australia had no toads in the ecosystem and this could go very badly. His surname was Froggett.
 

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If you are a Generation X or older Millennial, chances are you watched the popular educational kids' show Sesame Street in your formative years in the 1970s and 1980s. Back in those days, Sesame Street would feature two letters and one number per episode.

While the letters were pretty straight forward, the number policy of Sesame Street was somewhat odd. First, they only went up to the number 11, when it would have seemed more logical to go to 12 or stop at 10. But far more strange was a policy that the number 1 was never to be featured as the number of the day on an episode.

I have never known the reason for this rule regarding not featuring the Number 1 on the show. Maybe its like one of those really strange corporate rules in an office such as banning staff from wearing green clothes to work, when it is never known why green clothes are not allowed in the office in the first place?
 
Sesame Street was the first program on US television to reference a 'rusty trombone', which continued a fine tradition of hiding adult jokes within children's programming

 
Mofra said:
Sesame Street was the first program on US television to reference a 'rusty trombone', which continued a fine tradition of hiding adult jokes within children's programming

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Yes I am aware Animaniacs was well after Sesame Street, but...

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Classic UK sitcom Fawlty Towers famously ran for just 12 episodes, although rumors have persisted for over 40 years that there was a 13th episode made but which never went to air.

Rumored lost episode aside, while the iconic show and characters weren't around long, of the eight main cast members a number of them resurrected their characters in various other media such as adverts, training videos and comedy shorts in the following years. John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs all portrayed their respective characters of Basil, Sybil and Manuel on a number of occasions after the show ended, while Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts again portrayed their Fawlty Towers characters Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby in a guest role in 'Only Fools and Horses' in 1982, putting both classic sitcoms in the same fictional universe.

However the three other main Fawlty Towers characters - Polly (Connie Booth), Terry (Brian Hall) and Major Gowan (Ballard Berkley) - were never resurrected at any stage, and their last appearances remain in the last Fawlty Towers episode Basil the Rat in 1979. And given Connie Booth is now aged in her 80s and not having acted since 1994, and Brian Hall and Ballard Berkley have both been deceased for many years, they won't be seen again.
 
Australia and New Zealand were among the last countries to convert to decimal currency, not changing until 1966 and 1967 respectively.

However there are still two countries today that do not use decimal currency. These are Mauritania and Madagascar.
 
In the 1980s an American psychiatrist a Doctor Thomas Bouchard conducted an extensive study on twins through the University of Minnesota, specifically what happens when twins are raised apart.

I'm not sure what finding Doctor Bouchard's published papers revealed, but in February 1994 future Canadian star tennis player Eugenie Bouchard (no relation to the Doctor) was born six minutes after her twin sister Beatrice. Although the girls were initially raised together, their parents separated when they were about 8-years-old, and Beatrice remained in Canada while Eugenie went to Florida to live with her mother to receive more intensive tennis coaching. From the limited amount of information available about Beatrice Bouchard she has never played tennis, at least not at a significant level. And while Eugenie and Beatrice Bouchard look similar enough to be taken for identical twins, the girls are actually fraternal twins, like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
 
emuboy said:
In the 1980s an American psychiatrist a Doctor Thomas Bouchard conducted an extensive study on twins through the University of Minnesota, specifically what happens when twins are raised apart.

I'm not sure what finding Doctor Bouchard's published papers revealed, but in February 1994 future Canadian star tennis player Eugenie Bouchard (no relation to the Doctor) was born six minutes after her twin sister Beatrice. Although the girls were initially raised together, their parents separated when they were about 8-years-old, and Beatrice remained in Canada while Eugenie went to Florida to live with her mother to receive more intensive tennis coaching. From the limited amount of information available about Beatrice Bouchard she has never played tennis, at least not at a significant level. And while Eugenie and Beatrice Bouchard look similar enough to be taken for identical twins, the girls are actually fraternal twins, like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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Even being raised together is no guarantee that both twins will make it to the highest level.
Scott West has a twin brother (Brent) who never played football at a high level. His older brother Troy was a very handy footballer, gun at a VFA level.

Twins are an interesting study:

Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were identical twins raised apart from the age of 4 weeks. When the twins were finally reunited at the age of 39 in 1979, they discovered they both suffered from tension headaches, were prone to nail biting, smoked Salem cigarettes, drove the same type of car and even vacationed at the same beach in Florida.
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Plenty of stories of separated twins with the above example. Even down to marrying women/men with the same first name, having the same job, etc.

There's no free will imo, it's an illusion. Plenty of examples of premonitions turning out true, which again highlights how events are pre-destined.
 

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