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Today for some reason I was thinking about someone I knew through work over 30 years ago by the name of Sandilands. The radio was on in the background and a matter of seconds after I started thinking about that, they started talking about Sandilands the Freo player.

Then tonight I was looking through a magazine and saw an obituary for someone named Lonergan and right then they started talking about Lonergan the Cats player.
 

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Fossie 32 said:
Today for some reason I was thinking about someone I knew through work over 30 years ago by the name of Sandilands. The radio was on in the background and a matter of seconds after I started thinking about that, they started talking about Sandilands the Freo player.

Then tonight I was looking through a magazine and saw an obituary for someone named Lonergan and right then they started talking about Lonergan the Cats player.
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At work over 30 years ago? I think you should change your name to Fossil.
 
Noddy Holder said:
At work over 30 years ago? I think you should change your name to Fossil.
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:p:p:p:p
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Maybe you should too if you are old enough to remember Noddy Holder
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Given how many people you see, shows you watch, books, papers or magazines read, sites visited, radio shows listened to in a day, at a 1 in 10000 odds to classify something as spooky or 1 in 1000000 for a miracle, the average person is still going to hit the former every few weeks at best and the later something you could say 'Is a miracle' every couple of years. People just don't bother with the 9999 out of 10000 that aren't when telling the stories.

Science (statistics) makes being a cynic so easy at times :p
 
Not a huge believer in this sort of stuff but.........

During my trip to Ireland I went to visit 'Tom' from Donegal who I am friends with through an internet discussion group - I was the only Australian on it and as chance would have it, he is the only one I met up with apart from another I went to uni with. During the day I mentioned my great grandfather had been a coastguard stationed at Killibegs in Donegal and Valentia Island in Co. Kerry. Later I was showing him some family photos and in the background of one of my son were portraits of two people. He noticed them and asked who they were. When I said they were my great grandparents, he remembered their surname, which was a good effort. Then I told him how I had just obtained my ggfather's death cert and solved a family mystery by discovering that he had died in a nursing home in Cork. Tom then informed me that he had lived right next to the home from birth to twenty years of age, and remembered playing tennis up against the brick walls of the home!
A couple of days later I made my way to Valentia Island and saw the old coastguard station where my ancestors had lived. I was shown around by the local taxi driver. His previous occupation? A coastguard, stationed at Valentia Island and Killibegs.
 
Fossie 32 said:
:p:p:p:p
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Maybe you should too if you are old enough to remember Noddy Holder
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True but at least 30 years ago I was still in primary school. :p
 
Earlier this year I went in to resign from my teenage part time job. So i told my boss then went upstairs as he wanted it formally written. So I finished then dropped the letter on the desk and about 10 seconds later the power went out. :eek: I found it pretty funny anyway.

But anyway I ended up not quitting as my boss didn't want to let me go and I realised I needed more money and that. Strange at the time anyway :D
 
Here are some interesting, albeit sad ones:

In 1898, a early science fiction novel was published in England. Titled "Futility", author Morgan Robertson's novel had a then futuristic setting of April 1912, and was about a state of the art Atlantic liner, the Titan, which hit an iceberg and sank with a heavy loss of life due to the lack of lifeboats. This was eerily prophetic to the real life sinking of the Titanic, which took place in April 1912.

When the late Australian actress Belinda Emmett first was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, a lookalike actress, Megan Connolly, was hired on a temporary basis to fill her role on Home & Away. Emmett's initial treatment seemed to be successful, and she returned to the show, but some time after leaving she again became ill, passing away in 2006. What isn't commonly known is that the relieving actress, Megan Connolly, also passed away before her time in 2001.

Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, who vanished without trace at Portsea Beach in Decmber 1967, was sworn into office on 26th January 1966 - ironically the day the Beaumont Children vanished from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide.

A number of musical artists - including Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix - have died at the age of 27.
 
Was talking to my mate about how good looking this girl was and the things I'd do to her, as you do, and then she adds me on facebook immediately after, and updates her Facebook status as a lyric from my favourite song, that every body I have ever talked to has never heard of.

It was spooky - but probably a sign that I should bone her.
 

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Noddy Holder said:
True but at least 30 years ago I was still in primary school. :p
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I was looking up old friends from my primary school days on Facebook a couple of weeks back. One guy I looked up I hadn't seen for ten years (last time I saw him was when we got into a fight the month before he left the school) . Surprisingly, I discovered we liked a lot of the same music and had a lot of the same interests.
 
Collingwood hasn't beaten a Victorian side in the finals since 1990... weow.

Nearly all the time I think of a particular Simpsons episode, that night it will be on channel 10.
 
When I was 15 I was dating a girl who passed away in a car accident with family members.

When I was 19, I moved into a uni sharehouse and a few months later I found out my housemate was dating her older sister who also passed away in the accident at the time. We were living about 100kms away from each when it happened.
 

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I met my brother in Glenrowan. We both walked into the (only) store in town and we both thought we were playing a prank on each other, it is the only time either of us Melbournites have ever been to Glenrowan and neither of us knew the other would be there.

It was seriously ****ed up, but probably just a cool story bro if you weren't there to experience the utter confusion..
 
Whenever I dream about a plane crash, I read about a plane crash in the following days. I had a dream about a little plane crashing in my backyard 2 days before September 11 and since then I've had at least 4 more dreams about plane crashes and then read about or heard about a plane crash 1-3 days later. :footy:
 
Have a mate who was born with the same birthday as his brother.

Either a coincidence, or their parents just like to bone on the same day every year
 
Once a mate of mine dialled the wrong number on his phone and called a stranger standing 10 metres away. I was there, was ridiculous.
 

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