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  1. GingerTabby

    Pareidolia

    Spotted on my local transit service:
  2. GingerTabby

    Farewell To Enola Gaia

    I just learned the news of Randy's passing today after having been away from the board over the holidays. I can only echo what others have said upthread: Randy was an erudite poster and an even-handed moderator who will be greatly missed. Thank you to @Yithian for the touching letter of...
  3. GingerTabby

    Germany Arrests 25 Accused Of Plotting Coup

    The House of Lords Act (1999) drastically reduced the number of hereditary peers in the upper chamber and there are now fewer than 100 of them among the lords temporal. Since the vast majority of sitting peers were appointed to their roles they presumably represent a broader cross-section of...
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    Misinterpreted Headlines

    This doesn't involve a headline but rather an online comment I read yesterday concerning the recent opening of a book retailer's outlet in my neighbourhood. The outlet is described as 'a place to buy books and throw pillows.' When I first read the comment I interpreted the word 'throw' as a...
  5. GingerTabby

    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    Thank you Endlessly Amazed! :rollingw: Just make me a strawberry daquiri and I'll come running! :wink2:
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    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    Thankyou cycleboy2! I'm not looking forward to discussing the sale of the house with my friend. Although she has dementia she can be quite lucid at times. She reads the paper every day but I don't know how much information she retains. She has made some pointed comments about Putin, however...
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    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    I see you too Frideswide! :) We'll have to get together for drinks at the Troll's Head soon. :beer:
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    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    The large striped quadruped has returned. Thank you to all for your kind words! I didn't think my absence would be noticed since I'm not a prolific poster. My life has been quite hectic over the past several months and I haven't had much time or energy to spend on leisure activities such as...
  9. GingerTabby

    Acts Of Kindness

    This was perhaps not so much an act of kindness as one of necessity. A Toronto bus got stuck in the snow during Monday's storm and passengers came to the rescue by pushing it up a hill:
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    Great Acts Of Stupidity

    A woman drove her car on the semi-frozen Rideau River, crashed through the ice and then took a selfie to commemorate the event whilst others tried to rescue her. Unsurprisingly, the police have charged her with the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle...
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    Kids Today

    An eight-year-old boy spotted an elderly man who had fallen in the snow: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/8-year-old-boy-s-quick-thinking-1.6318368
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    Strange Falls & Rains Of Objects & Substances

    A Hamilton, Ontario, neighbourhood was showered with bean hulls in late December: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/soybeans-hamilton-neighbourhood-bunge-plant-1.6307601
  13. GingerTabby

    Strange Crimes

    On Friday a murderer walked into a police station in southeastern France carrying a bag which contained the severed head and penis of his victim: https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Faits-divers/Un-homme-en-possession-d-une-tete-et-d-un-penis-se-rend-aux-gendarmes-a-Frejus-1780328
  14. GingerTabby

    Wild Boar

    Who doesn't fancy a tiger? :wink2: I wouldn't mind living in Hawaii during the winter months.
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    Strange Crimes

    Thieves in Trenton, Ontario, have a butter fetish: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/thieves-slip-away-with-200000-worth-of-butter
  16. GingerTabby

    My Former Employer Was Investigated By MI5 For Links To Aleister Crowley & Occultism

    His name wasn't Frank Spencer, was it? :wink2:
  17. GingerTabby

    Can Old Wounds & Injuries Be Inherited?

    Ah yes! 'Crise de foie' -- not to be confused with a 'crise de foi', which is something else entirely.
  18. GingerTabby

    Celestia De Lamour AKA Ching Hai AKA 'Supreme Master'

    There's a name I haven't heard in years. I used to work in Canada's foreign ministry and I recall she once requested a meeting with the minister. This was in the mid-1990s. The minister politely declined.
  19. GingerTabby

    Strange Coincidences?

    My condolences on your mother's passing, Krepostnoi. :group:
  20. GingerTabby

    Strange Crimes

    A Vancouver man with a penchant for yoga pants and cosmetics has been arrested for theft twice within a few days: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/man-rearrested-for-stealing-cosmetics-days-after-allegedly-taking-47-pairs-of-yoga-pants-from-vancouver-store-1.5658790
  21. GingerTabby

    Young Love: Teen Dating / Romance / Marriage

    When I was an undergraduate I briefly dated a fellow who told me he'd proposed marriage to his first girlfriend when he was 17. She turned him down and broke off the relationship, leaving him devastated. He was 23 when he recounted this story and it was clear he was still melancholic about the...
  22. GingerTabby

    Does Nigerian Juju Exist?

    It reminds me of the Caribbean practice of Obeah, which I've heard mentioned by Jamaican ex-pat friends. Obeah's roots are in West Africa so any similarities between the two would not be surprising.
  23. GingerTabby

    Day Of The Animals: Tales Of Man Vs Beast (And Man Suffers)

    Yes, that seems the most plausible explanation.
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    Day Of The Animals: Tales Of Man Vs Beast (And Man Suffers)

    This seems the most appropriate thread in which to put this item but I'll defer to the mods if they wish to move it. A moose crashed through the window of a Saskatoon primary school today: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/moose-breaks-through-school-window-saskatchewan
  25. GingerTabby

    The Strangeness Of Dolls [Compendium]

    A Minnesota history museum is home to the creepiest doll of 2021: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-tuesday-edition-1.6225829/toy-with-a-menacing-side-glance-crowned-creepiest-doll-of-2021-1.6227119
  26. GingerTabby

    Booze News

    The rules concerning the purchase of alcohol vary from province to province (and territories). I expect the same is true for weed. Initially Ontario planned to sell cannabis through the provincial liquor control board (LCBO) but it later decided to sell the stuff through private shops.
  27. GingerTabby

    Rats! Rats! Rats!

    I used to know a fellow who experienced the same reaction. He was a teenager when he first noticed the symptoms but he didn't immediately connect them to the presence of cats in his friends' homes. He would return home sneezing and snuffling and with red eyes only to be accused by his parents...
  28. GingerTabby

    Strange Deaths

    A similar incident took place in the early 1980s at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival during a dress rehearsal of Julius Caesar. Jack Medley, the actor playing the title role, was stabbed with a real knife but fortunately survived. Police investigated the incident but no charges were laid...
  29. GingerTabby

    Lost & Found

    Randy Bachman's guitar has been found in Tokyo 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto-area hotel: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bachman-1957-gretsch-guitar-found-tokyo-1.6206128
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    Lost & Found

    Missing seal cam recovered on ocean floor off Nova Scotia: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/seal-camera-lost-at-sea-retrieved-offshore-nova-scotia-1.6204068
  31. GingerTabby

    Minor Hauntings

    I did a fair bit of film photography in the 1990s and I regularly used a friend's basement darkroom to make black-and-white prints. One Saturday I worked at this task for much of the day while my friend was out running errands. After a few hours I decided to take a short break. I sat in an...
  32. GingerTabby

    Missing Person Joins Search For Him- / Herself

    A man in Turkey who didn't know he'd been declared missing joined his own search party: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58746703
  33. GingerTabby

    Minor Strangeness (IHTM)

    About a year before her death my mother was driving down a sideroad in the middle of the day near her home when she saw a pheasant flying directly towards the front of her vehicle. She put on the brakes but the bird smashed into the grate, dying instantly. My mother got out of the car, moved...
  34. GingerTabby

    Priest Claims Demons Have Learnt To Send Threatening Text Messages

    In 1999 the Catholic Church issued a revised rite of exorcism entitled De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam. The document stated that anyone seeking an exorcism must undergo a thorough physical and psychological evaluation before church authorities would consider performing the rite. It...
  35. GingerTabby

    Alien Big Cats ('ABCs')

    Alfred, the dog owned by the Claude Greengrass character on Heartbeat, immediately comes to mind whenever I think of a lurcher.
  36. GingerTabby

    Snails

    Expanding the definition of 'snail mail': https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58288567
  37. GingerTabby

    Coincidences

    Current events in Afghanistan have prompted me to revisit Peter Hopkirk's books on the Great Game. I suspected he'd passed on, so earlier today I googled his name to find out. Sadly, my hunch was correct. The coincidence is that, according to Wikipedia, PH died at age 83 on 22 August 2014.
  38. GingerTabby

    Strange Crimes

    Canadian soldier secretly fed cannabis-laced cupcakes to troops on a live-fire training exercise: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/soldier-cannabis-cupcakes-guilty-chelsea-cogswell-gagetown-1.6144883 What could possibly go wrong? :headbang:
  39. GingerTabby

    Corpse Mishandling

    Fire victim in Sherbrooke, Quebec, was mistaken for a mannequin: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/woman-body-sherbrooke-police-firefighters-container-1.6122481
  40. GingerTabby

    Strange Crimes

    Ottawa man found guilty of attempted bestiality and break-and-enter: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/its-not-what-it-looks-like-ottawa-man-caught-with-pants-down-in-pony-stall "It's not what it looks like." Erm, right.
  41. GingerTabby

    Cows

    Thank you for your reply, Zographos. I've heard similar comments from beef farmers about the temperaments of British cattle breeds vs. those from continental Europe. Of course, each animal is an individual with its own history, as you say.
  42. GingerTabby

    Cows

    Just as a point of curiosity, have you noticed any difference in the temperaments of various breeds of cattle? I've heard beef farmers say that they prefer to raise Herefords because that breed has a reputation for being calm and easy to handle. In comparison, some farmers have described...
  43. GingerTabby

    Supernatural Experiences Around The Death Of A Loved One

    My condolences on your mum's passing, Spudrick68. Take care!
  44. GingerTabby

    Strange Things That Scared You (But Aren't Obviously 'Scary')

    When I was very small my paternal grandparents had neighbours whose front garden featured a display of decorative deer. I don't know what the deer were made of because I never got close enough to touch them but I assume they must have been fashioned out of hard plastic or ceramic. The torsos...
  45. GingerTabby

    Hospital Happenings Of The Supernatural Kind

    Yikes!! You've made a wise decision, PeteS. I had read that an aortic aneurysm is a very serious condition but I wasn't aware that the surgery to repair it was so risky. Not having the scan at least means you won't worry. Surgery scares the hell out of me. I admit to being a wuss. My fear...
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    Hospital Happenings Of The Supernatural Kind

    Last week I heard a radio interview with novelist Ian Hamilton. He recounted his experience following surgery at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto in 2009 to repair an aortic aneurysm. As he was being wheeled from the recovery area to his bed on the ward, an orderly told Hamilton that the ward...
  47. GingerTabby

    Oops! The Silly Mistakes Thread

    An unusual approach to combatting Covid-19:
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    Black Bears

    Two black bears rummaged through a car parked outside a family's home in Coquitlam, British Columbia, while the family slept: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bear-in-car-coquitlam-bc-1.6062795
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