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That could be them! Very interesting read, I'd never heard of those till now!

Thanks for the link, but these things didn't (I think) have as segmented a body as that one.

I saw some unfamiliar insects earlier today- slightly larger than wasp-sized, jet black and with a tail or stinger handing down underneath. They seemed to just be hovering around tall grass, loads of them. Anyone know what they could have been? Here's a pic of one that was either dead or...

That's it! Thank you so much, sir!

Can anyone help with this? Many years ago, I was shown by someone outdoorsy how to translate contour lines from a map into a side-on outline of the hill itself. Unless he was making it up and trying to impress me, this guy was able to use the individual contour lines to gradually build...

I'm always fascinated that Patrick McGoohan was offered the role of Bond. If his strong sense of morals, which apparently prevented him taking on the part*, could have been overcome, I could imagine him playing Bond as a restrained maniac only ever seconds from either saving the world or...

That car salesman is still having nightmares about that time he let me test drive a car...

Dunno, but that's what the older person told me- and that's the point of the thread!

I heard the author Tobias Churton on a podcast earlier today explain that eternal damnation of the soul isn't a case of extending the period of damnation out of sadism, but rather that because the soul was believed to be eternal, any punishment that lasted less than eternity would not be an...

Commercially available potions for the curing of coughs. Typically sold in a bottle.

That third image in particular is absolutely gorgeous.

I was advised by an older relative to always have a cough bottle in the fridge in case it's needed at short notice. Decades later, I still always keep (an unopened) one in the fridge and replace it if it's used.

There's also a place called Findo Gask, which I would have sworn was a minor character in Return of the Jedi...

Has anyone ever heard the word "giggs" being used to express mild disgust? Before anyone suggests it, it's nothing to do with Ryan Giggs, as the only person I've ever heard use it was an old woman who lived next door to us when I was a child in the late 70s/early 80s- of she saw me covered in...

Just woke up from a dream where BB King owned a gift shop in my area and closed the shop to come and help me out when a cat was giving birth in my house.

Daphne (or at least the actress who played her) was in an episode of Seinfeld a few years before Frasier and used the exact same accent!

I have been pondering for some time of I'm a victim of the Mandela Effect as I've been combing Google Maps searching for a section of the North Wales coast with a very distinctive outcrop of rock that I visited more than 30 years ago, to no avail. At the weekend though, I read that the area...

I've sometimes wondered if I have a mild case of face-blindness. At school, I used to meet up with my friends after classes in the street outside, which was always busy. I used to watch for and pick out their schoolbags in the crowd, rather than their faces. I've also at least twice...

Bet they never had any embarrassing nicknames at school.

Wonder what happened to the article on Arthur C C Clarke's World of Strange Powers that was in the next issue tease of #429. Hopefully it'll turn up in an upcoming issue!

It occurred to me today that should the MOD have wanted to confiscate any photos or negatives from the Daily Record at the time, it would only be a 5 minute walk to the Record building from the Glasgow MOD office...

If they wanted the cereal-eaters to masturbate less, they should have made them wear a glove made out of Frosties.

I think one of Timothy Good's books had a comment from someone who said the lights are a by-product of how the crafts are energised rather than intentional illumination....

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Thank you for the info Gordon! Hopefully there will be a great turn out.

My opinion is that Malcolm's books could do with an editor to polish up the prose a bit, but honestly, even in print he comes across as such a likeable and genuine guy that I even feel bad saying that.

Pretty sure that was the Master out of Dr Who.

Cozy Powell's last words were "oh shit", according to his girlfriend who he was on the phone to at the time of his fatal crash.

Thanks Iris, and sorry it took me so long to acknowledge your helpful post! :)

Thinking back to the late 70s and early 80s, I don't remember too many people who were more than slightly overweight. The changes that I see in society are probably more processed food and less physically active jobs. But then there are many, many people these days who eat diets claimed to...

I've always understood this sense of the word to mean one of those horrible splits in the skin that can be caused when your hands dry out excessively.

You're obviously more polite than me, as I was about to call them Shite Said Fred.

Nope. It'd be downhill on the way back. :beer::rollingw:

I find it easier to believe in almost any UFO conspiracy than I do that anyone could get from the Daily Record building to the Atholl pub in 8 minutes.

And the best thing about the word 'outwith' is that most Scots are genuinely perplexed when we realise that others aren't familiar with the word!

One I've just stumbled across (actually saw it mentioned in the Sunday Past) that I don't think has been mentioned on here is The Interruption, a podcast investigating the Vrillon voice that interrupted British telly back in the 70s, and claims to have found an answer. All the episodes are...

Tell you what I would LOVE to see. Revd Fanthorpe presenting a new show, Fortean TV Update, where he revisits stories from the original show. What happened to the Virgin Mary shaped pork scratching? Where are the couple now who had their - in the words of the gentleman concerned- "sexual...

Dreamed I was in an indoor market with the most amazing second-hand book stall ever. I can clearly remember looking through some boxes of books on the floor and being incredulous at some of the treasures I was finding.

He has the hair and face of a cherub but the eyes of a KGB interrogator. Great actor!

I must admit that seeing a guy who looks like Grimly Feendish is of more interest to me than the documentary!

I went on a blind date once with a lady who turned up completely drunk, wearing tracksuit trousers with a suit jacket, and walked into a wall. It actually ended up being a pretty good night though.

Didn't think that through tbh, but I'd imagine an automatic is less of a challenge than a manual.

Nonsense. All it takes is some surgical tape and strong hip muscles.

It feels to me like the person who thought up this study had a point to prove to someone.

Aah, it's now showing me that figure too. No idea what happened there, maybe poltergeists are now able to influence software the way they used to throw plates around! Thanks for your help and reply though Gordon! Much appreciated.

Are our post counts frozen now? Mine hasn't changed in a few days despite me posting my usual pointless bilge several times since then.

Who knows, being a compulsive liar makes it hard to keep track of what way round my fabricated biographies should be.

Dead pets returning to life. Again.

I'd like my obituary to read 'Reverend D, polymath, athlete, intellectual, genius, male model and compulsive liar'

Every episode is better than the last: I've just watched a woman meowing a fairy tale about a cat eating its own severed testicles, in an episode that began with Lionel Fanthorpe introducing the clip from a hospital morgue.