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I'm first?

Woo-Hooo!

Looks like a good issue.
Body parts pic's a bit shocking at first...
 
Whaat? You getting yours on the blackmarket? (or possibly goblin market)
 
I'm as suprised as you are, but it popped through the door this morning, and with me being off work for the day and all.
 
Mine was waiting for me when I returned from work :D

A tear came to the corner of my eye as I flicked through its pages as a feeling of nostalgia came over me - No it wasn't the return of the Heirophant but that of the advertisement for the Omax Massager. A little more explicit now perhaps but they still offer a "Full 15 day Money back Guarantee."

I've always wondered what they do with the returned ones, do they simply box them back up and sell them on! :shock:

Puts on hat and coat and heads over to the "advertisements" thread to watch the fall out!
 
Mine's arrived, good Strange Days and all that, but a bit put off by all the Spiritualism features. I like a nice varied FT... less theme issues!
 
YES!! Mine is here, ive not opened it yet, im wondering if i should save it & wrap it up for myself for Christmas day. Haha.
 
evilsprout said:
I like a nice varied FT... less theme issues!
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Theme issues can be good, but only when they take a concept that can cover a large variaty of different fortean disiplines like in the Death issue, the only subject I'd like to see covered thought the whole magazine would be a special cryptozoology issue, but then there is a huge amount of variaty you can cover with that, going from zooform phenomina right though to flesh and blood cryptids and out of place animals.
 
Got mine today.

Regards to theme issues. I guess the point is to attract the attention of the browser in the news agents. Someone who wouldn't but FT normaly but might be intersted in that subject.
I'm not so keen on theme issues. I too prefer a mix of subjects.
 
Can't say I'm all that interested in mediums (media?), but I'll read it anyway, you never know there might be something good in there even if there is a bit much of it.

Interesting letters on page 76, especially the logo one and the Antichrist one - these chaps could be onto something! Or on something, I'm not sure.
 
Got mine this morning and it is still in its wrapper, thats just wrong. Where do I go for a flailing?

Its just been too darn busy for a Saturday! :evil:

Body parts you say.....
 
Theme issues are a good idea, but not every month. They should try to keep it to just a few (or even, dare I suggest, one - a good use for the bonus issue each year if they intend to keep it), or else the quality will fail.

Basically, the need to get stories on the current theme together in too short a timeframe will mean they lack the kind of detail and thoroughness that a theme issue should contain on its specialist matter. Also, any non-themed stories will be held over until the next "non-themed" issue (or a themed issue more relevant to the topic) which will take away the timeliness.

It's a balancing act, I guess.
 
gncxx said:
Interesting letters on page 76, especially the logo one and the Antichrist one - these chaps could be onto something! Or on something, I'm not sure.
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I thought that too . Pity the guy wouldn't elaborate further as I'd really love to know what he has found out .
 
Didn't they work out it was a mistranslation, and the number was 616 or summat?
 
gerardwilkie said:
gncxx said:
Interesting letters on page 76, especially the logo one and the Antichrist one - these chaps could be onto something! Or on something, I'm not sure.
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I thought that too . Pity the guy wouldn't elaborate further as I'd really love to know what he has found out .
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Well he couldn't could he - anyone lacking "mental prowess" would be driven insane just reading it ;)
 
I like the subtle change of layout. I found most of the articles much easier to read as they are more linear (less of the small info panels - I never know if I ought to read those first, last or during the main article).
 
The Spirit Town article was kind of bland, but the spirit photography one was surprisingly absorbing, if a little light on depth. Sounds like a good exhibition to see.

And what about the dog with two noses?! The soul! How does it smell? Very well indeed!
 
I read FT like a book and I can't even stand to flick though incase I see something I haven't got to yet. Therefore when I finished Spirit Town USA, and as the bath water was still hot, I turned the page to The Perfect Medium.
In Spirit town they mentioned that the Fox sisters confessed that the rapping noises where made by then clicking their ankles together. In Medium it is stated they made the noise by snapping their toe joints loudly.

Which is it? I don't think that they can have changed their story in the length of time it has taken me to read two pages?

Disgruntled of Tonbridge Wells
 
liveinabin1 said:
I read FT like a book and I can't even stand to flick though incase I see something I haven't got to yet. Therefore when I finished Spirit Town USA, and as the bath water was still hot, I turned the page to The Perfect Medium.
In Spirit town they mentioned that the Fox sisters confessed that the rapping noises where made by then clicking their ankles together. In Medium it is stated they made the noise by snapping their toe joints loudly.

Which is it? I don't think that they can have changed their story in the length of time it has taken me to read two pages?

Disgruntled of Tonbridge Wells
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Not read either article but from my studies - the latter. Toe joints.
 
Hi

205 arived saturday.

crossword is realy easy this time

(either that or i've made some awful mistakes!)
 
I don't mind theme issues, as long as it's a theme I'm interested in. :)
Find spirits and the like very dull so I mostly skipped those articles. Liked the fortean dictionary feature on apports, though, plus all the usual stuff of course. More crazy letters, please!
 
Same number of pages but it feels of lighter quality. Have they changed the paper's weight?
 
theyithian said:
liveinabin1 said:
In Spirit town they mentioned that the Fox sisters confessed that the rapping noises where made by then clicking their ankles together. In Medium it is stated they made the noise by snapping their toe joints loudly.

Which is it? I don't think that they can have changed their story in the length of time it has taken me to read two pages?

Disgruntled of Tonbridge Wells
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Not read either article but from my studies - the latter. Toe joints.
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In UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse John Keel says something like:
I wouldn't pay 10c to see someone communicate with the dead by rapping, but I would pay five dollars to see someone make that noise with their toe joints!
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I think he's got his priorities all wrong.
 
That's the worst magazine cover I've ever seen. It looks like the office junior threw it together in 5 minutes.
 
byroncac said:
the advertisement for the Omax Massager.
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My FT had arrived on the continent (Netherlands) last Friday. I have already read it all. OK - I skipped Rudolf Steiner - I had an antroposophic colleague who borrowed me some books by RS and I found them very humorless ... I liked the spiritual photography very much and would like to know more about Ted Serios.

And then the Omax ... I spent some time with the advert before I understood how it is meant to be used - at first I thought it was a hair dryer. But I still haven't figured out how it should be used by males (please don't explain). :D

And the white striped manta rays reminded me of the crows with white feathers that I see regularly. Is it wear, molting or just old age?
 
Yup, the Omax, which guarantees org*sms, whatever org*sms are. Maybe they are the same as an orgasm, spelt 'orgasm', elswhere in the same ad. :lol:
 
H_James said:
In UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse John Keel says something like:
I wouldn't pay 10c to see someone communicate with the dead by rapping, but I would pay five dollars to see someone make that noise with their toe joints!
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I think he's got his priorities all wrong.
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I can do that clicking sound with my toe joints! Maybe I'm onto a nice little earner here!
 
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