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FT269

What the frig! It isn't meant to be on sale til Nov 11!?
 
I'm second...

If you get them on subscription they come through a few days earlier, and you don't have to wonder where Smiths are hiding them this month.
 
Gef the talking mongoose headlines this issue, plus:
  • London Earthquake
    Flat that Time Forgot
    Invisible Terrors
    Contactees Revisited
    Phantom Cat.
 
Hmm, wonder why it takes an extra five days to get it out in the shops. In my experience subs copies usually end up arriving after you see it in store. Maybe I should subscribe.
 
McAvennie_ said:
Hmm, wonder why it takes an extra five days to get it out in the shops. In my experience subs copies usually end up arriving after you see it in store. Maybe I should subscribe.
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You should DEFINITELY subscribe. I always receive my copy about a week before it hits the shops, and I've never had a problem with delivery in two decades!
 
Mine arrived today, and I dived straight in this afternoon. The Gef article was absolutely superb, informative, clearly set out and highly enjoyable to read, exactly why I like this magazine. Not sure about the joke moustache one, but it did make me laugh (seemed like something more fitting for Punch, except that's not around anymore).

Also, what's wrong, as the otherwise excellent contactee article mentions, with vegetarian aliens? I think I'd rather meet a Space Brother who didn't eat meat that one who had the potential of eating me.

The letter about the Ken doll complaining about his privacy was great!
 
Oh, and Phenomenomix is back! (Mops brow in relief like a cartoon character would)
 
its back? good! i don't have to set up a petition then. :D
 
ArthurASCII said:
McAvennie_ said:
Hmm, wonder why it takes an extra five days to get it out in the shops. In my experience subs copies usually end up arriving after you see it in store. Maybe I should subscribe.
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You should DEFINITELY subscribe. I always receive my copy about a week before it hits the shops, and I've never had a problem with delivery in two decades!
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I subscribe, but I received my last issue two and a half weeks after it went on sale. It tends to vary as to when it arrives in the mail in Australia...
 
I usually get it a couple of months before it shows up in the newsagents here. I know this because my brother has refused to subscribe up until now. (Now he's subscribed through Zinio and reading it on his iPad.)
 
gncxx said:
Mine arrived today, and I dived straight in this afternoon. The Gef article was absolutely superb, informative, clearly set out and highly enjoyable to read, exactly why I like this magazine.
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And I learnt I've been saying 'Gef' wrong all my life; I've always pronounced it with a hard 'g' *sighs*
 
Timble2 said:
I'm second...

If you get them on subscription they come through a few days earlier, and you don't have to wonder where Smiths are hiding them this month.
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Yeh, what is it with WHSmiths moving the FT around the magazine shelves? Last month it was with Heavy Metal Music mags, this month I found it behind "Spirit & Destiny" magazine and I'm sure I once found in the Business Journals section.
 
My local wh smiths has the Ft alongside the "we have not got the balls to be proper porn" mens mags,so you should count your blessings.
 
Fluttermoth said:
gncxx said:
Mine arrived today, and I dived straight in this afternoon. The Gef article was absolutely superb, informative, clearly set out and highly enjoyable to read, exactly why I like this magazine.
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And I learnt I've been saying 'Gef' wrong all my life; I've always pronounced it with a hard 'g' *sighs*
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I used to make that mistake too until I read he was actually a Geoff. But you can't expect mongeese to spell properly, I suppose. The fact he was calling himself Geoff makes it even more bizarre.
 
Before I began subscribing, I often found FT in amongst the science mags at the paper shop - mind you, the science mags often bled into the "fringe" sciences, with their conspiricy mags and whatnot!
 
So is the plan of the letters page to print a picture that doesn't contain what it says it does?

The 'out of place' Jehovah Witness hall, where I couldn't see anything out of place and now the picture of tower bridge with an invisible ghost, or maybe a regular person.
 
liveinabin1 said:
So is the plan of the letters page to print a picture that doesn't contain what it says it does?

The 'out of place' Jehovah Witness hall, where I couldn't see anything out of place and now the picture of tower bridge with an invisible ghost, or maybe a regular person.
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Yeah, that just looked like someone passing by the camera, bit of a stretch to call her a ghost.
 
269 arrived here yesterday, a week [!] after 268, this may be the earliest I've ever received an issue...but to 269 itself, in the simulacra corner, the photo on the lower left is identified as a tomato. While I grant you the phallic fruit does look somewhat tomato-like, the leaves look nothing like tomato leaves and there's a tendril visible....some truly bizarro vine variety of tomato or a misidentification?
 
liveinabin1 said:
So is the plan of the letters page to print a picture that doesn't contain what it says it does?

The 'out of place' Jehovah Witness hall, where I couldn't see anything out of place and now the picture of tower bridge with an invisible ghost, or maybe a regular person.
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I stared and stared at that picture thinking, "They can't possibly mean that person walking past, what am I missing?"
 
Dr_Baltar said:
liveinabin1 said:
So is the plan of the letters page to print a picture that doesn't contain what it says it does?

The 'out of place' Jehovah Witness hall, where I couldn't see anything out of place and now the picture of tower bridge with an invisible ghost, or maybe a regular person.
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I stared and stared at that picture thinking, "They can't possibly mean that person walking past, what am I missing?"
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I might just take a picture of the high street on a Saturday afternoon and say that I didn't notice the people any they must all be ghosts.
 
thought this issue was a bit so-so.


If dogs learned to bark in order in attract our attention how come cats cant bark?Unless learning to stick your claws in your slaves leg is the cat version.



As for the spooky ghost picture... DON'T STAND UNDER THEM THERE CHEM TRAILS FT STAFF!!! it isn't doing your brains much good! :D
 
titch said:
If dog! :s learned to bark in order in attract our attention how come cats cant bark?Unless learning to stick your claws in your slaves leg is the cat version.
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One of my cats miaows when he wants attention, and his sister squeaks. Don't hear lions doing much squeakin'.

I wonder if they purr is for our benefit? Or do big cats purr too?

I don't think the human/cat relationship can necessarily be compared to the human/dog relationship. I think cats still remember being worshipped by the ancient Egyptians (among others) and still expect the same treatment.
 
I suspect as most pet cats are dependent on humans for their food they try whatever works to get attention food etc. miaow, screech, scratch, bringing mice in to play with.
eventually they realise that just abuot anything works some of the time if you persist.
 
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