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Tangled Cassette Tape Beside Roads

how would you interpret the same story type turning up elsewhere Gloria?

like black dogs or.... headless horsemen?

Kath
 
i knew someone who spliced some vid tape he found beside the road together just to see what it was... it was porn, dirty filthy naughty porn... well what else does one do with a dirty tape once youve ...errrrr used it... sling it outa the car window is what lol
 
<<< how would you interpret the same story type turning up elsewhere Gloria?
like black dogs or.... headless horsemen?>>>

Sorry, that's not my profile.;) Find them kind of boring.
 
sidecar_jon said:
humm reminds me of the "get lost box".. as sold at Bosacastle Witches museaum.. a little box in which you put somthing you want to get rid of.. i think genearly one writes it on a little bit of paper and its ususaly things like Warts or Spots.. one leaves it by a road, and the person who finds it gets the spots or whatever.
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Best to burry them ,surounded by salt
 
stonedoggy said:
seems a waste... save and recycle! :)

Kath
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im not sure that even the most prgressive recycleing plant (or dump as we used to call them) has a bin for jaz vids...
 
Why? One explanation I'm aware of is that some witches claim they can treat cancer and other serous diseases - all they do is arrange for the ill person to pass it on to another man/woman. Yes, even in the 21st century these beliefs are strong.
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Not any stranger than your beliefs.
 
Ok, about a week ago a load of audio tape got wrapped around the doorknobs of the houses along our street.
Now, I'm not stating definitively that it wasn't placed there by witches, in some attempt to curse us all, it's just that I wouldn't expect practitioners of the dark arts to be practicing them by the side of a busy main road at 6 on a Wednesday evening, or to make quite as much noise about it as they actually did. Nor would I have expected them to be stupid enough to have unwound the tape past the kitchen window out of which my flatmate and I were looking, trying to locate the source of all the noise. Or to have looked quite so much like a pair of twelve-year-old boys.
Still, you never know. Some of the tap is still out there. Do you think I should go get it, attempt to find out what's on it, or would this be putting my immortal soul in unnecessary peril?
 
Xanatic said:
I don't think you can mix Roxette in with all the other pop groups. They are far from as bland as pop groups usually are. The lyrics are actually poetic ...
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Roxette said:
Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, nah-nah nah nah-nah, nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, she's got the look...
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Quite.

McAvennie said:
The one clear instance I can remember of seeing tape by the road must have been in about 1990. It was the Harvest Festival and as a pupil at Great Kingshill school we had to walk down the hill into Hughenden and then along the main road towards High Wycombe.
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Harvest festival, West-Wycombe. Hellfire Club territory... Just trying to make the Madonna connection. Unfortunately my record-player's broken and i have none of her records to play backwards. :(
 
This happened a few years back, but I was driving to a relative's house several miles from my own, and had brought with me five or six cassettes by XTC. Unfortunately, I had to stop to fix a flat in the dark, with minimal illumination, and it was only after finally arriving at the house did I realize that the tapes had vanished. They were in the passenger seat and must have fallen out when I searched the glove compartment for the flashlight. It was pointless searching for them on the drive back, as it was still pitch black outside, but the following morning I carefully scanned the roadside for any trace of the tapes, and of course, found nothing. Oh, well. Certainly hope whoever ( or whatever ) found them had an affinity for warmed-over Beatles.
 
These are not placed there by humans but actually are spun by spiders. Spiders were gentically modified in secret laboratories to spin polyester tape instead of silk. Of course some of the spiders escaped the breeding areas. The rest is history. The spiders cannot survive very well in the wild because the tape is not sticky like the web fibers and thus useless for catching prey. This ensures that they will die out a few years after having escaped. In about 10 years or so you will not find any evidence of these spiders spinning their tape about trees or bushes.
 
CLamb said:
These are not placed there by humans but actually are spun by spiders. Spiders were gentically modified in secret laboratories to spin polyester tape instead of silk. Of course some of the spiders escaped the breeding areas. The rest is history. The spiders cannot survive very well in the wild because the tape is not sticky like the web fibers and thus useless for catching prey. This ensures that they will die out a few years after having escaped. In about 10 years or so you will not find any evidence of these spiders spinning their tape about trees or bushes.
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I'm not convinced you're taking this importan matter seriosuly. ;)

If you are i'm a bit worried...
 
Sorry for the necro-bump guys, but this thread was referred to somewhere else.

Just after an update really....

We are well into the digital age now, tapes are pretty dead (but not forgotten! I've still got all mine. Just hard to buy.).......

Are people still seeing them strewn across the streets and fields? Or are we being cursed by wi-fi signals now?
 
Easy to buy! Just look in your local charity shop.

Interesting what you should say about wi-fi signals. I had an idea for an SF story the other day. Alien lands, but doesn't use the same (colour) part of the IR spectrum as we do the perceive things. Instead, he, she or it sees our towns as a gigantic moving cobwebs of directed electronic waves.

Sorry, I realise this is off-topic. I really enjoyed reading over the thread.
 
Likewise.

When I was a bored teenager I picked up one of those mangled lengths of tape and wound it into a cassette to see what it was (well weren't we all experts at splicing, after hopeless attempts hunched over the cassette player trying to record the top 40 without interuptions from the dj? Ah to think I once cared about the top 40).

It wasn't a curse, it was something by Queen. Just as bad. That'll teach me.
 
Again, a tangent. In Good Omens by Terry Pr*tchett and Neil Gaiman, it's suggested that all in-car tapes, over time, will morph into The Best of Queen.
 
I was just thinking about this thread today and planned to search it out...

I saw a road tape being born today!

This morning when I was leaving my house, someone else in the parking lot dropped a tape out of their work truck and ran over it. (I imagine the truck only had a tape player, I haven`t seen tapes in quite a while...) I heard the crunch, and when looked, there was a half crunched tape.
When I came back later in the day, it appeared that the tape had been run over multiple times and had inched itself out into the road. The tape was emerging and billowing in the wind.

Just an hour or so ago (9pm) - I looked outside and there was no tape to be found, only the shattered case. It`s a windy day, so I am guessing it blew off somewhere, to wrap itself around a fence.
 
Wow tamyu - the process in action. And maybe, if H James is right, it will be transforming into Queen as we speak. Uuughh.
 
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