The Good Stuff Online Thread

[gordonrutter]

The woman appears to be wearing two wristwatches.

 

[Peripart]

12 guy pasting not wearing overalls

And he has no buttocks.

 

[EnolaGaia]

The woman appears to be wearing two wristwatches.

I presumed it was a bracelet on her right forearm.

Otherwise, I was tempted to claim she was wearing her ankle monitor on her wrist.

 

[Comfortably Numb]

As the following seems to encompass many a Fortean topic, best highlighted on this thread?

Another of those random finds, it's maybe worth a look?

UFO RETRO - Amazing World Of Ghosts - Vintage rare 1970s paranormal documentary film

[Edit: In hindsight, it's probably more appropriate to the 'Fortean Documentaries' thread].

 

[gordonrutter]

As the following seems to encompass many a Fortean topic, best highlighted on this thread?

Another of those random finds, it's maybe worth a look?

UFO RETRO - Amazing World Of Ghosts - Vintage rare 1970s paranormal documentary film

I hate when they put that crap at the sides. What is wrong with black bars?

 

[JamesWhitehead]

I hate when they put that crap at the sides. What is wrong with black bars?

Well it distracts attention from the crap in the middle!

To be fair, I am enjoying it immensely! I am 15 minutes in and can declare it to be the Plan 9 of supernatural documentaries.

It appears to have been assembled from stock footage and stills with a voice-over which seldom relates.

I am beginning to suspect that the young lad at the start wrote, starred and directed it!

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Perhaps likewise you may had heard of this incident without knowing the full story.

The following is a detailed explanation and maybe worth a mention?

1958 Mars Bluff Nuclear Bomb Incident

In 2003 Walter Gregg, then 82, said "Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them. Not too many would want to." The 1958 Mars Bluff nuclear weapon incident deserves to be remembered. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. (13:15 in length)

 

[Yithian]

A list of English names with unexpected (in some cases unexpectable) pronunciations.

Abergavenny: Abergnny (hard ‘g’)
Alnwick: Annick
Arbuthnot: A-buth-not
Auchinleck: Afflck (or as spelt)
Beauchamp: Beecham
Beaufort: Bofoot
Beaulieu: Biew-li
Belvoir: Beava
Bethune: Beaton
Blenheim: Blenim
Bolingbroke: Bullingbrook
Borrowes: Burrows
Broughton: Brawton
Buccleuch: Buckloo
Burgh: Bura
Bury: Berry
Caius: Keys (College)
Calverley: Cahvaly
Capell: Cayple
Carnegie: Cahnggie
Cecil: in the family, Sissl
Cirencester: Sista, or Saye-ren-sesta

Continued until Z!
http://www.johntrainbroadside.com/english-family-and-place-names/

 

[gordonrutter]

A list of English names with unexpected (in some cases unexpectable) pronunciations.

Abergavenny: Abergnny (hard ‘g’)
Alnwick: Annick
Arbuthnot: A-buth-not
Auchinleck: Afflck (or as spelt)
Beauchamp: Beecham
Beaufort: Bofoot
Beaulieu: Biew-li
Belvoir: Beava
Bethune: Beaton
Blenheim: Blenim
Bolingbroke: Bullingbrook
Borrowes: Burrows
Broughton: Brawton
Buccleuch: Buckloo
Burgh: Bura
Bury: Berry
Caius: Keys (College)
Calverley: Cahvaly
Capell: Cayple
Carnegie: Cahnggie
Cecil: in the family, Sissl
Cirencester: Sista, or Saye-ren-sesta

Continued until Z!
http://www.johntrainbroadside.com/english-family-and-place-names/

English in the sense of English language. And some are incorrect.

 

[Ogdred Weary]

A list of English names with unexpected (in some cases unexpectable) pronunciations.

Abergavenny: Abergnny (hard ‘g’)

I have never heard anyone pronounce it that way.

Many of the others are the pronunciations that everyone uses, like Beaufort.

 

[Yithian]

English in the sense of English language. And some are incorrect.

I don't feel confident in saying they are incorrect, but rather that these are selected pronunciations in fixed cases.

Two places that I've found myself in that have unexpected pronunciations are Trottiscliffe and Bicester.

p.s. I'll post the 'official answers' to the picture puzzle when back on my home computer.

 

[Yithian]

Beaufort.

I've definitely heard people say BOW-fort instead of Bow-foot.

 

[Ogdred Weary]

I've definitely heard people say BOW-fort instead of Bow-foot.

You mean emphasising the first syllable? There's not much difference with "foot" and "fort", for me anyway.

 

[Yithian]

You mean emphasising the first syllable? There's not much difference with "foot" and "fort", for me anyway.

The first syllable is stressed in both examples.

There's definitely a difference in my (Southern English) pronunciation of 'foot' and 'fort':

'Foot' rhymes with 'put' and 'Fort' as in Charles.

 

[Ogdred Weary]

The first syllable is stressed in both examples.

There's definitely a difference in my (Southern English) pronunciation of 'foot' and 'fort':

'Foot' rhymes with 'put' and 'Fort' as in Charles.

I'm only aware of British pronunciations being as you characterise above, an "uh" phoneme and and "or" phoneme don't seem too different to me, you're a language teacher so I'll bow to your greater knowledge if that's considered a more profound difference than I give credit for.

 

[cycleboy2]

A list of English names with unexpected (in some cases unexpectable) pronunciations.

Abergavenny: Abergnny (hard ‘g’)
Alnwick: Annick
Arbuthnot: A-buth-not
Auchinleck: Afflck (or as spelt)
Beauchamp: Beecham
Beaufort: Bofoot
Beaulieu: Biew-li
Belvoir: Beava
Bethune: Beaton
Blenheim: Blenim
Bolingbroke: Bullingbrook
Borrowes: Burrows
Broughton: Brawton
Buccleuch: Buckloo
Burgh: Bura
Bury: Berry
Caius: Keys (College)
Calverley: Cahvaly
Capell: Cayple
Carnegie: Cahnggie
Cecil: in the family, Sissl
Cirencester: Sista, or Saye-ren-sesta

Continued until Z!
http://www.johntrainbroadside.com/english-family-and-place-names/

From my time at university in Norwich I can add Wymondham, pronounced Wyndham, and Costessey, pronounced Cossey. Don't know what happened to the missing syllables...

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Does this extraordinary incident possibly qualify as Fortean! ?

Camera falls from airplane and lands in pig pen--MUST WATCH END!!

Published on 9 Feb 2014
Camera falls from a sky diving airplane and lands on my property in my pig pen. I found the camera 8 months later and viewed this video.

 

[Ogdred Weary]

I friend made me aware of a a double barrelled surname with an insane pronunciation, that misses out several syllables and, I think, "mispronounces" some of the remaining ones. Sadly I can't recall it... apparently its famous for the this.

edit - just found it, not as mad as I remembered:

Featherstonhaugh /ˈfænʃɔː/ FAN-shaw (also spelt Fetherstonhaugh and Featherstonehaugh) is an English surname.[citation needed] The name comes from Featherstonhaugh in Northumberland, from the Old English feðere, "feather", stān, "stone", and healh, "corner".[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherstonhaugh

 

[gordonrutter]

I friend made me aware of a a double barrelled surname with an insane pronunciation, that misses out several syllables and, I think, "mispronounces" some of the remaining ones. Sadly I can't recall it... apparently its famous for the this.

edit - just found it, not as mad as I remembered:

Featherstonhaugh /ˈfænʃɔː/ FAN-shaw (also spelt Fetherstonhaugh and Featherstonehaugh) is an English surname.[citation needed] The name comes from Featherstonhaugh in Northumberland, from the Old English feðere, "feather", stān, "stone", and healh, "corner".[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherstonhaugh

You also have Cholmondeley. “How many times do you think tourists have tried to pronounce Cholmondeley when coming across it for the first time? Obviously, Cheshire natives know the village near Malpas and home to the stunning Cholmondeley Castle is pronounced 'Chumley' rather than 'Chol-mond-eley'.”

And there was a dance troupe a few years back
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475985
The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs to disband

 

[escargot]

You also have Cholmondeley. “How many times do you think tourists have tried to pronounce Cholmondeley when coming across it for the first time? Obviously, Cheshire natives know the village near Malpas and home to the stunning Cholmondeley Castle is pronounced 'Chumley' rather than 'Chol-mond-eley'.”

And there was a dance troupe a few years back
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475985
The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs to disband

Near Cholmondeley is Cholmondeston, pronounced 'Churm-stun', with a canalside cafe which Techy and I often patronised in more pleasant times.

 

[Yithian]

Similar but older. Thirteen 'mistakes' in this picture. I have the official answers.

View attachment 34342

For what it's worth:

 

[Ringo]

Well then I only got about 11 or so. I missed the milk jug and the inwards swinging door, substituting the wrong angle of floorboards in the hallway and the boys mismatched socks.

 

[Yithian]

Well then I only got about 11 or so. I missed the milk jug and the inwards swinging door, substituting the wrong angle of floorboards in the hallway and the boys mismatched socks.

I am perplexed that I missed the woman's missing sleeve!

 

[Analogue Boy]

The Woman is serving tea in mugs and not in proper cups and saucers. And there’s no way that’s enough sugar for 3 tradesmen.

 

[gordonrutter]

I am perplexed that I missed the woman's missing sleeve!

I missed the wallpaper roll and substituted in two wristwatches.

 

[Analogue Boy]

Well here’s a mashup I missed.

 

[Mythopoeika]

More mayhem with Bobby Duke:

 

[Analogue Boy]

Loving these. Uh Huh...

 

[JamesWhitehead]

The Swansea Devil - a wooden statue, not a cryptid!

I can't find any previous mention of this tale on the board.

The Shrouded Hand Youtube channel has some interesting and intelligent stuff on it.

 

[EnolaGaia]

The Swansea Devil - a wooden statue, not a cryptid!
I can't find any previous mention of this tale on the board.
The Shrouded Hand Youtube channel has some interesting and intelligent stuff on it.

You're right - it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on the forum before. More about the Swansea Devil (aka Old Nick) can be found at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_Devil
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/theres-devil-looking-down-everyone-16025463
https://www.swansea.gov.uk/article/50760/What-the-devil-Swanseas-Old-Nick-has-a-new-home