UFOS AND MILITARY HELICOPTERS (lounged)

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[Moos]

That photo's hilarious. Some old fart has clearly got fed up with his nursing home treatment, and has slung his rubber chair cushion at the nurse. Luckily someone had their camera ready.

[Marmora Man]

Passing thoughts:

1. Why do Astronomers never see UFOs? They spend proportionately more of their lives gazing at the skies.

2. Conversely why are most UFOs spotted by conspiracy theorists with dodgy cameras?

[Michael Palaeologus]

1 - Astronomers DO see Unidentied Flying Objects, briefly; then they go and identify them and spoil all the fun.

2. Because they are the people who spend all of their time wandering around looking at the sky and so cant keep a job down and so cant afford a decent camera.

[Moos]

1) Can't think of a better response than Michael Deuteronymous's.

2) For much the same reason as people violently quarrel as to whether ED is or isn't a nice place to be, while actually living in the same streets. People go out looking for what they expect to see, and lo and behold!

[Brendan]

1 ? Astronomers are already in league with the aliens. Why do you think they spend so much time looking at the stars in the first place?

2 ? The aliens have special photo-fuzzing technology fitted to their space ships.

[SeanMacGabhann]

The Word. Moos: 2:29

(but I know which group I'd rather hang with)

I read this yesterday, and it reminded me of recent forum schisms

Mist Review

Specifically

[quote name=Just as scary as the initial suspense and the grotesque monsters is the response of the isolated community in the store. They divide first over class and race' date=' then on religious grounds, with the insane Mrs Carmody's faith faction seeking to make blood sacrifices to placate an angry God and the rational Drayton's secular survivors risking their lives to seek help from outside.

It's an allegory of a sort that harks back to the Cold War anxieties that produced the wave of 1950s horror flicks (in this it resembles M Night Shamalayan's recent, much inferior The Happening),

]

[Brendan]

That is all very profound but it does not present any empirical evidence to disprove the hypothesis that our world is in fact being run by aliens and that the government and military are in cahoots to cover it all up.

Why do you suppose the ex-military Mamora Man is so openly sceptical? Coincidence, or is he trying to throw us off the scent of a secret he has sworn to protect?

[Moos]

The Rosy Tinters vs the Knife Quakers? Yeah, me too.

[Moos]

Empirical evidence? Don't insult us with your scientific claptrap, Brendan.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I find Imperial Leather far better. It softens the skin and can be crafted into tiny space ships that slip through the infinity of space leaving softly scented wakes to be followed should we wish to do so.

I am still living in hope that the Clangers will be confirmed as being real... and the tin chicken.

[Brendan]

Ok enough with science. It is corroborated biblically too:

A reading from the letter of St Sinutab to the Piswillians

?And lo it was told unto me that up on high there shall be, life but not as we know it Jim. So it was told so it is written that the whale came and the whale swallowed Jonah and it did take him unto the stars where he was not one time, not two times, not three times but four times probed so as a new people would be bred from his and the whale?s innards. And these people would in future appear in the sky in shining chariots. And all through the world there would be much argument as to the authenticity of the youtube footage.?

[Michael Palaeologus]

"Sooooooooooooooooo mote it be ..........................."

"Fruitcake Vicar?"

[Marmora Man]

Brendan Wrote:

>

> Why do you suppose the ex-military Mamora Man is

> so openly sceptical? Coincidence, or is he trying

> to throw us off the scent of a secret he has sworn

> to protect?

In my job I rarely ever saw the sky - but there are some scary things in the deeps!

[Brendan]

Well it is written that the whales are in on it too.

[Marmora Man]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Well it is written that the whales are in on it

> too.

And the answer is 42

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Would love to join in but need to rescue my blue string pudding.

[Brendan]

And so it was foretold in the book of, Get Thyself a Job*, ?And lo may the gatecrasher drop a clanger but the sailor?s guide is still that of the galaxy.?

?Though in the end of days the dolphins may make splashy, splashy it be not for their amusement but so that string pudding of blue and of all colours may find a home in all the trees of the future.?

*ya lazy bastard

[Brendan]

Blimey that really is pushing new levels of silliness. I apologise unreservedly and will go to bed now as it is rather late.

[HonaloochieB]

Marmora Man Wrote:

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> Passing thoughts:

>

> 1. Why do Astronomers never see UFOs?

Because the astrologers get there first.