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« on: 11:57:26, 11-09-2008 » |
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I've started this one for spooky coincidences. Here's mine for today. I've just been playing the Beethoven sonatas on my cd player - and the last was the Moonlight in its entirety. I turned off after the last movement, put R3 on and guess what was playing? The last movement of the Moonlight. (Piano sonata in C# minor). Brrrr! Spooky!  |
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« Reply #1 on: 12:01:31, 11-09-2008 » |
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Weirder still - I just posted that my (well, other half's) kitchen door opened all by itself, which is spooky in a ghosty way, and idly wondered whether there was a better place to post it than in Off-topic replies. As soon as I returned to Unread topics - Spooky thread. Spooky coincidence....  |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #2 on: 12:07:44, 11-09-2008 » |
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I've just been staring intently at my kitchen door to see if it might just open even a little bit by being subjected to the power of thought. And guess what? It didn't!  |
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« Reply #3 on: 12:12:09, 11-09-2008 » |
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That's funny, Mort. I've had a similar success rate playing my CD of the Moonlight sonata over and over and turning on R3 each time it finishes.  |
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« Reply #4 on: 12:14:25, 11-09-2008 » |
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Up until I left home for university (the first time), I used to sleep with my door ajar.
When your brain is tired it can't reconcile different prescriptions in different eyes into one image.
I didn't realise this so used to panic when I could see my door vibrating between two positions...
Last year I was at someone's house watching a video of Donnie Darko. When we got to the end, we switched it off and guess what was on BBC 2...
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« Reply #5 on: 12:24:45, 11-09-2008 » |
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a similar success rate What is this? r3ok Parapsychological Experiments Day? If everyone concentrates really hard on a certain place and time, do you think that several members might spookily all be thinking of the same one and be inexorably drawn together there by strange psychic waves? I look forward to seeing the results of this experiment. Unfortunately I have an experiment of my own to attend to. |
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« Reply #6 on: 12:28:32, 11-09-2008 » |
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I have noticed that whenever I play "The Lark Ascending", I can turn on Classic FM immediately afterwards and guarantee to hear the same piece within the hour!
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« Reply #7 on: 12:29:40, 11-09-2008 » |
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I have noticed that whenever I play "The Lark Ascending", I can turn on Classic FM immediately afterwards and guarantee to hear the same piece within the hour!
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« Reply #8 on: 12:31:19, 11-09-2008 » |
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I suppose my experience would have been a lot spookier if I'd switched on R3 half an hour earlier and heard "Hit me with your Rhythm Stick". |
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« Reply #9 on: 12:35:10, 11-09-2008 » |
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I have noticed that whenever I play "The Lark Ascending", I can turn on Classic FM immediately afterwards and guarantee to hear the same piece within the hour!
Good grief! You're right! And it works with Rachmaninov's second piano concerto and The Four Seasons as well!!!!! |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #10 on: 12:38:02, 11-09-2008 » |
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« Reply #11 on: 12:38:20, 11-09-2008 » |
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I do remember a period of time when Classic FM used to play an electronic track called War of the Worlds with alarming frequency. I didn't like the voice-over at all and it used to freak me out. That was after we moved away from Horsell of course... Mind you, around that same time I had my first encounter with Poulenc's Dialogue des Carmelites on Classic FM. I'm afraid that I found the closing scene (which was all they played) hysterically funny.  Without the run-up, I hope that people can sympathise with a 13-year-old's insensitive amusement. |
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« Reply #12 on: 14:22:56, 11-09-2008 » |
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Without the run-up, I hope that people can sympathise with a 13-year-old's insensitive amusement.
It's undoubted catholic kitsch, and that chord-sequence that goes round-and-round in ascending fourths always reminds me of the Mel Brooks joke about jews singing "Dancing In The Dark"  But it's a fine opera despite all of that |
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« Reply #13 on: 14:40:07, 11-09-2008 » |
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Fortunately they wore out the Gorecki 3rd Symphony. (Or unfortunately, if you are Dawn Upshaw). Tommo |
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« Reply #14 on: 20:28:02, 11-09-2008 » |
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I just tasted, very distinctly, strawberry.
I haven't seen a strawberry all day, let alone tasted one.
I've hallucinated smells before (almost on a regular basis) but not tastes...
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