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I remember, there was something with windings!


http://www.fun-with-words.com/nyc_fonts.html

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Here ya go can't have ya missing the dots. :)

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OMG thats so spooky. Coincidence or not?? (twilight zone music)

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Great one Sociable, much appreciate. :notworthy: you read my mind. :)

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Which brings us back nicely to the fact that people will see connections and conspiracies everywhere, and are happy to interpret after the event.

It reminded me of this old nugget:

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/marlboro.asp

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No probs 10 mins in animation shop adding to your original. :)

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Got that on my phone now so I can hypnotise myself next time I'm in a dull meeting :D


Dan, didn't know that one about Malboro (knew about the malboro man tho, poor guy)

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They had a similar item on the Richard and Judy show, about how people see coincidence in certain things. Like the old urban myth about the bloke out for a walk, and gets a wrong no on a public phone, thats his friend phoning him.

Is it just us wanting to find meaning in a meaningless life?

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Great minds think alike Xaccers ;)

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what people (who i consider to be simple minded idiots) dont realise is, that what is commonly refered to as Nostradamus's predictions, he didnt predict precisely, anything that people claim he did, the year that hitler arrived was NOT right, and think about it.

Sit down, and write yourself 400,000 vaigue predictions for the future, how many do you think will come true?

For the same reason fortune tellers get things right, they tell you VAIGUE things, so clearly you will associate them with something "real" imagine 400k of them!

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Found it ( good old google) if you type Q33NY in wingdings then enlarge it, you get what I was alluding to. It was rumoured that Q33NY was one of the fatal flight numbers, but that was a load of pancakes:D

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Sorry I can't find a link anywhere about the program, it would be nice for you to see the painting if you haven't already as they are very similar to the events they predict. It was repeated on five only a few months back, so not sure when its gonna be show again. Might try digi guide just incase :)

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Q33NY that gives a plane, a4sheet, a4sheet, skull & crossbones, start of david. in wingdings

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I think the issue is that people see meaning or purpose rather than coincidence in things that are pure coincidence.

When people see this, they go out hunting for 'proof' for the theory. Try Googling for "paul is dead"...

Slightly on topic, the predictions made by Nostradamus are notoriously vague, and people get excited by the instances where they can read an actual event into it. The 'misses' are typically disregarded, when you ought to take both hits and misses into account when judging whether these predictions hold water. But then, the vagueness really doesn't help...

I can recall a couple of instances where someone's predicted the end of the world in the past 25 years. We're still here, so I tend to take these things with more than a pinch of slt.

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As the start of 12 monkeys says, it only take one of those people to be correct :D