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I've yet to hear any compelling evidence for the reality of widespread abductions. But let's just say it's for real: Consider the occasional references to taller beings to whom the smaller ones seem to be in a subservient position. Why would it not occur to anyone that perhaps the reason the...

Why do I suddenly have the strange feeling that it's about to veer into "They like strawberry ice-cream and Tibetan music" territory?

When I was 17 I would've given a lot to be your pet goat. A least it in its Stevie Nicks mind-control capacity. [Bad Kevin! Back to your cellar! No stuffed rats for you tonight...]

You've been on the happy juice again haven't you.:cool:

Thank you. I'm just under half-way through, so sanity has not yet flown out the window. Hopkins' answer on the sample size is unconvincing. I don't think there's actually any good answer, because we don't know what the real sample size is, especially with the pollution of the well by...

Oooh, sounds like this one should be a doozy...I just got home from work a while ago so I have yet to listen to it. Since it was my birthday yesterday (I'm now seventy-twelve) but it's my birthday again* for you good folks over there in Americaland I'm going to pour myself a glass of wine and...

Or possibly the other way round. That would explain the way she sings.

The Canadians and their fanatical suicide geese are taking over the US in their capacity as the secret refuge and remnant of the Order of the Knights Templar - this is revealed by the red colour of the traditional RCMP uniform, which is clearly a reference to the red cross of the Templars. Each...

'Cos after all, it sounds waaaaaaaaay cooler than "idiot".

A lot depends on the motive: do they practice war for cultural reasons, do they want to eliminate a potential future nuisance, or do they want the real estate? If it's cultural (a society with rituals of dominance and aggression - "You're [not a man/don't get to breed/haven't honoured your...

Imagine an isolated community who have somehow avoided being contacted by the rest of humanity, and are therefore outside the mainstream of current human knowledge and global civilisation. Imagine then that members of such a community over the course of time observe meteors, overflying jets...

From experience with someone I once worked with who had it, I think I can second that assumption. He was famous for monumental tactlessness, apparently having no ability to make models in his head of how other people thought, and how they would react to what he said - which is key to lying. I...

I keep wondering about this one. Don't forget that Flatland is an intellectual exercise, it's not meant to be indicative of any kind of reality that anything would inhabit. Existing in however many dimensions may exist sort of comes free as part of um, existing. Wherever you can perceive them or...

I'd have to agree with Xylo in including Roy Orbison...I remember hearing "Communication Breakdown" as a little kid and knowing to the depths of my soul that whatever I grew up to be there was no chance I would ever, ever be able to sing like that. It may be unfashionable to say it, but the...

I don't think people here are actually quite civil, all things considered, given that topics of discussion cover things with considerable emotional resonance (and often the nature of reality itself). Even though the most obvious response to some statements is "Because you're a loony", we...

For my part I'm currently suffering from unsated Gretsch lust.

I'm one of those people David mentioned who make a distinction between things they classify as "paranormal" and others which are "supernatural" (coincidentally I brought up exactly that point a few days ago) - but I do not assign anything to the "supernatural" category without a good reason to...

You bastard! :) Our cities are nearly all coastal (including the one I'm freezing in at the moment). Given the location of the Bloop the obvious comment on the matter is "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" Also time for gratuitous Tennyson quote: Below the thunders of the...

The internet doth make jerks of us all.

I know that the conversion factor between the obsolete Irish punt and the euro is .787564. I know this because I spent considerable time writing triangulation code, during the interval between the introduction of the euro and the withdrawal from circulation of the national currencies. This...