I think I’ve described this one here before, but I had a new job in Boston after moving up from Texas, and was getting to know my fellow managers, and one of them mentioned going to high school in Germany on one of the bases. He’d met his wife there, where she was a cheerleader. In one of those coincidences, my wife was at the same base high school at the same time, and also a cheerleader on the same team, so yes they knew each other.
Sorry for the late bump but this just happened to me and I thought of this thread,
In the thread about dry ice, a couple of people mentioned the new to me word “leidenfrost”. A few minutes later I opened a bumped thread from 2011 and find out we had a poster back in the day named LeidenFrost. Can’t get more trivial than that.
I remember once when I was young the family car broke down and we were literally out of food in the house since we had just moved and there was nothing in the fridge but drinks, and we had nothing within walking distance. My father was at work and said he would pick up food when he got off at 6pm but until then there would literally be no food to eat all morning and afternoon. So what happened to come in with our morning newspaper? For the only time ever our newspaper came with a free “sampler pack” of cereals, basically a 4 pack of single serving cereals like Frosted Flakes. So my mom, myself, and my older sister were able to actually eat breakfast since we had milk in the fridge. Legitimately the only time in my life my family ever actually faced hunger and somehow we got free samples to cover it.
Lol yup that was me
Wow! I should get points for raising the dead. Hope you still read here occasionally and the notice didn’t awaken you sooner than you planned.
This happened many years ago. We had a new boss at work, and on his first day he made the rounds introducing himself. For some reason, when he shook my hand he scrunched his face up in a weird way. From then on, when referring to him to co-workers, I called him Mr. ScrunchFace. This was eventually shortened to Mr. Face. His last name was Cara.
Many years after he left, I stumbled upon the fact that the English translation for the Spanish word “cara” is “face”.
mmm
Back in July 29, 1974, Elliot was found dead in one of the bedrooms. She was victim of a heart attack at the age of 32.
Keith Moon’s death at Harry Nilsson’s apartment
Back in september 7, 1978, The Who drummer Keith Moon was in Harry Nilsson’s apartment, in the same room and died at the age of 32.
He was victim of an overdose of Clometiazole (Medicine known in the treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal symptoms).
Several years ago I owed some money to a friend. On the way to pay him, I had to stop and pick up my new license plates. The three letters on my new plates were my friend’s initials, and the four numbers happened to be, minus the decimal point, exactly the amount I owed him.
Clarkston, WA, directly across the Snake River from Lewiston, ID, is named after Clark Griswold, another famous explorer.
While a sophomore in high school, we had a senior student assistant named Barb in an English class. Other than the time in class that semester, we never socialized in any form. A few years later I was finishing US Navy boot camp, that meant a night of liberty. A group of us recruited a guy from our company that was over 21 to buy us some liquor and we rented a nearby hotel room to do some drinking. A few hours into us getting smashed, one guy said he was going to find a hooker for a BJ. 15 minutes later he comes back with a hooker. I didn’t pay much attention to her till I heard her say she was from Tacoma, which was my hometown. When I told her I was from Tacoma, she came over to say hi. It was Barb. She recognized me. She seemed rather embarrassed. She left with a couple guys and went to another room. Never saw her again.
Earlier this week while watching TV I misheard a line. I realized that could be a joke. I made up a story as the setup and the misheard line as a punchline.
On the next visit here, on the “More Jokes” thread the first new joke was the same joke. It was the same story setup and punchline.
Especially noted for discovering and extensively exploring the Lambeth Bridge roundabout. Someone made a documentary about it.
My brother and I, despite completely separate home-buying processes, ended up closing on our first houses on exactly the same day. That date was my late grandfather’s birthday.
I remember being blown away by the fact that my best friend’s phone number in high school had the same digits as the address of the girl I was dating (his phone number was ###-2133, and her address was 2133 ###### Circle).
There is, but it’s just:
SANE: Charlie Watts
INSANE: The Rest
A number of years ago, our games group was playing the Dictionary game, and our host’s son, who was an occasional participant, used “floccinaucinihilipilification” as his word - which none of our well-read group had come across before. A couple of days later, I was reading one of Robert Heinlein’s books, and there was the same word.
Not really ‘amazing,’ and maybe a coincidence, but anyway. . .
There’s some thought that Edgar Rice Burroughs borrowed the idea of the Earthman traveling to Mars from the book “Lt. Gulliver Jones” by Edwin Lester Arnold. One of the other series that ERB did was the the “Hollow Earth” series, which began with “At the Earth’s Core” (1914). The name of the inner world was ‘Pellucidar.’ The word ‘pellucid’ means, among other things, ‘reflecting light evenly from all surfaces,’ and I have seen that word exactly once in print. Where? The novel “Lt. Gulliver Jones.”
Another coincidence I’d forgotten, my brother was a military officer, and he emailed once to say his group had stopped in Boston for a meeting, but it was too short a visit to let me know, and that they’d gone as a group to check out Faneuil Hall, got dinner, watched some guy juggling, etc.
Me: “Wait, when was that? And what time?”
Him: “Friday night, around 7?”
Me: “!!”
That’s right, my wife and I had made a rare trip into Boston that night to meet some friends at Faneuil Hall, and had paused 7-ish to watch the juggler guy.
We played a particular came in my family where one had to have 7 cards of one kind in order to make a book thereby increasing one’s score in order to win.
Near the end of the game, we all had a chance of winning depending on the luck of the draw.
My granny stated well I need an Ace and a King.
And surprisingly she did and won the game.
I said, “Darn, I needed a Queen and four”… and out of curiosity I turned over the cards I would have drawn. Sure enough! Just what I needed! My friend and my grandpa did likewise and each car drawn was exactly what was necessary for the winning hand respectively!
Granted, the game required 4 decks of cards in order to play, and their is likely some logical explanation beyond my scope of rationale, but at the time it was shocking and we all had a good laugh. Never has happened again.
Decades ago- when everyone had a landline and mobile phones were still science fiction- I was living in Austin. I called my ex’s house to see if she wanted to go do something or other, and someone else answered the phone. I recognized her voice, though- it was my boss’ wife.
I’d transposed the last two digits of my ex’s home number- and it just happened to be my boss’ house.