# Has this ever happened to you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 23, 2000, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434 "2000-08-23T13:44:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434/1 "2000-08-23T13:44:53Z")

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I was in my car, listening to the classic rock station, when “Satisfaction” came on. Pushed another button, golden oldies station, and the exact same song was playing, not a half second difference between them. Weird! (Insert “Twilight Zone Theme” here.)I remember this happening once when I was a kid, too. On three stations at once, they were playing (of all things), “Woolly Bully”.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434/2 "2000-08-23T13:46:25Z")

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This is really more of a MPSIMS thing. I’ll move the thread there for you.

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**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434/3 "2000-08-23T15:14:01Z")

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Yeah, that’s happened with me before. I remember when the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” was huge, it once played nearly simultaneously on two different stations. There have been other instances, but that’s the only case where I remember the name of the song.

I don’t know if it’s weird or cool. Eh.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434/4 "2000-08-23T15:22:05Z")

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close but odder (IMHO) was channel surfing, caught TWO Paul Newman movies, and at the point where he and a group of people were in a perilous situation, being rescued by a helicopter, but it was TWO different movies ~~~~~

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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434/5 "2000-08-23T17:52:26Z")

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Haven’t had exactly that happen, but I have been singing a song and turned on the radio where the same song was playing. That has happened to me 3 times.

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**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-ever-happened-to-you/30434/6 "2000-08-24T02:03:28Z")

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Once, while driving, an 'Nsync tune came on and I hurriedly pushed a button to change the station. I ended up in the middle of a commercial advertising that Imodium AD was on sale at Sav-On’s Drug Store.  
Coincidence? or…