This is a bit of a catchphrase of mine. It’s a good comeback to the various statements-of-the-obvious which come my way on a daily basis. “Mummy mummy - Daniel is trying to eat my food!” - “Well, stranger things have happened” - that sort of thing.
Unfortunately, this leads to an unexpected problem - the next question is “What stranger things?”
So far we’ve gone through:
Siamese twins
The Marie Celeste
A lion adopting an antelope (she liked that one!)
Walking on the moon
Albinoism
Ligers Tree Man
I’m feeling my creativity running out. So I appeal to you guys. What stranger things have happened?
The complete phrase is “Stranger things have happened at sea” which I always thought was in reference to mermaids and giant squid and that sort of thing.
Nitpick…
The Quote is actually “Worse things happen at sea”,used when somebody complains about a typically minor crisis,I would imagine this refers to drowning,storms,starvation followed by cannabilism,being flogged,hung at the yardarm and marooned…but enough about my day at work .
Back to the O.P. I was watching a celebrity quiz programme on British T.V. called Q.I.(Quite interesting)last night when they related the story about some bloke decided to mow his lawn by attaching his lawnmower to a post by a rope and let it circle around it,unfortunately while he was watching it it ran over his toe,severing it which flew up into the air and took his eye out.
Yes this sounds pretty bloody unlikely but there would be a veritable horde of viewers ringing in to gloat if it was in fact untrue.
No, wait. While it’s falling in the atmosphere, it’s a meteor. Once it impacts the earth, it’s a meteorite. So when it hit her, since she wasn’t the earth, it was a meteor she was hit with.
Unless it becomes a meteorite once it hits anything on earth.
But which was it at the exact moment of impact? Google searches show the story both ways.
Only two things spring readily to mind: A curious incident in 12th century Burgundy when it mysteriously rained fish, and a startling occurrence in Warsaw, 1546, when the Mayor spontaneously combusted.