Stranger Things Have Happened

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?

Man travelling to the deepest part of the oceans and finding life there. But they only did it just the once, and for only 20 minutes…

Even more strange - they came back with <gasp> PIE! :eek:

Raining animals from the sky.

Sailboat

Bert bin Laden.

Unassisted triple plays.

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.

There’s a commercial like that on TV right now. No idea what it’s for.

Ooooh, I LIKE the animal rain. That’s right up her alley. Lawnmower man is pretty funny too.

Not sure if I’ve got the stamina to explain about Osama Bin Laden to a four-year-old though… :wink:

D’oh! You’re right.

I’ve always heard “There’s worse happens in wartime”, which kinda makes sense.

There was this womanwho got hit by a meteorite.

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.

Screw it, never mind.

This reminds me of another saying: Worse things happen at sea.

(Drifting a little farther OT, my dad used to say ‘That’s the breaks of Naval warfare.’)

I’ve never heard that one but it does suggest that your REALLY in deep shit if you join the Navy.

There was the cow with a map of the world on its side.

Yeah…hmmmm.

Whoosh?

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. :smiley:

:eek: if ur gonna quote u could at least reference it

for the above quote - rimmer, confidence and paranoia, series 1, red dwarf :smiley:

lol, is it really bad that i remembered that? :stuck_out_tongue:

A Brazilian priest has died this year flying in a helium balloon chair.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/04/25/brazil-priest-flying-party-balloons-lost-at-sea.aspx