h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sounds like we should go back to "90% of the Brian"! I reckon you should start mentally yelling random numbers, and then start suppressing them, to see if there's a change. (I now suppress my numbers, because in a competition to guess each others' numbers, I like to win; and SO hasn't learned not to yell them!)

On the subject of conspiracy, living with Significant Other has changed me from a sweet, innocent fence-sitter into a devious fence-sitter with tendencies to look for conspiracies. This becomes dangerous, as you begin to devour the newspaper looking for dodgy accidents just so you can tear them apart and talk about the perfect murder... Sometimes I worry about the influence SO has over me!

x x Fenny

(simulpost- hey, what are the odds?)
I can see you're an experienced player.

Ok, here goes...

By coincidence (ha!) I was thinking only the other day about "strange" coincidences/phenomena that have happened in my life. There's been lots of it, but I tend to forget.

One I *do* remember from early adolescence...

I was in a Saturday "drama" class (ye gods forfend...) and there was a girl who brought her boyfriend along once when we were learning to jive (drama and dance, I suppose, then) as they *did* jive, and did so very well. A few months later, I booked myself onto a computer day course (I was expecting BASIC and got Windows, so date that someone...) and the night before dreamed that this lad was teaching the course (bearing in mind that I'd only seen him once, and not really spoken to him). Lo, and behold, he *was* teaching the class...Hmmm... to thicken the plot even further, I was a couple of years later reading some stuff about the *Mayans* and the day I dreamed the dream was the day of some significant gathering being held for the Mayan calendar.

Completely unconnected events, yet quite spooky, and, for me, comforting nonetheless.

Oh, and on the off-topic of telepathy, me and my mates can't read the answers to the Trivial Pursuit questions until the other people have guessed, otherwise we cheat by pulling the answers out of their heads. And Seth can make the dice fall on the number he wants. We even try to bluff the other team by reading the answer and *thinking* another one...

Quite fun, really. I like it when these things are very accepted and everyday.

Af

It makes you feel special when these things occur frequently... you can just brush them off as part of your fascinating life. For me, at least.
T'other day I was humming a certain popular classical piece which I can't remember the name of. It got very repetitive and annoying. The next day, Queex came round and suddenly began humming said tune... which, apparently, he'd not thought of for months.
All highly subjective, of course, but interesting.
(I like yours Afrael)

Afrael: You could always nip over to http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A573824 which is the location of the University Project on Extra Sensory Perception, and join the ranks of Researchers involved!

x x Fenny

Same applies to you Mandrake! You could keep me company!

Fenny

Oh, I certainly will! - tomorrow. (I've got to be up at 9 at the latest. I got your e-mail too, but it will require Deep Thought before I can get a decent reply...)

Well, not really any of those things mentioned here seems to me to be strange coincidences.

But it´s true that I haven´t got much information on these stories. So it´s hard to make any real judgement. But I suspect in the case of the baby it was probably some guy walking that route to work every day. And then some woman who in the summer time had her window open in the morning before going to work. And after having caught a falling baby, the guy probably always looked up when walking under there. But it still seems odd it happened at the same time the next year doesn´t it?

Sorry Xanatic! You're right, the ESP contingent hijacked the thread which was originally intended for Major Coincidences. Trouble is, after "90%", there's nowhere for us Believers to go. Anyone for resurrecting a thread, guys?

Xanatic, the only Synchronicitous Event I can think of is surely a poor apologia for a coincidence - it's practically man-made! it's also a coincidence with a horrible trend: love...

My first, second, and third boyfriends all kissed me for the first time, in the second week of May. I was also married in the second week of May.

Well, that's it! Don't all unsubscribe at once!

Someone, please do better than me!

x x Fenny

Hmm, too man made. But what about this, I´m born on the 27th of October. My sister on the 27th of November and my older brother on 27th of July. But my younger brother of course broke the family tradition with a 22nd September. He´s too impatient I guess.

That's nothing! Me and my three brothers were all born in the same year and on the same day. And we look exactly the same too

Now that _is_ spooky!

Same thing in our family.

I was born on May 9th, my oldest brother on April 9th and my other brother on Feb 9th. Now What I think was odd is that my sister was born on the 10th of June (she's always late)

See, someone always have to screw it up. Screw probably being the key word.

Perhaps, Mycroft, you are time-lag quadruplets.

Re-read his post. He is actual quadruplets. Actually I did hear of a couple of twins that were born a month apart. Weird. Must have a lot of trouble explaining people why they are twins with different birthdays.

All right: less man-made. But not as exciting as quadruplets.

When my family get together in September, to celebrate birthdays, we do so having spent £lots! My birthday is shared by my mother's cousin and my uncle; an aunt shares her birthday with her daughter; and my husband shares his birthday with another of my cousins. No one was born in the same year, but there are seven birthdays on three days, and a total of nine birthdays within twenty-one days!

x x Fenny

Once I was randomly assigned a historical person, I forget who, to research for school. It turned out he had the same birthday as me.

They might have hours between them, so that the surprises just kept on comin'.

Mycroft, how do you manage to be so impressively reasonable all the time? I try, but I rarely suceed. Usually, I am busy being reasonable and someone makes a stupid suggestion that totally ignores everything I've just said, at which point I get cross.