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An Unfortunate Funeral

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It's bad enough having to go to a funeral, but something like this is REALLY unfortunate...

http://ind.pn/1PGVvXS

...though a bit hilarious if you're not involved.

The main reason I became aware of this is that the vicar involved had an earlier career as one of Britain's most prolific, if somewhat unreadable, SF authors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Fanthorpe

if he was still writing it would probably turn up in one of his books as an alien religious rite or something.
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Anomalous Phenomena, eh? Might one say Fortean?
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Re: An Unfortunate Funeral

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Exactly!
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Fortean Phenomena is not usually titties.
You maybe onto something there. Honestly wouldn't Fortean Phenomena attract a lot more attention if it WAS floating titties?
Imagine the rush to study it. It would be like a horny tsunami of pure quivering science.

Not that I'm casting dispersions as to humanities capacity to conduct 'proper' science from the limited stand point of gender.....
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ClymAngus wrote:
Honestly wouldn't Fortean Phenomena attract a lot more attention if it WAS floating titties?
Or flying rehnquists perhaps - definitely Fortean phenomena, those.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
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Research me baby, research me NOW! :shock:
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