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Prepare for the rapture (Page 2)
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Originally Posted by Apemanblues
I'm not doubting that you saw 'something' and your brain translated what you saw as 'something'. This happens all the time.
Nah. I get that all the time and there's no way it was an illusion.
In short: Driving down a country road at night, no pavement. Sees someone ahead, walking (on my side of the road). Adjusts car angle to give him space, as you do. Got within about 20 feet and noticed he was translucent. Exactly like you'd imagine a ghost to look - all white and wispy but with clearly defined edges (that's how I could tell it was a long-haired bloke in a frock-coat - you could see the pockets and all). Swerves a bit to give it more room than planned, as hey, it's a ******* ghost. Girlie immediately starts shouting: "Why'd you swerve then? Did you just see what I saw? Did you see that?".
Absolutely no way it could have been anything else. No way.
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Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth
Swamp gas.
Swamp gas with pockets, a collar, boots, arms, hands, nose and hair. Walking down a road?
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I knew you'd think I was serious.
Swamp gas is the cliché military explanation for UFOs. In this case I thought it fitting for an unexplainable apparition.
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Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth
Swamp gas is the cliché military explanation for UFOs.
Swamp gas with flashing lights, landing gear and anal probes. Flying through the sky?
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The planet Venus.
X-Files reference.
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Originally Posted by Helmling
Oh, BURN!
P.S. This thread gets my nomination for stupidest of the summer. Anyone else?
I'm sure the usual offenders will come up with something even worse within the next page or 2.
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Maybe they'll think that Uncle Doof is the new reincarnation of Kevin. That'd probably be the stupidest thing that's happened all summer.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
Maybe they'll think that Uncle Doof is the new reincarnation of Kevin. That'd probably be the stupidest thing that's happened all summer.
I think your post could be swamp gas or a 'blue angel'. I saw a guy light his fart through his pants and it looked like an angel.
If one believes in ghosts who knows what other nonsense a person may believe.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Doof
Driving down a country road at night....
...Absolutely no way it could have been anything else. No way.
Hahah. You have got to be kidding me.
I love the internets.
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Originally Posted by Apemanblues
Hahah. You have got to be kidding me.
Nope. Straight up.
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What? This story is meant to be credible because your girlfriend saw the "ghost" too?
Folie à deux, my friend, folie à deux.
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Last edited by Tiresias; Jul 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM.
Reason: teh grammar)
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Originally Posted by Tiresias
What? This story is meant to be credible because you're girlfriend saw the "ghost" too?
No, this story is supposed to be credible because I'm telling you I saw a ******* ghost.
I look at a car, I think "there's a car".
I look at an apple, I think "there's an apple".
I look at a fat chick, I think "there's a fat chick".
I see a ghost, I think "crap, it's a ******* ghost".
Originally Posted by Tiresias
Folie à deux, my friend, folie à deux.
We're not the Obamas.
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Some will argue that, "You will see it when you believe it."
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I don't believe in fat chicks, Tire, yet for some reason I see them all the time. They're everywhere, walking around like normal chicks. And they don't even know they're fat.
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Maybe what you saw was a freak illusion. A couple of nerdy pranksters behind the hedge with sophisticated hologram-projection equipment? (Ha ha ha! See the look on that guy's face?!) It's unlikely, but less unlikely than the existence of ghosts.
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But I'm just glad this thread is now about ghosts. 'Cos the rapture sure as hell ain't real.
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Originally Posted by Tiresias
It's unlikely, but less unlikely than the existence of ghosts.
OK, I want you to prove those odds.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Doof
Nah. I get that all the time and there's no way it was an illusion.
In short: Driving down a country road at night, no pavement. Sees someone ahead, walking (on my side of the road). Adjusts car angle to give him space, as you do. Got within about 20 feet and noticed he was translucent. Exactly like you'd imagine a ghost to look - all white and wispy but with clearly defined edges (that's how I could tell it was a long-haired bloke in a frock-coat - you could see the pockets and all). Swerves a bit to give it more room than planned, as hey, it's a ******* ghost. Girlie immediately starts shouting: "Why'd you swerve then? Did you just see what I saw? Did you see that?".
Absolutely no way it could have been anything else. No way.
The thing is, I've heard other eyewitness accounts of ghosts that contradict the details of yours (e.g., the distinct blurriness and translucency). So either the appearance of a ghost is entirely unpredictable — in which case it isn't possible to say something is a ghost just by looking at it — or there are things that seem like ghosts but aren't, in which case it isn't currently possible to say something is a ghost just by looking at it. At any rate, it seems like it would be hard to be sure you saw a ghost without something more than a passing glance.
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How do you know ghosts aren't like fruit? They whither and get fuzzy over time... maybe contract salmonella.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Doof
I don't believe in fat chicks, Tire, yet for some reason I see them all the time. They're everywhere, walking around like normal chicks. And they don't even know they're fat.
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I thought this thread was about the rapture.
Now it seems to be about ghosties.
Talk about wondering off topic threads.
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Technically, it's now about whether or not ghosts can contract salmonella.
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I wonder if whilst building the Large Hadron Collider at Cern one of the physicists there jumped up and said "Holy ****! We forgot to factor in ghost particles! Teh ppl on teh interwebs say dat dey saw dem! Oh Noes! R phzecs is wrung!".
The last thing they need is a ghost wafting past and messing with their data. I'm surprised that sort of thing never happens. It's almost as if ghosts don't exist. As if they are just bollocks.
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I've seen some weirdy things in my life like paisleys on a blank wall but I can't say I ever seen nor heard a translucent human life form.
I'm all packed for the rapture. Anybody know the departure time? I don't wanna miss the mothership.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Doof
Got within about 20 feet and noticed he was translucent. Exactly like you'd imagine a ghost to look ...
Except the notion of ghosts being translucent is a result of camera technology. Before the invention of cameras, no one imagined that ghosts were translucent. The medium is the message.
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