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The Fake Shemp

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The paranormal is bogus :(
« on: July 09, 2007, 03:38:44 AM »
National Geographic has this Is It Real? series that basically debunks every paranormal thing ever.  None of it exists.  It's all just stupid people.
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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2007, 03:41:21 AM »
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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2007, 03:42:41 AM »
Part of me thinks that nothing can be completely untrue (the paranormal) considering the vast amount of eye witness accounts throughout the century.  But people are pretty dumb.
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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2007, 03:49:05 AM »
Probably the same part that gives Transformers a B-
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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2007, 04:08:44 AM »
Probably the same part that gives Transformers a B-

What about the part that gave Hot Fuzz an A+
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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2007, 04:37:12 AM »
What about the part that gave Hot Fuzz an A+

Hot Fuzz IS an A+

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2007, 04:41:16 AM »
Probably the same part that gives Transformers a B-

What about the part that gave Hot Fuzz an A+

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2007, 04:44:50 AM »
I would put the percentage of dumb people at about 90%

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2007, 05:14:44 AM »
I would put the percentage of dumb people at about 98%

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2007, 05:20:18 AM »
I would put the percentage of dumb people at about 98%

fixed. 

That sounds about right.

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2007, 05:23:08 AM »
I'm a humanist

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2007, 05:35:24 AM »
 :lol

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2007, 08:59:50 AM »
Spontaneous combustion and things of its ilk kind of freaks me out.


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Sicilian town battles "demonic" blazes
 ROME (Reuters) - A Sicilian town is struggling to work out
 why dozens of household items from fridge-freezers to
 furniture keep mysteriously bursting into flame
, terrifying
 locals and sparking theories of demonic intervention.

 Since mid-January dozens of electrical goods and pieces of
 furniture have spontaneously gone up in flames, causing huge
 damage in Canneto di Caronia, a small town perched on the
 Mediterranean island's rocky coast.

 "I've seen unplugged electrical cables burst into flames with
 my own eyes, but I just can't explain it," a local policeman
 who did not want to be named said on Wednesday. "I've never
 seen anything like it."

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Electricity Goes Wild.

   CANNETO DI CARONIA, Sicily - There are many ways for evil to arrive

   That about sums up the collective psyche of this stone-filled village
   perched above the sea after a series of puzzling electrical shorts,
   unexplained fires and smoky outbursts that struck in nine houses,
   displacing 17 families.

   First to explode was Nino Pezzino's television, two days before
   Christmas.

   Fuse boxes then blew in houses all along the Via Mare.
   Air-conditioners erupted even when unplugged. Fires started
   spontaneously. Kitchen appliances went up in smoke. A roomful of
   wedding gifts was crisped. Computers jammed. Cellphones rang when no
   one was calling, and electronic door locks in empty cars went
   demonically up and down
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The only plausible answer they came up with:

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As a practical matter, the scientists took notes, mapped the strange
   occurrences, used Geiger counters and interviewed witnesses. But in
   the end officials from several agencies, including the National
   Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and the National Research
   Center, were left with only hypotheses.

   One was that high pressure from under the crust of this volcanic spit
   of land on Sicily's northern coast had caused underground shifts that
   released electrical energy that eventually found its way to the
   village
.

   The supercharged ions, once in contact with man-made electronic
   devices, may have caused sparks to fly, the scientists say, especially
   since the hamlet is near transmission lines and railroad tracks. But
   the fires could just as easily have been caused by some unexplainable
   problem in the atmosphere, Mr. Martella said.

   "The cause of the fires seems to have been static electric charges,"
   he said. "What we don't understand is why there were these static
   electric charges."

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Re: The paranormal is bogus :(
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2007, 09:22:42 AM »
Spontaneous combustion and things of its ilk kind of freaks me out.


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