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Post by Tim on Jun 29, 2009 3:23:28 GMT -5
By this, I mean just downright weird things that were coincidental.
A really good example of this that I can think of, is doing something involving a person, and then later on something happens to said person. Even weirder is when that something has already happened, unbeknownst to you.
A few of mine:
Randomly watched the movie Major Payne one day On Demand. Bam Bam Bigelow made a cameo that I had forgot about which made me laugh. RIGHT after the movie ended, I went on the computer to see that he had passed away.
This past Thursday morning, I turned on my iPod when I woke up. I tried finding a song to listen to, but none piqued my interest. After shuffling through about 40 songs, I settled on Alien Ant Farm's cover of "Smooth Criminal". About 4 hours later, my mom told me she heard at work that Michael Jackson had sudden cardiac arrest. I then found out that the King of Pop had died.
On Saturday night, I was on Facebook. On the highlights thingy on the right side of the page, it said that two of my friends had become fans of Billy Mays. I then clicked the "Become a Fan" button. The next day, I found out that he too had died.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jun 29, 2009 3:36:50 GMT -5
Weird thing has happened all year for me.
If I work on the same day when the Hawthorn Hawks play in the AFL they lose. It's freaky.
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Post by Cela on Jun 29, 2009 3:43:02 GMT -5
My mom got mauled by a bear and they flew her to UCLA.
What is UCLA's mascot? A bear.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2009 4:58:09 GMT -5
My roommate at the time never saw the Star Trek episode "Space Seed" though he was a fan of the franchise, growing up more on TNG and Deep Space 9. We watched it late at night; the next day, the news that Ricardo Montalban died came out.
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Post by Brother Coyote on Jun 29, 2009 6:10:27 GMT -5
When I found out Heath Ledger was playing the joker I was pretty upset and told a friend I was going to have to kill him. To this day several of my friends believe I hated Heath Ledger to death.
In hindsight he was a great Joker so I regret killing him.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 29, 2009 6:20:56 GMT -5
Weirdest one for me: Years ago I was reading a sci-fi mag called Scary Monsters. In the letters column, I noticed that one letter was written by a guy who lived a couple of towns over. That same day, I went to a Wal-Mart between our two towns to try to find the then-new MST3k tapes that had come out that week. While there, struck up a conversation with the employee working the media section (he turned out to be an MST3K fan too) and at the end, he gave me his name and number so we could set up some MST tape trading.
It was the SAME GUY.
Another one that's always amused me but not in a creepy way. When I first moved to Dallas, I bought a used copy of Kentucky Fried Movie on DVD at a place called Movie Trading Company. the chapter sheet inside had a very distinct tear and green sticker partially covering it. When I needed money, I ended up selling the disc to a place called CD World, which was about a mile away from the MTC I originally bought it from. A FULL YEAR+ LATER, I decided to buy another copy of the film and went back to MTC and bought one. SAME DAMN COPY, complete with tear and sticker. So I bought it from Place A, sold it to Place B then found the exact same one again at Place A again a year later. Just kinda...weird.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Jun 29, 2009 8:50:36 GMT -5
It's happened on several occasions; my dad is a huge baseball fan, and I follow it to some degree, mostly the Tigers and the Cubs. He has, more than once, called me up randomly and said "Turn your TV on channel [whatever]; _____ is two outs away from a no-hitter/perfect game." So I turn on the channel, and the pitcher will get within one strike of the amazing feat ... and the batter will get a clean, decisive base hit. I'm a jinx, I tell ya! And for the record, my dad has stopped calling me when something like that is about to happen.  |
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Post by willywonka666 on Jun 29, 2009 9:27:05 GMT -5
Seems every f***ing time either my aunt or cousins visits or vice versa someone famous dies, or there's a major news story The Elian Gonzalez story broke several years ago during a visit. Lady Di was killed when my family visited in 97. Steve Irwin died while she visited with my cousin a few years back And, yes, guess who came up to visit friday  Doesn't always happen, but it's pretty consistent |
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Post by blef on Jun 29, 2009 9:39:53 GMT -5
Seems every f***ing time either my aunt or cousins visits or vice versa someone famous dies, or there's a major news story The Elian Gonzalez story broke several years ago during a visit. Lady Di was killed when my family visited in 97. Steve Irwin died while she visited with my cousin a few years back And, yes, guess who came up to visit friday Doesn't always happen, but it's pretty consistent I don't wanna be "that guy" who always seems to reply with this, but.... .....are these instances above the only family visits you've had in the last 15 years, or have there been 100's of others where no one happened to die?   |
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Jun 29, 2009 9:44:50 GMT -5
When I was younger, I was riding in the back seat of my mom's car. Well, for some reason I decided not to sit on the side I normally do. That evening, a crazy old man plowed his truck into the side of her car and caved the door in. Right where I'd have normally been sitting.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jun 29, 2009 9:55:58 GMT -5
Seems every f***ing time either my aunt or cousins visits or vice versa someone famous dies, or there's a major news story The Elian Gonzalez story broke several years ago during a visit. Lady Di was killed when my family visited in 97. Steve Irwin died while she visited with my cousin a few years back And, yes, guess who came up to visit friday Doesn't always happen, but it's pretty consistent I don't wanna be "that guy" who always seems to reply with this, but.... .....are these instances above the only family visits you've had in the last 15 years, or have there been 100's of others where no one happened to die? I didn't start to take notice till after Lady Di, so there are some instances I'm forgetting I'm sure. Billy Powell was another one. I'm not superstitious, but it sometimes makes me think twice before making a trip. |
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Post by darthalexander on Jun 29, 2009 11:37:15 GMT -5
I've had a lot of experiences where I've been thinking about someone I haven't seen for a while...and then they pop up. This has happened more times than I can count. It's gotten to the point where when it happens now I just think: ah, I'll be hearing from them soon.
One big one was about my father. I hadn't seen him for ten years and then one day I started thinking about him and wondering whatever happened to him. Less than a week later my grandmother called me to tell me he had died.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jun 29, 2009 11:41:03 GMT -5
All the time when I listen to the radio I think to myself "I wish they'd play (BAND NAME HERE) next." and then they do.
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Post by Reptar on Jun 29, 2009 15:08:59 GMT -5
99% of the time, whenever I think about a certian moment or episode of a TV show, then if that show is on that day, the same episode will air.
Back when I used to watch Family Guy on Adult Swim every night, I went about 2 straight months doing that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2009 15:15:43 GMT -5
Lets see:
The morning of Bernie Mac's death, I fell asleep to his show when it was still playing on fox
The fact that I did the MJ countdown just days before his day
The day before MJ passed, my uncle came in saying how when he was in vegas, he saw a MJ Impersonator
and i'm serious, I have to agree with Tim, I had the same problem, but altered
I woke up with my ipod on, and it was playing Smooth Criminal (Same artist)
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Post by Y2M on Jun 29, 2009 15:18:00 GMT -5
I was watching Who wants to be a millionare when a question came on about Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean'. When the show was over, I was flipping through the channels and heard that he just had a heart attack.
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Post by Paul Servo on Jun 29, 2009 15:22:53 GMT -5
While back I did a Facebook Pick Five thing
People You'd Switch Teams For...
Matt Damon
NPH
BILLY MAYES
and as a joke
Anne Coulter
BEA AUTHER
The quiz was a few days before she died
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Post by Alucard on Jun 29, 2009 15:28:54 GMT -5
Well I once sort of wished disease and despair on someone and it happened so, um, careful what you wish for it.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 29, 2009 15:58:13 GMT -5
A lot of the time, I feel I can control the "shuffle" option on my CD player with my mind. I'll be listening to a CD and think, hey, I wanna hear, say, "Dr. Feelgood" next and it comes on.
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Post by Cap'n Crud on Jun 29, 2009 16:48:04 GMT -5
Sometimes when I think about a certain celebrity the next day or hours later they end up dead. Like the day before yesterday I was talking about how I lived in the same section of Pittsburghh as Billy mays for a while and then later in the day I find out he died.
Michael Jackson I was thinking about Michael Jackson's ill-fated pepsi commercial and later that day I found out he died.
It's really creepy because if it keeps going at this rate I'm gonna wipe out all of Hollywood.
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