Real-Life Weirdness - Page 100

Bruno · 07-31-2015, 01:43 PM

Meanwhile in Australia...

Man caught playing trumpet while driving

Quote:

A motorist struck a bad chord with police when he was caught playing the trumpet while driving over Melbourne's West Gate Bridge.

The first thing I think of is the example Accessibility limitation in GURPS "Only while playing the trumpet". What power was he using?

Anaraxes · 07-31-2015, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruno

The first thing I think of is the example Accessibility limitation in GURPS "Only while playing the trumpet". What power was he using?

TK. The citation was really quite unfair, as he had two invisible hands on the wheel at the proper 10 and 2 o'clock positions at all times.

somecallmetim · 08-01-2015, 05:41 AM

A lion has been seen in Wisconsin. It isn't as good as a phantom kangaroo, but it is still a pretty Out of Place critter.

(Sorry for the formatting. I'm on atablet and I do 't know what I'm doing.)

Flyndaran · 08-01-2015, 05:32 PM

That's obviously a cougar. Some cases of lions in cities turn out to be large orange house cats.

Anaraxes · 08-05-2015, 06:13 PM

The artist Cal Redback has produced some images, photoshopped to show people transforming into or merged with plants. This might supply some visual inspiration for your next game. Or nightmare.

Anaraxes · 08-11-2015, 02:34 PM

Reality quakes and timeline editors always leave behind those little clues to the former timeline's existence. You know, stuff like the famous portrait of Henry VIII holding a turkey leg (which no longer exists in the current timeline), or the series of children's books about the Berenstein Bears (in which the spelling has been altered in all the extant records and physical copies to the "Berenstain" Bears). Sometimes a lot of people have consistent memories of these traces of earlier reality, not just the privileged few PCs independent of the timeline shifts.

You can find a catalog of such possible tipoffs at http://mandelaeffect.com/

Flyndaran · 08-12-2015, 02:57 PM

Awesome. My family has a decades long joke about bagels. I distinctly remember my mom hating toasted bagels with butter. Then she only ate them that way arguing with me about her preferences. This changed more than once in the later years.
So now whenever anything really weird, or a disagreement about memory, pops up, one of us asks the other how my mom likes her bagels.

RogerBW · 08-14-2015, 02:42 AM

British Museum appeals for help in cracking 18-letter cryptogram on 13th-century sword.

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-...rack-it-003571

You can't fit a lot of data into 18 letters, but if it turns out to match a modern encoding scheme…

Dr. Beckenstein · 08-23-2015, 09:09 AM

There is a Ned Flanders themed Heavy-Metal-Band:

http://ripitup.com.au/music/meet-the...d#.Vdnh1LNb_0r

tshiggins · 08-26-2015, 01:42 PM

Details are scant, but this has some real potential:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/adve...t-train-found/

08-01-2015, 05:41 AM	#993
somecallmetim Join Date: Oct 2006	Re: Real-Life Weirdness A lion has been seen in Wisconsin. It isn't as good as a phantom kangaroo, but it is still a pretty Out of Place critter. (Sorry for the formatting. I'm on atablet and I do 't know what I'm doing.)

08-01-2015, 05:32 PM	#994
Flyndaran Untagged Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon	Re: Real-Life Weirdness That's obviously a cougar. Some cases of lions in cities turn out to be large orange house cats. __________________ Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check.

08-05-2015, 06:13 PM	#995
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Real-Life Weirdness The artist Cal Redback has produced some images, photoshopped to show people transforming into or merged with plants. This might supply some visual inspiration for your next game. Or nightmare.

08-11-2015, 02:34 PM	#996
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Real-Life Weirdness Reality quakes and timeline editors always leave behind those little clues to the former timeline's existence. You know, stuff like the famous portrait of Henry VIII holding a turkey leg (which no longer exists in the current timeline), or the series of children's books about the Berenstein Bears (in which the spelling has been altered in all the extant records and physical copies to the "Berenstain" Bears). Sometimes a lot of people have consistent memories of these traces of earlier reality, not just the privileged few PCs independent of the timeline shifts. You can find a catalog of such possible tipoffs at http://mandelaeffect.com/

08-12-2015, 02:57 PM	#997
Flyndaran Untagged Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon	Re: Real-Life Weirdness Awesome. My family has a decades long joke about bagels. I distinctly remember my mom hating toasted bagels with butter. Then she only ate them that way arguing with me about her preferences. This changed more than once in the later years. So now whenever anything really weird, or a disagreement about memory, pops up, one of us asks the other how my mom likes her bagels. __________________ Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check.

08-14-2015, 02:42 AM	#998
RogerBW Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: near London, UK	Re: Real-Life Weirdness British Museum appeals for help in cracking 18-letter cryptogram on 13th-century sword. http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-...rack-it-003571 You can't fit a lot of data into 18 letters, but if it turns out to match a modern encoding scheme… __________________ Podcast: Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice Gaming stuff here: Tekeli-li! Blog; Webcomic Laager and Limehouse Buy things by me on Warehouse 23

08-23-2015, 09:09 AM	#999
Dr. Beckenstein Join Date: Sep 2013	Re: Real-Life Weirdness There is a Ned Flanders themed Heavy-Metal-Band: http://ripitup.com.au/music/meet-the...d#.Vdnh1LNb_0r

08-26-2015, 01:42 PM	#1000
tshiggins Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Denver, Colorado	Re: Real-Life Weirdness Details are scant, but this has some real potential: http://www.popularmechanics.com/adve...t-train-found/ __________________ -- MXLP:9 [JD=1, DK=1, DM-M=1, M(FAW)=1, SS=2, Nym=1 (nose coffee), sj=1 (nose cocoa), Maz=1] "Some days, I just don't know what to think." -Daryl Dixon.

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