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Old 31 January 2006, 06:27 AM
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Interesting Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4. Pope Died

Interesting Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament
4. Pope Died

The next time Charles gets married, someone warn the Pope!
Old 31 January 2006, 08:23 AM
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Never happen again though. The Prince may re-marry, the Pope will die at some point, Oz may even lose the ashes again, but liverpool winning europe again, no chance
Old 31 January 2006, 08:57 AM
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Who actually has time to think about this stuff!
Old 31 January 2006, 09:31 AM
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Good theory - except that the Pope didn't die in 1981. Two Popes died in 1978 and there was an unsuccessful assasination attempt on Pope JPII in 1981, but he survived.
Old 31 January 2006, 10:40 PM
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you see i would never have known that db
Old 31 January 2006, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Richard_P
Who actually has time to think about this stuff!
exactly
Old 31 January 2006, 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Richard_P
Who actually has time to think about this stuff!
Twohats, obviously

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Old 01 February 2006, 12:11 AM
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It's amazing, the amount of these coincidence threads you see. Every one I've seen so far has been de-bunked by someone else who's bothered to look up the real statistics

Alcazar
Old 01 February 2006, 12:24 AM
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Here's a "good" one I got sent the other day - all total bollocks of course!

THIS IS REALLY FREAKY!

1) New York City has 11 letters
2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy
the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
4) George W Bush has 11 letters.

This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:

1) New York is the 11th state.
2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11.
3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6+5=11
5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9+1+1=11
6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911. 9+1+1=11.
Sheer coincidence..?!

Read on and make up your own mind:

1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. 2+5+4=11.
2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2+5+4=11.
3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3+1+1+2+4 =11.
4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.

Now this is where things get totally eerie:

The most recognised symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Quran, the Islamic holy book:

''For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allahand lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace."

That verse is number 9.11 of the Quran.

Still unconvinced about all of this..?!

Try this and see how you feel afterwards, it made my hair stand on end:

Open Microsoft Word and do the following:
1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.
2. Highlight the Q33 NY.
3. Change the font size to 48.
4. Change the actual font to WINGDINGS

What do you think now..?!
Old 01 February 2006, 12:36 AM
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Think its crap. This was only a rumoured flight number, the actual number being N334AA.
Check it out
What do you think now
Old 01 February 2006, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
It's amazing, the amount of these coincidence threads you see. Every one I've seen so far has been de-bunked by someone else who's bothered to look up the real statistics

Alcazar
Nothing to do with looking up statistics. Some of us remember life before Google and are reasonably useful in pub quizzes.

The attempted assassination attempt has also been in the news recently as Mehmet Ali Agca, his would-be assassin, was released from jail last week after serving 25 years. Makes it kind of easy to date the attempted assassination to 1981.

(Knowing that is probably sadder than looking it up )

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