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Old 09-29-2011, 01:25 PM   #1
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Spontaneous Human Combustion
Not just for your tales from the paranormal TV show -an official cause of death ruled in Ireland recently

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_1...-10391704.html
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:33 PM   #2
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*chuckles* I like this bit from the guy who's been investigating this stuff:

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"To say that we don't know what the cause of the fire was but its' spontaneous human combustion," Nickell opined, "Why don't we say it was a ghost playing with matches?"
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:39 PM   #3
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Snicker.
Chalk it up to another thing I don't believe in.

Monnie and I can have it on our TV show.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:18 PM   #4
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Google it. There are some cool pics.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:21 PM   #5
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Don't need to thanks. Know all aout the old SHC. We had the complete set of 'The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind, Space, & Time' magazines when I was a kid. I had a morbid fear of spontaneous human combustion.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:23 PM   #6
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It's Yeti.

Yeti sneaks into your grandmaw's house and sets her alight (she's usually sitting in her big, chintz-covered easy chair, eating candy and watching The Price is Right) steals her twix and then hot-foots it out of there. There's never any forensic evidence because Yeti is that good.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:24 PM   #7
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Yetis, using crystal skulls.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:28 PM   #8
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Yetis, using crystal skulls.
HA! Yes! Yetis, using crystal skulls and triangulating grandmaw's position with floating orbs.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

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Old 09-29-2011, 02:41 PM   #9
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Damn straight. And they call us crazy.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:44 PM   #10
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Laugh all you want, it almost happened to a friend of mine.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:45 PM   #11
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Awwww, I missed out!
The only stories Nanny told about human combustion were from The Blitz.

I want Yetis and spectral locomotives rocketing past the farm and all that stuff.
I had a deprived childhood
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:46 PM   #12
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At least it's not an undead Nazi ninja Yeti.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:46 PM   #13
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Bet you never had an alien in your cellar either.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:55 PM   #14
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Bet you never had an alien in your cellar either.
I had one in my closet. He phoned home along ago.
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Old 09-29-2011, 03:53 PM   #15
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At least it's not an undead Nazi ninja Yeti.
I've seen that movie. Heck, I own that movie. It's one of our decadent favorites.
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