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The JDK's Coincidence
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That is bizarrely freakish and should go into the Guinness Book of Bizarrely Freakish Coincidences that Happened to the JDK!
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It's quite coincidental, but not very. Something far more coincidental happened to me just the other day...
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That barely qualifies as and boring anecdote, let alone as a coincidence. Go bore someone else!
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Where am I?
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ddvmor


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Something odd happened today.

Catfish is away for a few days visiting her mum in Derby. Today she was shopping at Ikea in Nottingham, a few miles away from Derby. She sent me a text message to tell me where she was and that Ikea was deserted. That in itself is quite odd. Ikea is normally absolutely packed and this close to Christmas, you'd expect it to be even more so!

Being a terribly friendly chap, I turned to my colleague at my desk to comment on the phenomenon. She too thought it was odd. But what she thought was odder was the fact that she had, just moments ago, received a phone call from her brother who was shopping in Ikea in Nottingham and had phoned to tell her exactly the same thing!

He was buying a bed. On further questioning, Catfish was able to confirm that she had observed a man with a freshly purchased bed waiting in the loading area for a car to pick him up!

What are the odds that not only would my girlfriend and my desk-buddy's brother (who had never met) would see each other in a shop in the East Midlands, but would both at the same time contact people sitting next to each other to comment on exactly the same thing? shocked.gif

Well I thought it was pretty odd! nod.gif

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I think you're pretty odd...Oddly enough, I'm not alone...nod.gif...Ben

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ddvmor


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It's true! no.gif

Ho hum... moving on...

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JonnyStead


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I must be missing something - they werent both in the same shop at the same time were they?

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Catfish


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I think it is quite a coincidence myself. It's not as though I frequent Nottingham IKEA on a regular basis, in fact I think I've only ever been there once before in the mid 1990's when I was at university in Loughborough. We very nearly went to the local garden centre for our lunch instead and then this would never have happened weirdface

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As I am in a large open plan office literally 10 feet from my desk two girls from another department who are desk buddies live in the same housing estate about four houses apart, as if that wasn't strange enough one of them is my next door neighbor completely random and totally weird.

you know that film the No 23 - well I have the same thing with the number 16:

I was born at 6:10 birth weight 6lbs 10oz, the house I grew up in was No 178 (1+7+8=16) The last four digits of the phone number are 6172 which add up to 16, I was 16 in 1988 (8+8=16) my new house house no2 is no32 (32/2=16)
my date of birth is 28/06/72 (72 / 6 = 12, 28 - 12=16) there's more but I cant remember all of them. strange huh.


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ddvmor


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so do you live 3 or 5 houses from the other one?

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Not really freakishly coincidental - more of an ordinary, run-of-the-mill coincidence, but I've had 'Hit me Baby One More Time' stuck in my head today after I heard a cover of it by Bowling for Soup on a cd. A few minutes ago this story caught my eye on the BBC Website:

Britney stretchered out of home
Britney Spears has been carried out of her home on a stretcher and taken into custody after police were called in a dispute involving her children.
"While officers were at Britney's home they found that Britney appeared under the influence of an unknown substance," officer Jason Lee told the BBC.

"She is being taken into custody for evaluation," he added.

The 26-year-old singer and ex-husband Kevin Federline are wrangling over custody of their two young sons.


-- Edited by ddvmor at 14:12, 2008-01-04

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JonnyStead


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Frankly you havent lived until you've heard Hengle sing that!

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Now I need to more than anything else in the world! Hengle... Upload an MP3 for us! Make it thrashy! wink.gif

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