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PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 13:44 
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When hippies aren't bleating about them, UFO's are immense fun. Though I can't imagine any reason why aliens would visit our planet, and regard their ability of getting to us an impossibility, I always get a little excited by UFO sightings my credible witnesses being reported on the news. Probably my sinister desire for staggering miracles to happen.

Anyway, a bit freaky - there's been yet more UFO sightings over the UK, the latest from a military base in Shropshire which was filmed by personel and involved a UFO 'several hundred metres in diameter' floating over people's heads. There was also a sighting in Merseyside which was filmed on mobile phone, but I can't watch the video on the BBC website at work. Bah. Guff? Probably, but VERY INTERESTING guff at the very least. Hope they release the military video. ("It's a weather balloon," - ed.)

Yahoo news story here: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/200806 ... dbed5.html

BBC News story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 472421.stm

So what's going on? The Western Mail in the wake of the Cardiff UFO had an amusing cover that photoshopped the Independence Day saucer over Cardiff, and it has become an amused topic of conversation with my library colleagues. Frankly, though technically I don't believe in UFO's I am incredibly baffled and fascinated by all this. Mass hysteria? Ingenius hoaxing for extra laughs by the military? (I would, I bet they get bored sometimes.) Whatever the reason, it helps me briefly forget about depressing things such as horrendous environmental destruction and the like. Here's hoping something interesting develops soon. Though Gordon Brown would probably use it as an excuse to introduce ID cards or something.

"They look like us! There are many copies!" said Primeminister Gordon Brown yesterday, running down the motorway between two lanes of traffic, waving his arms wildly. "And they have a van!" he added.

Bonus points if the alien race materialise over England, it would confirm our arrogant views that our nation is at the centre of the universe. ;)

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I don't believe in UFO's


Is that like saying "I believe we know exactly what everything is, always"?

Ah, pedantry.


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"They look like us! There are many copies!" said Primeminister Gordon Brown yesterday, running down the motorway between two lanes of traffic, wave his arms wildly. "And they have a van!" he added.



:DD :DD :DD

The missus and I always say, "And they have a flan".

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nynfortoo wrote:
nervouspete wrote:
I don't believe in UFO's


Is that like saying "I believe we know exactly what everything is, always"?

Ah, pedantry.


Oops, that's a remnant of a clumsy mistake by me. I of course meant, "I don't believe in alien visitors."

("We disagree, benefit scum!" - Daily Express)

Yes, yours is better, Curiosity. :D

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I remember the last UFO craze of the early 90s.
You had loads of sightings and news coverage. Rendlesham Forest, Bonnybridge, loads of them. Denials from the MOD and then leaks from that one guy who used to work for them.
Crop circles were still mysterious. The Americans went for it in a big way with cattle mutilation and mysterious black helicopters. The X-files was good. Area-51! Remember Robert Lazar? He sells fuel-cells and radioactive isotopes to gullible people now. And the abductions, ohh the abductions.

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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/23/flying-saucer-uav.html


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Well, The X Files is coming back. With Billy Connelly, obv.

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Well, The X Files is coming back. With Billy Connelly, obv.



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The new x files movie looks pretty cool, I saw a trailer when I went to see Mongol (also Cool)

I was never a hardcore fan, but I used to watch X Files and the Outer Limits :)


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Well, I want to watch every episode back to back now

(I did before this too, but now I feel more urgent)

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I rewatched every X-File episode (including the first film) between 2006-2007, and it was still awesome. Looking forward to the new film.

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My wife got the complete X-Files box set with her birthday money at the end of May. She's already on season eight.

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whats everyones favourite episode of x-files then?


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whats everyones favourite episode of x-files then?


I'm hopeless for remembering what I've watched. I've got the first four or five series of it and yet I can barely recall any of the episodes. Good excuse to watch them again I suppose.

One I did like was the people seeing messages in LED displays ordering them to kill people. I always preferred the ones a little more grounded in reality than the alien abduction storylines.

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The only episode title (that I can remember - Ed) is Jose Chung's From Outer Space, which I also remember being a very good episode.

Also the one where Mulder swaps bodies with Michael McKean.

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The only episode title is Jose Chung's From Outer Space, which I also remember being a very good episode.

Also the one where Mulder swaps bodies with Michael McKean.


I was going to say that one. the Jose Chung one.


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Either the first one with Eugene Tooms, or the one with the guy who could set fire to stuff.

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I liked some of the later stand-alone episodes. Mainly because the "taking itself too seriously / nothing ever really resolved / tedious story arc" stuff was getting a bit old by then.

I liked that one with an intelligent building with killer lifts though.

Yeah, I could probably stand to re-watch it.


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Either the first one with Eugene Tooms, or the one with the guy who could set fire to stuff.


Fire guy? You mean the one with Mark Sheppard of Firefly and BSG fame as cockney crime-lord Badger, kleptomaniac lawyer Romo Lampkin respectively?

(Yes, I am that geeky.) :nerd:

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I liked the one in the circus. And the ones with bees.

And Gillian Anderson.

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I'm gonna have to 'buy' these now, though I think we have most of them on cassette somewhere.

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nervouspete wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Either the first one with Eugene Tooms, or the one with the guy who could set fire to stuff.


Fire guy? You mean the one with Mark Sheppard of Firefly and BSG fame as cockney crime-lord Badger, kleptomaniac lawyer Romo Lampkin respectively?

(Yes, I am that geeky.) :nerd:


I have no idea. Just the guy who could set fire to stuff, and burn himself without it hurting. I believe he used 'accelerant', set the house on fire, and at the end he was burnt to a crisp but survived and you could just see his eyes.

Or something. It were years ago!

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I have no idea. Just the guy who could set fire to stuff, and burn himself without it hurting. I believe he used 'accelerant', set the house on fire, and at the end he was burnt to a crisp but survived and you could just see his eyes.


I remember that one!


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And the ones with bees.


I remember that one!


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I liked the one in the circus.


That the circus freaks one? I wasn't much for the ones when they tried to be funny (aside from the smartarse quips from Mulder).

I also liked the one set in the Arctic with the burrowing parasite thingy.

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I remember the Loch Ness one, where they proved it wasn't the work of Nessie... and just as they were wrapping it up, I noticed that the shot was leaving a big expanse of water in view, and said, "I bet you Nessie appears in the background now" about two seconds before it did!

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Runcle wrote:
whats everyones favourite episode of x-files then?


The one with the giant underground mushroom.

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Mimi wrote:
Runcle wrote:
whats everyones favourite episode of x-files then?


The one with the giant underground mushroom.


You made that up didn't you.


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I liked the one about the little green flying things that lived in trees in Canadia and they were all afraid of light but liked to kill men and mulder and skully had to go and try to find out what was killing men and the lights went out and the little green flying things almost killed mulder and scully and then they didn't because they had some light and the little green things went away and then the episode ended.

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The one with the giant underground mushroom.


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...little green flying things...liked to kill men...then the episode ended.


That was good. I liked the squirmy man episode and the halloween special in teh spooky house.

As for Gillian Anderson - I don't get it boys. She's not fugly but she's no stunzor.

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Dimrill wrote:
I liked the one about the little green flying things that lived in trees in Canadia and they were all afraid of light but liked to kill men and mulder and skully had to go and try to find out what was killing men and the lights went out and the little green flying things almost killed mulder and scully and then they didn't because they had some light and the little green things went away and then the episode ended.


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I also liked the one set in the Arctic with the burrowing parasite thingy.

That was entirely a rip-off of The Thing, though. And a bad one, at that.

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she's no stunzor.

But she is, though. And she's aged well.

I had a totally stunzor poster of her in her undies. Grrrrr.

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