Strange Sighting In Sydney - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 08, 2011, 04:52:10 pm
content: Greetings EEVBees:--When I am online, I sometimes like to hit the Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" button just for fun. Like Forrest Gump says about the box of chocolates "You never know what you're gon'na get." See below a recent article from the Sydney Weekly Dispatch, a pennysaver type publication full of ads and boilerplate articles often about unexplained phenomena, Elvis sightings, etc.""Peculiar Sighting In Sydtown" October 6th, 2011 by Tilba Beerburrum "There is quite a stir going on on in Sidney lately about a mysterious "Man In Black". A man has been seen in suburban Sydney lately pushing a pram and talking to people who aren't there. On being shown cellphone footage of the man, Detective Mal Roothunker said "I don't think there is anything to fear from this fellow. He is obviously not a homeless person, he is wearing clean clothes and is well kempt. Perhaps he is just eccentric. Sheila Bobsuncle who encountered the man only yesterday said "Ooh, fit and handsome he was. I tried to catch his eye but he just kept going talking to someone who wasn't there." Alice Springer, a local spiritualist facilitator who also encountered "Pram Man" yesterday said the he "was obviously trying to establish an astral connection to a departed friend, who he wanted to talk to about jobs". A couple of people have managed to get a quick sidelong glance into the pram. One said it contained an infant. Another man said he could not be sure but he thought he saw a bunch of old multimeters. Sheila Bobsuncle has gotten a complete makeover and is going back, out hoping to encounter "Pram Man" once again. "If there ain't no baby in that pram, I'm taking im' home, where he can talk all he wants, so hands off girls.""--If more sightings are reported, I will be sure to post them in this forum.Best RegardsClear Ether

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2011, 12:47:58 am
content: "Sidney" is a bloke's name----That big place with the funny looking bridge over on the weird end of Australia is "Sydney"!VK6ZGO

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 09, 2011, 01:17:08 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on October 09, 2011, 12:47:58 amYou've put yourself in for it! Now your going to have to explain what an Australia is!

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 09, 2011, 02:03:20 am
content: Isn't Australia just another state of the US, like Canada?

author: Joshua
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2011, 02:29:45 am
content: Quote from: alm on October 09, 2011, 02:03:20 amAustralia is one big state. Canada is barely a country.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2011, 02:36:57 am
content: Yeah,I've always thought a country should occupy a whole continent to be taken seriously.( No,I'm not Napoleon!)On the other hand,there are times West Oz wouldn't mind casting the other 2/3s adrift!VK6ZGO

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 09, 2011, 02:50:31 am
content: To all denizens of our southernmost unfrozen continent:--Sorry about that, might, have corrected same. Now, it was not because I am ignorant and cannot spell (Clintonesque finger wag), it was due to an inadvertent confusion. That must be the place I keep hearing about. I thought it was a different place called SideKnee. Apparently from what I can determine the problem began on the first ship to Botany Bay when all of the vowels fell overboard except for the ones that rhyme with might. You will notice that we in the US have kept the King's English ship shape with no alterations.--Seriously though, in the US we do have some regional accents. My uncle from NYNY says "Dose suddeners soun so ignowent wid de wey dey twahk""Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth." Mark Twain

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2011, 05:34:33 am
content: Yeah,the "t'othersiders" in Oz talk funny,too!I mean, how can you pronounce perfectly good WA place names like Derby & Albany as Darby &Orlbany?& they get the spelling mixed up,too!A "Wise lady from the East" was talking about "Kuwana" the other day on the news,& I thought it must be somewhere in Hawaii,but she meant KWINANA!(Even an American could pronounce that!).VK6ZGO