Hi perhaps a thread where we can share Bedlamesque coincidences which come to our attention.

I'll start.................Australia perform like chocolate tea-pots at the olympics and then " find " the missing runs to give their hero Sir Donny Bradman the magic 100 batting average

Coincidece ?????

It's hardly been touted as concrete evidence.

A retired scientist who's good with figures says "maybe", nothing else.

Maybe.

"There is no doubt that a recording error of some kind has occurred. So where do these runs belong?"

Davis surmises that either Ryder may have scored them at some other point of the innings, or they were not scored at all, or "just perhaps" they were scored by Bradman.

Hi perhaps a thread where we can share Bedlamesque coincidences which come to our attention.

I'll start.................Australia perform like chocolate tea-pots at the olympics and then " find " the missing runs to give their hero Sir Donny Bradman the magic 100 batting average

Coincidece ?????

Typical Ockor effort.

Make OZ or Ockors look better, fudge the details.

Like, Union was too hard for softy Aussies, they invented Aust Rules, where ya not supposed to get hurt.

Yeah, rite.

Godzilla was driving all over the Holdens and Falcons.

Simple, change the rules, no more Godzillas.

Holden abd Falcons rule, sheeeeesh.

Like, Union was too hard for softy Aussies, they invented Aust Rules, where ya not supposed to get hurt.

WhatereyaonaboutPete?

Like, Union was too hard for softy Aussies, they invented Aust Rules, where ya not supposed to get hurt.

WhatereyaonaboutPete?

Hey man......

Telling it as it is in history.

Victoria, original poofy footy country.

Believeitcositistrue...... ...... ...

I'd be having a quiet word with your good doctor about the medication you're taking, Pete...

On topic (maybe)....

What are the odds that while travelling by air you will meet someone you know while transiting through an airport to somewhere and that other person is also transiting through the airport from somewhere else to somewhere else.

Both of you are in a certain space at a certain time, the odds of which, given the number of airports, the size of major transit airports, the possible combinations of origins, destinations and flight schedules then the number of people you know and the subset of the number of people you know who travel, must be incalculable.

Yet, this has happened to me several times in the last 10 years.

Winning the lottery, by comparison, seems like easy odds.

Weird that sibey, although seems to happen a lot. A friend of mine went to Thailand (can't remember where) and met a friend from work who had gone to the same place - neither were aware of each others travel arrangements and yet shared the same flight and resort. They both said "Fancy meeting you here" when thay met each other. How odd!

I have a couple of coincidence stories:

One of my best mates in school, lived in the same street a few houses apart, he eventually joined the army, moved away, and we lost touch for ten years or so.

Bumped into him walking in the street in Kuta in Bali, sat down for a drink and caught up. Turned out we had travelled up from Perth on the same flight the day before, but the real spooky part was when we exchanged current addresses.

Turned out we lived in the same suburb (10-12 kms from where we were as kids) and actually owned houses in the same street! The street was U shaped from a main road and we travelled up different sides of the U when coming and going so never met up. Our places were about 80 metres apart, but we met up in another country!

In the late 90s we were travelling through Scotland and staying in a little fishing village on guy fawlkes night. We were down on the sea wall watching the fireworks (freezing my a..... off) when we got in to a conversation with an older lady about how nice it would be if they had a bonfire going. Recognising the accent, she said she had a very good friend in Australia, but i wouldn't know him because he was from WA. I said I was as well. She then said he used to work for ............ I said I did too! She said you wouldn't know him, he used to work on shift at the airport. Again I said I had done the same. Turned out I had worked with her friend for quite some time on the same two man shift!

Yep, that's life...

Many years ago one particular year I bumped into a former work colleague (hadn't seen him for about three years) in Patong. The following year, I bumped into that same colleague in Munich. Has to be longer odds than the lotto...

I think it's quite a coincidence that we all have Thailand in common.

Actually, during my very last summer in Europe (prior to Thailand) I got into a several night stand with a girl I met at a beach party in Holland.

We had a nice time and we went on our seperate ways, not staying in touch.

Maybe six months later, my very first season on Koh Chang, (i think i've mentioned this on a thread years ago) I was locking up late at night, One little light on, on the terrace, counting the takings, and drinking my last beer of the night,

Two girls walk aross the beach inf ront of the resort, coming from another beach, and on their way back to their place, the Treehouse.

I didn't pay them much heed, but then I hear one of them say my name.

Sure enough, it was the same girl!

Her friend was hotter, ( and yes, I did... )

Her friend was hotter, ( and yes, I did... )

Is this the predicable thread?

Her friend was hotter, ( and yes, I did... )

Is this the predicable thread?

With KO it is always predictable.

I think the number of links that we all have to each other is greater than we are aware of in normal daily contact, when we see the connection it stands out, but we miss so many others.

I used to drink at a pub in England that was a favored haunt of another Bedlam inmate, probably around the same time. While staying in a hotel one time talking to the people from New Zealand next door discovered I used to work with a school friend of theirs.

One of my American customers here has a daughter that I know through work in Europe. The saying 'Small World' is so common that I think we are generally aware that there is a connection somewhere - you just need to find it. As for the meeting in an airport - yes did that twice in one day, some person as we crossed to/from meetings.

Six degrees of separation.

A while back I went to a bar and didn't know anyone there - by the time I left I felt like I had known them for years.

That has to be a coincidence because it happens all the time to me.

CB

^ good one CB,

Another vaguely thai related coincidence,

before moving from Koh Chang to Kanchanaburi,

I stayed in BKK for a good while (2002).

While there I met my then to be GF, and also a Farang lady who became like a sister to me.

Kan Win knows her well by now, and she remains a dear friend to this day.

Turns out, in 96-97, when I last lived in Cambridge, she lived about a block away, just around the corner.

We had a visitor in our restaurant last Autumn, (from my home town Bergen), who had a wife from a nearby village.

He was curious where my house had been (in Bergen), and when I told him the exact adress, he said: that house used to belong to my family.

So I asked him: what's your name?: and when hearing his family name, ............I said that's my mother's family name as well, and suddenly we realized we were "cousins" but we'd never met before, and did'nt know of each other!

Life is indeed funny some times!

After basic training ( very basic ) in HK posted to Mong Kok. First person I met in the station was another guy from my home village in England...................Gobsmacked.

This is turning into an interesting thread; perhaps (in similar vein) a deja vu thread should be opened - or has it been done before...

This is turning into an interesting thread; perhaps (in similar vein) a deja vu thread should be opened - or has it been done before...

I've just metioned Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - in the "if you are listening to music" thread

This is turning into an interesting thread; perhaps (in similar vein) a deja vu thread should be opened - or has it been done before...

I've just metioned Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - in the "if you are listening to music" thread

Coincidences seem to defy the odds regularly. (So much for probability theory...)

A while back I went to a bar and didn't know anyone there - by the time I left I felt like I had known them for years.

That has to be a coincidence because it happens all the time to me.

CB

Last year I was in Chiang Mai in a bar in the Night Market with a couple of mates from Adelaide and one of the guys started talking to a young couple on holiday and the girl was from the same suburb, same street as him. Granted it's a long street but still a coincidence.

Spookiest of all for me was when I nearly married a girl from my home town in the UK. At the engagement when distent rellies were invited, not only did they know each other, but the distant ones were related to each other, we never knew. Many times removed but I nearly kept it in the family !!!

Ok scary coincidence. Last night went to the local food market with the g/f. She was standing there picking over the bits and bags of food at one stall and I was looking around. Spotted a guy I went to school with in Oz with a brand new g/f - he is over here on holiday for a week. I walked over to him, put a hand on his shoulder and said "sprung mate" He nearly died.

CB