[time-nuts] OT loosing things

Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 05:00:49 UTC 2010


On 13 November 2010 03:40, William H. Fite <omniryx at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Faeries," ma Scottish Gram use' tae say.
>
> My son found his sunglasses on the back of a shelf in his refrigerator...
>
> When I unpacked a box of my Scots kit following a cross-country move, I
> found a Byrds album tucked neatly between my best kilt and my full plaid...
>
> When we cleared out Gram's house after her death, we found a petrified apple
> pie up on a top shelf with her "good" china...
>
> These are the same wee folk who clutter your closet with empty wire hangers
> when you don't need them and empty it of same when you do.
>
> Who move your roll of solder right in the middle of your job so that you
> have to stop and find it when you used it not two minutes ago.
>
> Who cause the printer cartridge that you know damned well you bought two
> weeks ago to disappear entirely.
>
> And who now seem to have purloined the upper-middle section of my 12' Xmas
> tree.
>
> Gram said you could mollify them by leaving bowls of milk out for them to
> drink.

Sounds like strong evidence for the existance of Faeries and their
nefarious ways.

Steve
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I liked the idea of fairies being the culprits but each to their own :)
>>
>> I think that the LW are not completely random, they definitely return
>> your own stuff to you but I don't believe it is necessarily in the
>> same place.
>>
>> Ah, now a candidate for a new law. A lost item always turns up the
>> moment after you have purchased it's replacement.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>> On 13/11/2010, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Certainly one viable theory.
>> > However the answers much simpler then that and an established fact
>> > documented in many books by such authors as Steven King.
>> > Its simply ghosts at work.
>> > Worm wholes would not return items to the same place or area.
>> > Ghosts would. Although as you mention often much later, even years.
>> > Haven't you ever noted the stuff comes back after you buy a replacement?
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> While repairing my LCD monitor, I took off my glasses so as to be able
>> >> to see better close up as I'm VERY short sighted and even the
>> >> vari-focals my optician prescribes can no longer get me close enough
>> >> to solder properly. Without them on, I can focus VERY close but the
>> >> range is VERY short, being just a few inches. So I completed the work
>> >> involving a few stages without putting the glasses back on just to
>> >> save time but, when I went to grope around and try to find them, I
>> >> could not. So where did I put the blessed things, and after a period
>> >> of serious extended "looking" around, blind panic started to set in.
>> >> What the dickens had I done with them! So I ended up shuffling out of
>> >> the workshop, through the house, stumbling over the dogs, and up to
>> >> the bedroom to, eventually, find my spare pair. On my return to the
>> >> workshop I still could not find the glasses looked everywhere. A cup
>> >> of tea ensued and I took a less panicky search only to find they had
>> >> fallen down the back of some gear, or maybe it was the fairies at the
>> >> bottom of my garden which had done it. I concluded that in my
>> >> "blinded" state of putting them down in the first place, I had
>> >> obviously chosen an poor "safe" place.
>> >>
>> >> After this I got to thinking and wondered if there is perhaps
>> >> something darker happening here. My current theory is that there is
>> >> something called a Lost Wormhole which moves around randomly and
>> >> removes items from there current place, setting them down in some
>> >> completely different dimension. So the chances of loosing something
>> >> increases in proportion to the time that the item is left somewhere
>> >> due to the increased probability of it being "borrowed" by the LW.
>> >> Now, all is not lost as the LW is a two way pipe and so eventually
>> >> your lost item will be dropped back somewhere in your vicinity but
>> >> probably not where you thought you had left it. To my mind, this seems
>> >> to fit my experience of the way the World seems to work and I'm sure
>> >> there is some law here.
>> >>
>> >> For the humour challenged, this message is :) rated.
>> >>
>> >> Please feel free to comment on my theory but perhaps this should be via
>> >> PM.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for your time,
>> >> Steve
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
>> >> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
>> >> - Einstein
>> >>
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