In the UK canals are about 3 feet deep. How come lots of people drown in them?

[exchemist]

We've had her socks over at the dot net, too. With similarly obtuse questions and imperviousness to obvious explanations. Didn't she have one on some medical "mystery" - escapes me atm.

Got onto .net at last again just now. It was "Lara Knowles" with a series of damnfool questions about magnetic fields and heart attacks, ear damage from alerts on mobile phones and, silliest of all, someone being supposedly killed by a plesiosaur in 1962.

But on this site we've had an obsession with spontaneous human combustion, people disappearing, the famous man strangled by his thymus gland, big cats in southwest England and many more. All from the same individual, under a wide variety of sockpuppet identities.

It's always the same procedure. Post something highly improbable or even totally ridiculous, watch while everyone shoots it down, then keep the plate spinning by adding in a bit more from time to time, in support of whatever the fatuous allegation may be, until everyone gets bored or the moderator bans the sockpuppet.

 

[TheVat]

someone being supposedly killed by a plesiosaur in 1962.

ROFL. Laughed so hard I nearly choked on my thymus gland.

I recall reading some anthology of Charles Fort when I was young filled with entertaining weirdness like that. He became an adjective, "Fortean," which describes such stuff.

 

[exchemist]

ROFL. Laughed so hard I nearly choked on my thymus gland.

I recall reading some anthology of Charles Fort when I was young filled with entertaining weirdness like that. He became an adjective, "Fortean," which describes such stuff.

Oh right! That must account for the name of this thing called the "Fortean Times" which I've occasionally seen referred to and which seems to offer a sort of smörgåsbord of egregiously preposterous ballocks.