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Thread ID: 58069	2005-05-20 09:55:00	Wot a coincidence!	Greg (193)	PC World Chat

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357000	2005-05-20 23:03:00	Great stories! Does this mean that someday, while at the rubbish tip, I will meet Metla? :D Ages ago, I spent a week on Heron Island, in the Barrier Reef. Heron is tiny, and is a 4 hour boat ride from the Qld coast. The second day, I went to the evening park ranger film presentation (16mm back in those days). The lights went out but just before the film started I noticed a man walking in, with a distictive limp and a cane. I mentioned to my wife "Hey, that looks like Dr. Bradley, one of my professors at university." He sat right next to me, in a room of 30 - 40 people. When the lights came on, yep, it was him. One wonderful memory I have is having a drink with him under the palms, looking at the Big Dipper low on the horizon (the Big Dipper is a northern hemisphere constellation but can be seen very low if at a more northerly latitude than NZ). It had been 5 years since I had seen the old professor, and the university was not in Oz or NZ, but far far away...	Strommer (42)
357001	2005-05-21 01:04:00	LOL Trev. So who got the good mower? I think I did as they have had quite a few problems with it. Trevor:)	Trev (427)
357002	2005-05-21 03:13:00	Yes but you tell BB who you were????!!!! ???? LOL :lol: :lol: beetle	beetle (243)
357003	2005-05-21 04:42:00	During the first world war my father was on leave in London and went to a cinema. He asked the bloke in the next seat if he could have a light for his ciggy. When the match was struck they were both amazed. It was my fathers brother. They hadn't seen each other for a couple of years and neither lived in London. They didn't watch the rest of the film! Tom	Thomas01 (317)
357004	2005-05-21 06:26:00	During the first world war my father was on leave in London and went to a cinema. He asked the bloke in the next seat if he could have a light for his ciggy. When the match was struck they were both amazed. It was my fathers brother. They hadn't seen each other for a couple of years and neither lived in London. They didn't watch the rest of the film! Tom I had forgotten this story until reading yours, but three of my NZ uncles went to WW1. One was on leave in London, walking along a street (as you do), and he met one of his brothers. Subsequently they met up with the third brother in the same manner. None of them knew the others were on leave, or in England, let alone London. Knowing all three uncles, I imagine some serious damage was done to the inside of an ale cask for the rest of the leave they had together. Fortunately all three survived, and also survived the war to return home and continue their drinking back here... I should imagine it is not the coincidence it appears to be in this case, because all Kiwi soldiers would have been concentrated in a small area of London when they came back on leave at that time. I seem to remember them telling me they stayed at the YMCA or somewhere like that.	John H (8)
357005	2005-05-21 06:42:00	Yes but you tell BB who you were????!!!! ???? LOL LOL yep. Even funnier was that on the way to Wgtn airport this afternoon while the bus stopped at an intersection, who should walk past us but BB and his missus! :rolleyes: Funny too was when Bruce and I started talking about computer games, his missus and my missus just looked at each other and raised their eyes! :p Some great stories from the rest of the guys too! ;)	Greg (193)
357006	2005-05-21 07:27:00	I know someone off the internet (from a different country) who's birthday is the same day as mine, and who has a son with the same birthday as my son. She didn't know where in NZ I lived, but sent me a picture of the weird house (which she found on Google images) next to the primary school I went to. That WAS freeky. How are you Polly?	Baldy (26)
357007	2005-05-22 00:28:00	After getting engaged I discovered that my future brother-in-law was actually on the same ship as our family when we emigrated to NZ from the UK when I was a tiny titch . Another family on the same ship became good friends with my parents but lost touch when I was a teenager . Twenty years later I was called to fix someone's computer and it turned out to be the girl who I used to play with on the ship and was friends with when we used to visit them . My parents, on their annual trips to Oz, are always bumping into people they know and haven't seen for years . It's a small world alright .	FoxyMX (5)
357008	2005-05-22 12:34:00	In 1986 shortly after I returned to NZ I drove my mum down to Wellington, and she took me up the Welly cable car - lo and behold the driver was an Eastern European refugee friend of my late dad who'd been on the same ship escaping the Russians and Germans at the end of WWII.	Greg (193)
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