Funny hapenstances

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:28 am

I thought I would share this with the world as an interesting item. On New Years Eve I was sat with my back to the Christmas Tree and a bauble fell on my head. I did not particularly want to get up and put it back so I threw it over my shoulder absent mindedly. The bauble actually hung itself perfectly on a branch! I was well impressed with the co-incidence of that throw.

I will not claim to be able to do it a second time though! :D

Post by **johnriley1uk** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:18 am

So when Sir Isaac Newton felt the apple fall on his head he said, "Eureka, I have discovered gravity, and without even having to take a bath!"

When Mike felt a bauble fall on his head he put it back with the power of his mind and without even having to get up.

Which is the greater discovery I wonder?

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:21 pm

Gravity was just waiting to be discovered. Absent minded throwing is just pure class! Obviously the later wins hands down!

BarcelonAl · Post by **BarcelonAl** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:18 pm

I still think there were invisible wires involved somewhere...

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:23 pm

Either that or he has bred a large family of really, really small people who have wings and can pick things up that are three times their body weight and of a large area.

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:16 pm

You get major credit for using a word like happenstance as well. I've not seen that used in ages! It was such a jammy throw...is there any way we can force you to do it hundreds of times to calculate the odds of it happening, Mike?

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:59 am

If you want to but I totally believe that if I want it to happen it will not. If I really do not care about the result then it would happen every time. . . . I feel the same way about the lottery, I will one day win the jackpot by picking up a dropped ticket. If I enter myself then I want to win too much and therefore will not win! :D

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:47 pm

It would appear that to win the lottery, you have to be over 60. Either that or the younger ones choose to remain anonymous.

Chrissie · Post by **Chrissie** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:22 pm

that bauble throw was a 'stroke' ':?' of genius! (Claire got me the Producers for Christmas) I love, love, loved it! that was one of my many favourite moments of the New Years party!

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:09 pm

According to Mike, there are certain moments I can't remember at all. I still can't believe I said that.

Anyways...can we make an important name for the event, such as Mike's Great New Year's Eve Bauble Throw Happenstance? The capital letters are there to give it the extra-specialness that it deserves.

Post by **Mike** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:28 pm

lol, I love the producers. It is a really comical film and Matthew Broderick really does himself proud as a nervous worried accountant. I know a few accountants and I must say they are not at all like their stereotype! Architect on the other hand are exactly like it. Black polo necks all the way! :D

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