6 Insane Coincidences

Riddle101

Probably better suited for the History forum. But It's a joke and humor site so I put it here in After Hours. I was reading this today and thought I share here.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18421_6-insane-coincidences-you-wont-believe-actually-happened_p2.html

I pretty insane alright, especially the part about Edgar Allen Poe.

brummytom

Yeah, I remember reading this before. Thought the Titan/Titanic stuff was really interesting.


Also remember reading one coincidence before. The brother of John Wilkes Booth - Lincoln's assassin - saved Lincoln's son from falling under a train, having no idea who the young boy was.

Shryke

[dryballs]It's a really good site when you're bored but the wording can be a bit annoying. They distort a lot of boring stuff and put the onus on circumstantial anecdotes unrelated to a topic or with relation to pop culture in order to create frisson where there isn't really any.[/dryballs]
They still come up with some good stuff, and some interesting articles! Just sayin'..

Actually they have one writer I quite like. John Cheese. Worth checking out.

666WillFixIt

Great article. The Poe one!

1ZRed

Shryke wrote: »

[dryballs]It's a really good site when you're bored but the wording can be a bit annoying. They distort a lot of boring stuff and put the onus on circumstantial anecdotes unrelated to a topic or with relation to pop culture in order to create frisson where there isn't really any.[/dryballs]
They still come up with some good stuff, and some interesting articles! Just sayin'..

Actually they have one writer I quite like. John Cheese. Worth checking out.

You might want to get some moisturiser for those balls of yours

Shryke

1ZRed wrote: »

You might want to get some moisturiser for those balls of yours

Put your mouth on them Red.

1ZRed

Shryke wrote: »

Put your mouth on them Red.

Kinky bastard! but only in a 69 :P

Death and Taxes

You should read up on Synchronosity, how the mind rationalises totally unconnected events and turns them into so called "coincidences".

TheFisherKing

When Christopher Reeve had his riding accident that paralyzed him, he had just made the following movie playing a wheelchair bound paraplegic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egti1aj9hQ

IvySlayer

brummytom wrote: »

Yeah, I remember reading this before. Thought the Titan/Titanic stuff was really interesting.

Except Titanic was never claimed to be unsinkable. After that, it is a bit scary.

Haven't read it all, the writing style is a bit of a put off.

optimistic_

Shryke wrote: »

[dryballs]It's a really good site when you're bored but the wording can be a bit annoying. They distort a lot of boring stuff and put the onus on circumstantial anecdotes unrelated to a topic or with relation to pop culture in order to create frisson where there isn't really any.[/dryballs]
They still come up with some good stuff, and some interesting articles! Just sayin'..

Actually they have one writer I quite like. John Cheese. Worth checking out.

Preferred Swaim, but he rarely writes anymore. His weekly videos used to be great.

Irish Guitarist

I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or if it just runs in the family but John Wilkes Booths father threatened to kill then president Andrew Jackson.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jan/25/letter-threatening-jacksons-life-determined-writte/

Shryke

1ZRed wrote: »

Kinky bastard! but only in a 69 :P

Delicious.

optimistic_ wrote: »

Preferred Swaim, but he rarely writes anymore. His weekly videos used to be great.

That's a while back alright. I like Cody bit. The odd bit of gold. This video is excellent. You have to have played PC games to get it, but if you have it's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy9hJauXns

JonathanAnon

Whats the coincidence about Midway... The americans had a huge amount of luck.... (apparently wargamers played out the same scenario a thousand times and never got such a positive result as what actually happened)... but there was no coincidence..

This was only the second major aircraft carrier engagement in history so both sides were still learning... And they did learn .. i) the americans found out that dive bombers were much more potent than torpedo bombers and ii) The japanese learned too late that they should have taken much more care with the fuel and weapons on their decks..

LeeHoffmann

there are three threads on the first page of AH right now with the number 6 in the title :eek:



*may not be a coincidence

ScumLord

brummytom wrote: »

Yeah, I remember reading this before. Thought the Titan/Titanic stuff was really interesting.

I don't think the bit about getting the location and speed almost the same is that unusual. Maybe the area's well known for being dangerous, maybe that's just the speed people expected a super ship to go at and it is a shipping lane so it's safe to assume any sinking would happen somewhere along that lane.

poeticseraphim

I remember readinga story that during the American civil war a man was laying in a Mess tent and got shot in one ball and it got shot or the bullet went through and into the womb of one of the nurses.....


She conceived ...and gave birth to his kid...they later fell in love and got married...


You are all gonna argue that this is cray and not true....so i am going off right now to find a link..I am that sad


Edit-

And when I find that link I am also going to post it on my facebook.

poeticseraphim

poeticseraphim wrote: »

I remember readinga story that during the American civil war a man was laying in a Mess tent and got shot in one ball and it got shot or the bullet went through and into the womb of one of the nurses.....


She conceived ...and gave birth to his kid...they later fell in love and got married...


You are all gonna argue that this is cray and not true....so i am going off right now to find a link..I am that sad


Edit-

And when I find that link I am also going to post it on my facebook.

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/bullet.asp

http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/23-01-2004/4664-baby-0/


http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_case_of_the_miraculous_bullet


IT'S NOT TRUE ..I AM SOOOO DISAPOINTED

The Case of the Miraculous Bullet, 1874
In November 1874 an unusual article appeared in the introductory volume of The American Medical Weekly, a Louisville medical journal. It was written by Dr. LeGrand G. Capers and was titled, "Attention Gynaecologists!—Notes from the Diary of a Field and Hospital Surgeon, C.S.A." In the article Dr. Capers recounted an unusual case of artificial insemination he had witnessed on a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, in which a bullet had passed through a soldier's testicles, and then traveled on before hitting a woman and impregnating her. The event was said to have occurred on May 12, 1863 at around 3 p.m. at the "battle of R." (battle of Raymond), where "Gen. G's brigade" (Brigadier General John Gregg) of the Confederate forces fought Grant's army led by "Gen. L." (Major General John A. Logan).

Dr. Capers

Dr. LeGrand G. Capers
According to Dr. Capers, who was an army doctor for the confederates, he was with his regiment as the fighting was occurring. A house stood about 300 yards behind the confederate lines, and the residents of the house (a mother, her two daughters, and their servants) were standing in front of it watching the battle and waiting to aid any fallen confederate soldiers. Suddenly Dr. Capers noticed a soldier fall to the ground, and at the same instant he heard a scream from the house. He attended the fallen soldier who had been hit in the leg by a minnie ball. Dr. Capers also noticed that the bullet had "ricochetted from these parts, and, in its onward flight, passed through the scrotum, carrying away the left testicle."

While dressing the soldier's wounds, the mother from the house ran up to him and urged him to attend her daughter. The doctor complied and found that the eldest daughter had been also wounded by a minnie ball. In her case, the bullet "had penetrated the left abdominal parietes, about midway between the umbilicus and anterior spinal process of the ilium, and was lost in the abdominal cavity, leaving a ragged wound behind."

The doctor only had time to prescribe the girl an anodyne before he was forced to retreat from the house with his regiment. However, over the course of the next two months, being stationed with the wounded at the nearby village of Raymond, he was able to visit the young woman regularly and watched her fully recover from her wound. Six months later he happened to be in the neighborhood of Raymond again and visited the girl. He found that her stomach had begun to swell. Three months further on she gave birth to an eight pound son.

battle scene

Scene from the Battle of Raymond, where the insemination occurred.
The family, being of strict morality, was mortified that their unmarried daughter had given birth. The daughter, however, repeatedly insisted that she was a virgin and didn't know how such a thing could have happened. Dr. Capers examined her and found that her hymen was intact. Nevertheless he gave no credence, at the time, to her insistence that she was a virgin. But three weeks later the grandmother of the new child asked Dr. Capers to examine the boy because the child's scrotum was dangerously enlarged and sensitive. The doctor examined the boy, decided to operate and, to his astonishment, found a minnie ball embedded inside the child.

After much reflection, trying to figure out how a bullet could have become lodged inside the child, Dr. Capers figured out the incredible series of events that must have happened. He remembered treating the young man who had suffered from a bullet passing through his left testicle. This same bullet, he determined, must have then continued on its flight, carrying with it particles of semen, before it finally came to rest in the young women's abdomen, impregnating her, and afterwards working its way into the child's flesh. He explained the bizarre situation to the family, and they requested to meet the soldier. The soldier and the young woman ended up marrying each other and produced two more children in a more conventional manner.

After appearing in the American Medical Weekly, this Civil War story became something of a legend. Its origins and details became obscured, but the basic outline of the tale was frequently repeated. A medical journal repeated it as true as late as 1959 (F. Donald Napolitani, "Two Unusual Cases of Gunshot Wounds of the Uterus," New York State Journal of Medicine, 59, 1959, 491-93). But the story is not true. It was entirely invented by Dr. Capers who apparently wanted to poke fun at the numerous highly embellished, often spurious, Civil War stories then being told in the 1870s.

But the joke ended up being on Dr. Capers. The highly respectable doctor had submitted the story to the American Medical Weekly anonymously, not wishing his name to be forever attached to such a ridiculous tale. However, the editor of the journal, E.S. Gaillard, recognizing the doctor's handwriting and also recognizing that the story was a wild-eyed fiction, turned the tables on the doctor by printing the piece but listing Capers prominently as the author.

MickFleetwood

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