Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Very sorry Melissa, I shall respect your wishes and post upon this thread no more. Maybe Alexander could start a new topic on this interesting subject?
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Melissa, please don't be upset, this is only an enjoyable conversation between those who are not weak-hearted, and I can assure you that the participants here are not, we all have a great time, and your experience certainly has set off some discussion! Howeverm Colin, I can't agree with you there, as that what I described as having happened in the 16 hundreds was witnessed over many nights, as it repeated itself, and witnessed means here by many people who lived in that area somewhere near Oxford, and by those passing through, and by some high-ranking officials commissioned by king Charles to investigate. May-be you have to be compliant here, otherwise one could dispute the history of the whole civil-war and, why not? of previous centuries and later centuries, on the grounds that accounts given by people of the time are all just myth! Just because something which you believe impossible was witnessed by many people and also ended up in an official report commissioned by king Charles, doesn't mean it is all humbug!
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Sorry Alexander, humbug was your word not mine. Interesting in what you say, but if it did happen, and it seems by what you say something did, then we must assume it wasn`t a manmade event, which means it must have been done by beings not of this world? Not trying to catch you out here, just interpreting things as I see them.
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Well done, Colin. But please don't take me too seriously, linguistically, it's just that I enjoy chatting on the Forum, but then, it also seems that Melissa saw something too, which we still haven't managed to define!
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Does all round rather like this which is from 16-25 April
The Lyrid Meteor Shower - so called as the radiant (from where the meteor trails seem to radiate from) lies in the constellation Lyra. It peaks in the early morning of the 22nd April and is a reliable, though not spectacular, shower with perhaps up to 15 meteors seen per hour. Observations of the Lyrid meteors have been made for at least 2,600 years! This year the peak of activity is close to the first quarter moon which, happily, will have set before the best time to observe the shower. Observations made after 1 am are expected to be the most productive. The dust particles that cause the shower have been released by the comet Thatcher, discovered in 1861. Occasionally we pass through a dense clump of particles as happened in 1982 when over 90 meteors were seen per hour. So its worth waking up to have a look if clear around 1-2 am. Look to the East as shown in the chart.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for that info paul, sadly i will fall asleep before it happens.
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Thanks Alexander, life is full of interesting stuff.
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What a great whizz of an idea to name a comet after the almighty Maggie Thatcher!
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Better the one named after Bill Haley Sid. I think it was a rock around the Solar System as opposed to the clock.
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Hoping Howard approves of that one.
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I do, and besides, Howard can rest on his laurels knowing that he had a tv series named after him. No such fame for me!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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but there is a ladies clothing emporium, with a branch in our fair town, that bears your name sid.
colin
i saw that one coming a mile off mate.
Was just out on my back patio having a smoke and I too saw orange lights in the sky. Well, up in Louseyberry Woods actually. There's a house up there with orange lights either side.
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Howard. We`re dealing in light minute`s here mate rather than miles.
Sid, possibly lamp posts?
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I'll double check Colin. You may be right, or else it could some strange Alexanderian apparition.
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I could do with one of Alexander`s post`s Sid. The perfect cure for insommnia. Well, the long one`s anyway.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i think we are being a bit unfair on alexander here, he always gives his unexpurgated views on many subjects, i agree it does take some time to wade through some posts, but surely it is worth the effort to read the views of a genuine contributor here?
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Howard, I do read them, and I do find him another character on the forum. I got lost on some of his earlier posts, but they`re interesting all the same.
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colin
much more interesting than the ones that never or rarely post anything.
you are still fairly new, never a day goes by without a good pic or a bad joke from you, a forum can only survive with that sort of input.
folkestone web packed up some time ago, as far as i know there is nothing in kent that has the same verve as this one.
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The Sheffield forum I`ve visited a few times, but it`s so different to this one. Seems like one big happy family here, though I do apologise for those who think otherwise.
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