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Kybosh · 09-12-2011, 08:41 PM

Some guy I met in Malaysia was convinced his life was in danger and was trying to get me to smuggle him out of the country to Zurich. I guess I look like a human trafficker.

flylock shox · 09-12-2011, 08:46 PM

I was drinking a pint in a bar once, and raised the glass up to take another sip only to find that not only was it empty, but the base of the glass had cleanly separated from the rest of the glass. Basically I was left holding a glass tube.

I don't know how or when it happened, but I didn't have a drop of beer spilt on me.

As it was about my 4th pint, I was duly confused.

Northendzone · 09-12-2011, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sliver

that's actually a timber wolf? It looked big, but I picture wolves being bigger.

I compared this picture to several of my shirts and sweatshirts and it is not a wolf

ResAlien · 09-12-2011, 08:52 PM

The other morning I got up, just like any normal morning. I hit the snooze button and...it went off ten minutes later like it should. I got up and took a shower. After my shower I went to grab my towel...it was right there, clean and dry. Really quite nice.

I got dressed and left for work. After getting in my car I put my key in the ignition, turned it and...my car started with no issue. I went to work. When I got there I was looking for a parking spot...there was one right in the front row.

During my work day I had normal interaction with coworkers. Talking, bs'ing, general work stuff. As the day went on I looked at my computer and...it was almost 5. The day ended and I left.

But then, then I went to get into my car. Getting into the car I felt something wasn't right. Something was off. I had left my headlights on all day and when I went to start the car...it started fine. I've got a good battery.

I started to drive home and then I saw a hobo raping a donkey on the side of the road, holding a sign that said "I'll rape you for 5 bucks". I can't figure out where the hell the donkey got 5 bucks. That was weird.

Dion · 09-13-2011, 12:46 AM

Played golf with Mantracker a few years ago. Waited until the 18th hole before I told him I knew who he was.

SebC · 09-13-2011, 12:53 AM

- Summer after grade eight, I ran into my social studies teacher in Seattle, then at the Calgary zoo a couple weeks later.
- Almost won a Vespa in Amsterdam playing frisbee golf in the main plaza (it was a promotion for Lipton's fizzy ice tea).

alan21 · 09-13-2011, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by SebC

- Summer after grade eight, I ran into my social studies teacher in Seattle, then at the Calgary zoo a couple weeks later.
- Almost won a Vespa in Amsterdam playing frisbee golf in the main plaza (it was a promotion for Lipton's fizzy ice tea).

Your teacher was following you.

To Be Quite Honest · 09-13-2011, 01:16 AM

I got hit on by an attractive waitress tonight. She even gave me her contact info!

Zevo · 09-13-2011, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

I got hit on by an attractive waitress tonight. She even gave me her contact info!

Does she want a date or an appointment.

JohnnyB · 09-13-2011, 05:45 AM

Spent about a week hanging out on an island in Thailand with a few random people I had never met before. Had a good time partying and whatnot.
Was back in Vancouver on vacation a few months later and went out to a party with one of my best friends from Vancouver only to bump into the guy I had been partying with in Thailand and to discover that he was one of my friend's best friends who he had known and been hanging out with since highschool.

We unfortunately then proceeded to ruin that party with drunken antics.

MoneyGuy · 09-13-2011, 08:03 AM

I was in the airport in Cairo, Egypt, and met a woman who lives within spitting distance of my office.

I was waiting for my wife on a corner in Honolulu and across the street is a business colleague standing...waiting for his wife.

I have many of these stories. When you've lived as long as I have they accumulate.

Cecil Terwilliger · 09-13-2011, 08:05 AM

I once ran into an ex that I hadn't seen in about 2 years on back to back nights on different ends of the city. One at a pub, the other our groups of friends passed each other on the street.

The first time we gave each other an awkward look, the second time was downright hilarious.

It was really bizarre.

STeeLy · 09-13-2011, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

the second time was downright hilarious

Do tell.

parch · 09-13-2011, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Dion

Played golf with Mantracker a few years ago. Waited until the 18th hole before I told him I knew who he was.

I met Mantracker at a conference in Ottawa last October. I was sitting in the hotel bar watching the Flames/Coyotes game, eating dinner and having some drinks. The game finished and in walks Mantracker and he invites me over to sit with him and some people he was with that I knew, and I can't say no to that so I joined him. Throughout the night we proceeded to get far too drunk, started fighting in the middle of the bar (he smacked me upside the head and wrestled me to the ground before I gave up), he followed me into the women's washroom, recorded the outgoing message on my voicemail, and gave me his room number and invited me up (an invitation which I declined). That was a very random night.

Muta · 09-13-2011, 09:05 AM

A long time ago, there was a guy walking around Kensington calling himself Rainbow Man. He approached me and my group of friends at that cyberpark place where we were gaming it up, and thought it was important to tell us following things:

His name was Rainbow Man.
He designed all the trees in the game Battlefield 1942. He also said that because he works for the Better Business Bureau, the initials are on the bottoms of all the trees.
He owns the limousine used in Pretty Woman.
He invented the Internet at Mount Royal College when he was the Dean there, and if you ever have connection problems, it's because he turned the Internet off.
His website was made up of 15,000 email accounts. He wanted to show us how that was, so he just went to the Coke and Pepsi websites as proof that that was his website, made up of email accounts.
Mad Cow Disease doesn't exist, they only get mad when you milk them.
He had to go withdraw $80,000 from his bank account because he was hungry and wanted to get some food.

Highly entertaining individual.

troutman · 09-13-2011, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by to be quite honest

i got hit on by an attractive waitress tonight. She even gave me her contact info!

273-7373

troutman · 09-13-2011, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Muta

A long time ago, there was a guy walking around Kensington calling himself Rainbow Man. He approached me and my group of friends at that cyberpark place where we were gaming it up, and thought it was important to tell us following things:

His name was Rainbow Man.
He designed all the trees in the game Battlefield 1942. He also said that because he works for the Better Business Bureau, the initials are on the bottoms of all the trees.
He owns the limousine used in Pretty Woman.
He invented the Internet at Mount Royal College when he was the Dean there, and if you ever have connection problems, it's because he turned the Internet off.
His website was made up of 15,000 email accounts. He wanted to show us how that was, so he just went to the Coke and Pepsi websites as proof that that was his website, made up of email accounts.
Mad Cow Disease doesn't exist, they only get mad when you milk them.
He had to go withdraw $80,000 from his bank account because he was hungry and wanted to get some food.

Highly entertaining individual.

I_am_Beast is his user name at CP.

tete · 09-13-2011, 10:05 AM

Four months after our wedding, my husband and I went on our honeymoon to Cuba. We didn't do the usual 7 day all-inclusive to Varadero, we split the trip 4 days in Havana, 3 in Varadero. We stayed in a hotel near the embassy district, far from the usual tourist area in downtown Havana. We walk into the hotel, jet lagged and exhasted after a day of flying and riding from Varadero to Havana only to get greeted by my husband's godfather and his wife, who happened to be in Cuba for a few days while he did business with the Cuban gov't (worked for the Department of Agriculture). They had no clue that we were going to be there and the same for us. Small world!

IliketoPuck · 09-13-2011, 10:05 AM

I won a 65" flat screen TV in a liquor store draw a few years ago, it was a draw between 11 people, for two TV's. Each person got a prize, but everyone was there for the TV's, the lady that got the 3 speed blender as her prize looked like she was contemplating murder.

Bigtime · 09-13-2011, 10:10 AM

While traveling in India with my wife we were asked in Mumbai if we wanted to be extras in a Bollywood film that afternoon, unfortunately we were on the way to the train station to head to our next stop so we couldn't do it. As random as this sounds it is apparently quite common in Mumbai (for us white honkeys).