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Tracy, I don't hold with those coffins and cemeteries. No one ever comes back from them, you know. Dangerous places!
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I don't know Robert looking at the state of some of the people round Hartlepool today I think they may have and just moved here, I must have missed that memo!
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Call in the Zeppelins.
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The Germans tried that lol - think thy knew something we don't?!
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Hi Tracy - oh, it was quite simple really. The Germans knew that Bayern Munich were due to face 'Pool in the semi-final of the European Cup. They got cold feet and forced the match to be postponed. It still hasn't been played to this very day.Comment
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Hahah that is quite a good story there Robert, but have you seen Pools play?! I think the 'raised from the dead' story would be more believable
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Splendid team, Pool. They just had 100+ years of bad luck.Comment
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Well Tracy, the best teams prove their worth over a long period. That explains the romance of the FA Cup as opposed to the Premier League. Any team might win the FA Cup. Extrapolating from this reasoning, if Pool remain in existence for, say, another 15 million years, you will see that the 100 barren years were just a temporary blip.Comment
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Lol - see you back here then, see if you were right?
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We will meet back here to toast Hartlepool Utd, Intergalactic Champions, while Liverpool and Manchester are still toiling away in the sub-light divisions.Comment
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And the chances of that....
"And Hartlepool go into the second half of the final leading six-nil, and...oh bugger...sun's just gone out goodb....."
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Hey Robert - It's a date - meet you back here in 15 million years - don't be late!Originally posted by Robert View Post
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cogidubnus View Post
That's about right lol and just our luck if it ever did happen
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Interesting. I live in mountainous East Tennessee and it is my perception that such a thing is a rare occurrence among a very tiny percentage of the population.Originally posted by Errata View Post
Because it is sensational, snake handling gets far-reaching publicity. Because the number of stories on snake handling far exceeds the number of stories on boring regular worship of the vast majority of the population is is easy to understand outsiders' perception that snake handling is much more prevalent than it is.
It has certainly been in the news lately since the death of the West Virginia man, and according to reports, snake handling as a part of worship may be on the increase.
So, perhaps the recent publicity explains your comment, Errata, which as a native Tennessean I believe to be a gross exaggeration.
I found this interesting quote at http://www.christianpost.com/news/sn...edience-75985/
Snake-Handling Christians: Faith, Prophecy and Obedience
By Nicola Menzie , Christian Post Reporter
June 5, 2012|5:31 pm
"Relating his two-year experience with snake handlers in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia, Covington* said that when he first encountered snake handlers, 'I was prepared to meet a bunch of crazy folks, you know, just insane, uneducated and superstitious and ridiculous.'
"'But they didn't strike me that way,' he added. 'When I talked with them during recesses at the trial (of a snake-handling preacher accused of attempted murder), they seemed perfectly ordinary and thoughtful. When I asked them why they did what they did and what it was like, I was getting answers that led me to believe that this was a genuine spiritual experience.'"
*Dennis Covington, a Christian and former journalist who wrote an insider's account of his experiences with serpent handlers for the 1995 book Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Salvation in Southern Appalachia.
I am very glad to see that some people on the thread recognize the rarity and small part of the population involved. Does my heart good.
Anyway, folks, I sincerely hope you are are savvy enough to take Errata's statement with a grain of salt.
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