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Dec 26^th, 2015 at 9:37am

Not one golf tee did I get yesterday, but I did get a small metal box containing a pile of small cards upon which 'crazy urban myths' are printed. The blurb says...'People do the strangest things and here are some of the weirdest. Whether they are real or not is open for debate, but it'll make for fascinating discussion.'

Here is the first:

A dead man travelled back and forth across Indonesia on a train for most of a day before anyone realised he'd died.

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39767 Gender:	Re: True or false? Reply #1 - Dec 26^th, 2015 at 7:07pm I reckon that one is bullshit. Elsewhere, Monk pointed out it is very unlikely that anyone could go on said train trip in what is the archipelago of Indonesia. I've not checked google...........but I reckon that one is false. Next: The musician Frank Zappa called his daughter 'Moon Unit.'
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... Gold Member Offline Posts: 23673 WA Gender:	Re: True or false? Reply #2 - Dec 26^th, 2015 at 7:08pm That ones true. I think he called his son dweezil, so I think she got the better end of it.
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39767 Gender:	Re: True or false? Reply #3 - Dec 26^th, 2015 at 7:16pm ... wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 7:08pm: That ones true. I think he called his son dweezil, so I think she got the better end of it. Okay. I'm not checking as that would be beside the point. Next. Ostriches hide from predators by burying their heads in the sand.
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Reply #4 - Dec 26^th, 2015 at 10:16pm

Aussie wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 7:16pm:

... wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 7:08pm:

That ones true.

I think he called his son dweezil, so I think she got the better end of it.

Okay. I'm not checking as that would be beside the point. Next.

Ostriches hide from predators by burying their heads in the sand.

Frank Zappa certainly called his daughter Moon Unit. She goes by Moon these days.

Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand. That's a myth.

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Reply #5 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 12:26am

They used to have a ferry from Darwin to Indo and you could find ferries to the Asian mainland ... I was planning a world trip by small van... but the bastards have vanished the ferry service from Darwin...

It would be hard to travel by train all across Indo..... but on one island maybe...

Pardon me, Sir.. but are you asleep? I think we missed your stop...... Sir? SIR?

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ian Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 9451	Re: True or false? Reply #6 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 12:32am false.
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 90211 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: True or false? Reply #7 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 1:01am ian wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 12:32am: false. Ahh - which part?
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ian Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 9451	Re: True or false? Reply #8 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 1:07am The ferry. you can travel across Java by train though, I did the jakarta to Yogyakarta train trip not so long ago and there are still existing steam train routes in Sumatra, or there used to be,
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Reply #9 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 1:34am

ian wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 1:07am:

The ferry. you can travel across Java by train though, I did the jakarta to Yogyakarta train trip not so long ago and there are still existing steam train routes in Sumatra, or there used to be,

They use ferries for the trains? I looked up the ferry from Darwin to Indo and it said 'no more'..... plenty of ferries in the islands and up to the Philippines.....

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Reply #10 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 1:38am

No. You can travel java by train, thats about it, you cannot island hop except by boat. Sumatra has some train routes. I went Jakarta to jogyakarta because I wanted to see Borobodur. It was well worth it. Dont even consider travelling Indo by car, there are almost no car ferries and none between the major islands of java, Sumatra, Sulawesi etc.

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39767 Gender:	Re: True or false? Reply #11 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 9:11am Patients in a particular bed of a hospital's intensive care unit always seemed to to die at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning. When officials investigated they discovered that the part-time janitor was unplugging their life-support machines in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner.
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Reply #12 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 9:24am

Aussie wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 9:11am:

Patients in a particular bed of a hospital's intensive care unit always seemed to to die at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning. When officials investigated they discovered that the part-time janitor was unplugging their life-support machines in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner.

I think it's true ... I recall hearing a similar story many years ago

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Reply #13 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 9:36am

Aussie wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 9:11am:

Patients in a particular bed of a hospital's intensive care unit always seemed to to die at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning. When officials investigated they discovered that the part-time janitor was unplugging their life-support machines in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner.

I'll say false........reckon the life support machines would have an automatic backup power source if they were inadvertently unplugged.

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Reply #14 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 10:48am

Alinta wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 9:36am:

Aussie wrote on Dec 27^th, 2015 at 9:11am:

Patients in a particular bed of a hospital's intensive care unit always seemed to to die at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning. When officials investigated they discovered that the part-time janitor was unplugging their life-support machines in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner.

I'll say false........reckon the life support machines would have an automatic backup power source if they were inadvertently unplugged.

it was a long time ago that I heard the story, so details are sketchy at best, but i think it was in some 3rd world shithole.

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