Tooth fairy alive & well at MoD.

[dorbie 0]

Idiots in the U.K. MoD fund remote viewing tests.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=438062&in_page_id=1811

The UFOlogist at the end thinks it's a great idea. I guess that makes it all OK.

[kallend 2,182]

Must be the same guys...

Voice Over: But even more modern building techniques are being used on an expanding new town site near Peterborough; here the Amazing Mystico and Janet can put up a block of flats by hypnosis in under a minute.
Mystico removes his cloak, gloves and top hat and hands them to Janet, who curtsies. He then makes several passes. Cut to stock film of flats falling down reversed so that they leap up. Cut back to Mystico and Janet. She hands him back his things as they make their way to their car, a little Austin 30.
Voice Over: The local Council here have over fifty hypnosis-induced twenty-five story blocks, put up by El Mystico and Janet. I asked Mr Ken Verybigliar the advantages of hypnosis compared to other building methods.
Cut to a man in a drab suit.
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'MR K. V. B. LIAR'
Mr Verybigliar: Well there is a considerable financial advantage in using the services of El Mystico. A block, like Mystico Point here, (indicating a high-rise block behind him) would normally cost in the region of one-and-a-half million pounds. This was put up for five pounds and thirty bob for Janet.
Voice Over: But the obvious question is are they safe?
Cut to an architect's office. The architect at his desk. Behind him on the wall are framed photos of various collapsed buildings. He is a well-dressed authoritative person.
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'MR CLEMENT ONAN, ARCHITECT TO THE COUNCIL'
Architect: Of course they're safe. There's absolutely no doubt about that. They are as strong, solid and as safe as any other building method in this country provided of course people believe in them.
Cut to a council flat. On the wall there is a picture of Mystico.
Tenant: Yes, we received a note from the Council saying that if we ceased to believe in this building it would fall down.
Voice Over: You don't mind living in a figment of another man's imagination?
Tenant: No, it's much better than where we used to live.
Voice Over: Where did you used to live?
Tenant: We had an eighteen-roomed villa overlooking Nice.
Voice Over: Really, that sounds much better.
Tenant: Oh yes - yes you're right.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[shropshire 0]

I saw that...... or the voice told me

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Skyrad 0]

Well at least the UK is still looking.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[mr2mk1g 10]

Would have been much quicker to just ask the CIA for their test results rather than to do their own study.

Would probably been more reliable too - the CIA were supposed to be spending $500,000 a year on it rather than the a paltry £18,000 one-off sum.

[philh 0]

y not wait til someone wins Randis prize then consider it?

[Andy9o8 3]

I have it on very good authority (shhh...) that this was all a misunderstanding. See, the deputy minister gave orders to try to get to Bin Laden by "getting his sidekicks". But the middle manager (cross-reference: Peter principle) on the other end of the phone was hard of hearing; and well, the rest is history.