Starrman set me a challenge this morning. So this afternoon, whilst at work, I set about doing some research into metals and lo and behold! a chain of amazing coincidence occured!!
The first of the chain was Samual P. Reikmann of Madison, Wisconsin.
That's right! Probably unknown to you all, SPR (as friends presumably call him) turned lead into gold on the 12 (edit: th) of december 1910.
I stumbled across a site documenting this amazing feat that actually never occured. He did create fake gold nuggets and claimed he created them from lead, so much so that the local authorities wanted him nominated for a nobel prize.
He fell through though and since then his name has seemingly fallen into some disrepute. This is the site if you want to check it out:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/idiotwind.html
Anyways, the second amazing coincidence to happen was a near coincidence of sorts. Peter, a collegue of mine, stumbled into the office and sat himself opposite me. He had crutches!
My eyes lit with hope and I asked if he by accident had broken his 2nd meta-tarsal.
Sadly it wasn't his right foot that was broken, but his left! And here's where the third in the amazing string of coincidences becomes apparent: He broke it whilst he was walking down the street!
He slid on a banana skin and skidded off the pavement.
Now, I know a banana skin is something completely different from an apple, but let's be honest...it's still a fruit.
And nobody trips on apple peelings.
Party on people!
Originally posted by GeraldMI say "work", obviously I mean "free internet access point".
I can see a number of problems with these claims. Let me begin with the basics; based on the amount of threads you post in or begin I seriously doubt your contention that you were at work. No one with that high of a post count could hold down a job, unless you are a govenrment worker.
