BS: problems with the little people

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST, ^*^
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 08:20 AM

Not a believer in god/s or ghosts, but I find some of the stories charming to consider. The Shoemaker's Elves, in particular, I could use a few visits from those little guys.

Many years ago a friend died, by his own hand. It was troubling for many of us as we sorted out what might have led to such an act. There was a mystery involved that was eventually solved. During the few weeks that followed more than one of us reported odd events. My silverware drawer is probably typical - a jumble of items each in their own long narrowish compartment, but on a couple of occasions I found the forks and spoons completely aligned and nested together. The kids weren't home to have done it (kids put anything away? Ha!). His rather complicated belief system seems to have contributed to disturbances in our worlds for a while. I'm pretty sure of the purgatory where he ended up and he hasn't fooled with the flatware for a very long time.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 04:57 PM

Amazing the way basic knowledge is forgotten.

If items (esp. pretty, shiny items) are appearing and disappearing, the thing to do is to leave a nice dish with home-made cookies on it on the counter overnight.

It works for Santa and it works for tommyknockers.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Penny S.
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 05:00 PM

I don't know if I've posted this before, but at my last place I had something very peculiar happen. I had an early version of radio door bell, as I couldn't always hear the original, and could carry the speaker round with me. Unfortunately, the speaker ate batteries fast, but it did have the option of plugging in to the mains, which I usually did. This only happened when it was plugged in.

One day, the bell rang, I went down (I had an upstairs maisonette) and there was no-one there. Or anywhere near. This became repetitive. I had two possibilities in mind. That someone had a similar device, and I was picking up their signal, or that the son of a family two doors away was playing Knock Down Ginger. The first I could eliminate - I'd been up the road collecting for charity, and there was one other version, outside the range of the receiver. The second I could eliminate by looking out of the window upstairs quickly enough to spot any movement. There wasn't any.

I added the possibility that it range when someone affected the current somehow, by turning something on or off (it was often close to the hour), and stuck a notice by the bell push, asking people to ring twice.

The false signals started doing it twice. Then, one evening when I happened to have a bunch of physicists in, it went completely haywire and built up the number of rings (I think I had put a new notice requiring three rings, which was followed by the next false event). I think it started to respond to the mere suggestion that I up the ante, and got as far as five rings. There was no trace of anyone in a position to enjoy the results. I asked an AA man in the road if he had been doing anything to the car he was working on that would have caused sparking. No. I rang the electricity suppliers the next day to see if there had been any surges. No. So I took it back to Argos, who insisted on taking it away for a refund - I had wanted to keep it and have a good look inside, but no chance. I didn't ask the person with the same model up the road if they had had problems.

There was no-one in my block, except the boy, who would do anything like it, and no-one with the skills. It was very weird that evening.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 05:45 PM

It's all a part of the proof of something I recently postulated on another thread: Viz ·····

They are taking over


Who 'they'? You may well ask!

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 06:18 PM

Little bastards have been messing with me for a few years. If I catch sight of them, they are toast.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 06:30 PM

So, your at a bar, and yous go to the toilet. When yous comes back, tings'ar gane, missin
.
Did does little people steal yer smokes?

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 08:38 PM

I keeps me smokes in me pocket. As fer me drink, I takes that too. Can't trust no one no way nowadays. Not even in a slophouse fer goshsake! What's she all comin to eh?

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Oct 15 - 12:24 AM

The Fairies

UP the airy mountain,        
Down the rushy glen,        
We daren't go a-hunting        
For fear of little men

William Allingham. 1824–1889

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As Lord Peter Wimsey said: "Always a quotation for everything. It saves original thinking."