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Old 04-04-14, 02:02 PM   #1
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Fairies are real, take two

First there was the Cottingley Fairies which in the 1980's was proved to be a hoax and now this...

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A university lecturer claims to have photographed fairies in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-lecturer.html

I get the feeling this is a late april fools joke.
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Old 04-04-14, 05:52 PM   #2
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Has the good professor been sampling the fairy rings?

I'll have what he's having.

Those were Twinkies, Privateer, not fairies.
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Old 04-04-14, 07:48 PM   #3
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Pfft!
I was out near San Francisco and can tell you Fairies are real.
We have them here in DC up in Dupont Circle too.
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Old 04-04-14, 08:26 PM   #4
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Pfft!
I was out near San Francisco and can tell you Fairies are real.
They are in Toronto, too!
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Old 04-04-14, 11:25 PM   #5
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It's worse than I thought mates.....

Operation Petticoat (1959) - IMDb



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World War 2 comedy about a submarine commander who finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub..
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Looks like we have a fairies pandemic!

I declare fairy hunting season now open.

Hang on we are talking about what the mad professor photographed?
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Looks like we have a fairies pandemic!

I declare fairy hunting season now open.

Hang on we are talking about what the mad professor photographed?
That's what we were talking about and then...
Somebody cracked a homo joke.

Hunting isn't necessary...
Bug Zapper bby.
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Old 04-05-14, 02:55 PM   #9
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I plead mental illness!
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Does the Wife telling me I act like a 12 year old count?
Sure, why not?
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I don't know it is a april joke as mentioned or if this university lecturer picked his education from a bag of cornflakes

This picture are showing....fireflies

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I think whatever that Proff. was smoking, I want some!
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Not if it makes you think gnats are faries.
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Not if it makes you think gnats are faries.
You see, down there in OZ they have faries and nearies.
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faries and nearies.
Fairies and foulies.
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