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Re: Rational (I hope so) argument for the existence of fairies

#61  Postby Cito di Pense » Jul 24, 2014 9:43 pm

hackenslash wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:What makes it impossible is that nobody knows what constitutes a fucking fairy.


Dunno about that. We have a street here in Manchester, Canal Street, that's world famous for 'em... :mrgreen:


That's not exactly constitutive. That's more like, um, a constituency.
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Re: Rational (I hope so) argument for the existence of fairies

#62  Postby epepke » Jul 24, 2014 9:48 pm

hackenslash wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:What makes it impossible is that nobody knows what constitutes a fucking fairy.


Dunno about that. We have a street here in Manchester, Canal Street, that's world famous for 'em... :mrgreen:


That's the first time I've heard it called "bottom of my garden."
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#63  Postby ramseyoptom » Jul 24, 2014 10:07 pm

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I give you the location of said fairies, the little people live under and around bridges, especially this one. And as it is always a good idea when traveling along the main Douglas - Castletown road to say "Hello fairies", or at least wave, when crossing this bridge.

Nobody likes their car to breakdown or miss their airline flight (it is on the way to the local airport ).
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#64  Postby Onyx8 » Jul 24, 2014 10:43 pm

Couldn't the fairies give you a lift?
The problem with fantasies is you can't really insist that everyone else believes in yours, the other problem with fantasies is that most believers of fantasies eventually get around to doing exactly that.
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Re: Rational (I hope so) argument for the existence of fairies

#65  Postby CdesignProponentsist » Jul 24, 2014 11:38 pm

hackenslash wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:What makes it impossible is that nobody knows what constitutes a fucking fairy.


Dunno about that. We have a street here in Manchester, Canal Street, that's world famous for 'em... :mrgreen:


How far is that from Fleet Street?
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#66  Postby CdesignProponentsist » Jul 24, 2014 11:41 pm

Shrunk wrote:
epepke wrote:
CdesignProponentsist wrote:
epepke wrote:Small things that look like humans aren't unknown of.


Scroll up :wink:


Small meat things, then.


OP says nothing about "meat". Just matter.


Besides, I probably could fashion one out of bacon. Mmmm... Bacon meat faeries. :hungry:
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#67  Postby jamest » Jul 25, 2014 12:04 am

Deep thought of the night:

Every thing is a fairy.
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Ora non e importante.
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Re: Rational (I hope so) argument for the existence of fairies

#68  Postby hackenslash » Jul 25, 2014 12:05 am

CdesignProponentsist wrote:
hackenslash wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:What makes it impossible is that nobody knows what constitutes a fucking fairy.


Dunno about that. We have a street here in Manchester, Canal Street, that's world famous for 'em... :mrgreen:


How far is that from Fleet Street?


208 miles.
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#69  Postby hackenslash » Jul 25, 2014 12:06 am

CdesignProponentsist wrote:Besides, I probably could fashion one out of bacon. Mmmm... Bacon meat faeries. :hungry:


With cheese.

Feck, I've said it now. The Ratz will be coming out of the woodwork...
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#70  Postby Oldskeptic » Jul 25, 2014 2:47 am

Fairies do exist, but they look and act exactly like fireflies. My grandmother had lots of them in her garden. When I was young we'd sit on the back porch and watch the fairies play under the big cherry tree.
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#71  Postby epepke » Jul 25, 2014 3:28 am

Oldskeptic wrote:Fairies do exist, but they look and act exactly like fireflies. My grandmother had lots of them in her garden. When I was young we'd sit on the back porch and watch the fairies play under the big cherry tree.


Nice one. I think this thread has run the gamut from concrete thinking to nearly pure metaphorical thought.
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#72  Postby DavidMcC » Jul 25, 2014 12:26 pm

... And jokes! :smile:
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#73  Postby SpeedOfSound » Jul 26, 2014 4:42 am

fairies would be cool
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Re: Rational argument for the (possible) existence of fairies

#74  Postby DavidMcC » Jul 30, 2014 11:43 am

SpeedOfSound wrote:fairies would be cool

Yeah, but only if they're hot:
https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AtSBbj7QS9J5HwYxYBQKVJo4hJp4?p=fairies+%2Bimages&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-684&fp=1
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#75  Postby SpeedOfSound » Jul 30, 2014 11:45 am


Oh Yeah!
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