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Subject: Re: X-file experiences
From: gd1@Physics.usyd.edu.au (Gene)
Date: 2 Apr 1996 07:35:57 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

In article <4jqilb$2sd@nntp.pinc.com>, coral loy <prana@coastnet.com> wrote:

>Has anybody out there ever had an X-file experience in real life?

Yep, I watch it every Wednesday.

Gene

Subject: Re: X-file experiences
From: xfiles@southcom.com.au (Ralph the Wonder Llama)
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 08:23:40 GMT
Organization: NetSpace Online Systems

On 2 Apr 1996 06:49:15 GMT, while discussing X-file experiences,
prana@coastnet.com (coral loy) uttered the following words of wisdom:

> Has anybody out there ever had an X-file experience in real life?

Yeah - when I met my mother in law my lunch had an out-of-stomach experience.

Subject: Re: X-file experiences
From: wilkins@wehi.edu.au (John Wilkins)
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:41:37 +1100
Organization: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

In article
<Pine.SUN.3.91.960403121044.11861C-100000@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, Matt
Treyvaud <cthulhu@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

| On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, John Wilkins wrote:
| 
| > In article <4jqilb$2sd@nntp.pinc.com>, prana@coastnet.com (coral loy) wrote:
| > 
| > | Has anybody out there ever had an X-file experience in real life?
| > 
| > I once saw ball lightning. Does that count?
| 
| No, tests in controlled laboratories have shown that it actually watches 
| its handler for subconscious cues - it stamps its foot until it reaches 
| the correct number, at which time the handler relaxes and it stops. Or 
| was that a horse?

I'm sure you can get ball lightning to count if you do it from behind a
screen. Or was that a gorilla?
|   
| > Oh, and I was abducted by American secret service agents and handed over
| > to the alien inhabitants of a UFO, where they removed half of my brain.
| 
| That's nothing. I was abducted by secret service agents from an agency 
| called XGREWDKGKLLWKJDJJS (trust me, you don't wanna know what that stands 
| for) and handed over to a colony of bio-engineered clones of Elvis 
| Presley. They performed hideous experiments on me, including flaying me 
| alive, beheading me, and forcing me to act alongside Ronald Reagan.

Luxury. We used to DREAM of being abducted by secret service agents from
an agency | called XGREWDKGKLLWKJDJJS (which we don't want to know what it
stands for) and handed over to a colony of bio-engineered clones of Elvis
Presley; having hideous experiments performed on us, including flaying us
alive, beheading us, and forcing us to act alongside Ronald Reagan. You
were lucky.
| 
| And then there was <reference> the time I saw another UFO. I was coming 
| out of the LIQ-R-MART and I saw it - a huge golden light, glowing in the 
| sky. Then I realised it was a Sunoco sign. But before I fell asleep in a 
| puddle I'm pretty sure I saw a UFO behind it.

Don't be such a Gary...
| 
| > However, you probably already saw that story in last week's _No Idea_, so
| > just forget about it.
| 
| Does anyone else think it amusing that New Idea's new slogan seems to be 
| No Idea?

Didn't they steal it from Fast Forward? "In this week's No Idea..."