You can't cheat the Reaper
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
Final Destination. How bizarre.
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
Jeez man..that's awful.
Was it Willie Dixon who said "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all"
Reminds of a Barney McKenna remark, made on a flight to Australia.
He is very nervous about flying and to ease his mind..in a fashion...somebody, I think it was Luke Kelly, pointed out to him that when your time is up..it's up.
Barneys reply was.."Ah yeah but suppose the pilots time is up?"
Slan,
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Was it Willie Dixon who said "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all"
Reminds of a Barney McKenna remark, made on a flight to Australia.
He is very nervous about flying and to ease his mind..in a fashion...somebody, I think it was Luke Kelly, pointed out to him that when your time is up..it's up.
Barneys reply was.."Ah yeah but suppose the pilots time is up?"
Slan,
D.
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
dubhlinn wrote: Barneys reply was.."Ah yeah but suppose the pilots time is up?"
I don't like to think about it.Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
It would still be everyone's time excepting, of course, any survivors. The Reaper's pretty efficient, no? But, the article suggests that while it just goes to show that even a cat can fall on its back, it will take it from there. If you believe that sort of thing.izzarina wrote:dubhlinn wrote: Barneys reply was.."Ah yeah but suppose the pilots time is up?"
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
Coincidence, of course, but not a comfortable one.
To quote a book I read some years ago, "nature seeks to reassert the pattern that was meant to be." Or something like that.
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
So there are what, a few thousand people killed worldwide in plane crashes, and a couple hundreds of thousands killed in car crashes. So every time there's a plane crash, within a few days of it there are ten times as many people killed in car accidents. It stands to reason that occasionally, one of the people killed in a car crash would have been booked on a plane that had crashed. Not often, but maybe every decade or so, and the way news works these days, every one of them would be publicized.
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
FJohnSharp wrote:http://mauryanpost.com/2009/02/the-appo ... n-samarra/
You naysayers quit tryin' to ruin the weird fate story.....
I plug my ears to your logic.
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
Him, and a bunch of other fellers who were born under a bad sign.dubhlinn wrote: Was it Willie Dixon who said "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all"
"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
There's a spare.dubhlinn wrote: Barneys reply was.."Ah yeah but suppose the pilots time is up?"
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
More cowbell!
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Re: You can't cheat the Reaper
That was crazy. I read that yesterday, and I was very shocked. 
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