You have been saying this for centuries but with no effect! :wink: :wink:Quote:
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SONU GOPI :lol: :lol:
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You have been saying this for centuries but with no effect! :wink: :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by blahblah
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SONU GOPI :lol: :lol:
what to do .I can't find anything good.I was just trying to encourage you all to do some thing to keep the thread going.Hope you will come out with something good.
I will cook up something new after telling all the true tales!! Somthing coming in the near future! But need some time to type it out!! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by blahblah
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SONU GOPI :wink:
THE COFFIN
A pretty woman was serving a life sentence in prison. Angry
and resentful about her situation, she had decided that she
would rather die than to live another year in prison. Over the
years she had become good friends with one of the prison
caretakers.
His job, among others, was to bury those prisoners who died
in a graveyard just outside the prison walls. When a prisoner
died, the caretaker rang a bell, which was heard by everyone.
The caretaker then got the body and put it in a casket.
Next, he entered his office to fill out the death certificate before
returning to the casket to nail the lid shut. Finally, he put the
casket on a wagon to take it to the graveyard and bury it.
Knowing this routine, the woman devised an escape plan and
shared it with the caretaker. The next time the bell rang, the
woman would leave her cell and sneak into the dark room where
the coffins were kept.
She would slip into the coffin with the dead body while the
caretaker was filling out the death certificate. When the care-
taker returned, he would nail the lid shut and take the coffin
outside the prison with the woman in the coffin along with the
dead body. He would then bury the coffin.
The woman knew there would be enough air for her to breathe
until later in the evening when the caretaker would return to the
graveyard under the cover of darkness, dig up the coffin, open
it, and set her free.
The caretaker was reluctant to go along with this plan, but since
he and the woman had become good friends over the years, he
agreed to do it. The woman waited several weeks before some-
one in the prison died.
She was asleep in her cell when she heard the death bell ring.
She got up, picked the lock of her cell, and slowly walked down
the hallway. She was nearly caught a couple of times. Her heart
was beating fast. She opened the door to the darkened room where the coffins were kept. Quietly in the dark, she found the coffin that contained the dead body, carefully climbed into the coffin and pulled the lid shut to wait for the caretaker to come and nail the lid shut.
Soon she heard footsteps and the pounding of the hammer and
nails. Even though she was very uncomfortable in the coffin with
the dead body, she knew that with each nail she was one step
closer to freedom.
The coffin was lifted onto the wagon and taken outside to the
graveyard. She could feel the coffin being lowered into the ground.
She didn't make a sound as the coffin hit the bottom of the grave
with a thud.
Finally she heard the dirt dropping onto the top of the wooden
coffin, and she knew that it was only a matter of time until she would be free at last. After several minutes of absolute silence, she began to laugh.
She was free! She was free!
Feeling curious, she decided to light a match to find out the
identity of the dead prisoner beside her. To her horror, she discovered that she was lying next to the dead caretaker.
Many people believe they have life all figured out..... but
sometimes it just doesn't turn out the way they planned it .
Good one Sandeep!! You just can't be prepared enough without the 10% contingency plan, Pa!! The best laid plans have been known to go awry! :wink:
Under the God Tree
In our compound, is a humongous mango tree that stands like a silent sentinel to greet and guard all that is within its presence. It is a towering 10 meters in height, perched on a high mound of earth, a stone's throw from the bungalow we lived in.
This is a tree that holds one in fear and awe for it has its own dark history!! The magnificence of its wide, stretched out canopy, with its dark green foliage, holds any onlooker spellbound!! For beyond its towering presence, was something far more sinister. In the paleness of a moonlit night, the shadows it casts itself, leaves one breathless with apprehension!
The story of the tree was told to us in hushed tones and whispers only, for none dared to raise their voices for fear of being heard by the unseen resident who lives in it!! But the full story of this tree only came to light when Kitchan, the old timer who came to do some odd jobs around the compound, came by one morning.
Kitchan had lived in the same estate for as long as he can remember!! Right from the old colonial days when it was the British planters who had occupied the bungalow where we now lived. Kitchan used to be house-boy, when he witnessed the old gardener planting the new mango sapling in the foreground of the compound. That was nearly some 40 years ago ..........
Sandeep - that was really a good one. What a way to die - lying in a coffin next to a corpse!! :roll: :shock:
When ppl are desperate they are willing to do anything.....makes me so frighten to even think about it! :roll: :roll:
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SONU GOPI :lol:
It has already made me so apprehensive – moonlight night , canopied mango tree, shadows, still night, owl hooting???…..eeerrrrrk!! :shock:
Can see my goose bumps on my hands and feel the hair standing on its ends!! :shock: :shock:
Some more Niro,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:roll: Any fruits??? :lol: :oops:
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Continuing the God Tree .....
Unknown to many, Muniandy the gardener, was a practitioner of the Occult!! He desperately needed to control the White Manager's household so as to create a dependance on him as old age was catching up with him! With his retirement in sight within the next few years, Muniandy needed to act fast. So, he devised this plan of conjuring a spirit which had been roaming the fringes of the estate land and infiltrated the bungalow with its presence!!
Soon, strange happenings began to take place in the White Manager's household!! Things were moving on their own, pots and pans started rattling in the kitchen and the worst was of course, the disturbance to the occupants of the house itself!! Adults and children were pulled and thrown out of their beds as they slept, in the middle of the night!! Strange apparations were also seen that left everyone fearful! Even in broad daylight, things were flying in mid-air that left everyone just way too terrified to continue living in the house!!
In desperation, the Manager sought the help of the Kanggani to resolve this problem!! And on the pretext of helping out, Muniandy wormed his way in ..........
Though Muniandy was quite smug in his knowledge of sorcery, he however, was no match for the willful entity that he himself had released into the bungalow. That's right folks, the plan backfired!! Though he had tried his utmost to convince both the Kanggani and the manager of being able to re-capture his erstwhile "pet", he had to concede defeat in the end!!
All this while, Kitchan the house-boy, had observed silently the comings and goings of the various mediums who had tried to have a pow-wow with the said entity into leaving the bungalow, but to no avail!! It was then, that he realised that he indeed knew of someone who could perhaps be of help.
After work, one weekend, Kitchan and his father, quietly left the estate and made their way to a nearby village where a medium of a good reputation, held regular seances to help people. Now, this particular medium was no mean sorcerer but a disciple of Appan, a manifestation of the many roles of Bhairavan, the terrestrial keeper of Lord Siva's faith!! It was to him that both Kitchan and his father, whispered the problems to.
With a solemn promise that he would indeed help to end the misery of the family of the bungalow, Kitchan and his father went back to the estate to gain permission from the manager. Weary but still hopeful, the manager immediately agreed to the terms and conditions that had been imposed earlier by the medium from the temple.......
nirosha, before u post, plz tell us whether these incidents are true or false :D Lets keep this thread for true stories.
(dont tell me after the 12th episode of the story that the lead character is related to you :D)
this thread is dying. where is sonu gopi with all her true stories :)
let me add one.
(Names of people and dates of incidents have been changed to protect privacy.)
This incident happened in the late 90s. For a certain period of 7 months I was suddenly drawn into reflecting on a series of incidents that happened in the mid and late 80s. Now by nature i am a historian and mathematician and I can easily remember dates, events, numbers just like that without noting down anything. I could probably recollect someone's phone number though I wouldnt have used that number or even thought of it for 7-8 years(this is not a superspiritual talent, something anyone can cultivate - for eg. my mother knows over 70 phone numbers by heart, since she's got long sight and prefers to memorise numbers rather than search her glasses and write down :). And while I may recollect complex sequence of numbers or dates which very few would try, I cannot recall simple things like where I kept my glasses before going to sleep :lol: ) So most events I go through may be coincidences and much different from what sonu gopi experienced :)
I was preparing for an exam and the previous night I had just finished my dinner. It was about 948 PM and being lazy, I thought I will think of some past events for 12 min so that I can resume studying at 10 PM sharp :) So I went to the frontyard and walked around recollecting some past events. Most of what I recollect are events which I would have recollected some 1-2 months back at least. But that point I suddenly brought to mind an event that happened in our home in early 1989. I was not present at that time. We had installed a new door and the latch had got stuck - it was not opening. My bro, sis and mother had come home in the afternoon but could not get inside the house. They tried for a few hours and then called dad at his office. He returned home and while they tried several keys, the new door just wouldnt open. The next day my brother was writing his final exam, and they were all getting locked out of the house!! Finally after about 4-5 hours, they got a carpenter who fixed the problem. I came home a few minutes after the problem was solved.
Now I was thinking of this event close to a decade later. I was wondering how was it I could never recollect this event for one entire decade. Probably because I got this incident by hearsay and was not part of it when it happened.
Next morn I was leaving for college, my parents and everyone else having left for work early. As I locked home and got on the road two cars stopped on the road and asked me directions to a neighbors house. They were well known to us and lived on the street behind ours. I finished my exam and got back that evening. It seems that the neighboring family whose home directions I had given that morning had a bereavement. Their son passed away in an accident at 10 PM the previous night and my parents had just attended the funeral that noon.
We were talking about the departed person, whom everyone called Ramu anna. He was quite senior to me and I had rarely seen him for years. I was mentioning that to my mother. She was quite surprised by my comment and asked "Dont you remember the time when we got locked out of our house, and Ramu anna came in and tried to get the door to open??". While telling her that I wasnt present that time, I was surpised to learn from her that during that lockout incident of '89, he had walked in and tried a few hours to get the door to open. More amazing was that when I had recollecting that incident the previous night, he was spending his last precious minutes in this earth ! :shock:
This is a less spooky recollection and quite a pleasant one to remember, so this is quite out of place in this thread(already made famous by brave ladies fearlessly keeping appointments and conversations with citizens of the underworld :lol: :lol: )
This happened in 1997. I was having a tough exam and I was studying all throughout the night. I leave home by 8:45 and since the rest of the family leaves early, I would be the last and hence needed to close all doors/windows and lock the house before I leave. After locking, I would leave the key in a hole in the wall, from where the family picks it when they return :)
I was dead tired after the allnighter and in addition to the pain of exam tension, it was getting late and I needed to race to catch the bus. I had locked up everything in a frenzy and noticed an open window. So as I briskly moved to close it, the key fell out of my hands, bounced on the window sill and fell inside the house!(Being a fidgety fellow with restless hands, I had pulled the key out of the key chain the previous week, so now it was a skeletal key with no chain!) Now the door was securely locked, the key inside the house, and it was late for my exam. With a despairing heart, I pushed this momentarily insignificant problem to the back of my mind and raced for the bus.
I was an hour through the 3-hour exam when sleep hit me and I noticed my handwriting degenerating to a undecipherable crawl so I started drawing some diagrams to keep the sleep away. I managed thus for another hour till I got sufficient strength to finish the rest of the paper. I consoled myself that after the endless last hour, I would be back home to eat a hot lunch of rasam/poriyal and then sleep as long as i liked!
And naturally when I reached home, the reality of the lockout hit me! I badly needed a way to get the key out. My useless puppy was wagging its tail inside the house, too foolish to realise that I was locked out :lol: The door was too strong to break anyway. For 15 minutes I paced around the frontyard looking for a tool.
:idea:
Then I noticed that the floor of the room where the key lay was recently tiled, with one tile slightly raised and not in sync with the rest. So I found a plastic bag lying in the yard, sufficiently inflated in and threw it in. Next I found a pipe lying around, manoeuvred the key to the raised tile and keeping the mouth of the bag open in front of the tile, gave a firm blow which drove the key into the bag!! Yippee!! now I only had to scoop the bag with the pipe and the key was mine. So just 15min back the problem seemed unsurmountable but now I was inside. I was so relieved and joyous I picked my plump puppy and beat it nicely on its fat stomach(it only eats and sleeps all day without helping anyone)!!! :lol: :lol:
ROTFL :lol: :lol: :lol: !!!!!
Oh my God Walrus!! If anyone could reduce me to such hysteria, it can only be you, Pa!!!! What a tale of the unexpected indeed!!! I actually thought for a moment, that you indeed had an encounter of the kind we were supposed to be gathered here for!!! But NO??????!!!!!
Yeah, I'm a bit slow where the God Tree is concerned!! The tree is very much there, so give me some time to compose myself after my hysterical spasm of laughter, okay????
Nalla vambana Payan, Pa!!! :wink:
Yeah! yeah! but also a very cute payan when he narrated his story! Poor doggy got a nice smacking on its tummy! How could you do that walrus for it was your own folly. Looks like you expected it to be Lassie and pick up the key for you instead!!.:lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by nirosha sen
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SONU GOPI :wink:
Exactly. how could you do that to your puppy?Quote:
Originally Posted by sonu gopi
You too can pass with flying colour to write stories like Niro.
sonu gopi,
all my friends used to say that when they saw my puppy they felt like beating it, when it sleeps it looks like a round ball :lol: :lol: it is a very fussy dog which dislikes milk and likes coke :)
niro, i told you its not a spooky story :)
ok, this incident happened to my friend. It was sometime in the summer of 93. The days were unbearably hot and so were the nights. We were in our teens and school being closed and nothig to do, used to sleep pretty late. One night my friend and 2 other pals went to see a midnight show. It would run from 1130 pm to 130 AM and since there were no buses that hour, they had to walk back some 45 minutes to reach their home.
The movie over they started their long walk. After a while, they got tired and decide to rest under a tree for a few minutes. They found a slipper nearby and kicked it around like a football for a while. They looked for its pair in the darkness(the huge branches of the tree obscuring the street lights) but didnt find it. After a while, they got up and walked home.
They continued to gather next week but one of the guys became very pale and gripped with fear for 4-5 days. He looked very pale and fearful and spent all his time smoking endlessly. It took him a few days to return to his normal self.
The rest of the gang asked him what went wrong. He took out an old newspaper and with a shocked face, pointed to an article.
The article mentioned that a guy had hung himself on the same tree these guys were resting under, the night of the movie. The newspaper mentioned that the cause for his suicide was not known and that one of his slippers was missing. In fact, that night, if only the boys had looked up, they would have found a man's dead body hanging right above them!! :shock:
This happened about a month or two ago
This guy drives from Mumbai to Pune and decides not to take thenew expressway. The inevitable happens and when he reaches the "ghats"his car breaks down - he's stranded miles from nowhere.
Having no choice he starts walking on the side of the road, hoping toget a lift to the nearest human habitation. It's dark and raining andpretty soon he's wet and shivering.
The night rolls on and no car goes by, the monsoon rains are so stronghe can hardly see a few feet ahead of him.
Suddenly he sees a car coming towards him. It slows and then stops nextto him - without thinking the guy opens the car's door and jumps in. Seated in the back, he leans forward to thank the person who had savedhim when he realizes there is nobody behind the wheel!!! Even thoughthere'sno one in the front seat and no sound of any engine, the car startsmoving slowly.
The guy looks at the road ahead and sees a curve coming (remember, thisis in the hills and there is a steep, steep drop beyond the curve).Scared almost to death he starts to pray, begging the Lord for hislife.
He hasn't come out of shock, when just before he hits the curve, ahand appears through the window and moves the wheel! The car makes thecurve safely and continues on the road to the next bend.The guy, now paralyzed in terror, watches how the hand appears everytime they are before a curve and moves the steering wheel just enough toget the car around each bend.
Finally, the guy sees lights ahead. Gathering his courage he wrenchesopen the door of the silent, slowly moving car, scrambles out and runsas hardas he can towards the lights.
It's a small town. Wet and in shock goes to a roadside dhabba, whichis open, and asks for a drink. They find some hooch and give him a shot.And he starts telling whoever is in the dhabba about thehorrible experience he's just been through.A silence envelops everybody when they realize the guy isn't drunk,and is really frightened - he's crying and shaking.So they give him more hooch and talk about what they should do, whetherto call the police or find a priest, or what.
But just then ..................... But just then two guys walk into the dhabba. And onesays to the other "Look, Banta - that's the jerk that got in the car when we were pushingit."
:lol: :lol: :lol: Good one Akash!! Looks like you guys have all decided to gang up on us, women huh???!!! All coming up with hysterical jokes instead??!!!! Bet the next one to join the fray would be our Blah-Blah!!! Been threatening to tell us a good tale for sometime now!!!! :lol:
Sorry guys, I wrote another 6 paragraphs this afternoon to my God Tree, just then, the power failed and my PC went blank!!! Was so mad that I decided to take a break again!!! :cry:
Nirosha, Its not a decision on Gang-up. Its Mutual understanding. :wink:
While we where chunning "Tales of unexpected", trying to put fear in each other, Nature just gave something really unexpected and horrifying.
Mmm... I agree with you Sandeep!! When Nature strikes, nothing could stand in its fury Pa!! I'm equally appalled by recent happenings!! :cry:
Made me see how weak humans are compared to Nature. My relatives live in Thiruvallikeni, which is very close to the beach. Forutunatly they are safe, the water didn't seem to come that far. But a lot of other families weren't that lucky. :cry:
So very true Sandeep...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandeep
Akash i would have never guessed...thanx i needed that :)
Sunday morning, here in chennai was really a "Tale of Unexpected", we guys just got a call stating Beach water covered the sands. We were just curious on hearing that, we thought how good the look gonna be, if sea is near the road. We guys really have'nt thought a bit about the huts near the sea shore. We guys rushed to beach to view the sight, with out knowing the seriousness... Then we FELT the Cause, it was Horrible n its just not a word to explain the cause.
Querida, Expect the Unexpected, to be safe... n some times, if we let it to be Unexpected that's the meeting point of LIFE n FUN... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Querida
All...
The recent GREAT targedy has really saddened me ...wish I knew how to interpret what was coming..U might be wondering why I'm saying this...Well I don't if I can call this an early warnign signal sent ot me but I just had to pen this down..
Lats Wednesday, just after lunch, I felt as thought my office shook for a moment....and I jokingly told my colleague there's gonna be an earthquake. then, on Saturday night, I had this terrible dream which I did not remember until about 8am, when I was in the kitchen with my mom...I suddenly remembered what the dream was ...I was just looking out of my hotel window, which was just beside the beach and suddenly saw great big waves, the sea level rose to my hotel window level ( I don'[t remeber which floor...) and the sea looked scary. I could not leave the hotel and since I don't swim, I was pretty terrified!!!!! I told my mom abt it!!!! Shortly after that, we heard about the earthquake in Sumatra and then, later this TRAGEDY!! I don't how to call this "feeling of tremor" and dream of mine...so it pure coincidence? Am I just trying to fit my imagination/ dream with what happened?? I am troubled. I have had dreams coming true in the past but I usually associate it with the anticipation...... but this!!!!!
My heart really goes out to all those people who perished, the families they left behind and everyone else who had lost their freind or families.......GOD BLESS !!!!
NM, I do not call it an “imagination of the mind" but a foresight – it happened isn’t? Sometimes we do “see things” but there is no real explanation to it…no one is actually able too! Life is full of mystery!! :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by NM
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Yeah, Sonu Gopi, it happened..that's the worst part of it!! Thank God my brother is Ok - he was actually in Langkawi on that day and witnessed the incident from the hill top!!! Otherwise, I may blame myself forever!!!
I have a confession too, People!! :(
At 11 am when the floor swayed and my hubby and son experienced it, I was actually in the kitchen stirring the dog food! Since I wore thick slippers I didn't feel the tremors. But when I went into the dining room, my hubby inadvertently told me and said the floor was "oscillating"!!! My heart jumped and to allay my fears I joked that only the pendulum oscillates and moved away!
People - I knew it was an EARTHQUAKE IMMEDIATELY!!!! And I also knew it had to be nearby like Sumartra or the Straits of Melaka!! I knew these details because I had already experienced tremors like that earlier in 1991 or 92 when I lived in the hinterland of Sabah. Then, it was a quake that happened in the Philippines and affected even Kota Kinabalu town. So much so in the commotion then, people ran helter-skelter from the Sabah Foundation Building into the streets!! Even Kinabalu mountain was not spared!
So NM, eventhough you had a dream and I had experienced the real thing, we both decided to keep quiet to wait and see! By 3pm that day, we had already got news from the BBC and CNN news! And with horror watched the devastation unfold!!
Hi All ,
This Thread is.... QUITE INTERESTING.... Go on... Mydear Friends...!!!
dear Mr.Srini,
please contribute some experiences of your own, we look forward to hearing them
[quote="nirosha sen"]
//I have a confession too, People!!
At 11 am when the floor swayed and .....the floor was "oscillating"!!! My heart jumped and to allay my fears I joked that only the pendulum oscillates and moved away!.... People - I knew it was an EARTHQUAKE IMMEDIATELY!!!! ......... because I had already experienced tremors like that earlier in 1991 or 92 .......... was not spared!....So NM, eventhough you had a dream .... And with horror watched the devastation unfold!! //
Hi Ms. Nirosha,
Yes... I am breaking my Head... to find out FROM WHICH COUNTRY... you are writing all this?.... so to say.... WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
And all these experiences.... at which places...?
Will you please CLARIFY?..... Thanking you WITH BEST WSHES
Mr Srini - I'm from West Malaysia. Matter of fact, the Straits of Melaka separates us from the island of Sumatra, the northern most island of the Indonesian archipelago.
The epicentre of the undersea quake that hit was actually abt 10 km north of the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Had it been further south of this island, then believe me, Hell would have broken lose on us in West Malaysia!! But instead, the reverberating ripples of destruction emanated into the vast Indian Ocean where the bulk of its fury took its toll!!
The Western coast of Peninsula Malaysia is the most densely populated area of my country. Right now, I live in the northern state of Perak, along the coastline in a plantation that my husband manages. Just across our estate in fact, is the wide river mouth of the Dindings River. This river pours into the Bay of Lumut, which is part of the Straits of Melaka.
From my description, you'll understand how close we really are! Matter of fact, we even have our own Kampong Acheh, which is where the earlier settlers came to, from Banda Acheh, the scene of the present day calamity.
Having said that, most of us were saved from the fury of the tidal waves along the southern part of the western coast. However, the northern states of Penang and Kedah were not saved! A lot of people died and have been displaced when the waves, hit at about 1 pm.
We here, have never experienced any kind of natural disasters like earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, cyclones, etc. God has indeed been kind to the this part of the world!! So, when the tidal waves did turn up, people in fact had been coolly flocking to the beaches to watch the choppy seas!! A lot of these onlookers are today dead or missing!! Many had also been at the beaches to enjoy a swim or were tucking into their mid-day lunches, when the waves ploughed into their midst. One picnicker who sat down to enjoy his lunch that fateful day, lost 5 of his children alone!!
Talk abt a real tale of the unexpected for us!! The latest news we have now, are the hundreds of fishes that are now washed ashore along our coastline. Fisher-folks have been warned not to go out to sea as well. So, fish is going to be missing in the markets indefinitely for now!
While we count our lucky stars, tears of pain and despair wells in my eyes, everytime I watch the Motherland and Sri Lanka, believe me!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry:
Srini, hope now you get a clearer pic with Niro's vivid description! :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by R. Srinivasan
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Hi Ms. Nirosha,
Thanks for your IMMEDIATE.... PROMPT ... Reply...
.... and double Thanks for your .... DETAILED.... Narration. !
Best Wishes,... Nirosha,
R.Srinivasan
niro,
u talking abt the may 26 1991 quake?
Is that the date from the archives Walrus???!!! :roll: I can't remember the exact date when the earthquake hit the Philippines then. But yeah, it could be because my son wasn't born until May the following year, so it could be Pa!!
That day, at 2 pm just after my husband left to go back to the estate office, I lay down to rest when the whole house shook and the window panes were rattling away. But I never thought abt an earthquake then, but thought a pretty large truck must have been passing by on the road below to create this much of a ruckus!!
Well, at least I got to know what the tremors could do, Pa!! People just ran every which way to escape then!! The papers were full of news then! :shock: