I've heard some cock-eyed logic in my time... but this?

Groucho



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Message Posted:
20/04/2010 18:40

Promiscuous women are responsible for earthquakes, a senior Iranian cleric has said.



Full story from the BBC...



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8631775.stm



All I can say is "Did the earth move for you Nancy?" With thanks to FGTH for the lyric.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/04/2010 18:43

Gavin



It's been posted already.



http://www.cyprus44.com/forums/34807.asp

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/04/2010 19:24

Where was I ?!



Richard

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/04/2010 19:31

Gavin.

Did you read about this one?



Migraine Gives Woman Foreign Accent.

A woman from Devon has begun speaking with a Chinese accent after suffering severe migraines.

Thirty-five-year-old Sarah Colwill puts the startling change down to an extremely rare medical condition known as Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS).



"I knew I sounded different but I didn't know how much and people said I sounded a bit Chinese.



"Then I had another attack and when the ambulance crew arrived they said I definitely sounded Chinese."



The rare disorder is thought to be caused by strokes and brain injuries and causes sufferers to lose the ability to talk in their native accent.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/04/2010 19:32

There have been an estimated 60 recorded cases of FAS since it was first identified in the 1940s.

Mrs Colwill, who lives in St Budeaux in Plymouth, Devon, with her husband Patrick said her accent change had been startling.

"I spoke to my stepdaughter on the phone from hospital and she didn't recognise who I was.

"She said I sounded Chinese. Since then I have had my friends hanging up on me because they think I'm a hoax caller."



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100420/tuk-migraine-gives-woman-foreign-accent-45dbed5.html

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/04/2010 19:34

One of the first reported cases was in 1941 when a Norwegian woman developed a German accent after being hit by bomb shrapnel during an air raid.



As a result, she was shunned by her community, who falsely believed she was a German spy.



In 2006 Linda Walker, 60, woke from a stroke to find that her Geordie accent had been transformed into a Jamaican one.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/04/2010 19:40

I can just imagine her ordering a take-away - "Harro! Spesha frah raice prease!"

frontalman



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Message Posted:
21/04/2010 12:19

Does this mean Mr Colwill will be getting an oriental massage?

Groucho



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Message Posted:
21/04/2010 12:32

"And some of your rubbery chicken!"

fiendishpaul


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Message Posted:
21/04/2010 13:24

From St Budeaux in Plymouth



Have to say that a chinese accent would be an improvement on her Janner/Devonian accent any day of the week !! ;-)



Paul