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Over the years it's surprised me how many times I encounter specific obscure links between apparently unrelated items in a short space of time.
My most recent example concerns a TV program, "Only Connect", and a radio program, "Add To Playlist".
"Only Connect" is a BBC quiz show in which teams are challenged to find an often obscure connection between four items. Last night, one team was given the 3 French phrases "Plus dur", "Meilleur", "Plus vite" and had to come up with "Plus fort" as the fourth. The connection is that these phrase mean "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" which is a 2001 hit for the French duo Daft Punk. It was said that if they'd used their own language, this would be the song title.
"Add To Playlist" is a Radio 4 show in which musicians select tracks to add to a mythical playlist by proposing one or more obscure connections to the previous track. This morning, the sequence went from "Pass the Dutchie" by Musical Youth to "Sonata in G minor" by Domenico Scarlatti, then to "Maybe This Time" sung by Lisa Minnelli, "Phantom of the Opera" sung by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford and finally "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk. The dual link between the last two was both the "robotic" repetitive beat and the wearing of masks by the performers.
While I've heard of Daft Punk, until yesterday, I wouldn't have been able to name one of their hits and suddenly I get two references to the same one, both in programs to do with connections. Since both programs are pre-recorded but not previously broadcast, I believe it's unlikely one affected the other.
I've been told in the past that this effect, synchronicity, is because a person gets sensitised to noticing things similar to items which you've recently encountered or which have meaning to you (for example, the number of cars on the road which are similar to your own), however, I still find it surprising that within 24 hours, there should be two such obscure events close enough together to notice!
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Oh man,
I'll be watching you.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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StarNamer@work wrote: synchronicity
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but they placed a Bounty over my head. What a Twix of fate.
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Time to watch The Lion King.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Lion is absolutely my favorite snack since Snickers Crunch became extinct.
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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One of my favorites.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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This thread is in danger of becoming a Marathon, but it might raise a few Snickers.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This post made me Snicker
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awe don't have the technology to reach the rest of the Milky Way (Galaxy).
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This too shall pass, as Daim goes by.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Until it passes, relax and nestlΓ© down.
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Stop TWIZZLER Me
fun fact
TWIZZLERS Candy set a Guinness World Recordβ’ in 1998 for the longest piece of licorice ever made. It was 1,200 feet long and weighed over 100 pounds!
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Lucky guess it was one of three possibilities.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Tried all the wrong ones first...
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No. Just like every other successful solution, you tried the right one last. 
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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This time I had the 3 possible choices at the second guess so I used the third one using 2 of the possible letters in order to reduce the solution space. It's been the first time I used this strategy to solve wordle.
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Another 6! Bleah! 
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Better than a 0; I have had a few of those.
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