Just had a weird feeling.

[maximus]

I just had a feeling that John Travolta is going to die in a plane crash soon. :/

I got this feeling a few days ago but had it again while driving home from work this morning. I get these "feelings" sometimes and about 80% of the time the come to past. It's kinda weird as I have had these since I was a child.

edited to add:

It will be in a small plane (charter maybe?)

[Blackadar]

One can only hope...























j/k (sort of)

[Ksyrup]

Isn't he a pilot?

[21C]

Quick . . . next week's Lotto numbers!

[hhiipp]

If this does happen we're going to have to send the link to CNN and FoxNews and maximus will become famous.

[Ksyrup]

I just had a feeling someone associated with a Minneapolis rock group died.

[CraigSca]

uh huh.

[Suicane75]

I just had a feeling someone associated with a Minneapolis rock group died.
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Ksyrup]

Sucks to have throat cancer at 40. I just found out someone I worked with a few years ago has breast cancer that is quite advanced, and she's 36 or so. I'm getting awfully close to those ages...

[Suicane75]

Sucks to have throat cancer at 40. I just found out someone I worked with a few years ago has breast cancer that is quite advanced, and she's 36 or so. I'm getting awfully close to those ages...
Indeed. I was hopefull that he would pull thru.

[Warhammer]

Uhm... who died?

[Ksyrup]

The bassist for Soul Asylum.

[Ksyrup]

Soul Asylum bassist dead at 41

Karl Mueller co-founded 'Grave Dancers Union' band




NEW YORK (Billboard) -- Karl Mueller, bassist and founding member of the Minneapolis-based rock act Soul Asylum, died Friday at his home, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. He was 41.

Diagnosed with throat cancer in May 2004, Mueller underwent radiation treatment and was said to have been in and out of the hospital in recent months.

In the early 1980s, Mueller formed Loud Fast Rules with singer/guitarist Dave Pirner and drummer Dan Murphy, a band that became Soul Asylum three years later. After a period of underground notoriety, the band achieved mainstream success with its 1992 breakthrough, "Grave Dancers Union" (Columbia).

The album peaked at No. 11 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 2.14 million copies in the United Stated, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The set featured the single "Runaway Train," which peaked at No. 5 on the Hot 100.

Mueller's cancer was in remission in October when such veterans of the Minneapolis music scene as the Replacements' Paul Westerberg and Husker Du's Bob Mould staged a benefit concert to help with spiraling medical costs. Mueller also joined his bandmates for a Soul Asylum performance at the show.

The Star Tribune reports that Mueller, Pirner and Murphy recorded a new Soul Asylum album earlier this year and had been "negotiating with a major label" for its release.

A memorial service will be held at noon Wednesday at Lakewood Cemetery Chapel in Minneapolis.

In Mueller's paid obituary in the Star Tribune, Pirner, Murphy and former Soul Asylum road manager Bill Sullivan are listed as "bandmates and brothers," even though the bassist was an only child. He is survived by his wife, Mary Beth, and his mother, Mary.

[CraigSca]

Phew - I thought you were speaking about Morris Day or one of the Time.

[Ksyrup]

That's not rock.

[Mustang]

I just had a feeling that millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced . . .

[cartman]

I had something similar happen about 15 years ago. I was driving in the car with my dad, when I said "I think mom just got into a wreck." What was strange about that is she had never been in a wreck before, and had never even gotten a ticket. Sure enough, we got home, and in about 5 minutes my mom called, saying she had been in a wreck, had totalled my car, and we needed to pick her up. Very disquieting.

[gottimd]

I just had a feeling that millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced . . .
My cousin lives in Alderaan, and I haven't heard from him in a few days.....

[Suicane75]

This one time I was watching A football game and my friend was like "He's gonna do it, he's gonna win it for us, WIN IT ALL, HE'S THE MAN!" And I said, "he's gonna bend over and throw the fuck up."

[Ksyrup]

I just had a feeling that millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced . . .
Those were the voices of the carrots.

[Franklinnoble]

That's no moon...

[WSUCougar]

That's no moon...

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Phew - I thought you were speaking about Morris Day or one of the Time.

Not even close to funny. I hung out with Jerome & Bean. Good guys... Although I have a strange feeling one, no maybe both of them had breakfast this morning.

[Mustang]

That's no moon...

Deja-Vu..

[MJ4H]

This one time I was watching A football game and my friend was like "He's gonna do it, he's gonna win it for us, WIN IT ALL, HE'S THE MAN!" And I said, "he's gonna bend over and throw the fuck up." With 5:02 left in the 3rd period and the Lakers trailing 484-0, Lakers' forward Rick Fox appeared to lean over and vomit blood.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/nbalive/vomit.jpg

[BigJohn&TheLions]

With 5:02 left in the 3rd period and the Lakers trailing 484-0, Lakers' forward Rick Fox appeared to lean over and vomit blood.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/nbalive/vomit.jpg

The things they put into video games...

[Franklinnoble]

With 5:02 left in the 3rd period and the Lakers trailing 484-0, Lakers' forward Rick Fox appeared to lean over and vomit blood.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/nbalive/vomit.jpg
Awesome.

[digamma]

The things they put into video games...
If it's in the game...

[BigJohn&TheLions]

If it's in the game...

Is it true that they also included Sprewell choking Carlisemo as a feature?

Now if they include drunk asshat fans in Auburn Hills, Michigan!!!

[Ksyrup]

O'Smiles looks like he is about to jump into the crowd.

[maximus]

I had something similar happen about 15 years ago. I was driving in the car with my dad, when I said "I think mom just got into a wreck." What was strange about that is she had never been in a wreck before, and had never even gotten a ticket. Sure enough, we got home, and in about 5 minutes my mom called, saying she had been in a wreck, had totalled my car, and we needed to pick her up. Very disquieting.

At the age of eleven years old I "predicted" my mothers death at the age of 48. I wrote it down on a piece of paper. Along with that I wrote down that her friend was going to get cancer at the age of 63. Both came true.

As for my mothers death I didn't know how she would die and in fact told nobody about this "feeling" I had. However, this feeling was more like a voice that didn't speak out load but yet "spoke in silence". What "speaking in silence" means is that a person gets this feeling as if you were told something but yet words aren't spoken. I get these all the time before certain things come to pass.

Other examples were car accidents and other dangerous things that I completely avoided. For example, I would get this feeling "don't go down that street as danger will appear". But again, this feeling was more of a confidence that I already knew because I was told somehow. I don't "hear voices" in my head. I have a confidence that I already know about what is going to happen.

Later on in my life I started to have fun with people about it. For example, one night at work (at my old job about 3 years ago) my co-workers and I were talking about these types of "feelings". I had explained (as I did just now) that I get feelings sometimes of things before they happen. I also explained that I could easily guess a card, a number..ect, ect that a person was either thinking or holding up. There were at least 10 people in the break-room at the time and each person asked me what number they were thinking from 1-20. I got each one right. Other examples were my wife holdiong a deck of cards at home once. She asked me what card she would have in her hand and out of like 6 or seven times I guessed 5 correctly.

Here's the catch though, I can't just simply guess at doing these type of things. They have to come to me before asked OR sometimes right after asked. I cannot think about it because then my mind/heart will guess what the number or card is and then Im wrong. But like I said, if it comes to me before asked or immedialty after asked I say the correct answer nearly all the time. One exmple of that was that my wife and I were playing around one night (talking about what we are right here) and she would sit and watch TV time would go past,ect, ect and then all of a sudden she would ask (out of the blue) "what number am I thinking" I would then tell her. In fact, I have even told people what they were thinking before they asked me or even if they didnt want to know that I knew. I know this all sounds strange but its true. I even get confused at times as to why I am like this. When I used to go to church a lot the pastors used to tell me that God had given me the "discerning of spirits" gift.

edit: spelling

[Mustang]

When I used to go to church a lot the pastors used to tell me that God had given me the "discerning of spirits" gift.


Alot of bartenders I know have this gift too...

[Glengoyne]

If he floats, then he's a witch!

[Glengoyne]

Regarding the question about Travolta being a pilot.

He is actually a pilot of some skill. He used to fly around on his own lear, or possibly Gulf Stream, but now moves about the country on his own 737. He usually doesn't fly it, but I believe he has some hours in it.

I saw something on the Discovery channel, I think, once about an air traffic controller getting a call from a pilot attempting to land in the Baltimore area. The pilot was flying a private jet at night, and had experienced a complete electrical failure in his panel. He was flying in Instrument only conditions, and had essentially lost all of his instruments. The ATC and the pilot kept up a near continuous discourse as the pilot looked for a way down through the clouds. Finally he found an opening, and brought the plane down through the clouds to where he could fly visually, yet still without the benefit of instruments. Once the pilot had safely landed, the controller wanted to shake his hand, because not many pilots would have been able to land given those same circumstances. The controller was quite surprised when he met the pilot, and it was John Travolta.

[HomerJSimpson]

This is, no joke, Travolta's house:

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_nov2004/TravoltaHome.jpg

[Ksyrup]

Regarding the question about Travolta being a pilot.

He is actually a pilot of some skill. He used to fly around on his own lear, or possibly Gulf Stream, but now moves about the country on his own 737. He usually doesn't fly it, but I believe he has some hours in it.
He really took his role in Look Who's Talking Now to heart...

[Franklinnoble]

This is, no joke, Travolta's house:

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_nov2004/TravoltaHome.jpg
You'd think the dude could spend a few bucks on some decent landscaping...

[Ksyrup]

You'd think the dude could spend a few bucks on some decent landscaping...
Or at least a hanger to house the other 90% of his planes.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

At the age of eleven years old I "predicted" my mothers death at the age of 48. I wrote it down on a piece of paper. Along with that I wrote down that her friend was going to get cancer at the age of 63. Both came true.

As for my mothers death I didn't know how she would die and in fact told nobody about this "feeling" I had. However, this feeling was more like a voice that didn't speak out load but yet "spoke in silence". What "speaking in silence" means is that a person gets this feeling as if you were told something but yet words aren't spoken. I get these all the time before certain things come to pass.

Other examples were car accidents and other dangerous things that I completely avoided. For example, I would get this feeling "don't go down that street as danger will appear". But again, this feeling was more of a confidence that I already knew because I was told somehow. I don't "hear voices" in my head. I have a confidence that I already know about what is going to happen.

Later on in my life I started to have fun with people about it. For example, one night at work (at my old job about 3 years ago) my co-workers and I were talking about these types of "feelings". I had explained (as I did just now) that I get feelings sometimes of things before they happen. I also explained that I could easily guess a card, a number..ect, ect that a person was either thinking or holding up. There were at least 10 people in the break-room at the time and each person asked me what number they were thinking from 1-20. I got each one right. Other examples were my wife holdiong a deck of cards at home once. She asked me what card she would have in her hand and out of like 6 or seven times I guessed 5 correctly.

Here's the catch though, I can't just simply guess at doing these type of things. They have to come to me before asked OR sometimes right after asked. I cannot think about it because then my mind/heart will guess what the number or card is and then Im wrong. But like I said, if it comes to me before asked or immedialty after asked I say the correct answer nearly all the time. One exmple of that was that my wife and I were playing around one night (talking about what we are right here) and she would sit and watch TV time would go past,ect, ect and then all of a sudden she would ask (out of the blue) "what number am I thinking" I would then tell her. In fact, I have even told people what they were thinking before they asked me or even if they didnt want to know that I knew. I know this all sounds strange but its true. I even get confused at times as to why I am like this. When I used to go to church a lot the pastors used to tell me that God had given me the "discerning of spirits" gift.

edit: spelling
Regarding accidents I have had similar ones in my intuition too. Somehow I end up getting distracted by an errand and pass by a certain intersection where an accident took place only minutes before.

[gottimd]

When it rains, I always have a feeling that it will be wet outside when the rain has ended, and I haven't been wrong yet.

[QuikSand]

Go win your million dollars, and stop wasting time fiddling around in this thread.

JREF Million Dollar Challenge (http://www.randi.org/research/index.html)

excerpt:

The Foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims. It both supports and conducts original research into such claims.

At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place. All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the "applicant" becomes a "claimant."

To date, no one has ever passed the preliminary tests.

[QuikSand]

By the way, it would not be fair of me to overlook saying that at least the thread-starter here had the balls to say "I have the feeling this is going to happen," rather than the far-more-common "gee, I had a funy feeling that was going to happen," which we hear all the time. So, kudos for the effort, at least.

[oliegirl]

A few years ago my mom told me that a friend of ours was pregnant...the first thought that hit me was that she wasn't going to carry the baby to term. about 6 weeks later she miscarried. It's happened with a few other things, like I'll think about someone I haven't talked to in a long time and think "I should call them", but for whatever reason I don't, and then a day later they call me - that is creepy.

[maximus]

Go win your million dollars, and stop wasting time fiddling around in this thread.

JREF Million Dollar Challenge (http://www.randi.org/research/index.html)


LOL. I'm not supernatural. :)

In all seriousness, I can't really do anything when asked. These feelings I get come "out of the blue". I mean, at times if Im in the right mind I can do when asked but that is rare for me. However, the "out of the blue" feelings are a few times per week. Its been that way my whole life. It can get frustrating sometimes too.

[Bee]

By the way, it would not be fair of me to overlook saying that at least the thread-starter here had the balls to say "I have the feeling this is going to happen," rather than the far-more-common "gee, I had a funy feeling that was going to happen," which we hear all the time. So, kudos for the effort, at least.

I had a feeling you were going to say that...

[gottimd]

I had a feeling you were going to say that...
I had a feeling you were going to say that about quiksands response about the thread topic.

[maximus]

A few years ago my mom told me that a friend of ours was pregnant...the first thought that hit me was that she wasn't going to carry the baby to term. about 6 weeks later she miscarried. It's happened with a few other things, like I'll think about someone I haven't talked to in a long time and think "I should call them", but for whatever reason I don't, and then a day later they call me - that is creepy.


Yeah, its amazing isn't it. My plant shut down last year. I went to work one day and had a feeling (more like a silent voice to me) that our plant was going to close. I had no prior knowledge that is was going to occur nor was there any evidence that it might prior to that day.

I've even had feelings about my own death. How I will die and age.

[digamma]

LOL. I'm not supernatural. :)

In all seriousness, I can't really do anything when asked. These feelings I get come "out of the blue". I mean, at times if Im in the right mind I can do when asked but that is rare for me. However, the "out of the blue" feelings are a few times per week. Its been that way my whole life. It can get frustrating sometimes too.
Don't sell yourself short. Precognition is specifically listed as "paranormal" on the JREF site.

I'd gladly chip in to pay for your notary fees for the application.

[QuikSand]

LOL. I'm not supernatural. :)

In all seriousness, I can't really do anything when asked. These feelings I get come "out of the blue". I mean, at times if Im in the right mind I can do when asked but that is rare for me. However, the "out of the blue" feelings are a few times per week. Its been that way my whole life. It can get frustrating sometimes too.

I'm sure they'd be fairly happy to let you document your series of premonitions over a reasonable period of time, and assess their veracity in some controlled way. If you really are predicting the future, I suspect you'd win the prize. If you are just subconsciously putting together bits of information that lead to seemingly reasonable outcomes, and then noticing the ones that come true and not the rest... then I suspect you won't win the prize.

A million dollars sounds like it would be worth pursuing. But that's just me.

[Kodos]

Man, I'm tellin' you, I got a bad feeling about this drop.

[KWhit]

If you are just subconsciously putting together bits of information that lead to seemingly reasonable outcomes, and then noticing the ones that come true and not the rest...
Ding-ding-ding!

[QuikSand]

Oh, I didn't mean to reveal the teachers' edition quite so easily. Dang.

[CraigSca]

I remember all my correct predictions all the time. They're easier to remember than the ones that don't happen.

[CraigSca]

dola

What kind of time period does John Travolta have to die within for this to be a premonition? I mean...you have 100's of witnesses just by posting on this board. Follow it up with another humdinger and you might be cashing a $1 million check.

[maximus]

I'm sure they'd be fairly happy to let you document your series of premonitions over a reasonable period of time, and assess their veracity in some controlled way. If you really are predicting the future, I suspect you'd win the prize. If you are just subconsciously putting together bits of information that lead to seemingly reasonable outcomes, and then noticing the ones that come true and not the rest... then I suspect you won't win the prize.

A million dollars sounds like it would be worth pursuing. But that's just me.

While the money sounds interesting I would actually like to try out some sort of tests just to see what would happen and what I am experiencing. Believe me, at times I cant tell if I am "trying" to se what will happen or if what I am feeling are the silent voices. (Again, I came up with the word "silent voices" because that is the only way I can expalin what I feel. I understand "feel" and "voices" do not go together but I can not explain it any better than that. Silent voices *to me* are a completely confindent feeling in knowing what will happen).

Going back to my mothers death. I remember most about that day when I was sitting in my bedroom. I had no idea how she would die but I knew in confidence that she would at 48. One year later she died of a brain aneurysm.

There are some other things that I would like to share but they are strange to say the least. In fact, so strange most will not believe me. However I will give a few examples of what has happend to me.

As I sit here (as God is my witness) I am tingeling. This is because of what happend to me as a child. I had 4 very strange things happen to me (not including any of the "silent voices" I get)

When I was 4 years old I was involved in a car accident. My dad was driving and I was in the front seat (unbuckled-DAD! :mad: )..anyways, my dad and another car hit head-to-head. My head went through the front windshield. The only thing I remember was looking over, while on the stretcher, and seeing two very young girls - they were twins and identical to the tee. They both had long straight as can be blond hair. Both were the same height and both were just standing there smiling at me as if everything was going to be OK. Now of course I didn't think anything of it but a year or so later went by. My dad was putting in soil for his garden. I remember standing there watching the dump truck dump the soil/dirt. After the dump truck left I looked over our neighbors fence and there were those two same twin girls I saw from the accident. For the life of me I cannot remember if I had talked to them but they were both smiling at me (a peacful smile) and then...gone. They were gone just like that. That was the last I had ever seen them. But I rememebr their faces as they were burned into my mind. My wife says that maybe they were visions of my daughters that I have yet to have. :confused: I say they were angles of God.

Another thing I had happen to me when I was a kid (I was about 7 or 8 at this time) was me seeing myself in the full walking right next to me but on ther other side of the fence (our fence at the time was one of those cyclone fences). I loked at him and he looked back. We both walked the duration of the year and then he (or me) disappeared. That has never happend to me since.

I had two other very strange things happen to me as well.

One night me and a few friends were throwing rocks at cars passing by. (Yeah, I know I was a bad kid). Anyways, it was dark and there was a wooded area about 200 feet to the left of me and all of my other friends were either in front of me or to the right. I remember kneeling down to hide form the passing cars. Then I heard in a heavy load whisper "Milt come here...come here Milt!". This repeated about 3 or 4 times in a very quick manner. I looked over to a friend of mine that was about 10 feet away and said or asked him "what do you want". He said I didnt say anything. I thne looked over to the wooded area where I knew no one was there and felt an urge to leave. So I ran...ran...and continued running all the way home. I am not sure if the whisper was "evil" or what but although I was scared (only because of the voice and no one else heard it but me) I also felt safe. Now, my family wasn't "religous" at all and I mean not at all. I had barely been to a church. But for me, I knew it was something big in my life as if God was speaking to me. After that I wanted to become an evangelist (which is a whole other story in itself). I can only explain that voice as a loud, heavy and deep whisper that only I could hear. The other 5 friends of mine could not hear it. But I knew I did. It wasn't a metter of me just thinking. It was a matter of knowing.


The last thing that happend to me as a child was me seeing an "angel of death" of the grim reaper. Now this happend about 2 or 3 years after I heard that whisper from the wooded area. I was laying in my bed one night and my mom was at work at the time. My big brother was at home with me. Anyways, I was laying in my bed and I rolled over on my back and I looked in the door way and there was a figure standing in the door way in a "monk style" stance with arms folded (or in eacj others sleeve). His head was bowed. I quickly turined over and beganing "rocking (turninf side to side)" my self to sleep. I was doing this because I was scared. The last thing I remember was waking up because I felt as if I was being lifted from the bed. As soon as I awoke, I feel back onto the bed.

Now, I understand that this all seems very silly and strange but this is the truth. These things were not the figment of my imagination. These things happend and while these things do not occur today I still have that "slint voince" feeling as it is the only thing that remains from my childhood from these events.

OK, you can all make fun of me know.

[CraigSca]

Cool - everytime you get one of these sensations, re-open this thread and we'll see if they come true or not.

You didn't recently see the Sixth Sense, did you?

[KWhit]

The only thing I remember was looking over, while on the stretcher, and seeing two very young girls - they were twins and identical to the tee.
REDRUM

[maximus]

You didn't recently see the Sixth Sense, did you?

LOL, no. :)

I dont think the Sixth Sense was out in 1978-1987. ;)

[maximus]

REDRUM


Not all twins are identical. Their two identical twins. I think they call siblings who are born together twins (even if they do not look alike), dont they?

[digamma]

Go win your million dollars, and stop wasting time fiddling around in this thread.

JREF Million Dollar Challenge (http://www.randi.org/research/index.html)

excerpt:
Thanks for this link, btw. Their log of applicants is fantastic.

[Karlifornia]

I had a premonition this morning. I woke up around 7:00, and jumped into the shower. I finished, got out, and began toweling off. Then, it hit me: Lil Bow Wow is going to die in a rototilling mishap.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Lil Bow Wow is going to die in a rototilling mishap.

I don't know who "Lil Bow Wow is", but I would blame this on a glaring lack of rototilling safety PSA's. Sure, we all know not to jump into woodchippers (despite the attraction) but rototillers receive practically no attention!

[Mustang]

I looked in the door way and there was a figure standing in the door way in a "monk style" stance with arms folded (or in eacj others sleeve). His head was bowed.

Dude, that was Def Leppard that visited you...

Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen


:D

[21C]

Spider senses tingling.

http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/spider-man/56.jpg

[panerd]

I had a feeling that Joan Collins and John Forsythe were going to be involved in a boating accident, but I didn't know whether to post it in this thread or the dynatsy forum. :D

[KWhit]

I predict that maximus will make a grammatically-challenged post in the near future.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Man, I'm tellin' you, I got a bad feeling about this drop.Man, you always say that. You always say "I got a bad feeling about this drop."

[Honolulu_Blue]

He's clearly a witch...



BURN HIM!!!!!

[QuikSand]

I predict that maximus will make a grammatically-challenged post in the near future.

Uncanny!

[Kodos]

NEWSFLASH!

JOHN TRAVOLTA IS STILL ALIVE AND HIS PLANE IS STILL UNCRASHED.

MORE UPDATES AS NON-EVENTS WARRANT.









;)

[Glengoyne]

Hey Don't knock Maximus....You wouldn't like him when he gets angry.

[Kodos]

Just having a little fun. No harm intended. :)

[maximus]

Hey Don't knock Maximus....You wouldn't like him when he gets angry.

ROARRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrsimperless]

WOW.

You were DAMN close on this one. Just a little off on the last name.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8381553/

I'll remember not to piss you off in the future so that you do not direct your odd form of voodoo in my direction. (Or at someone with the same first name as me for the love!)

[Airhog]

I think this disqualifies Maximus from the werewolf game :D

[kcchief19]

The only example of clairvoyance I have every witnessed was when a group of friends of mine decided to go to the "psychic fair" for laughs and my friend Bill kept walking up to people with his eyes closed while rubbing his temples saying, "I see you wasting your money in the future."

[Fonzie]

Go win your million dollars, and stop wasting time fiddling around in this thread.

JREF Million Dollar Challenge (http://www.randi.org/research/index.html)

excerpt:
James Randi is my hero - I show videos of his work in my Research Methods classes, and the students always get a kick out of him. The way he humiliated Uri Gellar on The Tonight Show is one of my all-time favorites.

[Ksyrup]

Replace "maximus" with "John Edwards," and a half-million people would be convinced he had a real premonition.

Still, if it's true they come in 3's (right DD? :p), then Travolta better not try his hand at ultralights. Two rich white guys named John dead (Denver, Walton), one to go.

[Lorena]

Maybe you got your Johns mixed up:
-------------------------------------------------------------

Wal-Mart Heir John Walton Dies in Crash

By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wal-Mart heir John T. Walton, who threw his considerable financial support behind efforts to educate low-income children, has died in the crash of a homemade, experimental aircraft.

Walton, of Jackson, Wyo., crashed shortly after takeoff Monday from Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park, the company said. The cause of the crash was not known and will be investigated, officials said. Walton was 58.

"I think all you can say is he was just a good man and today, you grieve," Jay Allen, Wal-Mart senior vice president of corporate affairs, told The Morning News of Springdale.

Walton, one of three sons of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and a member of the company's board, was a major advocate of school vouchers, supporting efforts to create taxpayer-funded ways for students to attend private schools.

Walton founded the Children's Scholarship Fund in 1998 to provide low-income families with money to send their children to private schools. The foundation started with $67 million from the Walton Family Foundation and benefited more than 67,000 children.

In March, Forbes magazine listed John Walton as No. 11 on its list of the world's richest people with a net worth of $18.2 billion. He was tied with his brother Jim, one spot behind his brother Rob, and just ahead of his sister, Alice, and his mother, Helen.

"I certainly have nothing negative to say about the man at all. He was a prince," said Walton's former wife, Washington County Circuit Judge Mary Ann Gunn. "He loved to build things. He loved motorcycles. He built his own motorcycle."

The plane he died flying was an experimental ultralight aircraft with a small, gasoline-powered engine and wings wrapped in fabric similar to heavy-duty sail cloth, officials said.

Joan Anzelmo, a spokeswoman for Grand Teton National Park, said rangers will investigate the crash, as is done with any major accident in the park. She said officials also notified the
Federal Aviation Administration and
National Transportation Safety Board.

"Because this is a homemade, non-registered, experimental aircraft, at least today they told us there was not going to an investigation," she said.

She said Walton, "well-known and much-loved in this valley, died doing something that he loved to do."

Jim Courtovich, who spent two years getting the Children's Scholarship Fund off the ground, said Walton was a devoted sponsor who "didn't just donate money, he donated time and energy." Walton would clear days at a time from his schedule to focus on the project, he said.

Courtovich also said that Walton was down to earth and, like his father, not above doing chores himself. One time, skiing in Jackson Hole, he said Walton "had to leave early because he had to caulk his chimney."

John Walton was a major stakeholder in Wal-Mart, with about 12 million shares of the company's stock. He also shared ownership of about 1.7 billion shares with his family in a joint partnership called Walton Enterprises LLC. Walton joined the board of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1992.

John Walton was an Army veteran who served with the Green Berets as a medic during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Silver Star for saving the lives of several members of his unit while under enemy fire, according to the company.

He attended the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, and served as a board member of the Walton Family Foundation, which played a key role in fundraising in the University of Arkansas' recent Campaign for the 21st Century. The Walton family made a $300 million gift to the campaign in 2002.

Besides his mother and siblings, Walton is survived by his wife, Christy, and son, Luke.

[Ksyrup]

Man...first a premonition, now deja vu! I don't know if I'm coming or going...

[Lorena]

Yeah, its amazing isn't it. My plant shut down last year. I went to work one day and had a feeling (more like a silent voice to me) that our plant was going to close. I had no prior knowledge that is was going to occur nor was there any evidence that it might prior to that day.

I had the same thing happen to me but in a dream. I dreamt I was gonna get fired and the following day, we had a company meeting and sure enough, they announced the company was going down. Not exactly getting fired, but pretty close.

Out of curiousity, have you been logging these premonitions Maximus?

[WSUCougar]

Dude, that was Def Leppard that visited you...

Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen


:D
Didn't want this bit o' gold to pass by without a tip of the cap...

[Qwikshot]

Oh my god Mr. Kotter, it's like so weird...I thought I was like gonna DIE or somethin'.

[maximus]

I had the same thing happen to me but in a dream. I dreamt I was gonna get fired and the following day, we had a company meeting and sure enough, they announced the company was going down. Not exactly getting fired, but pretty close.

Out of curiousity, have you been logging these premonitions Maximus?

I used too. However, I used to get frustrated when things wouldn't happen and then I stopped. My wife says I should log them. I got frustrated because I would get confused as to why I would get these feelings and then not come true.

As for getting the "Johns" mixed up (although I know you are j/k :) ), the feeling I had was John Travolta and it was very clear. However, I could have been wrong as this has happend to me before. For example, I had a dream that my wife was going to see a person from high school she hasn't seen in about 6 yrs. Well, a week later it came true but the only difference was that his name was "Don" and in my dream is was "Tom".