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Title: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: Bill Peckham on October 13, 2008, 10:23:43 PM: Bookies suspend bets on alien landing (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2008/10/13/bookies-suspend-bets-on-alien-landing-86908-20798802/)

Oct 13 2008

WORRIED bookmakers have stopped taking bets on aliens showing up on Earth.

It follows a flurry of bets amid internet buzz that a massive intergalactic spaceship will appear tomorrow.

Videos and messages on YouTube, blogs and UFO websites are buzzing with predictions that a vessel from the alien Federation Of Light will be visible in our skies for three days.

It may all sound more oddball than odds-on - but bookies William Hill are taking it seriously enough to temporarily suspend betting on proof of the existence of intelligent alien life being confirmed by PM Gordon Brown.

It follows a rush of bets, including one punter who wanted to place a s3000 bet at odds of 1000-1.

Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said: "This is the first time an internet phenomenon has affected our business.

"We now have seven-figure liabilities if the ship does appear. We have decided to duck any more big bets until the 14th has passed, hopefully without incident."

The rumour is believed to have been started by "channeler" Blossom Goodchild, who claimed to have received a psychic tip-off.

The stories have spread, along with a warning it would "cause panic among the masses".

One message claims: "They have carefully selected this time to show up and are doing it out of goodwill because of the great evils behind this world.

"It is time to become free from wars, pestilence, famine, poverty, sickness, disease, rich and poor and all the world sufferings."

No time was given for the spaceship's arrival.
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: Run8 on October 13, 2008, 10:42:36 PM: will they cure kidney disease?
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: Wallyz on October 14, 2008, 05:56:52 AM: Yes, but the cost is allowing them to eat your brain/
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: RichardMEL on October 14, 2008, 06:18:54 AM: Quote from: Wallyz on October 14, 2008, 05:56:52 AM
Yes, but the cost is allowing them to eat your brain/

Sylar is an alien? Who knew!!!
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: silverhead on October 14, 2008, 09:20:09 AM: I can guarantee they will not show up, my fee is only 700 billion.........

If Washington can dream, so can I.......
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: boxman55 on October 14, 2008, 03:46:57 PM: i'm outta luck too. My brain is already fried...Boxman
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: Romona on October 14, 2008, 07:00:31 PM: I think I spotted a few at the bowling alley tonight.
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: Bill Peckham on October 14, 2008, 08:21:53 PM: I can't believe Blossom Goodchild doesn't know what she is talking about - she's a professional channeler.

Maybe they just missed our exit and are running late.
Title: Re: I welcome our new alien overlords
Post by: kitkatz on October 14, 2008, 08:41:44 PM: Good luck to the aliens and God bless. They will take one look at the mess here and beat it back to their own world!