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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on September 09, 2004, 07:18:58 am
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Crikey
In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1299444,00.html)
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What... the... hell...
Now that is seriously some weird stuff. o_O
I wonder what would happen if they did 'try to find them'.
- Grug
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There's nothing nefarious about this.
It's just some old tombs that various people have stumbled across over the years and used for whatever means they saw fit. Thus all the various markings.
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ARRHHHHH VAMPIRES!!!1!!!
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Originally posted by Grug
What... the... hell...
Now that is seriously some weird stuff. o_O
I wonder what would happen if they did 'try to find them'.
- Grug
They'd stomp their little feet, moan about being 'oppressed', before eventually being thrown into a Parisian cell for trespassing. :)
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lol. Most Probably.
Still, I don't know of any underground caves filled with skulls where I live... o_O
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:D That is one of the weirdest things I've read in a long time :D
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Originally posted by Grug
lol. Most Probably.
Still, I don't know of any underground caves filled with skulls where I live... o_O
tis likely because Oz is a new country when it comes to city-building.
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It's Silhouette!
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HOLY.....
That has got the coolest news story i have ever read.
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I've been to the Catacombs. Really freaky, because the builders left all kinds of morbid poetry carved into the stone columns and supports to remind visitors of their own mortality. (Makes me sorry I learned how to read medieval French.) They also did things like make hearts and crosses and other patterns out of human skulls in the walls. Maybe I'll find and upload our photos.
For some background, the Catacombs were built in the late middle ages as part of a vast urban renewal program in Paris. Essentially the government demolished all the old, rotting, plague-infested, fire-hazardous tenements of the poor and built new sturdy masonry buildings and wide, straight tree-lined boulevards. Part of this involved digging up countless medieval cemetaries, so the Catacombs were built to house the remains of all the skeletons they dug up, since they posed a significant health risk.
The catacombs were widely used by the rebels in the French Revolution, the resistance during the Nazi occupation, and were home to the gypsies in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. They were opened in the 19th century, along with the sewers (les egouts) for tourism. I never knew they had a club/restaurant down there, though.
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"I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!"
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Very neat. Now I'll know what to do when I'm in Paris. :)
Regardless of what the note said, it should be interesting finding it's purpose. Finding this out 50 years later after being abandoned, it's unlikely they would care.
Maybe it's Cold War releated perhaps?
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Probably just a hobby room. I'd imagine Paris real-estate is pricey.
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awesome
See, this is why I wan't to join a secret society.
Or form one.
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Thats pretty intenresting Galemp. Where did paris mine the stone though? Or did they import it?
Just curious about this is all...
lol Rictor, there are heaps around but the purpose of having them secret is that you can only be invited to join.
Most of them are just a bunch of rich people doing some stuff for charity every now and then. I think its more of a social club sort of thing...
But yeah, I wouldn't mind starting / joining a secret society either. Bunch of people wearing huge robes murmering to each other about world domination and other important issue's like what to order for tea... :p
- Grug
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:wtf: Where do you keep finding all this wierd stuf Aldo? :wtf:
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Originally posted by Kosh
:wtf: Where do you keep finding all this wierd stuf Aldo? :wtf:
Um.... the internet.
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You know. That cinema would be a great venue for a horror movie marathon :D
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
"I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!"
The Cask of Amontillado... :shaking:
That story was eery...
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Originally posted by Raa
The Cask of Amontillado... :shaking:
That story was eery...
I thought it was just wierd.
Um.... the internet
Duh. But why does it seem that you are the one who posts all the wierd stuff?
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Originally posted by Raa
The Cask of Amontillado... :shaking:
That story was eery...
Yeah but Poe's stuff was all pretty weird :) Damn good though of course :)
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Originally posted by Kosh
Duh. But why does it seem that you are the one who posts all the wierd stuff?
I steal it off other, more popular websites.
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That's utterly cool.
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The HLP Catacombs are a long-desired future project of ours. :p
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Filled with the dead bodies of inactive members, lurkers, and the remains of VBB and VWBB members? :wtf:
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Originally posted by Setekh
The HLP Catacombs are a long-desired future project of ours. :p
Where the bones of old projects (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=26) are laid to rest *sniff*