Odd ASOUE Real-Life Coincidence Thread

[Antenora]

From Reddit: My boyfriend wants to create a reptile room.

Island sheep that eat seaweed. Reminds me of The End.

[Hermes]

The boyfriend seems to share Monty's belief that frogs are reptiles.

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

Well ... Hepertelogists also study frogs, and I think that the "reptile and amphibian room" loses some of its sound, because alliteration is missing. It would be difficult today to call the second book TRAR or TAR, out TRAR TAARR ... TRR sounds much better, especially when we compare that with the other books.

[B.]

Quirky looking shop/office space on my way home in Edinburgh the other day

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

Then, I realized that dreams are included ... So I will report a dream I had today while I slept in preparation for my night job. In my dream, I was getting out of the shower wrapped in a towel when for some reason, suddenly, I was in a room where a conference of several authors was taking place. Among them was Daniel Handler (much younger than today) and wearing an overcoat and a hat (like Lemony Snicket's clothes). He was talking to other authors, when he later came to talk to me. I know he met me and said he wanted to talk to me. I tried to apologize for the last time we talked I embarrassed him about the matter involving Beatrice, he said it was okay, and that he expected me to understand that for contractual reasons he couldn't discuss it with me in front of other people.

But then he took me to another room where there was the rest of an exhibition in honor of ASOUE. There were several pictures with pictures that seemed to come from LSTUA, but they were other pictures, not the same ones. I remember taking a picture of several children wearing clothes from the 1920s (the pictures were in black and white). Then Daniel Handler (who in my dream was already presenting a mix of Lemony Snicket and Daniel Handler) told me: "These are missing children from a case I'm investigating. Unfortunately, they have been missing for more than 20 years." I asked what that exhibition was, and he told me that it was a museum that unfortunately will never be able to open. Then we were walking outside and I asked, "I know you don't like pictures, but could I take a self of ours?" And then he said: "On your phone or mine? " Then I realized that I was still wearing only a towel, and I didn't have my phone. And it didn't make sense for me to take the picture on his phone. So I invited him to enter my home (somehow the scenario of my dream was already my home again). He stayed in the TV room, while I went to my parents' room. I found my mom and dad in the room, and I said we had a guest , and if my mom could offer him coffee. That's when I realized that I was not in the house where I live today, but in my childhood home with my father and mother. My mother looked at me and asked who it was the guest. I said, "It's Lemony Snicket". She said something like "I knew he would come someday" and then I woke up. I never dreamed of something like that, and I was in my dream transported to when I was a child ... I woke up with a mixture of sadness and joy and longing of my parents.

[R.]

I was just watching The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, and an adult defined a word in a very Snickety way to a child, who said he knew what the word meant. I just thought it was a funny coincidence and possibly a deliberate reference.


Also, because dreams count, I once had a dream I could travel into books, and obviously I headed straight for the Hotel Denouement to do some detective work. I discovered, much to my astonishment, that Sunny had been working as a double agent for  Esmé Squalor since THH. I decided to eavesdrop on Esmé to find out if my discovery was true, but when I caught a glimpse of her, my common sense returned, I decided it was too dangerous and headed back to the lobby. I found my parents talking to a strange woman in the lobby, who seemed very pleased to see me for some reason. She led the three of us into a room and told us that she was an Arctic explorer studying the formation of glaciers. She talked to us about her work, but I soon realised she was trying to recruit me for VFD. Frightened, me and my parents left ASOUE and found ourselves standing in a queue. Then I woke up.

A while ago, I was watching an online broadcast of the opera La Bohéme, and it was in French, but there were subtitles. At one point, a group of characters were talking about fire, and then one of them said something was a Vain Fragile Drama. I’m not certain, but I think each word of the phrase began with a capital letter, as if the VFD was intended to be seen.

[tricky]

Number 5 could 100% be a Prufrock Orphan who is done with everyone's bullsh-t

Aug 23, 2020 10:56:21 GMT -5 R. said:

I was just watching The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, and an adult defined a word in a very Snickety way to a child, who said he knew what the word meant. I just thought it was a funny coincidence and possibly a deliberate reference.

[R.]

I just saw a long black car with VFD on the license plate. There were lunchboxes and water bottles in the car, seemingly belonging to children, and I even saw one of their names, which I won’t say because I don’t want to be an intrusion of her privacy.

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

Aug 30, 2020 14:19:06 GMT -5 R. said:

I just saw a long black car with VFD on the license plate. There were lunchboxes and water bottles in the car, seemingly belonging to children, and I even saw one of their names, which I won’t say because I don’t want to be an intrusion of her privacy.

Thank you for your discretion. The neophyte is interested in the new education. (kidding, I couldn't help myself. Say no to kidnapping children.)

[Skelly Craig]

Aug 30, 2020 15:05:36 GMT -5 Optimism is my Phil-osophy said:

Say no to kidnapping children.

Political correctness gone mad.

[Invisible]

My boyfriend bought me a sandwich for my train ride today, but he didn't tell me what filling. Suppose he wanted it to be a surprise. As it was a particularly long journey, I had the Ersatz Elevator episodes to watch. And well, turns out my sandwich had salmon in it.

[R.]

My Maths teacher wouldn’t stop saying the word volunteer today. I mean, he said it about 10 times in the lesson, for no apparent reason.


Edit: I accidentally dressed like Carmelita today, in about 6 different shades of pink.

[Skelly Craig]

Monty Montgomery is an American film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.

Montgomery is best known for such films as Wild at Heart, The Portrait of a Lady and The Loveless.

Montgomery is also known for playing the role of The Cowboy in the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive.

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

Sept 16, 2020 13:27:23 GMT -5 Skelly Craig said:

Monty Montgomery is an American film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.

Montgomery is best known for such films as Wild at Heart, The Portrait of a Lady and The Loveless.

Montgomery is also known for playing the role of The Cowboy in the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive.

And we were thinking all along that whoever produced, directed and roterized the films was his assistant.

[R.]

Last night, I heard typewriter keys outside my house. I got really freaked out, and didn’t sleep well because I was too worried about being taken.