Totally useless coincidences? (God, Christ, Earth, seven)

[unomundo]

This past week I've had two (apparently) totally useless coincidences but they were so far fetched I want to know if they indicate some sort of spike in "consciousness". Don't laugh (well laugh if you want) but here they are:

1. For abolutely no reason, a Saturday Night Live skit where Will Ferrell plays the cowbell in a rock band popped into my head. He's told by Christopher Walken that the song still needs "more cowbell" (even though he's hammering on it loudly for the entire song). That evening, on the way home from work I saw a pick up truck on the freeway with the license plate "MRCWBELL" (More Cowbell??)

2. A few days later, my manager indicated that she was interviewing a fellow named Jake for my department (my department being just me at the moment). I joked that the department would then be "Jake and the Fatman" from an old early 80's TV series. This weekend, there was a commecial for a new DVD out which contains the first season of "Jake and the Fat Man".

This stuff is SO random it's freaky, and it's happened a number of times before. So the question is: since this is based on such trivial events/content, do I dismiss it as a humorous anecdote; or is it something deeper...and if so how do I act on it??

[Capt. Dan]

It means you have WAY too much trivia stuck in your head!!!!!!!!!!!!

[unomundo]

So what my wife has been saying all these years is TRUE!! Thanks for the confirmation. Maybe I can be a professional game show contestant!!

[PG77]

I think it is probably just a coincidence. It's like when you see a certain kind of car that you've never seen before. Then after that you see 10 of them.

[coosjoaquin]

It may mean the discordian gods are having some fun.

[happynoodleboycey]

Bill Hicks's prankster god is screwin' with ya!

[MontanaGuy]

One time probably thirty years ago I had a dream and there was a guy in the dream whose name was Tater, which is a pretty strange name. It was a totally unintelligible dream like most of them are but when I woke up in the morning and was laying in the bed I happened to look up on the shelf in the closet and there was a cardboard box that said Tater Tots. I wondered if I had looked at that box and somehow that word just found it's way into my subconscious and resulted in the dream. It's completely inconsequential but I did find it a little odd.

[GCSTroop]

Along the same lines as Montana, when I was about seven or eight years old I had a dream about an earthquake creating havoc in California. A couple of nights later my Mom and I were going to watch the World Series (Dodgers and A's) together and she went upstairs to tend to something right before the ball game. She called down to ask if the game was on and thinking that it did seem to be delayed and reflecting on that dream from a few days earlier I jokingly called up to her "No, California just got hit by an earthquake." As she came downstairs to watch the news there was nothing on. About thirty seconds later, a news flash came on saying that the World Series would be postponed due to an earthquake hitting California. Needless to say, we were both kind of amused at that.