Fun Facts
 

I learned something that blew my mind today. I dunno if I'm getting all the specifics right, but that's why I made this thread.

Blu-Ray vs. HDVD
Blu-Ray won this competition a few years ago a large part because of the porn industry, which dwarfs the movie industry almost 10:1....all the other industries followed.

I was blown away! Had no idea the influence porn had.

Post your fun fact here too!

Didn't WalMart have something to do with this, or is that a different orange ?

It was the same with Betamax vs VHS.

Porn backed VHS, VHS proved the winner.

The adult film industry is incredibly huge. They spew films into the market as if it were a cheap, Asian hooker, asking only ¥1 for a facial.

Hollywood, by comparison, is an Amish Mormon (say what?!) who doesn't plan to wed, as he's taken a vow of eternal chastity, to better his understanding of the teachings of Buddha.

Whatever the adult film industry backs, in short, will win... because they release so much, on that format, that it saturates the market, leaving no room for the other format, whether it be superior, or not.

(However, they always back the correct media format, so, good for them.)

Says who? Betamax was a superior product, and even after it "lost," it remained the default choice for professional video editors for a decade and a half. (Record/edit the whole thing in Beta, only downgrade to VHS copies after you've finalized the master.)

I thought it was mostly because "Blu-Ray" is a much cooler name than "HDVD".:cool:

Actually, the influence of the porn industry goes back further than VHS vs Betamax. Porn was the first to popularize Polaroid photography. Also digital photography, membership websites, motion pictures and even the printing press.

CNN.com recently had an article on this.

Can you imagine in the next few years a guy on his couch masturbating in front of a Blu-Ray 3d HD porn movie naked save for a pair of 3D glasses ?

What a sight !

Fun fact: if you lined up all the Volkswagons ever made along the autobahn, some idiot in a Porsche would pull out and pass the lot.

Fun fact: the expression "To give someone the third degree" comes from the Freemason initiation to the rank of Master Mason, the third degree of Freemasonry. True!

Fun Fact: "On the level" is also a Masonic phrase. So is to "blackball" someone.

so far - none of these facts are particularly "fun" -


someone's on notice.

Yes M'am...
FUN FACT from kisrael: Space-sickness is measured in "garns", a unit named for Rep. Senator Jake Garn, who politicked his way to a space trip and upchucked like mad...

I've been wondering that: What qualifies a fact as "fun?"

If it entertains Bri.

I'm on pins and needles, hoping I've pleased Mistress Brianna.:unsure:

:) Yes, yes you did indeed please me!

Thank you, Mistress. :D

There are some really cool album covers and then there are some really......(well, I think you should just see for yourself.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...4.html#s126935


:lol2:

The vertical groove in your upper lip is called the philtrum.

A pig's orgasm can last thirty minutes. That's a fun fact.

Hell, I'm outta here. I know what my track record is.

But breeding boars often have to be wanked off by farm workers, after being encouraged to mount a wooden block. The sows are then impregnated without having to hang about for 30 minutes thinking, "I really need to sort that sty out..."

The sows have more important work to do than the farmer?

Two thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The Greek general Xenophon made his solders eat watercress to increase their vigour before going into battle and Roman emperors said it enabled them to make “bold decisions.”

My cousin has a Xenophon, he played it in the high school band.

I was gonna post the video of Mike Rowe from "Dirty Jobs" collecting bull semen, but I couldn't find it. In the vid they use a device similar to the ElectroJac 5 to "stimulate the bull's prostate" and force the bull to, uh, 'do what he does'. Mike says to the old rancher "That looks kinda like a rocket ship." The rancher says "That's about what it's gonna feel like to that bull."

If any of you ever run across that clip, I would appreciate a heads up. I can't find it anywhere.

Charles Lindbergh was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic.

And the first Nazi apologist to get a tickertape parade

I couldn't care less if he rimmed Hitler while giving him a reach around.

Chuck Yeager used to herd antelope with a P-39 Airacobra.

The term "nerd" originated in the 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo”.
“And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo. And Bring Back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!”

According to the American Heritage Dictionary’s word history. Experts maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd, and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”’

Nerd R²?

Now those are some fun facts!

Paul McCartney is left-handed.
And rumor has it, he was the walrus...

Did you know Fidel Castro has a blog?

SOS is a Morse "procedural signal” or "prosign," its respective letters have no inherent meaning per se. In the simplest terms, SOS is a ‘SIGNAL’ indicating distress and the need for help, and not an acronym or abbreviation.

I thought it meant "Save Our Ship"
When our kids were young and we voted on school budgets, we turned it into "Save Our Schools"
Here in the Pacific Northwest there is also "Save Our Salmon".

But these may just be plagiarisms from the original.

Now it's the chicken's symbol for "Save Our Salmonella.":yelsick:

Save our souls, we're facing de-feet.

SOS is pretty much all I know in Morse code.
I learnt it from John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, where Bill signals Josella across the countryside (it's the only Morse Code he knows too!)

The fun fact is John Wyndham's full name is John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris. That was in the days before names were taxed.

ETA I did have to look this up to make sure I had it exactly right (I had a mispelling and the order wrong in truth) but it was something I pretty much knew.

The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.

Triffids spit poison and kill.

Fun Facts about Toast

Not to be confused with toasting your computer or toasting by the host to prove the drinks are not poisoned and subsequent deaths blamed on the gods.

Gone are the days when we invite our enemies to a party to kill them, thus the saying, "A toast to your health."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A592788
Toast Today



There are a vast number of toast lovers in the world, and with the Internet they have found a new medium. There is an immense network of toast-dedicated websites, including a toast bible, songs about toast, and all sorts of toast and toaster memorabilia. For example, visit Dr Toast for toast recipes, related links, and so on.

New interest has recently been aroused in a toast-related phenomenon involving Murphy's Law; it has been claimed throughout recent history that toast, when dropped, will always land buttered-side down. Most scientists call this idea nonsense, but some hang on to the belief. Science journalist, Robert Matthews has an interesting example of this.

The Future of Toast

Exciting new developments occur everyday involving the future of toast. Progress has been made in areas such as talking toasters that respond to voice commands regarding bread darkness. Some have even worked on a brilliant perpetual motion theory involving cats and buttered toast. Alright, maybe this last one wouldn't work, but you never know until you try. There is also word of a toaster that burns weather predictions into the side of your toast. It gets the predictions by means of an Internet connection.

They are? Drat. :(

If Bruce were to lay all the Cellar ladies from end to end I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.

That can't happen, many of the Cellar ladies are married. Homey don't do dat. :headshake:

in that case ....

Thaks for fixing that, Classic.

And Bruce, I thought it was a given that if you were involved, the ladies would be single.

Just clarifyin', ya know. :cool:

wtf are you saying bruce is a man ho? or all single cellar ladies are ho's?




Oh here is a fun fact....

That's a rather Victorian view, after all it is the 21st century.:p:

lol, yer funny :D

Step outside and smell the roses. On a daily average you will inhale 1 liter of others anal gasses.

I bring that average up, riding public transit.

If toast always lands buttered side down, and a cat always lands on its feet...What happens if you butter your toast and strap it to a cat's back?:eyebrow: