Fun Facts - Page 3

Gravdigr · 08-23-2010, 01:23 AM

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

Gravdigr · 08-24-2010, 07:22 AM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 08-24-2010, 02:55 PM

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.”’

Gravdigr · 08-24-2010, 05:47 PM

Nerd R²?

xoxoxoBruce · 08-26-2010, 08:44 AM

Quote:

As the walruses used their flippers to clear away ocean muck to find clams, the scientists noticed that they overwhelmingly favored their right sides. In fact, a left-handed walrus has yet to be seen.

Trilby · 08-26-2010, 09:21 AM

Now those are some fun facts!

Crimson Ghost · 08-27-2010, 01:52 AM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 08-28-2010, 03:34 PM

Did you know Fidel Castro has a blog?

classicman · 08-29-2010, 05:51 PM

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.

Lamplighter · 08-29-2010, 06:43 PM

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.

spudcon · 08-29-2010, 07:54 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 08-29-2010, 08:04 PM

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

classicman · 08-29-2010, 09:22 PM

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Save Our Ship
Save Our Souls
Sink Or Swim

These are termed 'backronyms,' as explained below, and came into popular use AFTER SOS went into effect. In actuality, and as originally intended when SOS was introduced in 1908, the letters have no meaning.

SOS is a Morse "procedural signal” or "prosign." As the SOS signal is a ‘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.

After SOS was first used by the steamship Arapahoe in 1909 (not the Titanic in 1912 as many people believe), people applied their own meanings to the letters. The most popular ones: "save our ship" and "save our souls." These are correctly termed ‘bacronyms.’

‘SOS’ was chosen because the three dots, three dashes, three dots are easy to transmit and not easily confused with other letters by the sender or recipients. With the advent of radios on ships beginning in the 1920s, ‘Mayday’ became, and still is, the International Distress Signal, but SOS served its purpose, for a while.

Sundae · 08-30-2010, 04:31 PM

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.

GunMaster357 · 09-01-2010, 03:20 AM

The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.

08-23-2010, 01:23 AM	#31
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08-24-2010, 07:22 AM	#32
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Chuck Yeager used to herd antelope with a P-39 Airacobra. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

08-24-2010, 02:55 PM	#33
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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.”’ __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-24-2010, 05:47 PM	#34
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Nerd R²? __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

08-26-2010, 09:21 AM	#36
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Now those are some fun facts! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

08-27-2010, 01:52 AM	#37
Crimson Ghost Larger than life and twice as ugly. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,264	Paul McCartney is left-handed. And rumor has it, he was the walrus... __________________ We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years

08-28-2010, 03:34 PM	#38
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Did you know Fidel Castro has a blog? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-29-2010, 05:51 PM	#39
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	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. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

08-29-2010, 06:43 PM	#40
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	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.

08-29-2010, 07:54 PM	#41
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	Now it's the chicken's symbol for "Save Our Salmonella." __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

08-29-2010, 08:04 PM	#42
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Save our souls, we're facing de-feet. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-30-2010, 04:31 PM	#44
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	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. Last edited by Sundae; 08-30-2010 at 04:36 PM. Reason: To be strictly honest

09-01-2010, 03:20 AM	#45
GunMaster357 Professor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Brest (FRANCE) Posts: 1,837	The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella. __________________ "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

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