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.)
(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...
so far - none of these facts are particularly "fun" -
I've been wondering that: What qualifies a fact as "fun?"
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:
I'm on pins and needles, hoping I've pleased Mistress Brianna.:unsure:
:) Yes, yes you did indeed please me!
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/2010/08/15/the-most-ridiculous-recor_n_682684.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.
I'm on pins and needles, hoping I've pleased Mistress Brianna.:unsure:
Hell, I'm outta here. I know what my track record is.
A pig's orgasm can last thirty minutes. That's a fun fact.
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.
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.
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..."
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.
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.”’
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Day of the Triffids,
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 i
nterest 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.
Gone are the days when we invite our enemies to a party to kill them...
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 ....
If Bruce were to lay all the [COLOR="DarkGreen"]single [/COLOR]Cellar ladies from end to end I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
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:
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.
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..
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:
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:
It's more powerful if you just use a wheel covered with cats. And then you can eat the buttered toast!
MMmmmmmmm.... buttered cats....
According to Wired, giraffes only require 1.9 hours of sleep per day.
Over the years, Barnum’s Animal Crackers has featured 54 different animals. The most recent addition was the koala in 2002, to celebrate Animal Crackers’ 100th anniversary.
A study of OkCupid profiles found that using a flash to take a picture makes one look about 7 years older.
According to Wired, giraffes only require 1.9 hours of sleep per day.
Over the years, Barnum’s Animal Crackers has featured 54 different animals. The most recent addition was the koala in 2002, to celebrate Animal Crackers’ 100th anniversary.
A study of OkCupid profiles found that using a flash to take a picture makes one look about 7 years older.
Staying out in the sun to have your picture taken eventually makes you look 50 years older, with or without a camera.
With the exception of manatees and sloths, all mammals have seven cervical (neck) vertebrae. This includes mice, humans and giraffes.
What about duck-billed platypuses?
Excellent question. I haven't been able to find an answer. But I did find that I don't want to date a platypus:
...while the females give milk, they lack nipples, and the milk simply oozes out of their chests...
That would make a mess of your good silk blouse.
oozing seldom makes for a good date.
I can't really see them that clearly, but it looks like 6 neck bones in the duck billed platypus.
I wonder if they make great pets.
Doubtful. Too many questions.
Gravdigr - you may enjoy this one...
Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid (formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol) into the soil each year.
On the flip side, cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
What about duck-billed platypuses?
More importantly, what about the chupacabra?
The Smothers Brothers changed the vocabulary of frogs everywhere.
Before them frogs said "Croak"
Now frog language shows up
everywhere.
Ribbit, for her pleasure...
Gravdigr - you may enjoy this one...
Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid (formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol) into the soil each year.
On the flip side, cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
People are just dying to pollute the world...
Did you know that, by tradition, the word 'gullible' is never printed in any dictionary.
Would I be gullible if I looked to see if you are a truth-teller ?
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
Snopes
disagrees.
Germany is about to finish paying for
World War I.
"Once all the Germans
Were warlike, and mean,
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson
In nineteen-eighteen,
And they've hardly bothered us since then!"
Ha, that must have been written in 1920. :haha:
Each year, the US buries enough caskets to use;
30 million ft of hardwood
90,272 tons of steel
2,700 tons of copper and bronze
Why do zippers have a YKK on them? Whats it stand for?
The YKK stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha. In 1934 Tadao Yoshida founded Yoshida Industries Limited. This company is now the worlds foremost zipper manufacturer, making about 90% of all zippers in over 206 facilities in 52 countries.
They also make the machines that make the zippers.
More people are born on Oct 5th, than any other day.
More people are born on Oct 5th, than any other day.
This is a small sample (about 2,000 employees), but there is only one person at my work with an October 5th birthday. There are 9 with October 10th and 9 with October 31st birthdays.
Then clearly your employer is OctoberFifthist. people should sue.
I am days too late for that statistic, but I know three people born on my birthday and one person the day before and one after.
This is a small sample (about 2,000 employees), but there is only one person at my work with an October 5th birthday. There are 9 with October 10th and 9 with October 31st birthdays.
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/102004/10052004/1523986The average pregnancy lasts 274 days. Oct. 5, he wrote in an e-mail, is about 274 days from New Year's Eve, the day millions of Americans are celebrating with alcohol.
Can we deduce from that fact that a lot of Americans are drunkard's children? ;)
One of my cow orkers at my old job got pregnant at our state conference. Our conferences can get a little crazy. She and her husband got a darling girl out of the deal.
So, what happens at conference does not always stay at conference!
Can we deduce from that fact that a lot of Americans are drunkard's children? ;)
You couldn't tell from the dain bramage?
I could tell that, I was just waiting for someone to confirm that fact.
One of my cow orkers at my old job got pregnant at our state conference. Our conferences can get a little crazy. She and her husband got a darling girl out of the deal.
So, what happens at conference does not always stay at conference!
Was her husband at the conference?:eyebrow:
Was her husband at the conference?:eyebrow:
Yeah, I know that wasn't clear. They weren't married then, but had been together for a while. He worked in IT at the same school where we worked, so went along to conference as a guest and probably sat in on some technical breakout sessions. We'd all had a drunken night: took a bus to Dave and Busters and had a blast. Some more than others, apparently. :blush:
More importantly, what about the chupacabra?
I made the mistake of mentioning "Chupacabra" during our camping trip this summer with the 3 and 6 year old. (WTF was I thinking about?) Anyway, things might have been fine except for Mrs. Foot's reaction which got the kids panicking. I had to do some back pedaling on the history of the chupacabra but by giving them a direct translation of "Goat Sucker" they thought it was hilarious. How crazy is that? to suck on a goat? So the rest of the trip was all about goat sucking...
I don't see that as crazy if you do it with a female goat and like goat milk.
Don't try to rationalize and justify you're sick perversions, to us. :lol:
Should I say that I am a sucker? ;)
Should I say that I am a sucker? ;)
Ambassador for
La Leche League sounds more dignified.
There's a sucker born every minute, actually more like 267 born every minute.
Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands. (one letter at a time)
There are six words in the English language with the letter combination "uu."
Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum.
But only two of those words are actually in the English language.
Not for UG. :haha:
you mean uug?
It's spelled UGG.
UGG Australia is a division of [COLOR=Black]
Deckers Outdoor Corporation,
Goleta, California[/COLOR]. UGG is a registered trademark in the United States and over 100 other countries for a brand of sheepskin boots and other footwear, as well as bags, clothing, outerwear and other goods. Deckers also owns registrations for UGG AUSTRALIA brand in various countries around the world.
We're talking about a different [STRIKE]heel[/STRIKE] sole. :haha:
He's just putting the boot in
I don't see that as crazy if you do it with a female goat and like goat milk.
Goat milker (Latin Caprimulgus) is a genus of birds (
Nightjar)
Not only did researchers find that couples with sons are more likely to stick together, unmarried pregnant couples were more likely to have shotgun weddings if the baby was going to be a boy and divorced mothers of boys are more likely to remarry and stay remarried.
Trouble makers from birth. :lol:
linkMore like: if'n it's a boy it's gotta have every opportunity to live a legitimate life.
To hell with a coupla girls! They have no real standing in society anyway. I mean, she might be the next Palin or O'Donnell, gawd forbid.
:)
It's nothing against the girls, it's all based on the fact that custody defaults to the mother in most divorces.
The husbands don't want their boys to turn out wussy, so they're less likely to accept the idea of the woman raising them alone 26 days out of the month. At the same time the women feel less capable of raising boys on their own, so they'll either stay with the husband, or they'll find a new man, whichever's easier.
There's also a suggestion that women are more likely to leave a bad marriage if they have daughters .... (a) because they want to be a good role model: leave an abusive man and (b) because they will most likely have their daughters support ...that sorta makes sense
Huh... it's always been my anecdotal impression that the boys side with the mother, the girls side with the father. It's all Oedipal 'n shit.
In my case it was just the opposite clod.
You sided with your father?
But father's lie...
[YOUTUBE]9sVt7hcEysU[/YOUTUBE]
You sided with your father?
no, my sons sided with me.
First correlation is not causation.
Tell the climate scientists that. :haha:
Noteworthy fact:
I used to be the youngest person in the world.
Noteworthy fact:
I used to be the youngest person in the world.
A worthy candidate for the Hall-of-Fame :)
" ' 'Is not a quine' is not a quine ' is a quine" is true, but is not a quine.
Because we're to rich to eat offal.
Even the thought of Haggis makes me barf. I appreciate living in a country where I can refuse without offending because the law is on my side..
As a vegetarian, I prefer to see the Haggis running free on the mountainsides where they belong.
Would that be Haggi or Haggises?
Watermelon is a vegetable.
Because we're to rich to eat offal.
That's awful.
But yet hot dogs and ground beef and sausage are legal....
Watermelon is a vegetable.
from Wikipedia
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.), family Cucurbitaceae) can be both the fruit and the plant of a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) plant originally from southern Africa, and is one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp); pepos are derived from an inferior ovary, and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green, yellow and sometimes white) and a juicy, sweet interior flesh (usually pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, red and sometimes green if not ripe). It is also commonly used to make a variety of salads, most notably fruit salad.
So there. Watermelon is a fruit. And it's special. And that's one big
berry.
it's still a vegetable. And it's the state vegetable of Oklahoma.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130729448That is an odd explanation of why watermelon would be a vegetable. Biologically, it is a fruit, because it is the seed container. Likewise, cucumbers and gourds are also fruits, biologically. They are colloquially considered vegetables because they are not sweet, and due to tradition, neither of which applies to watermelon.
Of course, 'vegetable' doesn't have a biological meaning akin to fruit, so definitions are somewhat subjective.
And one could definitely say it's not an animal or mineral.
Like pumpkins, watermelons are catapult ammunitions
listen, Oklahoma says it's a vegetable, so it's freaking vegetable, OKAY?
:lol:
That is an odd explanation of why watermelon would be a vegetable. Biologically, it is a fruit, because it is the seed container. Likewise, cucumbers and gourds are also fruits, biologically. They are colloquially considered vegetables because they are not sweet, and due to tradition, neither of which applies to watermelon.
Of course, 'vegetable' doesn't have a biological meaning akin to fruit, so definitions are somewhat subjective.
And one could definitely say it's not an animal or mineral.
Well...I'd argue with you, but, I ain't fucking with Oklahoma.
Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains...
And it's the state vegetable of Oklahoma.
Terry Schivo was the state vegetable of Florida.
What's the hardest part about eating a vegetable? The wheelchair.
I've read that about half of all Americans live within fifty miles of their birthplace.
Hey, that means I know how the other half lives, 'cause I am the other half.
Well I'm not the whole other half, I ain't that fat. :rolleyes:
If my birthplace is my childhood home, I'm about 20 miles from it. If you count the hospital, I'm more like 10. :)
I live in my birthplace. I bought the house I grew up in. And, yes, I sleep in my old room, the parents sleep in their old room.
I live thousands of miles from my birthplace. But then I'm not American.
If my birthplace is my childhood home, I'm about 20 miles from it. If you count the hospital, I'm more like 10. :)
I, too, live close to both childhood home and hospital of birth. I'm closer to home than hospital, but closer to the hospital than is my childhood home.
Half of my household lives within 10 miles of their birthplace, but they are kids and were born recently.
I live in my birthplace. I bought the house I grew up in. And, yes, I sleep in my old room, the parents sleep in their old room.
Soooooo, you're not living with your folks..they are living with you. That's different, you know.
Its actually getting more and more common these days.
Good for you Digr.
Soooooo, you're not living with your folks..they are living with you. That's different, you know.
Try explaining that to a chick...
Its actually getting more and more common these days.
Good for you Digr.
Yeah, well, when the people who birthed and raised you and didn't charge you for it, need something ya kinda gotta step up...They were about lose the house they were in, and I had just bought the old place, which left me literally broke. I had no furniture, none. Couldn't afford electric, water, and gas bills. Popdigr was about to cash out his 401k, so we struck the deal. They unloaded their place, moved back home, and they pay the monthly bills and taxes. It works for us...
Grav, I think most of the world lives that way. The kids know their responsibility to parents, and the grandparents are in charge of the day care for the G-kids. It's a very good way to go. But moving around the country while working up the career ladder makes it less common here in the US now. It's good what you are doing.
I live within 50 miles of my birthplace.
My biological mother lives about ten miles away.
Geez, what a bunch of stay-at-homes, once again proving Cellarites aren't average. :haha:
I live 293 mi from where I grew up. Does that help, Bruce?
Yeah, you're in the black sheep/prodigal son club. :lol:
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
We need something like that today so we can jump start the economy during this recession, like they did back in the day. Or was the recession in 88? I don't know I was 0 or -1 then.
Or was the recession in 88? I don't know I was 0 or -1 then.
Please... Don't write things like that... You make me feel old... I was 20 at that time...
Daniel Inouye has represented Hawaii for it's entire existance as a state. (4 years as Representative, the rest as Senator).
Just listened to a speaker who used the phrase "you know" 91 times in 15 minutes. That's six times a minute!
I didn't bother counting the "like"s.
The sum of any two opposite sides of a dice equals seven.
I'm not really big on pedantry but it's almost a fun fact on its own that the word 'dice', despite the way it is often used, is actually a plural. The sum of any two opposite sides of a die equals seven.
Since we're pickin' on the capn - Some dice also have more than 6 sides.
When throwing dice in a game of craps, you are always one facing side away from a seven.
But not exactly, now that I think about it: if you throw two sixes or two ones, a probability of 1 to 18, you are not one side away. In any other combination, you are one side away.
This is why the casinos let you throw the dice... although they don't let you roll the roulette ball.
No two dice have ever been rolled.
Both English and Latin have the phrase "the die is cast" ("Alea iacta est"). In both cases, they can refer either to a cube for gambling being thrown or the hardening of molten metal in a mold.
However, in both languages the phrase is most often used allegorically to refer to events which have passed a point of no return.
"The sum of any two opposite sides of a die equals seven." [Rhiane]
Instead of die being the singular, I think it should be douse.
Walt Disney originally had different names in mind for Mickey Mouse and Goofy: Mortimer and Dippy Dawg, respectively
Dwarf names that didn't make the cut: Scrappy, Doleful, Crabby, Wistful, Dumpy, Soulful, Tearful, Snappy, Helpful, Gaspy, Gloomy, Busy, Dirty, Awful, Dizzy, Shifty, and Biggy-Wiggy.
Yes, this was an actual fact, right smack in the middle of an article about hummingbird migration. Just so ya know.
Hummingbirds do not migrate on the backs of geese.:rolleyes:
It's possible to have 77 givens and still be unable to solve a Suduko puzzle. Apparently.
Thor's word of the day: Rhomicuboctahedron. Your challenge; How many sides?
77 was a famous Swedish border password in the war, because it was so hard for the enemy to pronounce correctly
I think you missed a 'b' in there, Monster.
I have one of these on my doodad shelf at work. They were all the rage in the 80's. It is an Rhombicuboctahedron, sort of.
yes, I was a little behind there
ooh those were called snakes or something, Pete, they opened into a long thin thing... I'm sure I must have one somewhere
One of HM's early works.
I actually went back and checked, and I'm not sure I have made one of those! I have done a rhombi
truncated cuboctahedron, and it was one of my
early ones.
I've got one of those.
Tan and brown.
I put my Rubik's Cube on top of it.
ooh those were called snakes or something, Pete, they opened into a long thin thing... I'm sure I must have one somewhere
I'm not sure what they were called, 'cause I only ever saw them being sold by street vendors. The black and white one I've got came from a street vendor in NYC.
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And Ceiling Cat is ever vigilant...
Surveys show that six out of seven dwarves are not Happy.
43% percent of statistics are bullshit.
The average human being has less than two legs.
The average human being has less than two legs.
Yay me! I'm finally above average!:cheerldr:
The official name for the dot over the letter i or the letter j is tittle.
~ <--See that thing? It's called a tilde.
I am disappoint. I thought for a moment that Rhianne had begun posting again. Nope, not a jot OR tittle.
You cannot see the Great Wall from space...I learned that last night. And it stemmed from me watching an episode of Doctor Who, so...thank you BBC!
Lemmy Kilmister...Lead singer, and bassist for the rollicking metal band Motorhead:
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His first record was "Knee Deep in the Blues", by Tommy Steele:
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You can really hear Mr. Steele's influence on Lemmy's vocal style.:lol2:
One mile more than the Blues Brothers' nighttime trip to Chicago in sunglasses.
There are 14 McDonald's within 5 miles of where I'm sitting right now. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
I could walk to it, buy a double quarter pounder with cheese(780 calories), eat it and walk home. A 300 lb person burns 159 calories per mile at 3 mph. I would net 430 calories if I did.
Gotta love the Double QP.:yum:
The Double QP's around here are juuust a little greasier than the regular QP. Just the right amount of greasy, though.
I would have sworn that I learnt this here, but...
Most mammals take around 21 seconds to pee.I long for the days it only took 21 seconds. :(
I long for the days it only took 21 seconds. :(
I once peed 130' into a tugboat.
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Here's a really fun fact:
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According to Wikipedia, the most rain measured in 60 seconds, 1.5 inches, fell on Barot, Guadeloupe, on Nov 26, 1970.
The most rain measured in 24 hours, 71.9 inches, fell on Cilaos, Réunion, on Jan 7 - 8, 1966.
The yearly rainfall record belongs to Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India. From 1860 - 1861, 1,042 inches of rain fell from the sky.
The yearly rainfall record belongs to Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India. From 1860 - 1861, 1,042 inches of rain fell from the sky.
That's nothing. After a few years of that, Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India will be under 1042 feet of ocean.
<Daniel Tosh>Babies aren't dishwasher-safe</Fake Snapple facts>
That's an actual fact.
Babbies aren't dishwasher safe.:headshake
I stuck a gopro in my dishwasher and have to agree. The most obvious problem is the hot water. Serious scalding issues that become burning and cooking issues over time. And then the volume of water spraying around would make breathing difficult. Plus, the watertight seal is also air tight and the oxygen would be used up.
Babies are NOT dishwasher safe.
I can also vouch for the fact that dishwashers are not baby-safe. They break easier than you'd think.
They do cook up nice though.
The Purple Hooter Shooter starts out green.