Weird fact of the day..

Ocean's Edge • Apr 12, 2013 6:26 pm
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up in the sky

Guess its a good thing for pigs that pterodactyls are now extinct :rolleyes:
ZenGum • Apr 12, 2013 7:26 pm
What if the pig was standing on the side of a steep hill.


On a treadmill.
Lamplighter • Apr 12, 2013 8:00 pm
Or in a tree
zippyt • Apr 12, 2013 8:38 pm
LasVegas is farther west than LosAngles
Aliantha • Apr 12, 2013 8:41 pm
I'm tired.

Oh, sorry wrong thread. There's nothing weird about that. :/
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 12, 2013 10:27 pm
Ocean's Edge;860443 wrote:
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up in the sky

I don't believe that. :headshake
Pigs have binocular vision for about 50 degrees straight forward, and can certainly raise their heads high enough, especially when sitting.
ZenGum • Apr 12, 2013 11:08 pm
zippyt;860460 wrote:
LasVegas is farther west than LosAngles


You made me look stuff up.


Now I get to say you were wrong. Nyeahhhh! :p:
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 12, 2013 11:11 pm
It's Reno.
Ocean's Edge • Apr 12, 2013 11:15 pm
tis true ... basically their necks are too stout to be able to tilt their heads far enough back to look up :)
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 12, 2013 11:40 pm
If I stand close to the pen, they'll come right up to the fence and look up at me. I doubt they can see the sky directly overhead, even sitting, but they can see the sky.
Griff • Apr 13, 2013 8:07 am
ZenGum;860447 wrote:
What if the pig was standing on the side of a steep hill.


On a treadmill.


I see what you did there.








[COLOR="White"]Obviously if pigs had wings they could generate lift anywhere but a vacuum or on a treadmill.[/COLOR]
Sundae • Apr 13, 2013 10:38 am
Big Al says that dogs can't look up.

But thanks for the gift of a multi-pig photo.
Gosh I love pigs. Everything including the squeal.
Saw one butchered on TV. Complaints followed of course. I was fascinated. If I'm gonna eat it, I deserve to know how it died.

Rarely eat meat now, but not because of that.
(hoi-sin chicken tonight)
Ocean's Edge • Apr 13, 2013 10:40 am
well I'll be gobsmacked.... who'd have thunk that something I read on the internet would be wrong?????

I must admit that being let down by the association of New Zealand pig farmers kinda chuffs my buttons.

*pout*
DanaC • Apr 13, 2013 10:44 am
Big Al says that dogs can't look up. *snort* I've been laughing at that for about three minutes solid.
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 13, 2013 12:16 pm
Dogs only look up for bacon... BACON, bacon, bacon, bacon, BACON, bacon...;)
Sundae • Apr 13, 2013 12:23 pm
What, Kevin?
elSicomoro • Apr 13, 2013 1:13 pm
Babies aren't dishwasher-safe </Daniel Tosh>
Aliantha • Apr 13, 2013 1:57 pm
Dogs definitely can look up. Our dog sheba was petrified of sky writers. She'd turn into a sooky lala when one was in the sky. Took us a little while to figure out what the problem was, being that it was so weird, but it was quite clear it was that in the end.
DanaC • Apr 13, 2013 2:00 pm
How's that for a slice of fried gold?
Sundae • Apr 13, 2013 3:18 pm
Snicker
footfootfoot • Apr 13, 2013 4:37 pm
xoxoxoBruce;860567 wrote:
Dogs only look up for bacon... BACON, bacon, bacon, bacon, BACON, bacon...;)


Sundae;860570 wrote:
What, Kevin?
Ocean's Edge • Apr 13, 2013 6:20 pm
Ok... fer sure fer sure this one is good...

turtles can breathe out of their assholes.
ZenGum • Apr 13, 2013 7:58 pm
Confirmed!
footfootfoot • Apr 13, 2013 9:16 pm
There's this tree, see? And there's this hunter chasing...
Pete Zicato • Apr 14, 2013 12:32 am
Pi is an irrational number. But 355/113 is close enough for jazz.
Sundae • Apr 14, 2013 5:10 am
Foot, that bacon post is worth your admission to the Cellar for a whole year.
Get UT to write you a voucher.
ZenGum • Apr 15, 2013 8:10 am
The Fifth Doctor from Doctor Who is played by Peter Davison. He had a daughter Georgia Moffet. Georgia played the fictional daughter of Doctor Who in an episode entitled The Doctor's Daughter. In that episode The Doctor is on his tenth incarnation played by David Tennant. While shooting that episode the two started to date and later had a daughter together who they named Olive.

So The Doctor's daughter from the Doctor Who episode The Doctor's Daughter is played by The Doctor's daughter who later goes on to marry The Doctor and give birth to The Doctor's daughter.

This is going to be in the test.
infinite monkey • Apr 15, 2013 8:37 am
How else could Wilbur have seen Charlotte way up there in the rafters?
BigV • Apr 15, 2013 12:31 pm
footfootfoot;860624 wrote:
There's this tree, see? And there's this hunter chasing...


one step further and I'll have that voucher revoked.
Gravdigr • Apr 15, 2013 5:44 pm
Ocean's Edge;860615 wrote:
...turtles can breathe out of their assholes.


I can only exhale through mine.
DanaC • Apr 16, 2013 4:34 am
Gravdigr;860868 wrote:
I can only exhale through mine.


you can talk through it too...










:p
Pete Zicato • Apr 17, 2013 1:36 pm
Pepsi Cola is an anagram for Episcopal - which some people think is meaningful somehow.

But Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterian, so maybe not.
elSicomoro • Apr 17, 2013 1:38 pm
This is a sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Gravdigr • Apr 17, 2013 3:10 pm
DanaC;860934 wrote:
you can talk through it too..


No, just bark.
ZenGum • Apr 17, 2013 8:56 pm
Y'all know that Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, right?

On the same day, four hours earlier, Lincoln's son lost his balance on a railway platform in New York, and was falling onto the tracks in front of a train, when a kindly bystander grabbed his collar and hauled him back, saving his life. Said bystander was John Wilkes Booth's brother.

Like, whoah, duuude.
Happy Monkey • Apr 17, 2013 9:26 pm
A few months later, according to this random article.
footfootfoot • Apr 17, 2013 9:27 pm
Did you also know that there's no word for Gullible in Pig Latin?


And, speaking of coincidences (or not) I need to post this video again. Because it is germane and awesome.
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zippyt • Apr 18, 2013 12:56 am
That no body seem to care that there is a thread called bomb making 101 with folks talking about the bombs they have made in the past
footfootfoot • Apr 18, 2013 1:14 am
I think interest would ramp up if we talked about bombs we were making now.

;)
elSicomoro • Apr 18, 2013 1:37 am
Oh, UT will post of a pic of his smashed-up face (by the Feds) soon enough...
Gravdigr • Apr 18, 2013 5:16 pm
footfootfoot;861293 wrote:
Did you also know that there's no word for Gullible in Pig Latin?


The Pig Latin word for gullible is---hey, wait a minute...
Gravdigr • Apr 19, 2013 11:43 am
In the United States, the mortality rate for circumcision is 1 in 500,000.

Just to be clear: For every 500,000 baby boys/guys getting circumcisions in the U.S., one of 'em dies.

Question:

How the hell do you kill someone during a circumcision?

Inopportune sneeze? Terrorist attack? Sinkhole? Landshark? Big gay drop bear?

WTF?
Pete Zicato • Apr 19, 2013 12:10 pm
Gravdigr;861572 wrote:
I
Question:

How the hell do you kill someone during a circumcision?

I'd guess infection.
footfootfoot • Apr 19, 2013 5:42 pm
I think the number of accidental de-penisings is a bit higher.
ZenGum • Apr 19, 2013 7:51 pm
Infection - most notably that F-wit Rabbi in new York who would "apply oral suction" to the wound, despite having herpes virus weeping cold sores active on his mouth at the time.
footfootfoot • Apr 19, 2013 8:03 pm
Ain't religion grand?
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 20, 2013 12:30 am
I thought that was a mohel, rather than a Rabbi. Or is he both?
ZenGum • Apr 20, 2013 12:42 am
I'm not sure. He could be both.

There's no central authority who declares people to be rabbis, and while most people who use this title do so with the agreement of the wider community, nutty individuals can just start calling themselves Rabbi.

Which was funny during prohibition because rabbis were among the religious leaders who could certify that wine was being used for genuinely religious purposes (thus making it legal), which lead to many rabbis with names like Rabbi O'Brien or Rabbi McDonald.
Nirvana • Apr 20, 2013 2:37 am
a four star general added me as a friend on Facebook {is it real? I dunno} >shrug<
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 20, 2013 4:02 am
You might have been recommended to him. :cool:
Nirvana • Apr 20, 2013 11:19 am
You think he is into mud, cow shit, placenta , and blood covered females? :eyebrow:

Weird fact waking every 3 hours turns your brain to mush. One more cow to calve and I can sleep maybe a week til the next batch....
Gravdigr • Apr 24, 2013 1:12 pm
A few gems from Surprising Celebrity Facts, over at FoxNews:

Pope John Paul II is/was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

Dolph Lundgren holds a degree in chemical engineering.

Pierce Brosnan was a circus fire-eater for years.

Richard Gere was offered a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts.