Totally Useless Facts (240263 hits)
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Submitted by JP <jean15paul.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2002-08-14 16:51:00 EDT
These are some useless facts that I've collected over some length of time. Enjoy. P.S. It's really long, so it will kill some time at work. LOL.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The first NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a Superbowl was the St. Louis Rams in 1999.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year.
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. (I'm going home to boil an egg tonight)
Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year. (which is more than real money printed in a year)
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.
The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.
In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.
Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in U.S. coins without being able to make change for a dollar
If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess
There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper
Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable - it has three.
The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia - a Latin term meaning "for example."
Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds
For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course)
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Submitted by zeppert (user info) at 2009-05-08 00:24:34 EDT (#)
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Never mind. Somehow I missed the last one.
Submitted by zeppert (user info) at 2009-05-08 00:14:21 EDT (#)
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I love useless trivia. All of it is correct, but one part is slightly inaccurate. Youngest parents as a couple were 8 and 9 and from China, but the youngest mother ever recorded was a 5 year old Peruvian girl.
http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp
Submitted by moopy4u (user info) at 2009-05-07 23:50:59 EDT (#)
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I fell asleep half way through....
Thanks for that, been needing some catch-up.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-01-02 03:55:28 EST (#)
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"This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds"
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Submitted by sergeantslaughter (user info) at 2008-08-07 08:27:18 EDT (#)
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wiggity wiggity whoa
Submitted by alexer26 (user info) at 2008-04-20 11:58:04 EDT (#)
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Whoa...interesting...
Submitted by skyler (user info) at 2008-03-23 13:00:32 EDT (#)
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interesting, but prob not true :P
Submitted by BeforeEmily (user info) at 2008-03-10 18:53:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-03-10 15:47:42 PDT (#)
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This is definitely the least-deserving MVP post on Uber.
1. The "facts" are mostly untrue.
2. The "author" didn't write it.
3. it was shit.
I vote we all add this to the banned web page list on our browsers so that we can't possibly view it, eventually other posts will knock it off the list.
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I actually agree with Ltap on this. This post is weak.
Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-03-10 18:47:42 EDT (#)
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This is definitely the least-deserving MVP post on Uber.
1. The "facts" are mostly untrue.
2. The "author" didn't write it.
3. it was shit.
I vote we all add this to the banned web page list on our browsers so that we can't possibly view it, eventually other posts will knock it off the list.
Submitted by Targa (user info) at 2008-03-07 10:41:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by Zanz38 (user info) at 2002-08-15 03:24:43 EDT (#)
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Orange is another word which has no match ie you can not ryme it.
as does purple i belive.
The porn Industry has led the charge in the technology changes on the Internet Streaming videos secure payments and age verification etc etc.
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Duh, 'nurple'.
Submitted by ligrl4387 (user info) at 2008-01-13 19:25:07 EST (#)
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Submitted by _ce (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:10:47 EDT (#)
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
What about "One hundred And One" ?
:)
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um, after One hundred, you're supposed to say one hundred one, one hundred two, and so forth. you dont say the AND part. so yeah, its one thousand.
and so what if he even DID copy and paste this from an email? he said he's COLLECTED it. not just thought everything up.
Submitted by beer-turtle (user info) at 2007-12-29 18:42:47 EST (#)
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nevermind the fact it was posted 5 years ago zeg.
Submitted by Zeglamancer (user info) at 2007-11-11 22:11:00 EST (#)
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Its like something in a hotmail account inbox titled
"FW: FW: FW: FW: Thought you might like this" That I'd get from my younger sister or something...
Submitted by keitsith (user info) at 2007-10-30 13:13:56 EDT (#)
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nah
Submitted by deelo (user info) at 2007-09-16 23:36:45 EDT (#)
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most of these aren't even facts
Submitted by AccidentalPerfidy (user info) at 2007-09-13 00:30:28 EDT (#)
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Fuck.
That's snopes.com with two S's.
Submitted by AccidentalPerfidy (user info) at 2007-09-13 00:29:35 EDT (#)
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Utter bunk. Why should people get positive ratings for posting shit out of their inbox?
As someone said, "Snope.com. Bitch."
'Nuff said.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-09-06 12:22:15 EDT (#)
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I never rated this.
Submitted by rycke (user info) at 2007-09-05 01:48:14 EDT (#)
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For putting the word "useless" in the title, you get a -1. You'd have gotten a -2 if not for that word, because really those lines were like what you said - useless.
Submitted by shmack92 (user info) at 2007-08-23 03:24:28 EDT (#)
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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rebar?
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For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
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uh-oh
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-08-10 23:39:39 EDT (#)
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Yeah so?
Submitted by mockidol (user info) at 2007-08-10 22:51:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-08-10 21:55:11 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/4263#2263606
MySpacey? I don't even think MySpace was launched yet when this was posted.
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The post may be from 2002 but the comment is from 2006.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-08-10 21:55:11 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/4263#2263606
MySpacey? I don't even think MySpace was launched yet when this was posted.
Submitted by viciouscorndog (user info) at 2007-06-09 17:32:47 EDT (#)
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Very interesting
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-04-25 22:02:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by homer42 (user info) at 2007-02-20 00:09:15 EST (#)
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Really? http://www.ubersite.com/m/98938
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-01-29 16:11:40 EST (#)
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So you collected this? And the email I was forwarded a few months ago with 90% of the same content, that was a ripoff of your work?
Submitted by dexpaxas (user info) at 2006-12-28 11:53:53 EST (#)
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multiple references to underage pregnancy. Way underage. As the father of a 5 year old I must heartily protest. Plus this whole list feels really MySpacey. It's too bad you didn't leave in the "If you don't repost this a sabertooth orangutan will use your collection of United States teaspoons to sodomize your mother." I was going to say Fidel Castro but then maybe some people would repost this.
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-12-15 16:05:01 EST (#)
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Submitted by Confuzitron (user info) at 2006-11-11 03:39:11 EST (#)
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I can't remember if I ever rated this or not, and I'm too lazy to go back and check. So just in case...
Submitted by combatwombat (user info) at 2006-11-09 11:23:32 EST (#)
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Snopes.com pretty much rips this post apart... especially the one about the horse statues with the legs in the air... I eman they actually give examples of monuments, who they're for and how they died... although I do give you credit for posting facts that you've "collected" through personal experience and not other emails, web sites, and myspace blogs... that would be sacreligious.
Submitted by Newty (user info) at 2006-11-03 16:47:16 EST (#)
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Y do people +2 this?????????? none of it is right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-10-25 13:43:46 EDT (#)
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Can't believe I never rated this.
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2006-10-05 05:46:13 EDT (#)
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Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
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yahuh...
"ticktockticktockticktock"
Submitted by mynameisandy (user info) at 2006-10-05 05:26:05 EDT (#)
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Mitsubishi logo is actaully a representation of the propeller blades on the Zero fighter aircraft, a product the company formerly made.
You guys can have fun with that. "
Isn't it also Japanese for "three diamonds"?
Submitted by smemma (user info) at 2006-10-03 20:53:13 EDT (#)
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haha!! I knew about all these.
Submitted by JediMasterJambi (user info) at 2006-09-13 16:01:14 EDT (#)
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Entertaning and kinda fun. Some of this stuff is funny to find out about. The 111x111 thing freaked me a bit. Thanks for sharing your kowledege.
Once again I see -2's followed by childish outbursts of curse words. Are you guys mentally below the age of 11 or are you all just raised in Kentuccky ;)? Grow up, get off the Internet and go live your life while your young, or take a damn bath.
Submitted by Slighty_Obnoxious (user info) at 2006-08-30 17:12:29 EDT (#)
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For the use of "LOL."
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-29 23:36:49 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Demos74 (user info) at 2006-08-08 00:33:10 EDT (#)
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The raisen in champaign thing works with Sprite too. You can even put food coloring in it to color it yellow and tell your kids its piss, then put the raisen in and say its a new kind of animal that cleans it and turns it into water by expelling all the bad stuff as gas, then drink it and eat the "little animal" and watch them gross out. Thats what I did anyways :)
Submitted by NotANumber (user info) at 2006-07-28 15:28:05 EDT (#)
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"A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not." -Actually, an uncooked egg will spin, you dumb fuck, have you never tried spinning one? (It will actually keep spinning even after you have stopped it, that's how good it is at spinning.)
"NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds" -That's coz McDonalds rules!!!
"The state of Florida is bigger than England!" -Just goes to show how great England is, it's so small yet still holds all the power.
"Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand"
-Unless you were German
"Did you know the dumbass who created this test is a fucking schizophrenic homo butt- licking, whore- slapping, cock- sucking, nipple- biting crazy motherfukcing son of a bitch who wasted their whole life for gathering a load of shit that most people DON'T GIVE TWO FLYING FUCKS ABOUT, who will die of CANCEROUS AIDS" -That's the only good thing I found on there.
It was actually pretty good, now I think about it.
Though -1 for wasting my time.
Submitted by overtoBob (user info) at 2006-06-25 16:53:44 EDT (#)
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Thanks for the entertaining read
Submitted by bavrix (user info) at 2006-06-21 16:30:48 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by KindaLikeJesus (user info) at 2006-05-28 14:41:56 EDT (#)
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Thanks dumbfuck most of that shit isn't true and to the person who said it wasn't possible to give birth at five it is http://snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asps anyway that is one of the few true and stewardesses ha two letters longer and with the left hand dickhole
Submitted by Bundaberg (user info) at 2006-05-28 09:29:00 EDT (#)
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meh
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2006-05-11 17:27:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Torch (user info) at 2006-05-11 17:11:51 (#)
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Wow. This is so great. I love how this is 100% original and not completely stolen from all over the internet. Most of it is shit that everyone with common sense knows already anyway. "The letter W is the only letter with more than one syllable - it has three." Way to go. I made that discovery when I was two.
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stfu noob, this was posted when you were still sucking at your ma's teats, ya skirt-wearing poodle-faced dog's body
Submitted by Torch (user info) at 2006-05-11 17:11:51 EDT (#)
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Wow. This is so great. I love how this is 100% original and not completely stolen from all over the internet. Most of it is shit that everyone with common sense knows already anyway. "The letter W is the only letter with more than one syllable - it has three." Way to go. I made that discovery when I was two.
Submitted by orooma (user info) at 2006-05-10 23:08:12 EDT (#)
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Fucking A. You helped so many people kill their time(I bet my ass that it is Company time) by ranking and writing their dumb-ass comments. Feel Sorry for chinaman getting married at the age of 9 and having the rest of his sorry-ass-live fucked up. I married at the age of 35, still think it was too early, ha-ha...
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-04-27 12:31:18 EDT (#)
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http://www.helpwinthisbet.com
Submitted by TimTheBard (user info) at 2006-04-19 16:17:17 EDT (#)
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Haven't I seen this in a FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: somewhere?
Submitted by Webered (user info) at 2006-04-19 15:45:48 EDT (#)
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Entertaining. I think people forget that entertainment is the sole purpose of this site.
Submitted by Grimm (user info) at 2006-04-07 10:03:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2006-03-22 13:38:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2006-03-20 12:00:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
HA! Damn, first post I ever read...
Submitted by stocksy (user info) at 2006-02-25 08:52:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
just good
Submitted by Doberish (user info) at 2006-02-20 23:02:57 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
You suck.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/84167
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-02-15 12:41:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2005-12-04 09:17:21 (#)
Ranking: 0
surely the shortest the shortest sentince is 'I'?
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What's a "sentince" and since when is "I" a verb?
Why would I ask such simple questions to an obvious moron such as yourself?
Good question.
Submitted by no_one (user info) at 2006-02-15 12:28:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Ok, lots of people take exception go the sentence I am, or the number one thousand, but no one has a problem with the 5 year old tribal girl givng birth. That isn't possible.
while it is true that the age a girl first has her period is dropping, you'd be rather above the bar to have it at 7 or 8. You can't become pregneant until you have begun to have your period (thought you can actually get pregnant that very first time, without ever having had one) What mostly determines when a girl has her period is body fat ratio. The reason the age has been dropping is that in well developed nations, nutrition is much better. It is highly unlikely though, that a five year old would be able to become pregnant at such a young age, and even more unlikely if it is a "tribal" girl, who probably doesn't have the advantages of enriched flour or iodized salt. Unless the girl was artificially enseminated, then fed horomones to keep her body from rejecting the egg (estrogen and progesterone or whatever fertile women produce) it's not going to happen.
Submitted by Pigsarentfilthy (user info) at 2006-01-20 05:35:11 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Here's another fact: You are a fucking bell-end
Strange but true.
Submitted by Bizdorph (user info) at 2006-01-17 10:50:50 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2006-01-07 18:35:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Ditka (user info) at 2006-01-07 18:25:56 (#)
Ranking: -2
timing really is everything with some of these mvm's
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dammit ditka you've rated every single mvm
Submitted by Ditka (user info) at 2006-01-07 18:25:56 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
timing really is everything with some of these mvm's
Submitted by Boondock (user info) at 2005-12-30 17:13:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Despiadado (user info) at 2005-12-19 14:48:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences#Numbers
Don't impose your incorrect American conventions on me.
Submitted by nigletsyz (user info) at 2005-12-09 12:17:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Well, I suppose this would only apply to whole numbers. You would reach a decimal number with an "a" in it far sooner. "one thousanth" "one and one tenth" BTW, you can only use "and" when reffering to a fraction. It is incorrect to say, "one hundred and one", but it would be correct to say, "one hundred one and one tenth"
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2005-12-04 09:51:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
"The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess "
Fuck off. "antidisestablishmentarianism". I just typed that with my left hand.
Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2005-12-04 09:17:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
surely the shortest the shortest sentince is 'I'?
Submitted by Walker (user info) at 2005-11-24 19:55:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Great read! If only I had some champagne handy...
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2005-11-10 11:20:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
actually stewardessES
Submitted by MrHappyPants (user info) at 2005-11-09 14:04:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.ubersite.com/m/78654
Submitted by Snuffleupagus (user info) at 2005-10-20 23:09:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Grapes do not explode in the microwave. Just for that: -2
If you grease the bottom of a mirco, you can race grapes as they squirt juice out their stem-connection hole.
Also fun in the microwave: Light bulbs, burnt upright toothpicks, CDs (be sure to see the bottom side), inside out foil chip bags, eggs.
Submitted by olivia_tremor_control (user info) at 2005-10-15 01:45:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by crazyaardvark (user info) at 2005-10-15 01:35:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Confuzitron (user info) at 2005-10-13 12:11:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
dubya tee eff
Submitted by TweakinIan (user info) at 2005-10-13 01:11:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Totally useless fact:
this sucks.
Submitted by celine (user info) at 2005-10-06 02:39:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by ISuck (user info) at 2003-02-04 16:37:12 (#)
Ranking: 0
That whole "more muscles to frown than to smile" is bullshit. That's assuming one actually turns the corners of his mouth downward when frowning, and who the hell does that?
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Submitted by catscradle (user info) at 2003-02-04 16:09:15 (#)
Ranking: 0
Pigs have the longest orgasms.
*squeal*
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ISuck - I agree. When I frown, my mouth doesn't move, but my eyebrows get squinty and I look to the side. 2 muscles tops. I did it in the mirror just to be sure, and if anything it looks like I'm thinking really hard, probably something along the lines of "How can I calm myself enough to not kill the person who made me this pissed off?"
catscradle - Pigs also have corkscrew-shaped penises. AND vaginal canals. I can only imagine, yeah, those orgasms would be pretty awesome.
Another couple things I noticed debates raging over -
G.I. comes from "General Issue." As in all the stuff a typical US soldier would be equipped with after boot camp. General Issue gun, General Issue boots, fatigues, helmet, etc. In addition, MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) are a fairly new invention. In WWII, the portable meals were called, you guessed it: General Issue Rations.
101: It's one hundred one in the US. Dunno about you UK folks, but I'm willing to bet it shares roots with "color" vs. "colour." Dropping the U was an intentional move after the Revolutionary War to further separate us from the British, if I'm not mistaken there was actually a Congressional debate over it. Rednecks here in the States currently pronounce it "a hunnerd'n'one." Go trailer parks, woo!
Coke: Fact: Coke did indeed originally contain cocaine. "Coca-Cola" is a direct reference to the fact that the ingredients to the secret recipe were taken from the coca plant. It began as a patent medicine and was not even carbonated, originally.
Fact: The fat, jolly, red Santa we all know and love was a Coke marketing invention. I've never heard about a green Santa, but I'll definitely look into it.
Fact: The secret formula has never changed and is passed down by word of mouth. Only the top two Coke executives know it at any given time, and they are never allowed on the same airplane together.
And something else I didn't see mentioned -
The "mozzarella cheese" that most pizza chains use (in the US anyway - I'm talking Papa John's, Gumby's, Domino's, etc) is 50% GLUE.
Submitted by ElmerFudd (user info) at 2005-10-06 01:40:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
err...I mean "Go."
Submitted by ElmerFudd (user info) at 2005-10-06 01:39:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sorry but the shortest sentence is:
Run.
Submitted by ElmerFudd (user info) at 2005-10-03 03:26:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
add:
6 "Presidents" before Washington. John Hanson being the first.
Submitted by hurt911gen (user info) at 2005-09-30 21:45:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
just like the rating
kicker of all ass
Submitted by moopadoopdoop (user info) at 2005-09-28 15:39:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
all of those are apocryphal
snopes.com bitch
Submitted by DBecs (user info) at 2005-09-20 03:11:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Here's a fact: British people can't ride bicycles. Look it up:
www.google.com
Submitted by lindzo41 (user info) at 2005-08-25 16:15:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Also....what do you mean by debt in Canada? Because I pay for shit with pennies all the time. Its funny to do and Ihave never been arrested for it.
Submitted by lindzo41 (user info) at 2005-08-25 16:13:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Interesting stuff.......is this all proven? I think the monopoly money thing is an old statisitc, like when people were actualyl still buying the game. lol
Submitted by smokingloon (user info) at 2005-08-04 23:14:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It's nice to see some people trying to expand their respective intelligencia.
Submitted by Kindred (user info) at 2005-08-03 02:16:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Whatever happened to JP ?
http://www.ubersite.com/m/72348
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Submitted by Gendo (user info) at 2005-07-28 16:03:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2005-07-26 00:15:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/70277
Submitted by Practice (user info) at 2005-07-22 03:40:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by w_t_a_y_s_t_r_m (user info) at 2005-07-18 08:04:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-07-18 07:57:16 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by MrSparkle847 (user info) at 2005-07-18 07:23:56 (#)
Ranking: 0
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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I don't see the letter V
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Spastic
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-07-18 07:57:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by MrSparkle847 (user info) at 2005-07-18 07:23:56 (#)
Ranking: 0
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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I don't see the letter V
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oVer
Submitted by MrSparkle847 (user info) at 2005-07-18 07:23:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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I don't see the letter V
Submitted by COMountain (user info) at 2005-07-14 16:31:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Great... my breath smells like onion, my microwave is very messy, and I think I killed a seagull. DAMNIT.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-06-14 06:28:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2005-06-14 06:11:02 (#)
Ranking: 2
Aw, wittle baby newbs hatch from their shells and enter the world through a Most reviewed portal. Awwwww....how cute!
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Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-06-14 06:01:02 (#)
Ranking: 0
you can always tell that a n00b was born when you see one of these 10 posts up on MRR.
Submitted by soapXdestruction (user info) at 2005-06-14 06:08:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
oh yea, and i think the women blinking thing, that could be... cause theyre always wearing so much makeup? i dont wear any makeup and i hardly ever blink
Submitted by alfakyle (user info) at 2005-06-12 16:33:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
PhozPhateX - Lasers don't actually make a beam, only the dot... (Contrary to Star Trek)
If you put dust/mist between the dot and the laser source, you will get a beam (an assload of dots). Maybe the lasers in Star Trek (let alone Star Wars, or damn near every other sci-fi type movie) are just reflecting off of dust.
Submitted by alfakyle (user info) at 2005-06-12 16:06:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave."
not if you don't turn it on.
Submitted by alfakyle (user info) at 2005-06-12 16:05:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women."
Mary Anderson patented it in the us in 1905. There is debate regarding whether she did in fact invent it, or if it was actually Józef Hofmann.
It made me smile, but I can't rate it positive due to lack of fact checking.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-05-27 07:42:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Hong Kong is neither a city nor a country.
Submitted by missflibble (user info) at 2005-05-27 07:27:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
hong kong is a country.
Submitted by rick_the_stud (user info) at 2005-05-03 18:57:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
I disagree. What about "Go."?
Submitted by TenYears_Gone (user info) at 2005-04-19 14:16:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
AND isn't part on the number, bud. Sorry to break it to you, but the number is "One hundred one."
General Purpose --> G.P. -->Jeep. Sound it out. Everything in the Army is like that; you'll mutliate words until they're almost unrecognizable.
Submitted by _ce (user info) at 2005-04-19 11:10:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
What about "One hundred And One" ?
:)
Submitted by king_mark (user info) at 2005-04-19 02:19:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
'No word in the English language rhymes with "month".'
course there is..
Cunt
Submitted by Silk (user info) at 2005-04-07 12:56:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Darkata7 (user info) at 2003-07-02 01:03:20 (#)
Ranking: 1
... Mitsubishi logo is actaully a representation of the propeller blades on the Zero fighter aircraft, a product the company formerly made.
You guys can have fun with that. "
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I thought that was BMW
Submitted by jdcb (user info) at 2005-04-06 15:20:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters."
Yeah, and the are C R A C K C O C A I N E
Submitted by PokerIsMyLife (user info) at 2005-03-10 06:01:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm gullible as hell so I read every letter you wrote and believed every other one.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2005-02-28 00:21:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
PART DEUX --- http://www.ubersite.com/m/60787
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2005-02-25 22:48:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:13:21 (#)
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any moron that's been online for over a week and has an email account (me too) has heard all of this shit, minimum, fifty times in some retarded fucking pass it on email.
'please, for the sake of dying seals everywhere, pass this email to ten other people who may need their day brightened...if you don't, you're manmeat will fall off and your nuts will be stuffed so far into your ass, your breath'll smell like liquid love.'
unabonger
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Check the date.
This was posted in 2002. Yet it still makes me smile.
-Dave
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-20 19:13:21 EST (#)
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any moron that's been online for over a week and has an email account (me too) has heard all of this shit, minimum, fifty times in some retarded fucking pass it on email.
'please, for the sake of dying seals everywhere, pass this email to ten other people who may need their day brightened...if you don't, you're manmeat will fall off and your nuts will be stuffed so far into your ass, your breath'll smell like liquid love.'
unabonger
Submitted by Faithless_Whisper (user info) at 2005-02-11 15:41:14 EST (#)
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Could this suck anymore? I swear my 5 year old sister sent me this in an e-mail.
Submitted by nahnoneofit (user info) at 2005-02-02 19:56:05 EST (#)
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seriously, dont bother
you got that from a chain email, you big fibber
Submitted by BrittInToledo (user info) at 2005-01-31 11:31:34 EST (#)
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It always cracks me up when people become so outraged and upset about this kind of stuff. "Uh, hello dumbfucks, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE has the letter A in it..." "AND isn't a number you ungodly whore!" such and such and such...
But I guess that's what Ubersite is all about. :)
Submitted by pokeysrevenge (user info) at 2005-01-28 23:50:37 EST (#)
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Submitted by Walrus_King (user info) at 2005-01-27 11:30:14 (#)
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
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That's false, google it.
what number would you have to get up to before you use the letter 'a'
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how about one hundred !A!nd one
Read down for all of the "AND" number posts. AND IS NOT A FUCKING NUMBER.
Submitted by Walrus_King (user info) at 2005-01-27 11:30:14 EST (#)
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
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That's false, google it.
what number would you have to get up to before you use the letter 'a'
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how about one hundred !A!nd one
Submitted by Grin (user info) at 2005-01-27 00:02:15 EST (#)
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Actually, Mel Blanc was NOT allergic to carrots. He just didn't like them. Between takes, he would stop to spit out partially chewed chunks of carrot into a waste basket.
Submitted by Wanker (user info) at 2005-01-25 15:32:19 EST (#)
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Funny but I have seen before
Submitted by pokeysrevenge (user info) at 2005-01-23 00:18:19 EST (#)
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There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in "-gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it?
This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:
affect-hungry
fire-angry
MacLoingry
Seagry
aggry
Gagry
mad-angry
self-angry
Agry
girl-hungry
mad-hungry
selfe-angry
ahungry
gonagry
magry
sensation-hungry
air-hungry
gry
malgry
sex-angry
anhungry
haegry
man-hungry
sex-hungry
Badagry
half-angry
managry
Shchigry
Ballingry
hangry
mannagry
shiggry
And so on.
Submitted by pokeysrevenge (user info) at 2005-01-23 00:09:32 EST (#)
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Submitted by jussi <jmabry.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-09-04 19:53:58 (#)
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Hey!
The only word in the english language with THREE CONSECUTIVE consenants is GODDESSSHIP.
Actually, there is AAADONTA, FLYING JIBBBOOM, PEEENT, FREEER, FREEEST, ISHIII, FRILLLESS, WALLLESS, LAPAROHYSTEROSALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY, BRRR, GODDESSSHIP, COUNTESSSHIP, DUCHESSSHIP, GOVERNESSSHIP, HOSTESSSHIP, VERTUUUS, UUULA, and YAYYY.
Feel free to look them up.
Submitted by ssj4yamcha (user info) at 2005-01-18 06:19:07 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I'm not going to take the time to read through the INSANE amounts of previous comments (mostly negative it seems). Instead, i'll just add the 2 examples I KNOW are wrong.
1-The rule of thumb comes from approximating the measure of 1 inch with the width of your thumb.
2-No theme song for 60minutes?? bullshit.
Are you deaf? What about all that ticking. Believe it or not, that's a theme song.
Check your sources next time, dickface (oh wait, unless you work for the NY Times?)
Submitted by dudaculb (user info) at 2005-01-13 22:07:17 EST (#)
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wow...wow
Submitted by DamianD (user info) at 2005-01-07 17:17:08 EST (#)
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even my boss had a good laugh at this one
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2004-12-30 16:45:57 EST (#)
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thoguht I'd add that I found a fourth -gry word.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Aggry
Aggry.
So, now we have Aggry, Angry, Hungry, and Gry.
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2004-12-27 12:29:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2004-09-07 17:05:14 (#)
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...and in the red corner:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/44257
We have the Useless fiction everyone relies on.
Submitted by thundercracker (user info) at 2004-12-20 03:36:34 EST (#)
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Alairon you are the moron.
"Jeep" does not come from General Purpose. If general was spelled "jeneral" then maybe that would be forgivable but for you to be so emphatic when you obviously don't know, since you are wrong, means I should rip your balls off so you cannot contaminate the rest of the species.
R. Lee Ermey from "Mail Call" who was G.Sgt. Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket" basically said that people who believe what you are claiming are something to the effect of "fucktards." I know you were not done the honor of playing Sgt. Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket" so maybe you should take it from the guy that was, asshole.
Submitted by Alairon (user info) at 2004-12-09 17:23:25 EST (#)
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Okie doke, tis me here, time to educate u morons....
The Jeep is the domesticated model of the Army's GPV, or General Purpose Vehicle...
Its is true, dont doubt me, just shut the hell up and eat ur lunch.
Next, Lasers DO make a beam, it just depends on the type of laser,
Just like all sources of light, you can only "see" the light when it bounces off of something (and thats how we see children)
Some LASERS (Stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, its an acronym, not a word) use a particular inert gas to focus the beam, the beam seems to "warp" instead of come out as a localised beam, so you can see the actual beam in a vacuum, normal lasers require something to bounce off, eg dust in order to be viewed.
Also, americans are stupid, the Bubonic Plague originated in england, they came up with the bloody nursery rhyme, and it IS "Atisho, atisho, we all fall down" because it was believed that the plague was being spread by air (Also at the time, it was believed that if you sneezed, it was the one time where demons could posess you, hence the "Bless you" statement people make when one sneezes"
Right, thats my geek time for today, have fun kiddies
Submitted by barryap (user info) at 2004-11-20 00:22:57 EST (#)
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The sad part is, you should have known a good number of these are wrong just by common sense.
Submitted by Manicdepressant (user info) at 2004-11-18 21:16:53 EST (#)
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if you change the numbers you can change the amount of sentances
1st number represents the number of sentances in each paragraph created
2nd number is the number of paragraphs to be created
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Also if you open a word document and type
= rand (200,99)
it will create a shit load of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" sentences.
Submitted by jayjonze (user info) at 2004-11-13 13:29:08 EST (#)
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Twinkies dont spoil and people from Kentucky dont Bathe, But who gives a shit anyway............Jay
Submitted by FIL (user info) at 2004-11-01 19:12:23 EST (#)
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To all you idiots who think that 101 is "one hundred AND one", NO. if you say AND when saying your numbers, you're just an idiot and should die. your iq must be like 7
Submitted by UBERDOOBIE (user info) at 2004-10-27 10:37:54 EDT (#)
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WAY TO RIP OFF "BATHROOM READER" YOU FUCKING BASTARD...
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2004-10-27 10:17:56 EDT (#)
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Thanks!
Submitted by Pringles4eva (user info) at 2004-10-25 02:41:33 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/45753
Submitted by Bizdorph (user info) at 2004-10-24 05:29:33 EDT (#)
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Just came back to check is most of these "facts" were still total bullshit.
Yup.
Submitted by BlinkSparky (user info) at 2004-10-24 05:02:08 EDT (#)
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Well fuck me i read every review.....
Submitted by yovinny (user info) at 2003-06-22 11:18:03 (#)
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Nothing can rhyme with Orange?
How about infringe?
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U truly are fucking stupid
Submitted by Jimbob at 2003-07-04 06:39:43 (#)
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One hundred *A*nd one
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U truly are fucking stupid
Submitted by angrykoz (user info) at 2003-11-26 14:35:07 (#)
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
BULLSHIT!!!! what about "a hundred" -2 for trying to pass your stupidity along to the masses.
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U truly are fucking stupid
Submitted by Sacrew (user info) at 2004-05-05 00:11:38 (#)
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w00t FLORIDA IS BIGGUR THEN ENGALAND LMAO!
AMERRICA r00lz!
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We have cattle stations bigger then texas...
AUSTRALIA r00lz!
I was laways lead to believe that the bubonic plague (the black death) was spread by the fleas on rats and the Pneumonic plague (which was just a mutation of the bubonic plague)was spread through the air (sneezing, coughing), hence "Atishoo Atisho" is the spreading of the plague through sneezing/coughing
I'd never even heard of "Ashes Ashes" sounds like the yanks fucked it up
Snopes isnt the oracle
Submitted by original_cola (user info) at 2004-10-15 20:38:11 EDT (#)
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link whore and a +2
http://www.aolsux.us
Submitted by Dr_Teeth (user info) at 2004-10-15 05:34:41 EDT (#)
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Honey doesn't spoil. It just dries up but can be reconstituted by boiling with a little water.
Submitted by Marlin (user info) at 2004-10-12 20:24:05 EDT (#)
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Go! is the shortest scentance
Submitted by penguin_ted (user info) at 2004-10-03 15:58:15 EDT (#)
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There is no technical term for the back of the knee.
Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2004-10-02 15:51:37 EDT (#)
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You forgot to mention the fact that I rule.
Submitted by penguin_ted (user info) at 2004-10-02 15:37:46 EDT (#)
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This is all lies; and Ronal Reagan is an anagram of 'armageddon'.
Submitted by Hippie101 (user info) at 2004-09-28 14:52:06 EDT (#)
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coke was green? sweet.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-09-27 22:51:45 EDT (#)
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and why does canada suck gay dick, oh great wise one?
Submitted by tha_rusty_1 (user info) at 2004-09-27 21:03:45 EDT (#)
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canada ducks gay dick
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2004-09-27 20:38:31 EDT (#)
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i meant more than 25 cents, not a 25 cents...
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2004-09-27 20:34:44 EDT (#)
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about that paying with pennies in canada thing, i am a canadian residing in prince edward island and on many occasions i have payed for stuff costing more than a 25 cents with rolls of pennies
and about florida being bigger than england: who cares? because just about every province in canada is bigger than florida and england put together!
canada rocks
Submitted by ZenVolador (user info) at 2004-09-26 13:31:58 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2004-09-23 10:07:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Julia (user info) at 2004-09-21 17:38:00 EDT (#)
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Hooray for beating dead horses! Honey will spoil if not kept in a sealed container.
Submitted by drfeggphd (user info) at 2004-09-20 10:43:42 EDT (#)
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
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I HAVE SEEN AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN ARGUMENTS ABOUT THIS.
OBVIOUSLY THE CORRECT ANSWER IS 6 MILES. OR MAYBE 1/2 METER. 1/1000 ANGSTROMS?
OKAY, I DON'T KNOW. NO MATTER HOW FAR, IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE WORTH THE EFFORT.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-09-18 12:13:50 EDT (#)
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Most of this is fucking garbage, but one thing ehre caught my attention:
"Women blink nearly twice as much as men do."
DO you think this has something to do with behaviour? Blinking shows nervousness or uncertainty, or sometime lying. People who are lying sometimes blink a lot. Maybe women lie a lot.
Submitted by Purplemonkeydishwasher (user info) at 2004-09-15 21:56:00 EDT (#)
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Some of those people have way to much time on their hands. GET BACK TO WORK.
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2004-09-07 17:05:14 EDT (#)
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...and in the red corner:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/44257
We have the Useless fiction everyone relies on.
Submitted by Gozleague (user info) at 2004-09-03 20:11:21 EDT (#)
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Funny,
I dutifully emptied a Champagne bottle (lots of fun, that was) and inserted a raisin, but if failed to rise.
Submitted by Subjugator (user info) at 2004-09-03 15:49:40 EDT (#)
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BTW, here are a few useful links re: pregnancy, Coca Cola, and the black death:
http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
Synopsis:
1. There was a five year old girl who became pregnant (photo included).
2. Coke was never green.
3. The song, "Ring Around the Rosie" does not refer to the black plague.
As a personal note, the word 'and' is not a number, and therefore cannot logically be included when listing numbers that include the letter 'a'. One can only rationally begin the listing with the word 'thousand', as that is a necessary and complete part of the number itself, and not a generic term that is added to the expression thereof. In other words, one can verbally express the number '101' without using the word 'and', and therefore it is not a part of the number. One cannot, in normal expression, say the number '1001' without using the word 'thousand', and therefore it _is_ in fact a part of the number.
I realize that one can say 'ten hundred one' and still express it, but please note that I specified 'in normal expression', which excludes extraneous measures that would typically used only for the sole purpose of attempting to disprove my statement or to speak in a manner that is otherwise not normal.
Subjugator
Submitted by scinut (user info) at 2004-09-03 01:10:10 EDT (#)
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In response to Paul
"i mean it's 'maths' not fuking 'math'. like there is only one form of mathematics.
go suck 'em "
mathematics is a singular noun. It is described as a singular class of multiple sciences. Any dictionary will tell you that. Mathematic is an adj.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mathematics
Submitted by scinut (user info) at 2004-09-03 00:04:26 EDT (#)
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"Nope, it's just Americans who omit the "and". "
I want to end the 101 arguement. I spent four years getting a BA in math and heard people say one o one, one hundred one, and also one hundred and one. There is no technical way to say it (at least in America). In response to the above comment, most americans say one hundred and one and several of my non-American teachers (with various experience in other english speaking countries) would say one hundred one. There is no standard convention that I am aware of.
Personally, I would say one hundred and one out of habit. I think the point was that and is not a number in and of itself, whereas thousand is. You absolutely have to spell thousand with and a, 101 is debatable (as proven by about a thousand of these posts).
Also, to Steve- O
Not that you really care, but you misused the exponential function.
one hundred and forty two could be expressed as 1.42 x 10exp2
read aloud - one point four two times ten to the power of 2 (squared)
not - one and four two times ten to the power of 2
I ACTUALLY READ THIS AS 1 POINT FOUR TWO TIMES 10 e SQUARED
exp(x) = e^x
This is just another random factoid for the collection........also a tribute to the math teachers who spent so much time helping me get a useless degree.
Another useless fact, about 8 years ago, an 8 year old in the Midwestern United States was impregnated. It is generally believed the youngest age for female sexual maturity is 7 or 8, but there are anamolies......no rule is ever absolute.
Submitted by kingjc (user info) at 2004-09-02 12:42:59 EDT (#)
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facinating stuff! took me 5 minutes to work out the first time "A" is used to spell a number!
Submitted by shadowdragon (user info) at 2004-09-01 14:23:50 EDT (#)
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For those of you who like this stuff, here's a ton more...(this is new)
http://www.ubersite.com/m/43348
Submitted by < bob.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-09-01 06:11:39 EDT (#)
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This is interesting. In regard to the "Ring Around...", it does make sense to use ashes, ashes. It was common for dead bodies to be loaded onto catapaults and vaulted at any forces during this time. Royalty also would keep a fire burning around their place of residence. Why? The people of this time clearly had no great concept of virulence, but did know that people who came into contact with bodies of plague victims would typically get the plague, and burning these bodies would destory the risk of getting the plague. This is because yes, it was spread by sneezing, and also the fact that is was an airborne infectious disease. Viruses are very lightweight and easy to inhale, so don't need to be sneezed out in order to be "caught" by victims. So whatever British snoot ballyhooed over the ashes, ashes, shut the hell up and enjoy an interesting post.
Submitted by Takkun <greatfonzo.at.walla.com> at 2004-08-29 14:07:20 EDT (#)
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Technically, "strange" rhymes with "orange".
The appendix was used to digest bark.
Submitted by DrPresident (user info) at 2004-08-28 01:11:57 EDT (#)
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the only four nonrhymable words: month (you mentioned it, the only one that's not a color), purple, silver, orange.
"Go." is the shortest sentence. Or "Be." or "Do."
Submitted by chalk_e (user info) at 2004-08-27 06:39:26 EDT (#)
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" It makes absolutely NO sense for the words to be "ashes ashes we al fall down!" The virus that caused the Bubonic Plague was carried in the mucas at the back of the nose and throat, much like Menangitis, therefore it was by sneezing that the disease was carried"
Bang on, and heres for why - in England the words are actually "atishoo, atishoo we all fall down"
(atishoo being a sneeze)
But... that plague excuse is all crap anyway the Victorians got all uptight about the real meaning of the nursery ryhme and changed it and the words. It's really about picking someone to screw !! , well, marry anyway, lets go through it.
Ring around the roses - A circle of roses was a sign of some chicks virginity
A pocket full of posies - Posies are short love poems from potential suitors
Atishoo, atishoo - Actually 'it is you, it is you' the chick picks her guy
We all fall down - Screwing
true
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2004-08-24 04:15:52 EDT (#)
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dude, so what if theyre stole?
sure he should have said he got it mostly from that magazine, but fuck, ive never seen it and most people here havent, so he's showing it to us.
and yeah, alot of it is sort of inaccurate or not true, but anyone who expects to look for things that they can rely on the truth of on the interent is an idiot.
its mostly true and its for fun guys.
interesting post.
Submitted by vajokki (user info) at 2004-08-24 02:48:31 EDT (#)
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The worlds youngest mother was five. Yes it happened. Its on snopes somewhere. I just saw it.
Submitted by Dr. Stevenson <dr.stevenson.at.your.mom's.house> at 2004-08-23 15:27:35 EDT (#)
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>> It makes absolutely NO sense for the words to be "ashes ashes we al fall down!" The virus that caused the Bubonic Plague was carried in the mucas at the back of the nose and throat, much like Menangitis, therefore it was by sneezing that the disease was carried
(sorry if someone else already said this)... hey knobjob, do you know when the plague occured? do you know what the state of medical science was at the time? if you got the plague it was probably attributed to moral or divine reasons. either way, i doubt the nursery rhyme was constructed with those thoughts in mind.
Submitted by cupzonia (user info) at 2004-08-23 08:24:55 EDT (#)
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I cant believe i just read every single comment on this post. But it killed about 3 hours at work, so i'm not complaining. Esoteric facts are one of my strage loves, though i really wish i didn't have to read a few hundred comments about the black death and the number 101, especially since only a few differant views were established.
Submitted by now_thats_doom (user info) at 2004-08-23 04:34:37 EDT (#)
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Okay that was cool and I learned a lot. Ah yes, learning before going back to school, that's the spirit! Anyways, that's all I can really comment on what you wrote JP, that's your username right? Shit, shit, too lazy to go back and check. Anywho, people who comment, can you stop quoting each other it's really annoying and why are everyone bieng such geeks and going: no!!! That's not true!!! And pretending to be all smart and stuff, yeah okay, I'm sure the person who wrote this didn't get it off of the top of his/her head, they probably read it somewhere, drank a lot of snapple, ect...so stop bitching!
Submitted by ProfessorDuck (user info) at 2004-08-22 00:57:49 EDT (#)
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Oh wait you already found it.
Submitted by ProfessorDuck (user info) at 2004-08-22 00:50:34 EDT (#)
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Not bad. But look at this:
PeanutButterJellyTime: "Theres no V in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" Booya Bitches"
I don't know what the fuck language you're thinking of but we english speakers spell OVER with a V.
Submitted by Cat at 2004-08-21 00:37:27 EDT (#)
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*Sigh* How 101 is pronounced is a matter of personal preference. Most British people would say "one hundred and one" and most Americans would say "one hundred one." But some Americans pronounce it the British way, and some Brits pronounce it the American way. My math teacher last year (an American with a PhD in math) pronounced it the British way. It isn't wrong, but it's really not worth getting worked up about.
I liked the list, it made me smile, even if I've seen most of them before.
Submitted by Degreeless_Capibara (user info) at 2004-08-18 17:48:48 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/31438
Submitted by Oscar (user info) at 2004-08-16 23:51:23 EDT (#)
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If you head directly south from Detroit, the first forign country you will enter is Canada, the only place in the US where you can head -south- into Canada.
One word.
ALASKA.
Submitted by Oscar (user info) at 2004-08-16 23:35:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Dolphins are the only animals other than humans that have sex for pleasure and masturabate.
HOW THE FUCK COULD A DOLPHIN MASTURBATE???????????
Submitted by Omnivexed (user info) at 2004-08-16 23:31:11 EDT (#)
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I liked it, actually knew some of the stuff. Feel like playing trivial pursuit all of a
sudden hm...
Submitted by Chajaf (user info) at 2004-08-12 17:35:45 EDT (#)
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This is simply the most perfect gold mine of important imformation on earth!
Submitted by PeanutButterJellyTime (user info) at 2004-08-12 01:16:22 EDT (#)
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Nevermind damnit, I found it. Thanks alot Brian, you fucking loser.
Submitted by PeanutButterJellyTime (user info) at 2004-08-12 01:15:21 EDT (#)
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Theres no V in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" Booya Bitches
Submitted by technu (user info) at 2004-08-11 03:15:41 EDT (#)
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"The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog."
OVER=V
to the person above.
this is something to read at 2am like I'm doing
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-08-08 16:20:04 EDT (#)
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ahh what these losers will do to prove someone wrong... it was just put there for entertainment, not for all of you to overanalyze
Submitted by dreadnaught_X (user info) at 2004-08-08 16:06:18 EDT (#)
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Most of these may have been from "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader", but it was still fun to read all of those facts.
Submitted by Reichsmarshall (user info) at 2004-08-02 10:30:32 EDT (#)
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Interesting...I don't know anyone who dosn't love wasting time, energy (I mean, I picked up and put down a can of soda, like, 12 times durring the course of that...actually, I lost count. But I know it was a lot of times, man!) and brain cells on the pursuit of trivial knowledge!
In response to Bizdorph, the thing with the person on a horse statue is not written anywhere...it's common knowledge...but you have, obviously, been precluded from that subject. I never heard about the single leg held up, but two in the sky means deid in combat, four on the floor mean died of natural causes...for sure. Did I just repeat that? DAMN IT! I DID!
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-08-01 16:28:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/default.aspx?referer=7584498
Free flat screen monitor or TV! Just sign up for eBay on the requirements page, place a bid (doesn't even have to be a winning bid), and get 8 friends to do the same! Don't forget to verify your email on the 'My Account' page.
FREE SHIT WOO
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2004-07-30 04:00:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2004-07-17 17:43:10 (#)
Ranking: -2
This whole list is stolen from the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series. At the bottom of every page, there's a completely useless fact.
Post something original.
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that is a kickass book
Submitted by revoltingfuck (user info) at 2004-07-30 03:46:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
why does this keep coming back?
Submitted by triple_optics (user info) at 2004-07-30 03:34:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
vinegar doesn't spoil.
Submitted by WallFlower (user info) at 2004-07-30 02:49:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Plus two for you induring so much bullshit, when you were just trying to entertain some people.
Submitted by Abbsterman at 2004-07-27 13:19:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Well thats funny. I have heard fitzies explaination, JP's explaination, and at least two other explainations on what that poem atually meant. I guess we'll never know.
Submitted by fitzie (user info) at 2004-07-26 08:10:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Ring a ring o roses
A pocket full of poses
Atishoo Atishoo
We all fall down.
This it the ryhme. It was invented during the bubonic plauge of 1666 not the black death. Similar disease but the bubonic plauge of 1666 was only widespead in England (mainly london).
The ring a ring of roses indicates the visual symptoms of the bubonic plauge which was a large boil surrounded by a ring of smaller boils.
A pocket full of poses because the rich aristocrats and middle classes believed that the plague was all down to bad airs and used to carry snuff boxes to protect themselves from the disease.
Atishoo Atishoo was due to the flu like symptoms the sufferers had. And we all fall down......take a guess
Hope this has cleared things up.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2004-07-22 15:56:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
"These are some useless facts that I've collected over some length of time. Enjoy. P.S. It's really long, so it will kill some time at work. LOL."
Whats with that 'LOL". Pansy. It only took a few minutes to read I don't see the humor of killing 5 minutes of work. Maybe if the post wasn't so plagiaristic I would have given it a 0.
Submitted by 01011010 (user info) at 2004-07-22 02:00:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Now that's 'MOE' like it.
Submitted by Abbsterman at 2004-07-22 01:45:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked it. I have seen a lot of these on the internet, but never one so big. I think I'll go out and use the words octothorpe, uncopyrightable, bookkeeper, sterwardess, month, and almost as much as possible.
Submitted by Fuckedup (user info) at 2004-07-18 20:56:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I'm gonna fucking kick your ass you newb-brained fucking copy-paster, you're as big a
motherfucker as your dad is with old ladies, i dub you: Fuckedup!
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-07-17 22:26:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fucking stupid copy-paste that everyone's seen before, but +2 for the arguments.
"The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. - Impossible, because neither one could have reached sexual maturity. "
There have been, and are still, people who reach sexual maturity at that age. This is fact. Simply the fact that most people mature later is not cause to throw around the word "impossible" as though you know what it means. Buy a textbook.
"Are you guys stupid or what. i read this and ive found that many of the facts are true BUT USELESS!! the youngest person to have a kid was 5 through a cesarian. Meaning, They surgically open the stomach. 101 = one hundred one. 101.1 = one hundred one point one. the youngest parents were 8 and 9 . some people develop things a lot faster than others. Even sexual capabilities. you guys are so wrong in so many ways that i had to post this thing here. "
I understand what a Caesarian section is, dipshit. A five-year-old female is incapable both of releasing ova and of supporting a foetus in the womb lining. Now STFU.
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2004-07-17 17:43:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This whole list is stolen from the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series. At the bottom of every page, there's a completely useless fact.
Post something original.
Submitted by Faze (user info) at 2004-07-17 17:19:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Interesting list, although a lot of these are just urban legends. There are too many gullible people on the net these days.
Submitted by a_shade_of_grey (user info) at 2004-07-16 20:53:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i would say you go to hell and you die, BUT i feel happy right now, so... i like snapple, and you get a 0
Submitted by Mish at 2004-07-15 06:19:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Hmm, only, I know this is suppose to be put to rest but the song with the plague... I've never anyone sneeze and sound like "atishoo" or seen it spelled like that, maybe without the "t" in i. And since sneezing isn't the only way to transfer sickness that sorta leaves a gap. "Ashes to ashes" seems to make more sense regardless of being right or wrong since you'd burn people to make space and be decrease the chance of catching it. Though, what I learned is that "ring around the rosie" is the pink you get in your cheeks from being sick and pale. Not trying to shit on anyone's childhood though.
Submitted by Stormlord (user info) at 2004-07-15 05:21:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I've heard a lot of those before, but many of them were new to me. Interesting stuff.
Submitted by omglikewtf (user info) at 2004-07-14 04:52:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I've read this list so many times before. Also the bubonic plague would supposedly be treatable in Western Society now so it's not incureable it's like the flu or something.
Submitted by great_pen155 (user info) at 2004-07-13 17:52:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Bizdorph, nice to see that you actually aren't a turd.
Submitted by calbearspolo (user info) at 2004-07-13 14:13:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
1/1000 = one one-thousanth? I didn't get past "one."
Submitted by paul <no> at 2004-07-13 14:05:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by fr33d0mrulz (user info) at 2003-12-31 01:04:20 (#)
Ranking: 0
You guys are ignorant as hell..."A hundred and one" is said as slang...in MATHEMATICS(for all u smart ones out there, its "hundred one"...you never say "hundred and one"...that would indicate a decimal place..."100.1"...hundred and one-tenths...and in " a hundred," "a" is an article, a type of adjective...simply enforcing the fact that there is only ONE set of hundred...yep, its called grade school...
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learn English fool. in maths 'one hundred and one' is said quite a lot. well, not that very number, but you know what i mean, 'two hundred and twelve', 'sixteen hundred and forty two', etcetera. even my uni lecturer knows it, and he's dumb as hell. i can't believe how you screwy americans come up with this stuff. i mean it's 'maths' not fuking 'math'. like there is only one form of mathematics.
go suck 'em
Submitted by paul <no> at 2004-07-13 13:53:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
and you screwed up the nursery ryme. trust me i'm english. america didn't even exist at the time of the black death so how could your version be the original?
Submitted by paul <no> at 2004-07-13 13:48:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
# hash sign or sharp sign in the uk. (sharp 'cause of sheet music or something)
Submitted by FreZno (user info) at 2004-07-13 12:55:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I actually fucking read all the comments... well, okay, I skimmed several. Jesus Tapdancing Christ, I never want to hear about "Ring Around the Rosies" or the 101 debate ever again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to class... after which I'll probably put a gun in my mouth to spare the world of another uberloser.
Submitted by Bizdorph (user info) at 2004-07-12 15:02:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I couldn't care less whether you post or not. That doesn't change whether or not you're intelligent/a good writer/etc. Posting is just an outlet.
The same thing applies to me criticizing someone who has a higher rating than me. My ratin doesn't change whether I'm intelligent or not. It's based on other people's subjective opinions. The fact that my rating is low could mean that perhaps I don't post things to give other people enjoyment.
I'm not going to bitch and moan about how you proved me wrong on a few things. There's just no point, because I know I'm wrong and complaining about it is a useless endeavour.
Submitted by great_pen155 (user info) at 2004-07-11 06:39:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Bizdorph is a dumbass.
The AVERAGE age for sexual puberty 12-13, NOTE: AVERAGE. I don't think you get it yet, so I'll expand on that, it means it actually varies, now with the number of people in the world, it's entirely possible that they were parents at such an early age, hence their fame.
This is a web site where political correctness and total accuracy aren't considered compulsory virtues, so the medical cabinet fact, the Queen Elizabeth II and the penny facts are acceptable. The medical cabinet fact would have been deduced from a sample as it's practically impossible to sample every party. The Queen Elizabeth II fact merely emphasizes the fact that its fuel consumption is enormous. The Penny fact... mathematical facts are generaly based on probabilities, ass-whore.
Copyright is in the dictionary, as it's the core of the word uncopyrightable, jackass. If the dictionary included every way every word was spelled, you'd need to move it with a crane.
Wow, you added an es on to stewardess, but now I'm going to bitch as as you did "WAAAAH!!! THAT'S NOT IN THE DICTIONARY". You stupid hypocrite.
About the 5 year old mother, see my first paragraph.
Now some emotional bitching from me. I've noticed that your average rating is -0.68, wether as JP's is 0.53, so please, don't critisize someone whose on the oppsosite side of the popularity spectrum to you, the point of this website is entertainment, and frnkly people don't care that JP didn't tickle you G-spot. The moral of this story is... I hate you.
Also don't bitch about me having no post's, as it would be just to get back at me, in which case i would have to post about your ass hip deep in hypocracy, and I'm saying that with complete confidence having read some of your ''PIECES'' (cough... turd cough)
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-07-11 01:34:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Sorry, honey doesn't spoil. It never becomes toxic, and once crystallized, one only has to reheat it in order to revert it back to its liquified state.
Submitted by Bizdorph (user info) at 2004-07-10 20:19:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. - No connection whatsoever, since we don't even know what causes intelligence.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. - Impossible, because neither one could have reached sexual maturity.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- Just coincidence. There is no law for creating statues that says this must be true.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- It's 3471 miles, STRAIGHT LINE to London. This means that the ship would nead to hold 3471 x 10560 gallons for each mile. This equals 36 653 760 gallons of fuel. This equals 135 618 912 litres of diesel. This amount would not fit on the boat unless the bottom 15 metres of the boat were devoted to fuel, and the boat were a perfect rectangular prism (which it obviously isn't). Want proof? http://www.ocean-liners.com/ships/qetwo.asp
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
- There are countless other professional sports. Restricting this no Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, and Football is like taking a global census and ruling out Asians, Africans, and South Americans.
Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A. Honey
- Honey does spoil. It crystalizes and becomes unusable.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
- You cannot prove this without monitoring every party everywhere in the world all the time.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
- Tinted bottles don't keep out light. They are only selective as to what light is let through.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
- This is only pobability. THe coin could just as easily land heads 9 999 times.
The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess
- Stewardesses
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
- This isn't in the dictionary.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation. Several days.
The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course) Not possible, because five year old girls do not ovulate.
Submitted by maggot (user info) at 2004-07-10 13:32:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Interesting shit.
Submitted by Lady Di at 2004-07-09 10:08:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
LOL@ the arguing people commenting...
But anyways, Bravo on a great post...I think that no war with McDonalds point should be passed around!
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2004-07-08 17:40:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by byron (user info) at 2002-08-15 08:12:16 (#)
Ranking: 1
I thought that jeep came from 'Just Enough Essential Parts'.
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JEEP: Just Empty Every Pocket
Submitted by polly (user info) at 2004-07-07 23:07:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i liked it as well.
Submitted by blackflames667 (user info) at 2004-07-07 01:44:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I can see why some people might dislike it because it isn't really humorous or sexual or anything, but I found it to be rather interesting.I've read a lot of those before but a few I had not.They were nice.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-07-05 18:06:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
for a start
statement, n. 5 mathematics. an idea expressed by a closed sentence.
the world book dictionary, thorndike barnhart
"how do you know i am currently adressing you? you don't its an assumption."
Because the comment you were adressing was made by yours truly. Stop acting dumb.
"however 'istaros', i started a new paragraph. differentiated enough for you."
I'm afraid not. A paragraph break does not signify a change in adress. It signifies a change in topic or direction -as if you were to refer to one statement of mine in one of your paragraphs, and then switch to another paragraph to show that you were then adressing a different, later statement of mine.
"***istoaros*** (im adressing you) in a mathematical sentence (it is a sentence, unless dictionaries lie) a plus sign could be read as added to, so that 2+3=5 means when 3 is added to 2, 5 is the result. oh and so as not to leave you behind
plus, prep., adj., adv., n., 1 added to; increased by
the world book dictionary, thorndike barnhart"
Dictionaries ARE bullshit, and I'm surprised you think they're not. Dictionaries don't define words, they serve as guides to show the definitions of words -definitions that already exist outside of the dictionary. There is no such thing as a "not-real" word. If a phonetic pattern is generally recognized as meaning a certain thing among members of a certain linguistic group, it is a word. A sentence is purely grammatical, and has no relevance to anything outside of grammar. The sky being blue is not a sentence, it is a fact -when I say, "The sky is blue," that is a sentence.
Submitted by Big Al at 2004-07-05 17:57:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Heh heh... Thats great! I love factiods, especially useless ones!
Submitted by CoachMagirk (user info) at 2004-07-05 16:35:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What about borange... Hahaha. I like your style. Oh the things ok too.
Love,
Peepoepoewitz
Submitted by blackflames667 (user info) at 2004-07-05 16:30:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
someone sent me a list like that via e mail the other day...except with fewer items.its nice to memorize trivia.
Submitted by Feral_Bass_Bastard (user info) at 2004-07-04 11:26:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"a ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why "
actually it does echo, but the sound wave for both the initial quack and the secondary sound caused by the echo are so close they can not be sorted out without the use of sophisticated audio equipment. (Thanks to Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel for wasted production time on this one!)
"Native Americans would pick corn and other veggies out of their feces and eat it again "
Actually only one tribe out of hundreds practiced this "second harvest". It was a tribe located in the region that eventually became south Texas. They are the Coahilticans. (My spelling may be off)
Just useless confirmations
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-07-01 20:30:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I thought the Black Death was caused by at least simultaneous diseases, one of which was the bubonic plague... That's why it was so "untreatable"... ?
Submitted by antluvdog (user info) at 2004-06-30 21:22:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Testing, testing.
Submitted by confusedfemale (user info) at 2004-06-30 20:44:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Haven't read through all of them but,
"Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt."
Is not true.
They are called that because when the come out of the thingy it makes a kissey sound.
Submitted by RoachBum (user info) at 2004-06-27 16:55:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuckin' A. The post was neat, but the arguments that came about were even cooler.
Plus, Barbie is one hot mamma huh?
Submitted by XII (user info) at 2004-06-25 01:10:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
for a start
statement, n. 5 mathematics. an idea expressed by a closed sentence.
the world book dictionary, thorndike barnhart
how do you know i am currently adressing you? you don't its an assumption. if i had have been talking to you i would have just continued on with a new sentence after the full stop.
however 'istaros', i started a new paragraph. differentiated enough for you.
***istoaros*** (im adressing you) in a mathematical sentence (it is a sentence, unless dictionaries lie) a plus sign could be read as added to, so that 2+3=5 means when 3 is added to 2, 5 is the result. oh and so as not to leave you behind
plus, prep., adj., adv., n., 1 added to; increased by
the world book dictionary, thorndike barnhart
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-06-24 12:52:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"once again listen.
did i 'say' it was you??"
Yes, you did. You addressed both statements in one sitting -regardless of your intentions, the result of this is that you make no distinction in the people to whom you are speaking. Since the subtle elements of vocal inflections and facial adress are not present in written(typed) statements, you need to either verbally or representationally express a change in adress -there IS no other way to perceive it. Speech is a means of communication, not introspection; what you say is defined by how it is received, not how it is intended.
If I were to take the same approach as you are doing right now, I would be forced to say "I can't listen, your words are typed not spoken!"
"also as an astrophysics major you should know that a mathematical equation is a sentence."
An equation is *not* a sentence -it is a statement. Many consider the basic building block of a sentence to be the action(verb), which is not present in an equation; "=" does not mean "creates" but rather "is," as the equation itself does not take any amount of time. Four plus four equals eight immediately, regardless of how long it takes someone of your intellect to solve an equation of such complexity.
Submitted by XII (user info) at 2004-06-24 04:19:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
once again listen.
did i 'say' it was you??
i quoted both things before i said anything to avoid my comments 'comaflauging(sp)' into the rest of the post.
also as an astrophysics major you should know that a mathematical equation is a sentence.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-06-23 10:56:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Yes, actually, you DID say it was me; you quoted both statements right after each other, then continued to say "stupid back at you. you could say two and twenty (like four and twenty black-birds)[in reference to my comment]... if you are going to tell me that 'and' means a decimal place you had better tell me etc.[in reference to the other's comment]" By failing to differentiate between the people you are addressing, by addressing your replies to both statements in one sitting, you only address one audience.
4+20 is 24 only in mathematical terms. In grammatical terms, it is an entirely separate statement.
I'm an astrophysics professor and a spelunker. I also do porn.
Submitted by XII (user info) at 2004-06-23 09:11:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
now listen carefully istaros becuase you didnt last time
1st point-----Are you talking to ME, bitch? Yeah, you COULD say that -but that means 4+20, not 24. Learn your grammar, child!
---what exactly is 4 plus 20?
Also, the second quote you posted was not me, you fucking genius.
---did i say it was you?? reguardless, what the heck would this (look below) be in my post for then??
Submitted by Steve-O <steve-o.at.luxmail.com> at 2003-05-10 23:21:51 (#)
Ranking: 0
It's not "one hundred AND one" dumbass....it's "one hundred one", one hundred AND one would be 100.1, the "and" means decimal when verbalizing a number. Thus, making the post correct. HA
one other thing istaros, what is it exactly you do? just for the record.
Submitted by boyo (user info) at 2004-06-22 21:36:31 EDT (#)
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It's not ashes, or witches as some other moron wrote, it's Ahtishhoo (sound for sneezing), because after all it is about the plague.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-06-22 21:23:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"stupid back at you. you could say two and twenty (like four and twenty black-birds"
Are you talking to ME, bitch? Yeah, you COULD say that -but that means 4+20, not 24. Learn your grammar, child!
Also, the second quote you posted was not me, you fucking genius.
Submitted by Illusionist (user info) at 2004-06-22 21:06:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
BTW, stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with your left hand, not stewardess.
Other than that, this is pretty funny.
Submitted by ItsOnlyHerpes13 (user info) at 2004-06-22 17:04:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
TO THE IDIOT WHO POSTED THIS!
Submitted by pinkmaui (user info) at 2004-05-18 19:55:04 (#)
Ranking: -1
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
a-lazy
b-brown
c-quick
d-dog
e-the
f-fox
g-dog
h-the
i-quick
j-jumps
k-quick
l-lazy
m-jumps
n-brown
o-fox, over, dog, brown
p-jumps
q-quick
r-brown
s-jumps
t-the
u-jumps
v- THERE ISN'T ONE!
w-brown
x-fox
y-lazy
z-lazy
you lose
THE WORD OVER HAS A V IN IT. HE DIDN'T LOSE...YOU CAN'T READ.
Submitted by XII (user info) at 2004-06-21 10:11:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
the bubbles in guiness sink
Submitted by XII (user info) at 2004-06-21 10:09:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Istaros <archon_templar.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-11 02:47:44 (#)
Ranking: 0
"you'd reach A when you got to 101. read that number out. One hundred AND one. haha."
From now on, I'll make sure to say "twenty-and-two" whenever verbally saying "22." Stupid.
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Submitted by Steve-O <steve-o.at.luxmail.com> at 2003-05-10 23:21:51 (#)
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It's not "one hundred AND one" dumbass....it's "one hundred one", one hundred AND one would be 100.1, the "and" means decimal when verbalizing a number. Thus, making the post correct. HA
stupid back at you. you could say two and twenty (like four and twenty black-birds)
if you are going to tell me that 'and' means a decimal place you had better tell me what the and 1 is. is it one tenth?? is it one whole? is it one half? if it is in fact a decimal 1 what is the denominator (10, 100, 1000, 1????)
one hundred and forty two could be expressed as 1.42 x 10exp2
read aloud - one point four two times ten to the power of 2 (squared)
not - one and four two times ten to the power of 2
keep it consistant
my fact to add to the pile the exponential number e (2.718 etc) to the power of [i x pi] (sqrt -1 x 3.141 etc) e exp i pi = -1
e to the i pi equals negative one
Submitted by ChocoDave (user info) at 2004-06-21 08:27:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
just one question, about the "first number to have an A in it" If one hundred and one is 100.1 what is one hundred and a tenth? i figure this would be 100 + 1/10 = 100.1 (do this on a calculator! i do not lie!).
one hundred point one, yeah, thats 100.1 , one hundred and one, 100 + 1 = 101
Im not sure though if the AND in one hundred and one is supposed to be there, i know i use it but meh!
I'll stick with the idea that the fact is about the first NUMBER with an A in it... 'and' isnt a number :D
Gd post tho! just cant waste enough time reading them
Submitted by MaryG <maryg.at.yahoo.com> at 2004-06-17 23:16:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Go" has no subject. It is a command. Even if you gave it a subject, you would give it "You" for "You go" which becomes still a two word sentence, as is "I am".
Nice Post (2)
Submitted by MaryG <maryg.at.yahoo.com> at 2004-06-17 23:12:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I tried the "=rand(200,99)" thing; very cool. Nice post.
Submitted by Fat Kyle at 2004-06-14 21:54:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Man, you idiots are annoying. Can't you just chill out and decide whatever you want about the "facts". Listing each item that you have a problem with makes you look like pathetic retards with nothing better to do...but then again, maybe you are.
Submitted by Mooner at 2004-06-12 11:06:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"Go," is a shorter, complete sentence than "I am."
Submitted by VerbOrgy (user info) at 2004-06-09 01:13:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Sorry for the people from down below you said a ducks quack won't echo, it does in fact echo. You cannot stop sound from bouncing off of things. The echo just sounds like a quack.
Submitted by FlyinButrs (user info) at 2004-06-08 09:33:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Great list!
But, you are wrong about Bulletproof vests. Kevlar was invented in 1965 by a woman (Stephanie Kwoek) along with a team of scientists at DuPont. Bulletproof vests were invented in 1973 by Richard Davis, a former pizzeria owner who had previously been injured in a robbery. The company he founded, Second Chance vests is still one of the largest manufacturers of bulletproof vests in the world.
No, I had nothing better to do.
http://www.nlectc.org/justnetnews/11162000.html#story14
http://equipmentlocker.fateback.com/bodyarmour.htm
Submitted by looah at 2004-06-06 14:54:55 EDT (#)
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sorry, I ment he said go was the shortest sentence. my bad.
Submitted by looah <sparklez202.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-06-06 14:53:25 EDT (#)
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the 'ring around the roses' thing doesn't even have to do with the black plague, so get over it. and most sorces say it's either, 'hasha hasha', 'atichoo atichoo', or 'ashes ashes'
now for the go thing, I asked my dad, who is an english major from harvard, and he said go was the shortest word.
as for 101, I took a poll 0f 25 people in my neighborhood, and only one said 'one-hundred and one', the other's said 'one hundred one', or 'one oh one'.
Submitted by braincramp (user info) at 2004-06-05 12:00:23 EDT (#)
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I would just like to add something about the spelling of numbers thing. The post says when you spell out the numbers, not spell out the words you say when referring to a number. If I remember correctly "and" is not a number and neither is "oh".
Submitted by Jesalyn(Kwevil <Kwevil900> at 2004-06-01 18:56:55 EDT (#)
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Yea this was pretty interesting
On another point Pinkmaui your just dumb because theyre is one for "V" it's over!
Once again Kilgore your dum because you said "Fact: 90% of people who commented on this are morons"
Guesssss what?! You added a comment numb nutts!
Submitted by lei (user info) at 2004-05-29 18:40:41 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Stin (user info) at 2004-05-29 10:07:03 EDT (#)
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All interesting pub quiz facts, or esoterica, but I just thought I'd add my six eggs' worth to the numbers debate. Now forgive me this, I am English and I do come from a part the South where we speak like typical farmers and yokels. to say "a hundred" is not worth getting as excited about as everyone seemed to - after all, if you ask for a banana, you only get one. "a" is the singular diminutive (correct me if I'm worng - I might be!) therefore implying one, therefore "a hundred" implies "one hundred". As for the "one hundred and one" debate, I think it might be a whole lots easier if we all put it down to the differences between being American and being English. I know that when I go and spend my money, the person behind the till says "that'll be one hundred and twenty three pounds then please" (I wish), but at uni for numbers we'd say "four-oh-seven point two-five" for 407.25 (physics, not maths student!). But I'm not going to make a judgement about which way's right and which way's wrong! Let the Americans, Canadians, any one else who wishes to partake do it there way, and I can rest safe in the knowledge that a little bit of Dorset will forever be tainted with the "wrong" number patterns!
Submitted by slimpickinz (user info) at 2004-05-25 19:41:35 EDT (#)
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my first public service announcement:
dood, you have that thing about the monopoly money in there twice. and also no "real" words rhyme with orange or purple either.
Submitted by Messerschmitt (user info) at 2004-05-19 07:12:17 EDT (#)
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R8chi: "The virus that caused the Bubonic Plague ......"
It's not a virus; but a bacteria called Yersinia pestis
Submitted by Smarter than the idiot before <whatever.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-05-18 22:31:01 EDT (#)
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"v- THERE ISN'T ONE!"
"Over" you moron. Learn to read before you make yourself look like an ass
Submitted by pinkmaui (user info) at 2004-05-18 19:55:04 EDT (#)
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
a-lazy
b-brown
c-quick
d-dog
e-the
f-fox
g-dog
h-the
i-quick
j-jumps
k-quick
l-lazy
m-jumps
n-brown
o-fox, over, dog, brown
p-jumps
q-quick
r-brown
s-jumps
t-the
u-jumps
v- THERE ISN'T ONE!
w-brown
x-fox
y-lazy
z-lazy
you lose
Submitted by Wiggy <thewigmeister.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-05-17 10:54:33 EDT (#)
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Some facts on the speaker of the house- (because I'm nice)
The Speaker of the House of Commons is elected by the rest of the Members of Parliament (MP's) to preside over proceedings in the Commons. The Speaker does not have to be a member of the ruling party (currently Labour, led by Tony Blair) but is independent of all issues.
Normally, the speaker's duties involve saying who can speak (members who wish to speak stand, the speaker then says their name out loud to introduce them, if the Prime Minister stands he takes precedence over all others) and bringing order to the Commons (order, order, all that crap). However, if an MP is being rude and generally being an ass, the Speaker will 'name' them and the rest of the MP's vote on whether that MP should be suspended or not (complicated I know).
ALso, on the 101 issue:
In Britain it's 'One hundred and one'
In America it's 'One hundred one'
End of discussion.
Submitted by YoMama <angelafellinger.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-05-13 02:24:30 EDT (#)
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I think that every douche bag that made a big deal out of the number thing, is some asshole who always has to criticize someone else for trying to offer harmless entertainment. Furthermore, you all missed the whole point of it. They were obviously talking about WHOLE NUMBERS! Also, technically, if you use the word "and" in a number it is supposed to precede a decimal and/or smaller amount, for example, two hundred twenty two dollars AND two cents, not two hundred and twenty two dollars and twenty two cents. I think I learned that in second grade. You guys need to just learn to read stuff and go, "Wow, that's interesting," instead of making such a huge deal about something that you all thought was so stupid in the first place.
Submitted by shadowdragon (user info) at 2004-05-12 22:22:12 EDT (#)
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The following link IS relevant to this post.
I don't care if you call me a spammer.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/31276
Submitted by a person <sisti.at.gcctv.com> at 2004-05-12 06:14:45 EDT (#)
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About us and Iraq both having a McDonald's, that fact still witholds. Something you probably DIDN'T know was that we've never officially declared since like WWII. Therefore, whatever that one person said is now a moot point.
Submitted by KLEN at 2004-05-11 04:48:00 EDT (#)
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Are you guys stupid or what. i read this and ive found that many of the facts are true BUT USELESS!! the youngest person to have a kid was 5 through a cesarian. Meaning, They surgically open the stomach. 101 = one hundred one. 101.1 = one hundred one point one. the youngest parents were 8 and 9 . some people develop things a lot faster than others. Even sexual capabilities. you guys are so wrong in so many ways that i had to post this thing here.
Submitted by anarki_2k2 (user info) at 2004-05-10 18:47:57 EDT (#)
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hey you know whats not useless? the fact that this was complete BS! wtf does anyone honestly give a shit?
Submitted by jugoschwabo <feminists.at.suck.my.balls> at 2004-05-07 07:50:08 EDT (#)
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and another -2 for writing LOL
Submitted by jugoschwabo <kiss_my_ass.at.hotmale.com> at 2004-05-07 07:48:38 EDT (#)
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didnt catch this one:
"This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds"
kiss my ass. youre full of shit.
does anybody remember when the fucking americans bombed Serbia in 1999?
There is no McDonalds in Serbia you're telling me?
Or are you implying that there was no war?
FUCK YOU!
craphole.
go crawl back into your mothers woom through her asshole.
Submitted by lilbill87 (user info) at 2004-05-06 19:09:30 EDT (#)
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ehh...must say I enjoyed it
Submitted by iggy <iggy.at.thewholefeckinginternet.c> at 2004-05-06 07:32:20 EDT (#)
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you DO say "eleven and one tenth" for 11.1
you DO say "one hundred one and one tenth" for 101.1
you also say "one hundred eleven" for 111
you don't say "one hundrend twenty and one"
that last would be one hundred and twenty one. adding 'the' is maybe just a uk thing, saying one hundred twenty one just sounds weird.
Submitted by hocuspocus (user info) at 2004-05-06 07:01:14 EDT (#)
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firstly englands bigger than florida
england is 93,000 square miles
florida is 58.560 square miles
get digged nob head
Submitted by Korrineine (user info) at 2004-05-05 17:18:07 EDT (#)
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The nursery rhyme is actually not about the Black Plague. http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
Also, the number thing - people say it differently all over the world. Who really cares which is the first letter to have an A in it? Personally I say "one hundred and one", some people say "one hundred one", some say "one-oh-one"... it all depends where you come from and what you were brought up with.
Submitted by Sacrew (user info) at 2004-05-05 00:11:38 EDT (#)
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w00t FLORIDA IS BIGGUR THEN ENGALAND LMAO!
AMERRICA r00lz!
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-05-04 13:01:03 EDT (#)
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Some of the 'facts' are bullshit. Furthermore copy-paste writers like you, suck ass.
Submitted by StonedSilly (user info) at 2004-05-03 23:04:53 EDT (#)
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LOLZ I CIN COPY N PAST 2 LOLZ MABE U CAN DO BETA DEN ME BUT I DUN THIKN SOO!!!1!1!one!11!
Submitted by **MCHELLE HESTER** at 2004-05-03 22:31:10 EDT (#)
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AWESOME! I luv useless facts! LMAO!
Submitted by Harmless (user info) at 2004-05-03 20:57:23 EDT (#)
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Most valuable thing I hae learned:
Its unfair to assume everyone who lives in a trash can is a grouch
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-04-23 16:46:54 EDT (#)
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Exactly. One-hundred eleven, good. One-hundred twenty-one, good. One-hundred one, good. One-hundred AND one, BAAAAAD.
Submitted by myusername (user info) at 2004-04-21 06:27:47 EDT (#)
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Can we put the number thing to rest??! Think about how you say numbers in other languages.
Think about 1,110,101 or 1,110,101.1 Why does only the "ones" digit get special treatment?
Maybe some people put an "and" when they get to the end as a hint they are at the end
of the number.
you DO say "eleven and one tenth" for 11.1
you DO say "one hundred one and one tenth" for 101.1
you also say "one hundred eleven" for 111
you don't say "one hundrend twenty and one"
Submitted by myusername (user info) at 2004-04-21 06:18:01 EDT (#)
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Some of these are mostly wrong.
- flipping a coin in the air so it is rotating...
will statistically land up on the same side that is facing up when tossed.
this is because there are all the possibilities of less than one full rotation.
once the coin is rotating, it will randomly flip a random amount of times, but
you have to also include the cases where it never completes a full rotation.
- spinning a coin on a table..
will statistically land a certain side up due to the weight of the heads side.
as it is spinning on a table and just barely starts to fall, the heavier side
will force the coin to start the falling process with heavier side down.
- US phone area codes until recently had middle digits of "0" or "1"
until recent expansions, the switching stations only supported the middle
number in area codes being a 1 or 0. (think binary) This limited the
area codes to about 160 possible codes.
Submitted by Fabish (user info) at 2004-04-19 00:27:33 EDT (#)
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This was the first post I ever read on Ubersite. I signed up two days after reading this, but I guess I never knew how to rate until now.
Submitted by Alpine at 2004-04-13 05:39:53 EDT (#)
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Actually ring around the rosie was about the plague. just because nursery rhymes existed before the plague doesnt mean one isnt about the plague. Also most nursery rhymes were written by "the brothers grim (sp?) Who wrote them about sick and twisted things.
Submitted by WiKi (user info) at 2004-04-09 19:05:59 EDT (#)
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Well, you can't do much damage with that...maybe it should have been a rule of wrist then.
The Boondock Saints, once again. Lovin' it.
Submitted by Mr_Master (user info) at 2004-03-31 20:54:56 EST (#)
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The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course)
That is not even possible. A five year old is NOT CAPABLE of birth. No matter what.
And i highly doubt the youngest parents at being 8 and 9. I dont recall guys being able to cum at age 9.
Submitted by EvrenWasHere (user info) at 2004-03-30 20:47:54 EST (#)
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Did you know that 72.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
Submitted by the_rick <therickva.at.yahoo.com> at 2004-03-24 14:01:31 EST (#)
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there is no freaking way im going to read every reply to this post but i can say this:
Iraq has a McDonalds.
USA has a McDonalds.
Thats the end of that fact.
Submitted by not_truly_sane <not_truly_sane.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-03-19 20:19:54 EST (#)
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hmm... you said that florida is bigger than england...
i live in australia, there are single properties larger than texas in this country....
the most noted one is a cattle ranch in WA.
i know that now there'll be a whole lot of people coming on here and abusing me for whatever reason and asking what the point is but i thought i'd point it out...
"Love thy neighbour and don't get caught!"
Do you think illiterate people get the full affect of alphabet soup?
Submitted by DeathJester at 2004-03-18 09:16:17 EST (#)
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Jupit*E*r, you uneducated 6 year old
87% of statistics are made up on the spot
Submitted by fucking idiots <dougwetterlin.at.yahoo.com> at 2004-03-10 18:27:33 EST (#)
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You are all retarted.
101=One Hunderd One OR One Hundred and One
101.1=One Hundred One and One Tenth
Submitted by Kilgore (user info) at 2004-03-05 15:56:12 EST (#)
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Fact: Half of this shit is so made up that a child could see it.
Fact: 90% of people who commented on this are morons.
Fact: Being English does not exclude you from the previous fact. You are idiots too. You've just been idiots longer.
Fact: Shut up. No one cares how fast ketchup moves.
+2 for your amazing ability to steal from email fowards from five years ago.
Submitted by BigBear (user info) at 2004-03-05 10:32:56 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Dumb... and most of them aren't true.
Submitted by George <marchhare.at.bored.com> at 2004-03-04 14:43:14 EST (#)
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entertaining... definitely interesting
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-03-04 14:24:46 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by poopsy at 2004-03-01 15:09:35 EST (#)
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so if one hundred one = 101, and one hundred and one = 100.1, how do you say 101.1 one hundred one and one?
dumbass, its one hundred AND one.
Submitted by judea (user info) at 2004-02-29 20:36:27 EST (#)
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there are more plastic flamingos in the world than there are real ones. leave him alone y'all, who cares if he got them off another website.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-02-29 16:14:08 EST (#)
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No, it doesn't.
Submitted by intellismartness (user info) at 2004-02-24 23:21:57 EST (#)
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Godammit, it seems pretty obvious that the one hundred and one controversy depends on where one lives. (though to use one hundred and one tenth to represent 100.01 is stupid, one tenth = 0.1, metric or otherwise)
Once a person gets beyond one hundred, the numbers become a list, It is not necessary for 23 and the like because the numbers would cause confusion every hundred times more.
eg One million, Two hundred and fifty three thousand, Six hundred and eighty nine
Submitted by Foamy at 2004-02-23 02:05:46 EST (#)
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PS. Julius Ceasar wasn't a king his actual status was "first citizen" I would give you the latin phrasing but your a little slow for that don't you think. "The smartest thing that ever came out of your moms mouth was Captain Foamy's dick" http://www.geocities.com/captain_foamy
Submitted by Foamy at 2004-02-23 01:58:23 EST (#)
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Here are some useless facts for ya: One, on Jupitor your balls weigh 16 pounds Two, on Jupitor when you bust a nut it falls straight down to the floor, I'm talking zero arch even if your cock is pointed at the ceiling Three, when you place a supply of ejaculite on a chicks face it hits her hard and it makes a sound like you hit a gong with a spin kick while wearing wooden shoes 4 I fucked your mom 5, she made me easy mac 6, the easy mac wasn't good 7, I farted on her, the macaroni bowl, and on your TV remote 8, Van Damme rocks harder than you do 9, this is the best site on Earth and Jupitor http://www.geocities.com/captain_foamy
Submitted by bobbyo <ridingondubs.at.msn.com> at 2004-02-19 19:35:50 EST (#)
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heads is on the bottom more often because it would hurt to land on your tail
Submitted by Atma at 2004-02-16 02:46:29 EST (#)
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"British_and_proud" may be the dumbest person to ever walk the face of the earth. Does this idiot actually think cats and dogs can reproduce together? Does he actually think we're all native americans (most of our ancestry is British, we just left because monarchies blow)? Does he actually think he had a damn thing to do with the discovery of america or any personal pride to exhibit for that? What a fool.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-02-13 20:45:36 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by lor-n <lo> at 2004-02-13 20:23:51 EST (#)
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the number thing got a lot of controversy. y is everyone saying it's bullshit! i liked it sure i heard some of it before but who cares!
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-02-12 19:34:43 EST (#)
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Yes, if you say "one hundred AND one" it means 100.1. The correct way to say it is "One hundred one"
Submitted by Kracker (user info) at 2004-02-08 18:20:27 EST (#)
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One Hundred and One = 100.1 One hundred one equals 101
Submitted by Charisma (user info) at 2004-02-06 12:40:55 EST (#)
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Can rats and rabbits actually procreate?? This had got me thinking
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-02-05 16:34:56 EST (#)
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Oh shut up, you moron.
Submitted by sebcharrot (user info) at 2004-02-02 13:48:11 EST (#)
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the first "A" in numbers is one hundred And one
you dont say hundred one
seb
Submitted by Erica <akalyn.at.earthlink.net> at 2004-02-01 02:28:47 EST (#)
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There was a lot of interesting facts... true or not *shugs* who cares? It killed time to read it, and all the posts that were mostly repeats of things already posted before. The only thing I can disagree about is that my "Domestic Cat" a.k.a. the lil' runty calico that turned into a 15lb lap cat happens to love lemonade, and lemon mirange(sp?) pie, as well as mostly anything that is sweet so no, not all domestic cats hate lemon or citrus, allthough he does dislike orange juice.
Submitted by BaseballBat (user info) at 2004-01-31 05:14:15 EST (#)
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Tevo's are valuable, valuabae, valuable.
Submitted by JinkyWilliams (user info) at 2004-01-29 17:01:05 EST (#)
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I'm sure this has been stated numerous times before, but...
Coke actually was not originally green. Though this tidbit of knowledge has been widely distributed as part of an Internet "Did You Know?" list, at no time in Coca-Cola's history has that beverage been green. The original formula called for caramel to give Coca-Cola its rich brown color, and although the recipe has undergone some changes through the years, none of them affected the ultimate color of the product.
(Brown also hides impurities in any given batch, something the backroom chemist who invented Coca-Cola in 1886 kept well in mind as he proceeded with his formulation. These days syrup producers and bottlers have no impurities to hide, but back in the "three copper kettles in somebody's basement" days, covering up what might have inadvertently dropped into the mix was a concern, and brown hid indiscretions remarkably well.)
Coke has at times been bottled in green glass bottles, which perhaps explains the popularity of this particular rumor.
[above taken from http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp]
Stay orange.
--JW
Submitted by Titantrumpeter <TitanTrumpeter.at.aol.com> at 2004-01-29 16:47:13 EST (#)
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"Submitted by British_&_Proud <lonely_pigeon.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-06-14 08:42:47 (#)
Ranking: 1
Streetpunk - for your information, it's the English language...I couldn't give a toss if it's the shortest sentence or not, but it's our bloody language. Chris Columbus discovered YOU in 1492, we came first so get over yourself."
Columbus was an Italian sailing for Spain, he didnt speak English.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-01-29 16:17:59 EST (#)
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shame about the bullshit about the plague.
Ring a ring a rosy = plague sores
A pocket full of posy = sweet smelling herbs to get rid of the plague in the air - often worn in the form of a mask with a large beak over the mouth and nose
Atichoo atichoo = the sneezing and convulsions before death
we all fall down = youve died an agonising death bro.
you ignorant bastards.
Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2004-01-29 14:51:29 EST (#)
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My cock is WAY wider than my thumb...
Submitted by layney (user info) at 2004-01-29 14:37:33 EST (#)
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absolutely marvelous!!!!
Submitted by TiTan182 (user info) at 2004-01-24 11:49:53 EST (#)
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I love it when people post this kind of stuff on the net.This is the kind of stuff they should teach kids in school.
Submitted by fluffball7 (user info) at 2004-01-23 19:01:10 EST (#)
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wow. theres alot of pointless stuff in the world that can actually be quite interesting. BTW, coca cola has always been red. It was that coca cola changed santa - who was originally green - to red, so that it fitted in better with their marketing campaign.
Submitted by sleigher (user info) at 2004-01-23 01:07:37 EST (#)
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You're right - it did kill some time at work!
And quite few I've never heard before so it was at least interesting. +2 in the face for the post-killers
Submitted by Chuck (user info) at 2004-01-22 01:12:06 EST (#)
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+2 just because you actually have so much time on your hands you actually wrote this.
Submitted by CDizzle (user info) at 2004-01-19 23:47:26 EST (#)
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people have been trying to pick this article apart piece by piece for God knows how long... +2 just spite all of them
Submitted by skatastrophy (user info) at 2004-01-12 05:47:03 EST (#)
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wow these are all form uncle johns bathroom reader so i know them all already. thanks for teh uselessness though the world has not enough
Submitted by notstupid (user info) at 2004-01-06 16:31:39 EST (#)
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I have never seen a rat violate a fuzzy bunny, but I'm sure they do. I think there should be a law against putting a male rat in close proximity to a female bunny. That is animal cruelty.
However I do know a guy who had sex with a chicken. It made me laugh. I guess I feel more sympathy for bunnies because they are mammals and they have emotions like we do.
As far as the 5-year old giving birth that is bizarre and sad. She probably didn't even know what was going on.
Submitted by Sanders at 2004-01-03 15:03:41 EST (#)
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You are all dumbasses who spend your time arguing over a post made simply for humor. Do me a favor and drop dead, assholes.
Submitted by fr33d0mrulz (user info) at 2003-12-31 01:04:20 EST (#)
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You guys are ignorant as hell..."A hundred and one" is said as slang...in MATHEMATICS(for all u smart ones out there, its "hundred one"...you never say "hundred and one"...that would indicate a decimal place..."100.1"...hundred and one-tenths...and in " a hundred," "a" is an article, a type of adjective...simply enforcing the fact that there is only ONE set of hundred...yep, its called grade school...
Submitted by Christ (user info) at 2003-12-29 21:09:17 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/21705
Submitted by Aims5005 (user info) at 2003-12-27 21:42:27 EST (#)
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This may or may not be a fun fact, im not sure, i heard it somewhere and i was wondering if you, oh wise fact-giver could help me out and tell me if it is true... here it is:
PLAGIARISM IS ILLEGAL
i was wondering about that one.... well if its not illegal, it should be... quote your sources
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-12-23 19:16:16 EST (#)
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Chimpanzees use facial expressions also. and yes Snopes is a good place to debunk an awful lot of these myths.
Submitted by KeeferMontana (user info) at 2003-12-23 17:45:22 EST (#)
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Thanks, it was interesting.
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2003-12-22 15:18:49 EST (#)
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These are fun, but extreeeeeeeeeeeemely old.
Submitted by rachel <marcusguard57.at.aol.com> at 2003-12-22 15:03:55 EST (#)
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actually "Go." IS a complete sentence, Go is the verb and with all imperative sentences (commands) there is an understood "you", so the sentence is understood as "You go."
so there
XD
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-12-16 10:05:04 EST (#)
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Ring a ring a rosie is not actually about the plague, but has been incorrectly interpreted as such.
The first recorded use of the nursery rhyme predates the plague although I can't the specific time period.
Also as another pointed out the original was in fact "a tissue, a tissue, we all fall down".
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-12-16 09:55:54 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
If you want to steal off websites at least quote your sources.
Submitted by Jason at 2003-12-16 02:26:37 EST (#)
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Although I didn't read all that because I've probably already read it in a email someone forwarded me, I thought I would give an iteresting fact.
It kind of has to do with the one with turtles not being able to die of old-age, and that is that we need oxygen to live but oxygen is what (minus disease, murder, etc..) kills us.
Since turtles have an extremly low resting heart rate, their body is subject to less oxygen corrosion. I don't believe, however, that they cannot die from old age, I just think(just an opinion) that most times than not, they encounter something else that wills them before they can die of old age.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-12-11 02:04:36 EST (#)
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zero, consider this: would you say "twenty and three" for 23?
Submitted by zero <thissucks.at.onewebsite.com> at 2003-12-10 13:42:36 EST (#)
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Good stuff, good stuff.
Q: Is it 'One Hundred One' or 'One Hundred and One'?
Submitted by Aprilrachelle <Aprilrachelle.at.zoomtown.com> at 2003-12-08 02:16:45 EST (#)
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I am amazed at how much spare time people have.
Submitted by Stupac (user info) at 2003-12-04 16:08:44 EST (#)
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To Angrykoz: The term you used in your review: "a hundred" is dead wrong. you are officially a dumbass for not realizing that the proper term is: one hundred. Congratulations on being one of the most moronic people in the entire world. RETARD.
Submitted by angrykoz (user info) at 2003-12-03 12:04:15 EST (#)
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I can't believe you people fall for some of the shit i post, I love it keep up the good work!!!
Submitted by Azriel (user info) at 2003-12-01 16:03:52 EST (#)
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A rhyme for orange : lozenge :)
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2003-12-01 06:52:08 EST (#)
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""""Submitted by angrykoz (user info) at 2003-11-26 14:35:07 (#)
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
BULLSHIT!!!! what about "a hundred" -2 for trying to pass your stupidity along to the masses. """
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
That is the stupidest thing I have read on Uber for some time.
Submitted by dcwoody2000 (user info) at 2003-12-01 06:36:46 EST (#)
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Although cats and dogs can't procreate, rats and rabbits can. Occasionally a male rat will rape a rabbit resulting in slightly deformed baby rabbits.
P.S "A Hundred"? you retard
Submitted by skoad <imalostmunky.at.aol.com> at 2003-11-30 02:46:31 EST (#)
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angrykoz, you truely are a fucking ntard... "a hundred" wtf are you thinking.. when you count to 150.. do you say.. 99.. a hundred.. a hundred and one.. well if you do.. your a fucking idiot.. its 99.. one hundred.. one hundred and one..
overall there were some pretty cool damn facts in there
Submitted by www.sparta.cn (user info) at 2003-11-27 03:58:52 EST (#)
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Angrykoz, you are simply the most stupid person I have ever come across.
'a hundred' is not a number, it is a fragment showing how many of something. The A describes hundred. If you said 'There is a hundred people'. If you broke it down, the noun phrase would be 'hundred people', as the a creates it so. If you say 'There is one hundred people', the noun would be people and one hundred would be modifying it.
A hundred is not a number.
One Hundred is.
Submitted by angrykoz (user info) at 2003-11-26 14:35:07 EST (#)
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
BULLSHIT!!!! what about "a hundred" -2 for trying to pass your stupidity along to the masses.
Submitted by MirrorManMereMan (user info) at 2003-11-26 08:27:56 EST (#)
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When I sneeze, I form the plosive to sound like "Hashish!"
This goes over big in the DUI testing room.
Submitted by MirrorManMereMan (user info) at 2003-11-26 08:23:08 EST (#)
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I call Bullshit.
Unfortunately, I can't point and laugh at the bullshitter.
Duck. Quack. Echo.
It's basic physics, you idiot.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-11-23 04:28:27 EST (#)
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Sirius_Lives, could you possibly even approach the possibility of becoming a bigger moron than you already are? I hope not, but if you can, I will definitely crane MY neck to see -I am only human, after all.
Submitted by Sirius_Lives (user info) at 2003-11-23 04:13:31 EST (#)
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Fun facts but they are ripped directly off of other websites.
F- for plagirism
Submitted by ZZ at 2003-11-17 22:26:19 EST (#)
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also, the saying "to let the cat out of the bag" refers to the Middle Ages when piglets were sold at market in small bags (so as not to escape). a dishonest merchant would sell bags with stray cats inside. when the duped buyer got home and opened the bag, he would "let the cat out of the bag". pretty interesting hey
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-11-16 21:21:16 EST (#)
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A ducks voice doesn't make an echo.
Santa Claus is depicted with red clothes because of Coca-Colas advertisments, he was then popularized with red pants, jacket, and hat.
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2003-11-13 08:23:54 EST (#)
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you're actually ALL wrong about the Ring 'around the rosie' bit. It's an English nursery rhyme that has been adapted by Americans.
Ring a ring of roses
a pocket full of posies
A'tisue a'tisue
we all fall down.
Atisue (sp) is the phrase children - and consequently adults - use when pretending to sneeze around 'these parts' and refers to the flu-like symptoms that come with the plague. The ring of roses was a reference to the ring of 'bubos' or weals that often presented themselves in a cluster around the lymph nodes at the armpit or groin of a victim. The rest is right though.
You all suck.
Submitted by lala <lala.zabor.at.yahoo.com> at 2003-11-09 20:11:19 EST (#)
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British & Proud - You are a fool, Cats and dogs can not procreate. It is impossible. So for you to say that your half cat half laborador loved bananas was just a way for you to sound intelligent. You made up that animal because it can not happen.
Submitted by vannessa <lochness_14.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-11-09 19:44:06 EST (#)
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the longest word typed with only the left hand is stewardesses and also the longest word typed with only the top row of keys is typewriter!
Submitted by Optium (user info) at 2003-11-09 09:01:36 EST (#)
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I think the polar bear's hair thing might also have something to do with the way light is reflected. I haven't actually looked into it, so this is just a theory. But take a CLEAR plastic bag and fold it up into a little ball. How clear is it now? The same goes with ice cubes, but that might just be a chemical reaction. *shrugs*
I enjoyed this post.
Submitted by myhandinablender (user info) at 2003-11-05 12:25:46 EST (#)
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I'd say you were clever, but you just probably typed this whole article verbatim out of a book that you enjoy reading while sitting on the toilet. Get creative. Interesting facts though.
-JS
MHIAB
Submitted by indigowulf (user info) at 2003-11-05 09:58:27 EST (#)
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Istaros damn skippy I misread it. Cut and paste it and everything and still misread it. Blame it on fucking 4 AM blurry eyes. Its 7 AM now Im going to bed before I lick another bums ass. :P
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-11-05 02:28:15 EST (#)
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"Unless you are an alien, my dear, you ARE a mammel."
Uh... NO SHIT? I think you misread my comments.
Submitted by LucidCognition (user info) at 2003-11-05 00:32:27 EST (#)
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This is all at MIStupid.com under the stupid facts part.
Submitted by indigowulf (user info) at 2003-11-04 23:18:20 EST (#)
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Random Joe said
Fisrst number with an 'A' in its spelling? One hundred and one, surely?
It is improper grammer to say AND in a number in this manner. The only time its proper grammer to say and with a number is when you are refuring to a decimal or money e.g. four hundred twenty dollars AND fifteen cents. (Which is technically written using a decimal as well, come to think of it)
With the statue thing, it was origonally intended to reflect how the person died, but, as so many other things in our modern world, that has been forgotten and no longer practiced.
Coca-cola was not green. I dated the guy whos great uncle came up with the recipe (Pemberton) [the great nephiew is named Murakami if you wanna do some obscure family heritage BS to confirm LOL]. Heres a true tidbit for you tho, the recipe was sold for $25. And on that note, the song "Crazy" that helped Patsy Cline's career was bought for a measly $5.
On the topic of dolphins and sex.. did you know dolphins have prehensile penises, and can actually carry objects with them? There have also been documented cases of camels in zoos performing oral sex.
An elephant not only cannot jump, but its footprints leave the same depth impression as an average adult male human.
jakyl wrote; Cats really hate bananas. If someone can figure this one out, please email me
My cat actually liked them. But then again, she was deformed at birth and mentally retarded. Perhaps there is a chemical in babanas that effects feline brain function? Who knows?
Istaros stated: I've also read that polar bears' hair is transparent, not white, and that their skin is black. I know their skin si black, that much is obvious, but I wasn't able to verify the transparent-hair thing. It does make sense, though
This is true. The reason they appear white is the frost on thier hair. If you see one on a warm summer day in a zoo, you may notice they look more of a pale or muddy yellow color. This is because you are seeing thier skin thru thier fur. In the wild, it is not uncommon for a polar bear that is stalking its prey to lay on its belly, fold in its claws (also black) like as if it were in prayer with fingers curled, and use its front paws to cover its nose. Then it uses its back paws to approach its meal. In this position, only thier eyes are not camoflauged.
Also, some bears have retractable claws while others do not, depending on thier predispotitions of tree climbing.
Istaros also wrote: No, there are many other animals that masturbate. Bears, dogs... I do, however, believe it's constrained to mammals
Unless you are an alien, my dear, you ARE a mammel.
People, many many animals have sexual activity not intended for procreation. Ever seen 2 males dogs mount eachother for sport? I have. Thats just one example that you can walk down your street and see proof.
rf <rowenaf.at.hotmail.com> stated: playing cards came from early tarot cards i think. the diamonds was for wealth, spades for death or disaster, clubs for something else and hearts for love
This is a common misconception. It is simply not true. The reason so many think this is that during the burning times tarot readers would substitute playing cards for tarot cards so as not to be caught. See www.bota.org for more information on tarot..... if you are ready for information on that level. :)
marionette said: The Bible has been translated into Klingon
Its also been done in Drow :)
Submitted by jonukah (user info) at 2003-11-03 00:28:26 EST (#)
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It is not the tires of your car that protects you from lightning, it is the metal frame. Lighting isn't going to jump through two miles of sky and a few feet of metal to be stopped by a few inches of rubber. The truth is, lighting will strike a car, and will burn the shit out of your tires, but it will go throught the metal frame and not you
Submitted by corquando (user info) at 2003-11-01 15:26:18 EST (#)
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Hocus Pocus is a bastardization of the Latin Mass. Early in the Protestant Reformation, the disagreement with the Eucharist being the "True Presence" was derogatorily referred to as "Hocus Pocus", stemming from the phrase "Hoc est enim corpus meum", or "For this is my body."
This phrase was not spoken loudly by the officiating priest, and as such only heard with difficulty from even relatively close.
If you're Catholic or been to a Mass, you also see the Priest make the sign of the cross over the host at or about this time. He turns around to the altar and make a number of motions during this consecration, including brushing any crumbs of the Oblate into the cup to preserve sactity.
In fact, it could be said he "Puts his left arm in, puts his left arm out, puts his left arm in and shakes it all about" - doing the Hokey Pokey.
Submitted by Bobby101 (user info) at 2003-10-31 07:38:03 EST (#)
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'Yea I'm sure that the 40% thing is unreliable
WELL IF I EVER MEET THEM THEY'LL NOT BE AT MY NEXT PARTY, BORING NOSY FREAKS'
Mabey its just the kind of people that go to statistician partys.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-10-27 02:01:32 EST (#)
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Tell me, what is it like, being an idiot?
"Like when you hear the ships fire their weapons from space... ????
firstly: Sound needs a medium. vacuum is not considered one. and for those people that believe vacuum is merely 'nothing', it in fact has a very complex structure. well, im just pulling more shit out of my ass and trying to sound like a perverted physicist..."
A ship's hull IS a medium -and a better one than air at that, as it is a solid(the composition in which sound travels fastest).
A vacuum is only a "complex structure" when you start talking about ridiculously advanced physics, and is irrelevant.
"Startrek was realistic?
Bullshit, and I hear my laserbeam make noise every time I push the 'ON' button or what?"
There are no lasers in Star Trek.
"By the way, you can see a LASER. Twice namely, once with your left, and once with your right eye. Assuming that both are functioning correctly..."
You see everything "twice." The only reason you can see a laser is because of particle interference(dust, water droplets, etc.). It is a concentrated and synchronized beam of light waves, and as such would be invisible in space -unless it is pointed directly into your eye.
Submitted by Pedantic Drone at 2003-10-25 09:21:36 EDT (#)
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The "coca cola made santa's clothes red" is bullshit check on www.snopes.com
Submitted by jugoschwabo (user info) at 2003-10-17 18:54:44 EDT (#)
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Like when you hear the ships fire their weapons from space... ????
firstly: Sound needs a medium. vacuum is not considered one. and for those people that believe vacuum is merely "nothing", it in fact has a very complex structure. well, im just pulling more shit out of my ass and trying to sound like a perverted physicist...
Startrek was realistic?
Bullshit, and I hear my laserbeam make noise every time I push the "ON" button or what?
By the way, you can see a LASER. Twice namely, once with your left, and once with your right eye. Assuming that both are functioning correctly...
anyway,
Good original posting. Not too original, but I give credit to the effort.
Submitted by UrbaneMischief (user info) at 2003-10-12 15:16:39 EDT (#)
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I'll add this to my fountain of worthless bullshit
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-10-05 04:23:44 EDT (#)
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"Errmmm about that startrek comment with sound traveling slower than light. True. When you have an atmosphere. There is no sound in space."
It's not true. The temporal difference between the time the ship was hit, and the time you heard the ship being hit, would be so infinetisimally small as to be unnoticeable by mere human ears. And "atmosphere" is pointless in this context, because you would still hear your own weapons being fired, as well as when you were hit by another ship's weapons.
Submitted by Xeroxed_Soul (user info) at 2003-10-05 04:08:09 EDT (#)
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Liar.
"I am" "You are" "we are" etc are the same length and complete sentences..
and "Go!" and "No." are both considered complete sentences.
Submitted by pattern (user info) at 2003-10-03 10:53:45 EDT (#)
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==
The baby's
Face is purple.
People say that it cant be cured,
But I bet a burp'll
==
Don't you get it? This poem is brilliant!!! The most amazing thing I've read on this site except david somethings comments and ToolGirl too. Muy sexy.
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2003-09-28 02:00:58 EDT (#)
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Lots of interesting shit in there... nobody can deny that. BUT... just to fit in... I'll sit here and prove "you" wrong about one of the points. Jeep is not derived from running G and P together. G.P. was Ford's classification for the vehicle within its company. G stood for Government, and the P referred to the size of the wheelbase. The name Jeep is rumored to come from the dog looking thing on the old Popeye cartoons that came out at the same time. Jeep went everywhere... and G.I.'s said the same thing of theiR new vehicles. Living in Detroit... thats what I was always told by the old people who built the jeep... and thought that I cared enough to listen to the stories about it. But, I guess listening to them has become a benefit to all of you.
Submitted by blahness (user info) at 2003-09-25 15:20:23 EDT (#)
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"This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds"
My global teacher gave us an article about "McDomination" that had that fact in it, it later stated that it wasn't completely true , there was one war but the mcdonalds were closed before the war began and opened after it finished .. still good though
Submitted by Velouria (user info) at 2003-09-19 20:55:08 EDT (#)
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Enjoyed. All interesting.
Submitted by arnold glossmat <low.at.oncrap.com> at 2003-09-16 16:46:26 EDT (#)
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Errmmm about that startrek comment with sound traveling slower than light. True. When you have an atmosphere. There is no sound in space.
Submitted by arnold glossmat <glossmat.at.hurmbot.com> at 2003-09-16 16:23:10 EDT (#)
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I tried putting a grap in the microwave , and it didn't explode!!
--- You have to turn on the microwave too, you prostate licker.
Submitted by Hugeos (user info) at 2003-09-16 08:48:17 EDT (#)
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Just thought of this one.
There is no word in the English Language that rhymes with 'month'
Unless you count 'cunts', as pronounced by someone with a lisp.
Submitted by Mortimer_Elvis (user info) at 2003-09-16 00:00:45 EDT (#)
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Ring around the rosie is untrue. Just do any search, and you can find many sites that debunk that myth. http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
There are a few others I found untrue, also. (from stuff I've read before, at least. I'm no scholar, either, so I could be very misinformed)
Submitted by illidurit (user info) at 2003-09-12 21:11:18 EDT (#)
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the longest word with only one vowel is strengths
Submitted by Zaatxe (user info) at 2003-09-08 12:28:41 EDT (#)
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Still about the "stewardess", in portuguese there is the whole sentence "as sete faces da terra" which can be typed only with your left hand. Anyway, it means "the seven faces of the earth".
Submitted by Zaatxe (user info) at 2003-09-08 12:28:34 EDT (#)
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Atill about the "stewardess", in portuguese there is the whole sentence "as sete faces da terra" which can be typed only with your left hand. Anyway, it means "the seven faces of the earth".
Submitted by jussi <jmabry.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-09-04 19:53:58 EDT (#)
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Hey!
The only word in the english language with THREE CONSECUTIVE consenants is GODDESSSHIP.
Submitted by jiggit713 (user info) at 2003-08-27 23:25:40 EDT (#)
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I have a lovebird that humps the post in his cage. I suppose that's masturbating?
Cat unire glows under a black light.
Submitted by MiddleNameDanger <Reelbigfishy369.at.aol.com> at 2003-08-24 23:07:19 EDT (#)
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Actually, the longest word typable with proper hand configurations using only your left hand is "stewardessess"" or whatever the plural of Stewardess is
Submitted by ess2s2 (user info) at 2003-08-23 03:17:06 EDT (#)
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Nice, but the fact about the whole nine yards is in error. It actually started in Scotland in the Dark ages, it referred to how much wool was used to make a full-size kilt: 9 yards. The whole nine yards ment you were wearing a full size kilt, as opposed to one made for a child or a *ahem* smaller man.
Submitted by shadowdragon (user info) at 2003-08-23 02:42:20 EDT (#)
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McDonald's came around during the 50s. i'll bet that more than 90% of all of the wars in history took place before then.
Submitted by tracy at 2003-08-22 23:58:41 EDT (#)
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okay, this has really got me irked. "I am." IS the shortest sentence in the English language. this is because the fact was referring to number of letters, NOT number of words. the sentences that other reviewers have mentioned, such as "(you) go." and "(you) die." have five and six letters respectively. i am well aware that you counts as understood, i am a fucking english major. but if it counts for understood, it should count for the letter tally as well. i am very surprised that nobody pointed this out until now.
i enjoyed this post very much; it sparked a debate both entertaining and irritating to read. actually, make that several debates. it doesn't really matter how many of the "facts" are myths, any post that sparks a debate among many people with nothing better to do with their time is okay by me. and yes, i do realize that i just admitted that i have nothing better to do with my time.
Submitted by JinkyWilliams (user info) at 2003-08-22 15:54:02 EDT (#)
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I had thought that the "ring around the rosie" referred to people standing around the rosary.
But here's a pretty nice source of info about the history of the song: http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/ring_around_the_rosie.html
and this one: http://www.ualberta.ca/~imunro/ring.html
That should help shed some "official" light on the subject.
I love the internet!
Submitted by wethepeople_uk <wethepeople.at.livingthedream.com> at 2003-08-15 05:53:05 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Vosey <buddyholly967.at.adelphia.net> at 2003-05-19 21:32:04 (#)
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Does anyone agree with me that if you say "Door Hinge" with and english accent it rhymes with orange? (because you dont pronounce the 'H')
Im just curious, thanks.
**********
You complete and utter idiot.
Not every English person finds it necessary to mutilate their language by dropping letters at every opportunity.
Submitted by tat-tai-ana <thecrow.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-08-10 00:25:18 EDT (#)
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i hope u guys realise at lease 30 other pll ahve posted that thing about one hundread AND one for fucks sake all guys care about is being the one that is write.
killyourself
Submitted by tat-tai-ana <thecrow.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-08-10 00:14:33 EDT (#)
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A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
acctually its 7 weeks and ive tryed it...its the same with crickets and wetas
Submitted by shiver029 (user info) at 2003-08-08 10:20:49 EDT (#)
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"If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes."
That's a myth.
Submitted by Rokinroj (user info) at 2003-08-02 00:55:33 EDT (#)
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Stewardesses is the longest English word that is typed with the left hand only.
(I guess that assumes that you type using proper hand positions.)
Rokinroj
Submitted by rachy <giggles838.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-08-02 00:34:08 EDT (#)
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actually ashes ashes refers the the color people turned when they had the plag
Submitted by Frank <Delicatelittlebutterfly@yahoo.> at 2003-07-31 15:14:17 EDT (#)
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Amusing,
To the person that said bullets do not spark, as they're made of lead. That's true only in rare cases. While most bullets are made of lead, they usually have a steel or copper jacket around them (steel is more common because it is much cheaper than copper.) All military forces are supposed to use fully-jacketed rounds (also known as ball ammunition.) I would only use a full metal jacketed round in a submachinegun, as they have a much lower rate of jamming. Steel jacketed rounds spark if you strike stone or some metals (I have no idea which metals.)
I am not arguing that Hollywood wicked overuses sparkers in movies. (My personal fav was in The Last Boyscout. In the scene where Halle Berry is killed, you get to see bullets sparking on the fiberglass hood of a Corvette... that's quality film making.)
Power the fight,
FLC Punk
Submitted by MessedRocker <jmhare.at.verizon.net> at 2003-07-31 09:17:20 EDT (#)
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"...as does purple i belive." - Wrong. Burp'll, a contraption for Burp Will, rhymes with it. Use this poem as an example for burp'll:
The baby's
Face is purple.
People say that it cant be cured,
But I bet a burp'll
Yeah, it's a gay poem.
Another thing, it's not "One Hundred and One", it's "One Hundred One". You only use "and" only when you use mixed numbers (One Hundred and Seven-Tenths). Looks like GW Bush has a better math education that you do!
Submitted by DigitalObsessionChi (user info) at 2003-07-27 12:54:01 EDT (#)
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Thank you for all this useless facts. As if I don't annoy my friends enough with all of mine.
Submitted by ihateyouall (user info) at 2003-07-23 11:55:45 EDT (#)
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I tried putting a grap in the microwave , and it didn't explode!!
Submitted by Soldier Pete at 2003-07-19 02:47:41 EDT (#)
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While a lot of this stuff in entertaining and funny, there are a couple errors:
Mel Blanc wasn't allergic to carrots. He just hated them. The guys at WB tried using celery for the crunchy carrot noises, but it didn't sound right. So Mel Blanc would bite the carrots and chew a little for the sound, then spit them into a bucket. This is from his biography, "That's Not All Folks."
Also, "Go." is a sentence. So is "Die." The understood "you" counts.
Submitted by queen0fdarkness (user info) at 2003-07-19 00:30:56 EDT (#)
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v. good
2 corrections:
in the 'ring around the rosy' fact, they carried flowers around because they thought the disease
was carried by smell, not just because it smells bad
also, there is a kid i know that can lick his elbow. so it's possible for the extremely flexible
Submitted by Paula (user info) at 2003-07-17 00:45:21 EDT (#)
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A pigs orgasm last 30 minutes
A goldfish has a memory of 2 seconds- explains why they dont get bored I guess
Submitted by sox_2332 (user info) at 2003-07-17 00:05:46 EDT (#)
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In response to : Serae - there are only 3 words in the english language ending in "gry", hungry, angry and gry (see JP's entry...he's right). There are not "a couple of others words too".
______________________________________________________________________
Here is the actual puzzle:
"Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".
There are three words in the English language. What is the
third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it
every day. Look closely and I have already given you the
third word. What is it?
Answer: "language". not gry.
This puzzle has circulated widely on the Internet for some
years, but usually in an abbreviated form such as "Name three
common English words ending in 'gry'", which has no good third
answer.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gry
Submitted by carmex9 (user info) at 2003-07-15 13:54:34 EDT (#)
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i believe there was a real aunt jemima, there's this artist Faith Ringgold who does quilts and she did a whole entymology on Aunt Jemima-and she believes that Aunt Jemima is real. I believe Faith Ringgold
clealry my life is boring I can't believe I'm writing this
Submitted by Kuroki at 2003-07-11 09:04:24 EDT (#)
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Let me see if I can help clear up the confusion on "ring around the roses." The form of the second-to-last line seems to be dependent on the interpretation of the last line.
If you were to interpret the last line as pertaining to the effects of the disease on the body, then the "atishoo, atishoo"(as in sneezing) version works. However, you could interpret it as describing the effects on the people left after they burn the plague-dead; in other words, we are all going to die soon.
As an afterthought, I see "a-tissue, a-tissue" as the least valid. If I'm not mistaken, the word "tissue" had not been invented at the time, and handkerchief would be the closest concept.
Submitted by DavidAdventurer (user info) at 2003-07-10 16:15:02 EDT (#)
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I tried that "= rand (200,99)" thing. On my computer I get "El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi." all over the screen.
"#" is the hash sign. The abbreviation for pounds is lb for the weight and £ for the currency, never "#". "#" is also the symbol for sharp. "Octothorpe" is not the correct name either; it is a silly name invented in the 1960s (see http://www.sigtel.com/tel_tech_octothorpe.html) and the use of the word is entirely limited to the US phone industry.
"W" has just two syllables if you are President of the United States. I agree it has three for everyone else.
The nursery rhyme goes "atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down". It is not inconceivable that there were originally "ashes" though. Perhaps the popular tradition changed it from "ashes" to "atishoo" to make more sense. It is most definitely always always "atishoo" now.
I used to work be the press translator for Coca-Cola Italy. I'm quite well versed in the company's history and it would strange if this were true and I'd never heard of it before. There have been changes in the recipe, but never so dramatic as to change the colour. I am 99% sure John Pemberton's original syrup was dark brown. I think the confusion here arises from the fact that Father Christmas was dressed in green (or sometimes white) until the Coca-Cola company depicted him in red robes in their advertising to match their red packaging in the early 20th century.
It is true that "go" is a shorter sentence than "I am", as long as we accept imperatives (which have the implied subject "you") as full sentences, which we should. They are as valid as statements. By the way, they language you are reading now is called English, not American, you moron.
The first number with an "a" in it is "a hundred". If you choose to say "one hundred" (which is fine) then the first number with "a" will be immediately after, at "one hundred and one". If you say "one hundred one", you are not a mathematician; you are GW Bush. Go and learn to speak English. "101.1" is pronounced "one hundred and one point one", not "one hundred one and one".
I've seen dogs masturbate and I'm sure plenty of other animals do.
Submitted by pro at 2003-07-09 05:14:59 EDT (#)
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unrhymable words :
month
silver
purple
orange
ALL of these can be rhymed IF you change the prononciation of the word or rhyme it with a proper noun.
If you say the word Dunse with a lisp, it rhymes with Month
Wilbur, the pig from Charlottes Web, rhymes with Silver
Purple rhymes with the ever popular television character, Erkle (sp)
and Orange, if pronounced Ore-Inge (making it two syllables) Hinge would rhyme with the last syllable.
;-)
Dont even know why I typed this up.
Submitted by Jimbob at 2003-07-04 06:39:43 EDT (#)
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One hundred *A*nd one
Submitted by Darkata7 (user info) at 2003-07-02 01:03:20 EDT (#)
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Okay, so revisting our old friend the 101 issue.
I have spoke to many a mathmatician on this because I basically have nothing else better to do with my time than ask college professors totally useless questions. Sorry. My bad. The "and" will always imply a decimal, no matter what. However it can be easy to think otherwise because of its widespread usage. The correct term though, is always going to be "One hundred one" and the decimal "One hundred and one" or "One hundred point one" As far as "One hundred and one" implying 100+1, this is not correct because statement itself is not a number. Even if one where to go so far as to consider an equation as numerical value, it still wouldn't work out, because 100+1 is an expression, not an equation. There is no final singular number given as in an equation, so it cannot be used to define a number.
Wow I am a loser.
Oh and by the way, there was never a real Aunt Jemima, and the Mitsubishi logo is actaully a representation of the propeller blades on the Zero fighter aircraft, a product the company formerly made.
You guys can have fun with that.
Submitted by AgentX <LackingLogic.at.aol.com> at 2003-07-01 04:50:31 EDT (#)
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<<Hard Boiled Eggs:
they spin when hard boiled because the centrifugal force is even throughout the egg when spinning it. In a soft boiled egg, the inside (yolk/whites) are affected by the centrifugal force, there for 'move' around or shake, thus creating unevenness in weight distribution, uneven spin, and so the egg stops spinning fairly soon comparitively>>
Centrifugal force is not a real force. The force you are referring to is the Centripetal force.
Submitted by AgentX <LackingLogic.at.aol.com> at 2003-07-01 04:42:46 EDT (#)
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<<Does anyone agree with me that if you say "Door Hinge" with and english accent it rhymes with orange? (because you dont pronounce the 'H')
Im just curious, thanks.>>
"Door Hinge" is a phrase and does not qualify as a word.
Submitted by dakota (user info) at 2003-06-24 16:16:23 EDT (#)
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Whales and Dolphins are concious breathers so they can only sleep half their brains at a time
Submitted by yovinny (user info) at 2003-06-22 11:18:03 EDT (#)
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Nothing can rhyme with Orange?
How about infringe?
Submitted by Patrick <peckerle_2134.at.yahoo.com> at 2003-06-17 00:16:30 EDT (#)
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The phrase between the devil and the deep blue sea doesn't refer to satan. Instead the devil is the absolute bottom of a ship, so in essence there is nothing between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Submitted by ToolChick (user info) at 2003-06-16 19:01:54 EDT (#)
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100.1 can also be written as one hundred and one tenth which would be 100 + 0.1 numerically but the result is still 100.1 or one hundred point one. Both are correct.
Submitted by ToolChick (user info) at 2003-06-16 19:00:02 EDT (#)
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+ 2 for the entertainment value of watching the English insult the Americans & vice versa and for keeping me amused for a good hour at work.
On the 101 debate:
It's accepted in the U.S. that "and" can stand for "plus" (i.e. two and two make four is 2+2=4) so one hundred and one would be numerically represented as 100+1 and one hundred one would be numerically represented as 101. they both have the same result and are therefore both correct. One hundred and one would not be 100.1 because that is whritten out as one hundred point one.
As far as one 'O' one is concerned, it's accepted slang to replace the word "zero" with the letter 'O' to shorten the speaking of numbers. It's much easier to say "Enlish one 'O' one" than it is to say "English One hundred [and] one" or "English one zero one"
Some one also said that Bonobos masturbate and have sex for pleasure. This is also true. Bonobos are a type of ape very similar to chimpanzees but are even more anthropomorphic. They will walk bipedally often where as most apes are still mostly quadripedal. They also have sex for resons other than procreation. Often females will comfort each other by rubbing their genitals together. I can't remember the name of the study I got this from, but we had to watch a video on it in physical anthropology.
Submitted by British_&_Proud <lonely_pigeon.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-06-14 08:42:47 EDT (#)
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OK, first of all, JP, who are you to correct people's English when you in fact can't spell the word GRAMMAR? And don't be so anal about the speed of ketchup.
Streetpunk - for your information, it's the English language...I couldn't give a toss if it's the shortest sentence or not, but it's our bloody language. Chris Columbus discovered YOU in 1492, we came first so get over yourself.
The_Otter - dolphins "masturabate"? Okaaaaaaay. And please do try to spell Bethlehem correctly.
Serae - there are only 3 words in the english language ending in "gry", hungry, angry and gry (see JP's entry...he's right). There are not "a couple of others words too".
Ashli - good on you for the grape thing. It made me laugh anyway.
Jackyl - cats hate bananas? Well, I know my cat was certainly strange in a number of respects (being half-cat, half-labrador), but mine used to love bananas, to the extent of stealing them from people's sandwiches.
R8chi - I'm with you on the Black Death Nursery Rhyme. Bloody American tossers! Ditto Razz (apart from the 3-year-old spelling). By the way, EvilZurr - "A tissue"? That was never the issue in the first place. The english never changed it, we WROTE the bloody rhyme. So tell your 5 AP history teachers where to shove it.
I am gene - I think they meant any normal person, not any freak who dislocates their shoulder for entertainment.
I'm not even going to start on the "101" debate. Sounds like a load of bollocks to me.
Vosey - "Door Hinge", pronounced with an English accent - unless you come from some of the more repulsive areas of south London, you do pronounce the H. And even if you didn't, that still isn't "a" (as in 1) word that rhymes with orange. See Agent_FUBAR's entry.
And here's a fact - golf balls contain antifreeze to stop them cracking when under extreme pressure (i.e. being hit by a golf club. Duh.)
Submitted by Agent_FUBAR (user info) at 2003-06-11 10:18:26 EDT (#)
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centrifugal is a brilliant word
Submitted by Fleury75 (user info) at 2003-06-09 12:28:20 EDT (#)
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you are right.
its not just Americans who omit the 'and' in 'one-hundred AND one'
it is proper and the accepted method of verbalizing numbers with mathematicians worldwide to use 'one-hundred one'.
Jeep coming from popeye is a myth. Ring around the rosy: Canadian/American: "ashes" English/European: "Atichoo" ...the N. American version does not date back as far as the english version.
Hard Boiled Eggs:
they spin when hard boiled because the centrifugal force is even throughout the egg when spinning it. In a soft boiled egg, the inside (yolk/whites) are affected by the centrifugal force, there for 'move' around or shake, thus creating unevenness in weight distribution, uneven spin, and so the egg stops spinning fairly soon comparitively
This was a good post I enjoyed it
Submitted by Agent_FUBAR (user info) at 2003-06-04 07:52:44 EDT (#)
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Evrything just mad up of tiny particles all held together by electromagnetic fields so thats true for evrything in the universe(except perhaps George W BUshes brain which is held together by duct tape)
Submitted by mr_craigman737 (user info) at 2003-06-02 09:39:43 EDT (#)
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people dont touch each other-only their electromagnetic fields do
Submitted by Agent_FUBAR (user info) at 2003-06-02 09:23:45 EDT (#)
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To:Vosey
From:Some guy in Britain
re:Accents
There is more than one accent in England love, there are dozens, probably hundreds if you add in Scotland,NI and Wales. Towns only miles apart can have HUGE variations in accent.
In conclusion STOP WATCHING SO MANY MOVIES AND ACTUALLY LEAVE YOUR HOUSE.
Bloody Americans
Submitted by DeathsheadVenom <theobscuro.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-26 02:21:59 EDT (#)
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'Go.' is a short sentance in one sence, because it was a subject and a verb. But in another sence, it is incomplete because it does not represent a complete thought because it doesn't contain on object (go where, to the moon). It sentances that don't represent complete thoughts are allowed for this bundle of esoterica, that 'Go.' is actually a tie for the shortest sentance with 'Be.' 'Be.' is a command form sentance with an implied noun, but again, it does not represent a complete thought. Therefore all these meaningless command sentances are excluded from the classic view of the shortest sentance being, 'I am.' regardless of the fact that the are in some way complete.
Also, one should note the word esoterica. "n : secrets known only to an initiated minority" is better suited for these discussions than 'random facts'. The phrase 'random facts' is a description of the information given in these discussions, but not the proper way to identify them, since there is a word for them. These discussions present esoterica, not just random facts. Therefore the word esoterica is in fact esoteric.
Submitted by marionette (user info) at 2003-05-24 18:38:46 EDT (#)
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A fly hums in the middle octave, key F.
Marilyn Monroe used to cut down the heel on one of her shoes to achieve her butt-wiggling walk in films.
Hugh Jackman went through approximately 700 claws as the part of Wolverine in X-Men.
The magician's words "hocus-pocus" were taken from the name of a mythological sorcerer, Ochus Bochus, who appeared in Norse folktales and legends.
The complete works of Shakespeare can be stored on 5 Megabytes.
A whole library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes.
All words ever spoken by human beings on 5 Exabytes.
At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life," an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
Chocolate melts in your mouth because cocoa butter has a melting point of just below 35 degrees C, a little under body temperature.
Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.
The average human body has enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
In Canada it's illegal...
to pay for a 50 cent item with only pennies.
to publicly remove bandages.
for clear or non-dark sodas to contain caffeine.
Babies are born with no knee caps. They dont begin to form untill they are 2-6 years old.
Americans use over 16, 000 tons of aspirin a year.
Man, random facts RULE.
Submitted by Hadooken (user info) at 2003-05-22 07:13:40 EDT (#)
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FL is the abbreviation for Florida
Submitted by drink_DDT (user info) at 2003-05-22 07:13:27 EDT (#)
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FL is the abbreviation for Florida, and Dirk and Drink are two entirely different people.
Submitted by tartpumper (user info) at 2003-05-22 07:07:41 EDT (#)
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75% of all stats are made up on the spot
And what is FL Dirk? Or Drink?
Submitted by Dirk (user info) at 2003-05-22 06:42:49 EDT (#)
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oh yes thank you, One hundred and one is NOT a number. One hundred and One WHAT fuckhead. The "and" indicates a decimal point such as one hundred and one tenths. So I suppose one and one trillionth would be the number with an a (dont think too hard about this, I know it can get smaller), but one thousand remains the first whole number fags.
Also, forgive any of the Brits saying you're wrong, they're just upset FL is bigger.
And one more point, Don't think too hard about this guys, a lot them are just statistics. And we all know:
"Lies, damn lies, and statistics" - DIRK
http://www.drinkddt.com
Submitted by jwlmar10 (user info) at 2003-05-22 01:47:08 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?user_id=783
Submitted by Vosey <buddyholly967.at.adelphia.net> at 2003-05-19 21:32:04 EDT (#)
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Does anyone agree with me that if you say "Door Hinge" with and english accent it rhymes with orange? (because you dont pronounce the 'H')
Im just curious, thanks.
Submitted by The Greatest Randini <taurusman22.at.yahoo.com> at 2003-05-16 10:17:24 EDT (#)
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Coca-Cola was not originally green. That's an Urban Legend.
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2003-05-13 13:39:46 EDT (#)
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I fink dis is ded good.
Submitted by Istaros <archon_templar.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-13 13:29:45 EDT (#)
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Also, Heyitsmaurine, you're a dumbass who can't read. I already said what you just "taught" me. Is sarcasm really such a difficult concept for you?
Submitted by Heyitsmaurine (user info) at 2003-05-13 11:44:38 EDT (#)
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Also, Istaros- you are not supposed to say 'and' when saying 101. It isn't grammaticly correct.
Submitted by Heyitsmaurine (user info) at 2003-05-13 11:42:54 EDT (#)
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If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
I tried to tell my evil science teacher that, but she says that my source is wrong...But, since I hate my teacher so much and need to prove her wrong, I decided to print out about 5 websites that agree with you. She gave me a D...
Submitted by ItsAlwaysSeven (user info) at 2003-05-11 21:43:15 EDT (#)
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Julius Caesar is the king of hearts... not Charlemagne.
Why dont you check up on these things before you open your big fucking stupid mouth.
Kill Yourself.
Submitted by Istaros <archon_templar.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-11 02:47:44 EDT (#)
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"you'd reach A when you got to 101. read that number out. One hundred AND one. haha."
From now on, I'll make sure to say "twenty-and-two" whenever verbally saying "22." Stupid.
Submitted by Steve-O <steve-o.at.luxmail.com> at 2003-05-10 23:21:51 EDT (#)
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It's not "one hundred AND one" dumbass....it's "one hundred one", one hundred AND one would be 100.1, the "and" means decimal when verbalizing a number. Thus, making the post correct. HA
Submitted by seb <ironmaiden_kickass.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-10 12:16:13 EDT (#)
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this isnt bad, but i have to say, that "if you spelled out the numbers, you wouldnt reach A until you got to a thousand" is wrong. you'd reach A when you got to 101. read that number out. One hundred AND one. haha.
sorry, im an asshole for picking out that mistake, the rest rocked
Submitted by Heyitsmaurine (user info) at 2003-05-10 11:02:04 EDT (#)
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can anybody figure out what the hell 'razz' is trying to say?
"i fink dis was ded good but the fing bout ring a ring a roses is rong i can explain and ull find my version is beta"-razz
i am so confused....
Submitted by razz <fds> at 2003-05-07 15:40:49 EDT (#)
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i fink u americans r tossers its a song the plauge was in our country it killed our ppl and is part of OUR history so stop pissin chagin the words a fuk off u sad basturds
Submitted by razz <noneofurbusy.at.aol.com> at 2003-05-07 15:11:47 EDT (#)
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i fink dis was ded good but the fing bout ring a ring a roses is rong i can explain and ull find my version is beta
ring a ring a roses ( a ring off red spots on the hand)a pocket full of posies ( they carried flowers because the smell from the dead bodies in the streets was mingin)a "tissue" a "tissue" ( the got a flu like illness therefore sneezein obiously) we all fall down ( DEAD!!!!)
Submitted by Istaros <archon_templar.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-07 05:15:45 EDT (#)
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I knew the thing about the tube, simply because it's logical, but wasn't knowledgable on the specific numbers. Thanks.
Submitted by village_idiot (user info) at 2003-05-06 21:43:03 EDT (#)
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42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Submitted by village_idiot (user info) at 2003-05-06 21:42:29 EDT (#)
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a hollow tube (e.g. a legth of pipe) is structurally stronger than a solid cylinder of the same dimensions and material. on average 40% more force over the same amount of time (impulse, for all you physics majors) is required to fracture the hollow pipe than is required to fracture the solid one.
Submitted by village_idiot (user info) at 2003-05-06 18:31:16 EDT (#)
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to count to the number 1 billion, you would be counting for 36.2 years.
in the early 19th century there was a dog in Germany that had a vocabulary of about 100 words (in german) that he could pronounce clearly. no shit. i can't remember the dog's name, but i heard about this from some official-type source which i don't remember. i wish i could remember it so it didn't look like i made this up ... which i didn't.
Submitted by rezure <none.at.ofyourbusiness.com> at 2003-05-05 12:14:33 EDT (#)
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I have heard the thing about the hair before with humans. Our hair turns grey or white later in life because pigments are no longer created.
Submitted by Istaros <archon_templar.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-03 03:58:27 EDT (#)
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"Have you ever shaved off thin layers from something that is clear, colorless plastic. It sometimes (often) appears white."
Like I said, it does make sense. I just don't know for sure that it's true. If I had to guess, though, I would definitely go with transparent hair. With a certainty of about 95%.
Submitted by rezure <None.at.ofyourbusiness.com> at 2003-05-03 03:04:33 EDT (#)
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Cleave is its own antonym.
Anyone who says one 'O' one for the number 101 is stupid. 'O' is a letter, zero is a number.
About the transparent polar bear hair thing, think of it this way. Have you ever shaved off thin layers from something that is clear, colorless plastic. It sometimes (often) appears white. Try it.
My guess on the cause of this is due to the microscopic (and even some of the visible) stucture of the surface that was separated has become jagged. This jagged surface distorts the light in such a way to create a white, semitransparent look instead of the original clear, colorless look. The surface of hair could also do the same thing since it has a sort of /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ pattern on the outside, and all kinds of stuff going on inside.
Coke, in the original (unmarketed) form was green. Later, before public release they changed the formula, changing the color. This is what I've heard. I do NOT endorse its validity.
Submitted by manther <samiakuma.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-05-02 19:01:04 EDT (#)
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"Go" is the shortest sentence dumbass. understood you, c'mon and get with it.
Submitted by der_schattenmann (user info) at 2003-04-29 00:35:18 EDT (#)
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Ring around the rosie was in fact a children's song during the Black Plague. Ring around the rosie, as you say, is the infection. Pocket full of posey was supposed to keep the Black Plague away from you (and scent the air, as it is thought that the plague might be airborn). Ashes, ashes... burning of the corpses, I think, unless it's some obscure medicinal trial of which I've never heard.
We all fall down.
Submitted by rf <rowenaf.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-04-29 00:06:52 EDT (#)
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yeah, for all of those talking about ring-a rosie, or which ever it is, the original line was ring around the rosie (or roses) which is said to be a corruption of a description of the red ring that appears on the skin in the early stage of infection. posey was supposed to suppress the 'smell' that spread it, and i think probably that no one knows whether the other lone was ashes, or atishoo, both are used on both continants. please let that be the end of that.
Hitler doctor worked for a pharmecutical company and preocribed him over 70 drugs during his last years.
insect wings probably evolved from gills.
playing cards came from early tarot cards i think. the diamonds was for wealth, spades for death or disaster, clubs for something else and hearts for love.
:)
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-04-21 13:59:20 EDT (#)
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In space noone can hear you scream...
Submitted by coulston <scotchtapefiend.at.yahoo.com> at 2003-04-19 12:23:31 EDT (#)
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to PhozPhateX, another falacy of the whole, hear the explosion at the same time you see it. In the case of thier phaser hitting another ship or whatnot, you wouldnt be able to hear the sound, as sound is a mechanical wave, not able to travel through a vacum.
Submitted by EvilZurr (user info) at 2003-04-19 03:28:09 EDT (#)
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alright, im putting the atishoo/a tissue thing to rest. the original is atishoo, and im an american, so there. a tissue is what it became, because the british changed it so it sounded better. proof? ive got 5 AP history teachers telling me that exact same thing.
Submitted by Hincapie (user info) at 2003-04-19 02:01:25 EDT (#)
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This is in response to the monkeys masturbating...
Bonobos masturbate, and have lots of sex for pleasure, but they are not monkeys, they are apes. A monkey is not an animal, is a type of primate. we just call chimpanzees (the ones that swing in trees and scratch their armpits..) "monkeys" because its easier to say. Also, gorillas beat their chests as a threat to other gorillas, not when theyre just playing around. Also, if you were wondering, the smallest primate is the mouse lemur.
Submitted by i am gene <andthisismyemail.at.email.com> at 2003-04-18 19:30:49 EDT (#)
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I got a mate who disloactes his shoulder and he's got a nose licking tongue and he can actually lick his elbow hahahaha sucks to you all and sucks to the rules
Submitted by oddzandendz (user info) at 2003-04-18 18:38:12 EDT (#)
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this was the first post i ever read! It's good to see the old girl still getting some attention
Submitted by jessrabbit01 at 2003-04-18 18:03:12 EDT (#)
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Monkeys masturbate, and also have sex just for pleasure.
Submitted by Immure (user info) at 2003-04-17 09:58:25 EDT (#)
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As I Canadian I know the song the British way as well.
The sying "son of a gun" was origianally an insult- like today's "son of a whore/bitch" The reason behind it is that on long voyages there would often be a ship 'whore' to keep the men entertained. Often she would get pregnant and the common place she was put to give birth was next to the cannons. Hence the term "son of a gun"
The Bubbles in hottubs is made up of dead skin, bacteria and oils from peoples skin.
The stronger the chlorine smell in a pool the dirtier it is
Submitted by R8chi (user info) at 2003-04-17 09:07:33 EDT (#)
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Razor, I don't need to make a connection. You are clearly missing the point "Ashes to ashes" is just wrong!!!!
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2003-04-15 14:10:48 EDT (#)
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Actually, in the American version, it's "Ashes to Ashes, we all fall down."
I don't know about over here, but at funerals they say "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust".
If you can't put together the connection between that and "we all fall down" I'm not going to be able to help you.
Submitted by R8chi (user info) at 2003-04-15 07:12:34 EDT (#)
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Ahhh! Well I feel a bit sorry for JP! You all keep telling him he's wrong about green Coca Cola but not telling him why (as far as I can see)
The original representation of Father Christmas showed him wearing a green suit it was Coca Cola who showed him wearing the red suit we all know and love! That's where the confusion lies.
Also, Why are you Yanks being so arogant over this "Black Death Nursery Rhyme"???? It makes absolutely NO sense for the words to be "ashes ashes we al fall down!" The virus that caused the Bubonic Plague was carried in the mucas at the back of the nose and throat, much like Menangitis, therefore it was by sneezing that the disease was carried "Atishoo Atishoo"! It makes me so angry that you arrogantly claim that us "Europeans" who INVENTED the song should be wrong. Tossers!
And, by the way, it's called "Ring-a-ring o' roses" so that it RHYMES!!!!!
Submitted by Otter (user info) at 2003-04-10 07:52:02 EDT (#)
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Wiked, you are correct "Go" is the shortest sentance.
However the longest sentance known to man................"I do."
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-04-04 10:42:47 EST (#)
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I think you meant that Dolphins are the only other animal to have sex for pleasure not procreation... That I know is a fact cause I think its funny...
Submitted by Wiked (user info) at 2003-04-01 14:23:37 EST (#)
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For those of you that were debating about the proper grammar issue.
A command contains an understood you..... that is the subject.
Go is, in fact, the shortest complete sentence.
Proper grammatical structure needs one noun/subject and one verb/command.
it would look like this on a diagram ---- (you)|Go
subject Verb
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-03-30 13:37:24 EST (#)
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No, there are many other animals that masturbate. Bears, dogs... I do, however, believe it's constrained to mammals.
Submitted by youngtomyoung (user info) at 2003-03-30 13:26:50 EST (#)
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Dolphins are the only only animals (other than humans) known to masturbate. i shit you not.
Submitted by youngtomyoung (user info) at 2003-03-30 12:50:18 EST (#)
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people always say cockroaches will be the only things to survive a nuclear holocaust, it's actually true (excluding deep sea bacteria). why? unlike all other multicelular organisms, cockroaches experience mitosis (or meiosis???) once every nine days, whereas everything else divides cells continuously. the greates affect of a nuclear holocaust is radiation, which effects cellular reproduction. hence, only one out of nine roaches will be affected by the radiation, later the rest will be killed off by consuming contaminated materials, i.e. everything that was killed earlier, and the leftover radiation. so really they won't survive, but they will live a lot longer than you!
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-03-27 00:33:40 EST (#)
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Would you like some strawberries? Then only take one of the red things.
The part of the strawberry plant that makes up the fruit is not the bulbous red section. Those "seeds" you see, THOSE are the fruits. If you cut one of them open, you'd find an even smaller "seed" which is, in fact, the seed.
Submitted by jen729w (user info) at 2003-03-26 11:30:01 EST (#)
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What would work be like without Ubersite? God knows.
Two things, I'll keep it short and sweet:
i. The Speaker of the House: he does indeed speak. His role is to maintain order in the House when our MPs start screaming at each other. If anybody wants to hear him, log on to http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive and click "Listen Live". Mid-afternoon UK time is probably your best bet as they're frequently switching over to the Commons at the minute what with all the discussion of this war that's apparently going on. He's the dude shouting "Order! Order!". http://www.parliament.uk/works/speaker.cfm.
ii. Another fact for ya - the word "posh" comes from the fact that when us Brits used to come across the pond to the US, the best cabins - and therefore the most expensive - were on the port side leaving the UK and the starboard on the way back; port out, starboard home. Something to do with the sunlight that fell on the cabin windows.
Thanks peeps, I love you all...
john
Submitted by matt_adamcz <matt_adamcz.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-03-26 06:30:15 EST (#)
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One other thing about grapes: if you take one and slice it so that the two halves are only connected by a little piece of grape skin, then put it in the microwave for a few seconds, it creates the effect of a flash-bulb. It really works!
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-03-20 01:33:22 EST (#)
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Also, turtles can't die of old age.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-03-20 00:23:39 EST (#)
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I've also read that polar bears' hair is transparent, not white, and that their skin is black. I know their skin si black, that much is obvious, but I wasn't able to verify the transparent-hair thing. It does make sense, though.
Submitted by hairowen (user info) at 2003-03-19 17:51:52 EST (#)
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my fingers r broken and i have a small penis... monkeys r cool (what does GI stand for?)
TheSexyCuban
Submitted by streetpunk (user info) at 2003-03-19 17:19:57 EST (#)
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I thought GI (as in GI joe) stood for General Infantry
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2003-03-19 17:04:16 EST (#)
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Did anybody pay attention during their physics classes?
Astronauts are not "gravity-free" when in space; they're actually in a state of continual free-fall. At the distance that they operate, they're still under something like 90% of the earth's gravitational influence.
The reason they seem to be floating is because they're actually falling; the reason they don't get any closer to the planet's surface is because carefully precalculated parameters ensure that the speed at which they orbit matches that of the earth's spin in relation to the earth's curvature. If they slowed down, they would start to drop.
Submitted by Quirkster (user info) at 2003-03-19 16:11:44 EST (#)
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When the first military tank was built in Britain, its creation was considered to be so top secret that the British Army crated them up for transporting purposes. To fool anyone who happened to catch sight of the crates, the words "Water Tanks" were written on the side. This "codeword" has since been our name for the armoured vehicles.
Submitted by jakyl (user info) at 2003-03-19 15:52:56 EST (#)
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Interesting post. I don't have much, and you guys probably already know this stuff, but here it goes.
Some things I remember from HS Chem:
Carbonation in drinks is really just water and CO2.
Peroxide is also photosensitive, in that it decomposes to water and O2. That's why its always in a brown bottle.
Other things that have no rhyme:
silver, orange, purple
Cats really hate bananas. If someone can figure this one out, please email me.
For your sakes, I won't include the number of things I've found under the caps of Snapple drinks.
Submitted by Imposter <insanitytrain.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-03-16 04:03:13 EST (#)
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Bombardier beetles don't shoot explosive rounds. It's a tiny explosive like reaction in their bodies which causes a foul smelling spray to shoot out from the generated pressure.
Submitted by Ashli (user info) at 2003-03-09 00:03:11 EST (#)
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Oh, I forgot to mention. I tried the grapes in the microwave thing. It worked (to an extent). It was rather cool. I put a grape on a plate, set my microwave and stared. After about...twenty(?) seconds (I wasn't watching the time) there was a hissing noise. A few seconds later it started spinning at a speed that you wouldn't think would be possible for a grape to obtain, and it started growing in size. This next part it hard to explain. It didn't explode...it was more of a pop. The grape burst and while there were "grape guts" all over the plate, the microwave remained clean. It was one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a microwave. I reccomend that all of you try it.
Submitted by Ashli (user info) at 2003-03-08 23:58:13 EST (#)
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It's not impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. I've tried it. It's difficult, bur possible. What I'm wondering is why it's so difficult.
Also, the Speaker of the House fact is very interesting. I'd love it if someone looked into it!
Submitted by poisonyourkids (user info) at 2003-03-06 07:57:45 EST (#)
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no shit huh?
Submitted by Istaros <archon_templar.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-03-06 04:03:49 EST (#)
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LASERS AND SPACE SOUNDS
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1) Lasers do "make" beams. They are light-beams which have had their wavelengths synchronized and controlled. They do not, however, project these beams along any path other than thedirection of travel. In practical terms, what this means is that in space, you would not see the laser's beam, just the point of light where it hits something(the "dot"). The reason we can see laser beams in the atmosphere is because a part of the beam is disrupted by dust, air, water vapor, etc. The light is refracted or reflected off of these particles, and the beam is redirected in various random directions, some of which reach our eyes -hence we can see the beam.
2) Phasers were used both for the handheld weapons AND the ships' beam weapons in the Star Trek franchise.
3) Hearing the weapon and hit at virtually the same time that it actually does is more than plausible; the sounds would first travel through the ship's hull, than the short space between teh bridge floor to the crew members' ears(about 6 feet). Sounds travel much faster trhough solid than they do through liquid, or even gas. Why do you think airplane pilots can still hear fine even while speeding at Mach 2?
Submitted by mark <mbillie1.at.binghamton.edu> at 2003-02-28 21:49:57 EST (#)
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I liked it. Someone posted that thing about "= rand (200,99)" in word documents. Well, "= rand (X,Y)" (where X and Y are whole and greater than zero) seems to repeat "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." X times vertically, Y times horizontally, e.g. "= rand (45,1)" will type the sentence once per line, 45 lines, while "= rand (1,45)" will enter the sentence 45 times per line once. obviously this will make it a number of lines long, but you get the idea. At least that's how I think it works... just found it interesting.
-mark
Submitted by nemo (user info) at 2003-02-27 19:51:28 EST (#)
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G.I. (as in G.I. Joe)stands for galvanized iron. Many people mistakenly think that it stands for government issues.
Submitted by ScJ (user info) at 2003-02-25 20:26:08 EST (#)
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That taste thing is absolutely right, if anyone cares anymore, your tongue senses sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. It is the olfactory glands in the top of your nose which sense a certain type molecule which acts not unlike scent molecules. If you block off your nose, you block the olfactory glands, and therefore block off any distinct smell.
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2003-02-22 00:29:14 EST (#)
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If the speed at which Heinz ketchup pours out of the bottle is realy .0026 miles per hour, then that's about 23 miles a year.
Submitted by mackdaddy <amcclave.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-02-21 23:43:14 EST (#)
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im not sure, but i think the debt you can pay with pennies is 50 cents, but i could be wrong.
Submitted by TheMan (user info) at 2003-02-20 23:22:42 EST (#)
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So, if I fart at least 32 times a day, does that make me twice as healthy as the average healthy person?
Also, the speed at which Heinz ketchup pours out of the bottle is .0026 miles per hour. That comes out to roughly 26 miles per YEAR. Or so I've read.
Submitted by PhozPhateX (user info) at 2003-02-20 22:45:27 EST (#)
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Well technically 100.1 is not a whole number, and he said
"Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?"
I always thought the number 101 was written out as One Hundred One. People say One O' One to shorten it, but its not the correct way to say it, and One Hundred and One is just used to be more precise... more precise than you really have to be.
Besides, 'and' is just a conjunction. You don't see people writing 100&1. Since we're spelling out numbers, not conjunctions, I think it's safe to say that One Thousand is the lowest number with the letter A in it. Now could we move on? Like maybe on to more facts?
-Like... Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
-The average healthy human being farts 16 times a day.
-Giraffes can last onger without water than a camel
-The average elephant weighs less than the average blue whale's tongue
-In the US a pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound or potatoes
-The striped billiard balls weight .1 ounces or so more than the solids
-The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. (correct me if I'm wrong)
-Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
-A whale's penis is called a dork.
-If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. (try it)
--FInally, when we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
Submitted by ashley (user info) at 2003-02-20 00:38:27 EST (#)
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"Then what about 100.01 or 100.001 or 100.0001 or 100.00001 or 100.000001, well, you get the drift."
it would be pronounced, one hundred and one tenth, or one hundred and one one-hundreth, or one hundred and one one-thousand... and so on
Submitted by PhozPhateX (user info) at 2003-02-19 23:28:50 EST (#)
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Well 'ashes' does have a interpretation that makes more sense than 'atishoo'
When the plague hit a surefire way not to get it was to surround yourself by fire, as they did for the pope who was in isolation for a whole summer if not more.
So ashes represents the fire.
Also, here's an old one.
Goods transported over water are called 'cargo', and over land it's called a 'shipment'
The whole smile-frown muscle thing is a fact.
As for the phasers, they used handheld phasers but I don't think they used them for the ships main weapon. Either way, Star Trek was very realistic, i.e. agreed with physics to an extent, for a while, until Hollywood took over and jacked everything up. Like when you hear the ships fire their weapons from space, and when the populace of the ship could hear the weapon hit at the same time it hits. (Remember sound travels much slower than light)
By the way, I am by no means a Star Trek expert or fan. I'm just recalling stuff I saw years ago, and stuff i read.
--Cheers
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2003-02-14 15:00:17 EST (#)
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JP-
<You're the 2nd Brit that told me that, but I always heard it "ashes ashes." Have any Americans heard it the other way?>
I've heard "atishoo" also. Which I have to admit is probably right, as in sneezing - being sick, then falling down would represent dying. Makes sense that way because it's in order. But as a kid we all said ashes too, probably because it was way more morbid.
I heard the "atishoo" in a Pink Floyd song from "The Division Bell" - awesome album.
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ISuck-
<That whole "more muscles to frown than to smile" is bullshit. That's assuming one actually turns the corners of his mouth downward when frowning, and who the hell does that?>
It definitely takes more muscles to *just* frown than *just* smile.
Around 40-something to around 13 respectively.
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Ashli-
<Actually, one hundred and one would be 100.1>
Then what about 100.01 or 100.001 or 100.0001 or 100.00001 or 100.000001, well, you get the drift.
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:-) Loren
Submitted by AltrEgo (user info) at 2003-02-14 14:10:20 EST (#)
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Actually, Fred and Wilma were not the first prime time couple to be shown in the same bed. In fact, they NEVER were shown in the same bed. The first couple were from a show in 1947 called Mary Kay And Johnny. Here's a link:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marykay.htm
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2003-02-13 10:55:52 EST (#)
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In the US we say "one hundred point one" for 100.1. "One hundred and one" or "One hundred one" is 101. Actually it would be said "one O one" (O, as in the name for the letter between N and P), more commonly.
"Lasers don't actually make a beam, only the dot... (Contrary to Star Trek)"
To defend Star Trek, they never used lasers. Lasers were considered primitive. Once they encountered a race that still used lasers and all but laughed at them. In Star Trek they used "phasors" (hand-held and on the ship) which are supposed to be something different (although they don't really exist).
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2003-02-12 23:43:35 EST (#)
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Ashli - I apologise for getting your name wrong. To let you know, in British English, 100.1 would be "one hundred point one", sometimes more formally "one hundred decimal point one". I don't know what it would be for US and Canadian English.
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2003-02-12 23:39:59 EST (#)
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Ashi - British English does use the standard "one hundred and one". I believe it's US and Canadian English that doesn't.
Submitted by PhozPhateX (user info) at 2003-02-12 22:03:56 EST (#)
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Japan has 2 million more cellular phone users than conventional phones.
The gun, Mac10 (the one Shwartzenegger (sp?) used) takes about 1.8 seconds to discharge all of it's ammo (600 rounds a minute). Arnold fired it for about 3 minutes without reloading. That would result in about 1,800 rounds discharged (probably more, even).
Lasers don't actually make a beam, only the dot... (Contrary to Star Trek)
Bullets don't make sparks when they hit other metals. (They're made of lead)
There's a bug called the bombardier beetle that can fire tiny rounds of explosions at it's predators.
I used to know a lot more but I can't remember it at the top of my head. That's what herion will do to ya. Which is funny because I don't really do herion.
--Cheers
Submitted by Ashli (user info) at 2003-02-12 20:51:51 EST (#)
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Actually, one hundred and one would be 100.1 101 is one hundred one. Also...
Coca-cola was never green, but it DID contain cocaine (hence the name) for a period of time.
For five years, Webster's dictionary contained a definition of the word dord, a word that has never actually existed.
Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after being challenged by his editor to write a book using no more than 50 different words.
The Marlboro Man died of lung cancer
and
The Star Trek theme actually has lyrics.
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2003-02-11 10:50:47 EST (#)
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Dictionary.com had no definition for "eggry," but "gry" is an word:
gry
\Gry\, n. [Gr ? syllable, bit.] 1. A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] --Locke.
2. Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Submitted by serae (user info) at 2003-02-11 09:06:15 EST (#)
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Well streetpunk I'm sorry to say you are wrong about words ending in 'gry'. 'Eggry' is another word that ends in 'gry', cant remember what it means though, there are a couple of others words too.
Here's a 'fact':
A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its arse.
Submitted by Jesus <@> at 2003-02-08 11:16:53 EST (#)
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Nope, it's just Americans who omit the "and".
Submitted by ISuck (user info) at 2003-02-04 16:37:12 EST (#)
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That whole "more muscles to frown than to smile" is bullshit. That's assuming one actually turns the corners of his mouth downward when frowning, and who the hell does that?
Submitted by catscradle (user info) at 2003-02-04 16:09:15 EST (#)
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Pigs have the longest orgasms.
*squeal*
Submitted by sdrawkcaB (user info) at 2003-02-04 16:00:38 EST (#)
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In response of "first number with an 'A' in it? one hundred and one, surely?"
This was probably a sarcastic reply but just in case... Using the word "and" when regarding numbers is unnecessary and is considered by any mathematician worth their weight in dirt as a mistake. The correct way to refer to the number "101" in written or pronounced form is "one hundred one".
Submitted by lowsodiummonkey (user info) at 2003-02-04 11:55:07 EST (#)
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The_Otter
"Humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional response."
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Almost all primates smile. The smile is an evolution development to express either dominance or submissiveness (there is fine line between anger and happiness when one shows teeth). Primates smile to show that they are being submissive and not a threat or show their teeth in anger. This is mainly done to another male or female that is in a dominant position or for the dominant one to assert his/her self. Whether this "expression" is an "emotion" is the most debated in this research.
http://www.pitt.edu/~kschmidt/schmidtcohn01.pdf - read this study. page 17 covers some primate stuff.
The debate rages because if monkies have emotions than another species becomes more like us and creationist don't like it when humans become too similar to animals.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-02-04 11:40:00 EST (#)
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first number with an 'A' in it? one hundred and one, surely?
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2003-02-04 10:47:24 EST (#)
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Point taken lowsodiummonkey.
Now The_Otter,
There is one of yours that are definitely wrong.
"Dolphins are the only animals other than humans that have sex for pleasure and masturabate."
I have been to the zoo and seen other primates masturbate. Also, I know some species of primate have sex because they enjoy it and not just to procreate; often they don't even reach orgasm.
Dolphins may be the only non-primate animal to do that. I have heard that some bears masturbate, but I have not reason to believe or not to believe this rumor.
Submitted by lowsodiummonkey (user info) at 2003-02-04 09:35:38 EST (#)
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JP
Check it here - http://jeepin.com/history.shtml (Oops! Jeep was Popeye's sidekick)
The history of the Jeep was just recently on Mail Call on the History Channel (Hosted by the man, R. Lee Ermy). The show also proposed the same story, but no one really know's exactly were the name came from and the show also confirmed that GP did not stand for general purpose. (They even showed Ford's original documents of vehicle product listing and number system)
Submitted by The_Otter (user info) at 2003-02-04 08:18:14 EST (#)
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Fun and entertaining, but you are wrong about Coke having been green, the statues and the number of hoses legs lifed tells how the guy died, and what the kings represent on the deck of cards. I can provide you with the details behind theses three items if need be.
But here's another couple for you...
If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.
If you head directly south from Detroit, the first forign country you will enter is Canada, the only place in the US where you can head -south- into Canada.
Q. What word can you take the first letter of, put it as the last letter, and make it the past tence of the original word?
A. Eat (ate)
The bible does not specify exactly how many wise men were sent to Bethleham.
Roudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.
Cows are incapable of putting their lips together to make sounds like humans, so they are actually saying "OOOOO" instead of "Moo."
Humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional response.
Dolphins are the only animals other than humans that have sex for pleasure and masturabate.
There is an extra leg in the Iwo Jima memorial statue and extra hand. While the legend is that these extremedies belong to God, who is helping the Marines win, they are actually there for added support to the statue, and designed not to look like a metal rod going throught the middle of the group of Marines.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-02-04 07:04:11 EST (#)
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think i need a dailing wand. i meant first, not fisrsrst, for all you typing zealots
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-02-04 07:02:42 EST (#)
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Fisrst number with an 'A' in its spelling? One hundred and one, surely?
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2003-02-03 22:07:57 EST (#)
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lowsodiummonkey,
I think that GP does stand for general purpose. Where did you get your info?
tovah,
"Go." is the shortest sentence in the English language (but streetpunk did leave off the period). Go is a command, and commands can have an implied subjects. For example, I can say, "Go to the store." It is implied that the subject is "you", as in "You go to the store." It is correct grammer to have an implied subject for a command.
Submitted by tovah at 2003-02-03 19:55:09 EST (#)
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streetpunk : and "go" is actually the shortest complete sentence in the american language
Go is a COMMAND. That's like saying "Walk", "Stop", or "Eat." A complete sentence includes a subject and a verb. Dur.
Submitted by lowsodiummonkey (user info) at 2003-02-03 14:43:11 EST (#)
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The Jeep one is wrong. That is a myth. GP was never stood for general purpose and it just so happened to be the first two letters on Ford's product numbering for the vehicle. The current theory that is thought to be true is based from an old Popeye cartoon. In the cartoon a little character named "Jeep" caused Popeye all kinds of trouble because he could supernaturally do almost anything. Hence the name adopted by G.I.s for the vehicle that could do anything.
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2003-02-02 23:55:30 EST (#)
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You're the 2nd Brit that told me that, but I always heard it "ashes ashes." Have any Americans heard it the other way?
Submitted by speed... (user info) at 2003-02-02 23:04:51 EST (#)
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please never ever equate the credibility of the US with a fuckin' wanker like that...
...that guy makes me wanna hurt puppies...
we don't need bad musicians/singers to ruin our credibility....we have a gov't full of warmongers driven by greed and self-interest to do that for us.....
...fuck [the] US...
Submitted by Rott <cpt_rottingham.at.hotmail.com> at 2003-02-02 14:04:11 EST (#)
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Strangely enough as the 'ring a roses' was about the Black Death, the rhyme being created in England, it is you Americans messing it up. It is atishoo, not ashes, though in the Korn song Shoots and Ladders, Jonathan Davies sings the rhyme using ashes, ashes. So it must be an American thing
Submitted by treysee (user info) at 2002-11-18 21:49:56 EST (#)
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interesting
Submitted by Centaur <pupu.at.stinky.com> at 2002-11-18 19:04:40 EST (#)
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actually michaelahunt... you have these things inside your mouth called taste buds, they can sense bitter, sweet, sour, etc...
what did you say, if you block your nose it's just the feel of it in your mouth that sets it apart... hahaha smart!
your nose does account for most tastes, but not sweet, sour, bitter, and i think the last one is salt, but I can't say for sure... (see if I don't actually know something I ask, not pretend to know it)
Submitted by streetpunk <juggalo44.at.mad.scientist.com> at 2002-11-18 12:34:03 EST (#)
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a ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why
it is impossible for someone to lick their own elbow
typewriter is the longest word you can spell from one row on a typewriter
only two words in the english language end with "gry" hungry and angry
it takes more muscles to frown than smile
Native Americans would pick corn and other veggies out of their feces and eat it again
elephants are the only animals that can't jump
it is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
all polar bears are left handed
butterflies taste with their feet
the electric chair was invented by a dentist
and "go" is actually the shortest complete sentence in the american language
Submitted by michaelahunt (user info) at 2002-11-17 08:30:39 EST (#)
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May I comment that when people block their nose, evrything taste the same, its just the feel of it in your mouth that sets it apart!
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2002-08-15 16:27:40 EDT (#)
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A number of these are flat out wrong or incorrect...
Here's a good site for debunking/confirming urban legends: www.snopes2.com
Coca Cola wasn't green orignally.
The kings in a deck of playing cards were NOT designed after those four kings.
There were some other heinously wrong ones, but I can't remember them because I'm on the review page instead of looking over the list.
Submitted by poodz at 2002-08-15 11:24:12 EDT (#)
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got u now jp, cheers
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2002-08-15 11:09:04 EDT (#)
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the egg thing:
Yea if you turn a hard boiled egg on it end and spin it like a top it will spin. Raw/soft eggs won't
Submitted by Chunk (user info) at 2002-08-15 10:54:09 EDT (#)
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what about:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a lung disease apparently)
I just typed that with my left hand
(i know what you meant i am joking for all the people who immediately think to comment)
Submitted by Random Joe at 2002-08-15 10:40:22 EDT (#)
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surely spinning something would be turning it around in a spinning motion, possibly around axle or around its axis, something akin to a spinning top for instance, or the earth, maybe a wheel, a windmill, a young child that spims in the playground, a ballerina or skating person in pirouette, something like that.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2002-08-15 10:37:47 EDT (#)
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All of this, that isn't universal, is American (much of it is cultural stuff)
Don't know about the rule of thumb thing
THAT IS TRUE
I know the GP thing is right
FAIR ENOUGH
It is ashes ashes. Don't tell me you Europeans messed up the nursery rhyme (joking)
NOT ASHES MATE, HOW COULD BODIES BE BURNT BEFORE THEY FELL DOWN? THATS WITCHES
Yea I'm sure that the 40% thing is unreliable
WELL IF I EVER MEET THEM THEY'LL NOT BE AT MY NEXT PARTY, BORING NOSY FREAKS
The apple, onion, and potato thing is true; I've done it.
MMMM
The boiled egg thing is true.
A hard boiled egg is boiled until it is totally solid. A soft boiled egg is only boiled for a little while and still kind of gooy. AYE, JUST DONT CALL THEM SOFT EGGS THO... OR IS THAT JUST ME?
It's a number sign. Here it is also commonly called the pound sign. And it's sometimes used as shorthand for pound (as in weight) e.g. "Graham's wife weighs 315 #'s" (the shorthand thing is actually not that common.)
Submitted by Random Joe at 2002-08-15 10:32:26 EDT (#)
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np jp, the hard boiled egg spinning? what do mean by spinning? interesting on the gp/jeep thing tho.
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2002-08-15 10:13:08 EDT (#)
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This wasn't supposed to be the "God-honest truth," just something interesting to read.
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All of this, that isn't universal, is American (much of it is cultural stuff)
Don't know about the rule of thumb thing
I know the GP thing is right
It is ashes ashes. Don't tell me you Europeans messed up the nursery rhyme (joking)
Yea I'm sure that the 40% thing is unreliable
The apple, onion, and potato thing is true; I've done it.
The boiled egg thing is true.
A hard boiled egg is boiled until it is totally solid. A soft boiled egg is only boiled for a little while and still kind of gooy.
Here we go: Hard oiled egg is to Well done steak as soft boiled egg is to rare steak. Yall don't soft boil eggs over there?
It's a number sign. Here it is also commonly called the pound sign. And it's sometimes used as shorthand for pound (as in weight) e.g. "Graham's wife weighs 315 #'s" (the shorthand thing is actually not that common.)
Submitted by 3MW at 2002-08-15 09:20:52 EDT (#)
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Actually, the GP thing is correct. And statisticians don't observe, they survey. 40 percent of people surveyed look into med cabinets, but since there is no measurement of error it may lose a modicum of credibility.
Submitted by poodz (user info) at 2002-08-15 09:07:51 EDT (#)
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any ways of backing this stuff up? some of it seems quite inocuous, some of it is wrong. this global went round here a year or so ago and soon later one went round with all the errors.
let's see...
is that statue thing american only? it's certainlt not consistant here.
as for 'rule of thumb' ie a consensus of opinion, it comes from classical rome... in the arena caesar would, usually listening to the will of the baying crowd, indicate with his thumb whether a gladiator would live or die.
jeep, GP? not Just Enough Essential Parts? i'll stick to that, GP isnt quite as good a useless fact.
ring a ring a rosy... The posy wasn't on the dead bodies but was what rich people carried to stave off the stench. also they thought rose petals was a protector against the plague (god revealed this in the rash). its not ashes ashes either, it's 'aitishoo, aitishoo' (sneezing sound) as that was the second stage after the rosy rash, before falling down dead.
40% of ppl at a party look in med cabinet? how can anyone measure this. i dont remem any staticians at my last party.
apple, onion, potato taste same? i asked my gran who has no ability to smell. pile of toss that one.
hard bolied egg will spin? eh? and what the hell is a soft boiled egg?
as for the # key. in the uk its a hash key, never a pound sign(£)
Submitted by Chunk (user info) at 2002-08-15 08:59:48 EDT (#)
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Also if you open a word document and type
= rand (200,99)
it will create a shit load of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" sentences.
Submitted by Zanz38 (user info) at 2002-08-15 08:17:07 EDT (#)
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getting confuseed with FORD (Fix Or Repair Daily) (Found On Road Dead)
Submitted by byron (user info) at 2002-08-15 08:12:16 EDT (#)
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I thought that jeep came from 'Just Enough Essential Parts'.
Submitted by miksmix (user info) at 2002-08-15 05:44:16 EDT (#)
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What about Borange???
Oh, thats not a word.
Oops.
Submitted by Zanz38 (user info) at 2002-08-15 03:24:43 EDT (#)
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Orange is another word which has no match ie you can not ryme it.
as does purple i belive.
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