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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pegasus V on April 13, 2003, 09:44:20 pm
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent ofNew York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals with legs that can't jump
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs .. but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library atIndiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years..
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left-handed.
In ancientEgypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Take a look!
Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?
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Anyone else got any useless facts? Or even useful facts?
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I haven't tried to lick my elbow
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I tried licking my elbow years ago, and it never worked. Since I've gotten only less flexible since then, I'm not about to try.
And how do you measure Barbie's "life-size" scale, anyway? Her proportions are unlikely at best for any dimension, so she could just as well be a four-foot midget in life.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
And how do you measure Barbie's "life-size" scale, anyway?
I don't know, but I think there are constants.
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:wtf:how is it possible for stryke 9 to have only one post?
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It's a warning to other spammers
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ok....
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And I'd like to see them back up the idea that elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Snails, anybody? Planaria?
The pizza thing is highly improbable, too. Might be a mistyping. Eighteen acres of pizza would be a good bit more than most people weigh, and since most people must eat less than their body weight in one day, in order for that to be an average some people would have to eat quite a significant amount more than that, by about 30 or 40 I'd estimate. Anyone who made an honest attempt to approach that would be in the emergency ward or dead (depending on their determination) before they even reached the halfway mark. Hell, even just eighteen pizzas total (at significantly less than an acre, probably more like three square yards) would make you pretty sick, and uninclined to ever repeat the performance.
I suppose if you sliced the pizza into atom-thin layers, and then spread them out over a few acres, it could be a few acres of pizza. But unless you're doing quite a lot to increase those pizzas' surface areas, that's just wrong.
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Silverwolf: It's a challenge to make up the difference. I've got a running bet at two months flat to get it up to 6000. The admins, apparently, are masochists- this is the second time they've done this, too.
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this is the 3rd time he's been panced?
yea, i've got that email too. :D
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Second, I think, though maybe I'm forgetting a time. It didn't stick once, I believe...
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Just 5994 to go
Hey look at that, 2000 for me
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Crap!
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Second, I think, though maybe I'm forgetting a time. It didn't stick once, I believe...
Either way, they are started to allign with my dentist appointments.. looks like you'll be seeing post number 2 again in 6 months :D
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Depends on whether I really manage to post 6000 times in the next coupla months, I think.
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I've heard that duck thing before, for some reason it disturbs me. I would feel a lot better about life in general if someone could explain why a ducks quack doesn't echo.
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They do echo, it's not true
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Harmonics, probably. Nasal notes generally don't echo- I suspect it's because their waveform isn't just some smooth sine-wave type thing, last I checked it's kinda jagged. Just doesn't bounce so well- though I bet if you really went to measure it, you could get a little bit of echo.
That's just me guessing, though. I'm sure there is some team of scientists in a government-funded lab somewhere in Massachusetts who've been trying to tackle this problem for their entire lives and have already looked into (and rejected) that possibility.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Silverwolf: It's a challenge to make up the difference. I've got a running bet at two months flat to get it up to 6000. The admins, apparently, are masochists- this is the second time they've done this, too.
Don't worry, we can do it again and again, until we get tired of it and ban you.
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On the pizza thing, I think it meant the pizzas eaten by all Americans combined; that's the only way it would make sense.
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If you ban me, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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I remember you saying those exact same words around here before... :D
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Elephants are the only animals with legs that can't jump
Originally posted by Stryke 9
And I'd like to see them back up the idea that elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Snails, anybody? Planaria?
Whoa, I didn't know snails and worms had legs.
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snails have a single 'foot'
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elephants can jump anyway. not far, not high, and the landing is kinda noisy, but the can.
"half the statements above are wrong."
that's my statement to add to the list.
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TYPEWRITERPROTOTYPE
Or isn't that a word? :p
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as i got a german keyb i cant type typewriter only tzpewriter :D
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Originally posted by venom2506
elephants can jump anyway. not far, not high, and the landing is kinda noisy, but the can.
It's physically impossible to get all four feet off the ground for an elephant.
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Most asteroids fit into three basic categories:
- C-type - More than 75 percent of known asteroids fit into this category. The composition of C-type asteroids is similar to that of the sun without the hydrogen, helium and other volatiles.
- S-type - About 17 percent of asteroids are this type. These contain deposits of nickel, iron and magnesium.
- M-type - A small number of asteroids are this type, and they contain nickel and iron.
Even without a manned mission to do a full-scale study of an asteroid, scientists know a lot about what asteroids contain. Astronomers use telescopic spectroscopy, which analyzes light reflected from the asteroid's surface, to find out what might be there. In addition to iron, nickel and magnesium, scientists think water, oxygen, gold and platinum also exist on some asteroids.
John S. Lewis has said that an asteroid with a diameter of one kilometer would have a mass of about two billion tons. There are perhaps one million asteroids of this size in the solar system. One of these asteroids, according to Lewis, would contain 30 million tons of nickel, 1.5 million tons of metal cobalt and 7,500 tons of platinum. The platinum alone would have a value of more than $150 billion!
Hmm... So that's how I could get that $10bill (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,14511.0.html)!
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Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
Why is it that to stop Windows, you have to click on "Start"?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing
liquid is made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
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Most of those can be reasonably answered :doubt:
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Somebody did this same thing at my school with the lame questions. You'd think you'd need some sort of communications medium to spam, but no, all you need is a printer, scissors, and some tape. The day after they put up all these snippets of "clever", "unanswerable" questions, I made my rounds with a pencil and answered every last one. In fact, all but two of these questions are exactly identical.
You're Crets, ain't ya? Damn you.
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that's what Trivia is all about.
Trivia != unanswerable questions.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Most of those can be reasonably answered :doubt:
[color=66ff00]Indeed, they're more 'comedy suggestions' than trivia.
Stryke: you rock my world. :rolleyes:
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Only in private, hot cheeks.
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you two need to take it to the boys bathroom :ick
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mmm, trivia, mmm, homework, mmm, more important, mmm, i'll see if i can find anything tommorow, mmm.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Only in private, hot cheeks.
::sobs::
You betrayed me. :(
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[color=66ff00]Hey I'm not complaining, you know you're truely attractive when heterosexual males as well as girls find you attractive.
Unless you have something to tell us all Stryke?
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heres 2 i saw on a poster/board of funny things:
the meek shall inherit the earth...if thats ok with you
beat inflation: steal
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Those aren't technically "trivia" so much as "slogans", but this seems to be the random crap dump for the week, and they're better than most other things here.
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*pokes stryke with a stick*
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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?