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UCOFSILVER Member
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Posted:
such as..

did you know that the word thong comes from the portugese for dental floss...

humans and apes are the only species to have sex for fun..

shakespear had an estimated vocabulary of well over 24,00 words...most people only have 10,000

FlamezBRONZE Member
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Posted:
oooh, i got a lot bounce

A French Kiss is America is an English Kiss in France.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.(talk about facing your fears!)
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.(ooooooh, goody)
On average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.(that's a scary thought)
The condom was originally made of linen in the early 1500s.(???)
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Eggs. Reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years before chickens appeared.
New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the right to vote, in 1893. The next place was the Isle of Man.(how ironic)
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.(those bloody cotton growersubbloco )

"My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely."

"Insanity is my only means of relaxation."


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Posted:
 Written by: Flamez


 Written by: Mr Majestik


i can breathe underwater.



With aqua-lungs i suppose??



with what? umm

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley


FlamezBRONZE Member
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Posted:
aqua-lungs, those things that scuba divers use to breathe under water.

Its actually ironic, my two hobbies are at two totaly different ends of the spectrum.
One is playing with fire, the other is playing in water ubbloco

"My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely."

"Insanity is my only means of relaxation."


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Posted:
Here are some useless facts that you may enjoy...

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture
element.'
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen
rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that
tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint
plant call Diamond Star.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of
Independence Hall is 4:10.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total
is 5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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."
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet
came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered
trademark of AT&T.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of
5megabytes.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is
measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is
550 megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real
brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is
number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a
resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being
able to make change for a dollar.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one
at a time.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is
Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her
daughter Judy is 15.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999
(January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened
this
century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's
salaries.
Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation , was played by
six different cats.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th'
sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman
occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th"
sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the
Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977)
is 3263827.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the
production of Guinness beer.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but
more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are
radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear
reactor.
In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government
recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum)is
in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck
Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager
claiming they need someone who went to college. During the
conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is
standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed
low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in
"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh
enuakita
natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,
"L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were
caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked
for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures
logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which
occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is
'angstschreeuw'.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was
"Smile".
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution
of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped
together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is
"antidisestablishmenterianism".
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel
= motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a
"portmanteau."
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's
assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression
for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith
Fore.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside
sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her
basement.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book
'The Naked Lunch'.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's
Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten
words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he,
in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada
for marketing reasons.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was
the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand
corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the
front upper right-hand corner.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of
it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of theirfirst
names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same
number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law
against selling dolls without human faces.
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts
were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister,
Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles
at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran
a saloon there.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill
in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the
second man on the moon in 1969.)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul
Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme
songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on
the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after
Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and
only, home run.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once,
on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was
mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about
the wreck.
The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was
Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had
around
$2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less
expensive
twelve sided coin.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack
Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence
"Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton
Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry,
founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band
ever
seen in England--1961
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a
brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the
Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called
a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack
and
break off... Thus the saying.
Horses cannot vomit.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was
just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because
the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could
key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a
mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is
called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used
as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce
emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the
set by a raging elephant.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with
engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the
springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really
singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,'
and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually
singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but
this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady
Mondegreen.'"
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the
ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and
used
a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible
-- in many places - refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one
vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of
a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet,
normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe
DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement
made by swearing on their testicles.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably
shorter than his right.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off
would and therefore forstall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out
Inigo Montoya...)
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a
more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts
dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How
the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna
Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via",
which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an
intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place),
they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed.
You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of
"trivia."

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-Albert Einstein-

Peanut butter... It fills the cracks of the soul! -Paul Blart-


The Tea FairySILVER Member
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Posted:
 Written by: UmbiliciformCraterOnFace


such as..

humans and apes are the only species to have sex for fun..

What about dolphins? Think they get laid for pleasure too, frisky playful things that they are.

Idolized by Aurinoko

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....

Bob Dylan


The Tea FairySILVER Member
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Posted:
Oops! Sorry, someone's al;ready pointed that one out!

Idolized by Aurinoko

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....

Bob Dylan


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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Posted:
Not about the world: But I have very dark eyes. I realised that just then.
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i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


The Tea FairySILVER Member
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Posted:
I also have very dark eyes!

I'm pretty sure I can lick my own elbow too, but I'll have to wait til lunchtime to try that one out!

Idolized by Aurinoko

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....

Bob Dylan


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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Posted:
why lunchtime? i am sre your collegues would like to see you try!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


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 Written by: Violently Tame





All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.







From: https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/04/20/MN101165.DTL
Regional --

Today is April 20, and the significance of the date could be religious or infamous, depending on whom you ask. But for many who describe themselves as members of the counterculture, April 20 -- or 4/20 -- is a day to celebrate the pleasures of altered consciousness, loosen the bonds of convention and, in short, slack off and smoke a lot of pot.



This afternoon, as the clock strikes 4:20 p.m., thousands of people across the United States will be gathered on college campuses, in city parks, private homes and on mountain tops to observe what some refer to as ``the stoner's New Year,'' or ``Miller Time for hippies.'' In San Francisco, the Fourth Annual 420 Hemp Fest will kick off at 4 p.m. at Maritime Hall, and in Marin County, revelers plan to gather atop Mount Tamalpais for a ritual smoke-out.



In Ann Arbor, students at the University of Michigan will have their annual Hash Bash, and in Washington, D.C., legalization activists will kick off a fund-raiser for their yearly Fourth of July smoke-in in front of the White House.



If you've never heard the term 420 (that's ``four-twenty,'' not ``four hundred and twenty'') used in quite this way, you're not hip -- but you're not alone.



The term has eluded the understanding of those in the straight-and-narrow world for nearly 30 years. And if you do know what 420 refers to, odds are that you have no idea where the term came from. Ever since 420 became an insider's catchphrase in the 1970s, theories as to its origin have multiplied like Starbucks outlets, raising it to the level of urban myth.



``It has become a giant urban myth and it's a lot of fun,'' said attorney Keith Stroup, executive director of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, or NORML. ``Folks who smoke have a lot of fun with this code word, and the rest of the country doesn't know what the hell we're talking about.'' Devotees will insist that 420 is the penal code section for marijuana use, or the police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress, or the number of chemical compounds in marijuana, or that April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison died.

Unless it was Jimi Hendrix, or was that Janis Joplin? All these theories, and dozens more, are wrong, wrong, wrong. For the record, 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The number is not a police radio code, and the number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine, who should know.



Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4. According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos.



The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. ``Waldo Steve,'' a member of the group who now owns a business in San Francisco, says the Waldos would salute each other in the school hallway and say ``420 Louis!'' The term was one of many invented by the group, but it was the one that caught on.



``It was just a joke, but it came to mean all kinds of things, like `Do you have any?' or `Do I look stoned?' '' he said. ``Parents and teachers wouldn't know what we were talking about.''

The term took root, and flourished, and spread beyond San Rafael with the assistance of the Grateful Dead and their dedicated cohort of pot-smoking fans. The Waldos decided to assert their claim to the history of the term after decades of watching it spread, mutate and be appropriated by commercial interests.



The Waldos contacted Hager, and presented him with evidence of 420's history, primarily a collection of postmarked letters from the early '70s with lots of mention of 420. They also started a Web site, waldo420.com. ``We have proof, we were the first,'' Waldo Steve said. ``I mean, it's not like we wrote a book or invented anything. We just came up with a phrase. But it's kind of an honor that this emanated from San Rafael.''



ubblol 420 anyone?
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Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
woah man. thats like lots of reading with no paragraphing. like woah dude.

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Bubbles_SILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,384 posts
Location: mancunian, United Kingdom


Posted:
is that better wink

i didnt write it so im crap at editing frown

Disclaimer:im not responsible for what i say or do whether it be before,during and after drinking alcoholic substances (owned by BMVC).
Creater of Jenisms(TM)
Virginity like bubble,one prick all gone.


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
yeah, thats so much cooler.
ill read it when i have less alchocl in my system.

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Firetrampold hand
898 posts
Location: Binstead, Isle of Wight


Posted:
Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State of ...Jamaica

Ask a question and be a fool for a minute...don't ask and be a fool your whole life.


Mr_Identity_Crisismember
48 posts
Location: Manchester


Posted:
If you lined up all the big issue vendors in the country....i still wouldn't care. whats wrong with a proper job? and their poems suck as well

~Troll


Flanimal_Lovermember
43 posts
Location: Slough Massive, UK


Posted:
the cornish pasty pastry casing was created to be an edible lunchbox!

Poi-er to the People!


_Slater_member
32 posts

Posted:
in 1999, 1.7% of the years road accidents were caused by people trying to make roll ups whilst driving on the M25.
EDITED_BY: SlaterLovesPoi (1154520063)

The Tea FairySILVER Member
old hand
853 posts
Location: Behind you...


Posted:
ALL men's nipples are nine inches apart, regardless of size and shape of the man!
(Was on the Chris Evans show so it must be true!)

Can guys out there measure and check the validity of this? It's a really strange fact!

Idolized by Aurinoko

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....

Bob Dylan


GitasGuyPooh-Bah
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane


Posted:
sorry centre of nipple to other is on 7.5 inches here. Damn tv, when will we ever be able to trust it. ubblol ubblol ubblol

:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!! ubblol ubbtickled

Homer rocks!!!! ubblol ubbrollsmile


BirdGOLD Member
now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom


Posted:
Why am I not surprised that it was you who measured that!? tongue

My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."


The Tea FairySILVER Member
old hand
853 posts
Location: Behind you...


Posted:
Anyone else willing to submit nipple measurements? Just to confirm that GitasGuy is not just a one off freak of nature? wink

Sorry, I'm going to believe Chris Evans until I get at least 10 other measurements telling me otherwise!

Idolized by Aurinoko

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....

Bob Dylan


Mr MajestikSILVER Member
coming to a country near you
4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia


Posted:
24cm, which apparently converts to 9.44 inches. close, but not quite.

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley


GitasGuyPooh-Bah
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane


Posted:
 Written by: Bird


Why am I not surprised that it was you who measured that!? tongue


I like subjecting myself to all kinds of public humiliation Dave! so where is your measurement.
ubblol wink

:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!! ubblol ubbtickled

Homer rocks!!!! ubblol ubbrollsmile


Imaginary_GraceBRONZE Member
Member
53 posts
Location: Wales


Posted:
Butterflies taste with their feet eek

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head....


Little Tnewbie
27 posts
Location: Rockhampton


Posted:
gynophobia is the fear of women

scientist have found chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression............... biggrin biggrin biggrin

facial hair is the fastest growing hair on the body

i like bubbles pretty bubbles i like bubbles in the air


BirdGOLD Member
now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom


Posted:
 Written by: GitasGuy


 Written by: Bird


Why am I not surprised that it was you who measured that!? tongue


I like subjecting myself to all kinds of public humiliation Dave! so where is your measurement.
ubblol wink



Scarily, I fit the 9 inch standard! ubblol

My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."


Mr MajestikSILVER Member
coming to a country near you
4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia


Posted:
my computer is sentient.

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley


Firetrampold hand
898 posts
Location: Binstead, Isle of Wight


Posted:
Uhm, has this one been mentioned yet?:
In English, forty is the only number whose constituent letters appear in alphabetical order.

Ask a question and be a fool for a minute...don't ask and be a fool your whole life.


AurinkoBRONZE Member
hello!
1,034 posts
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands


Posted:
you can get dental erosion from eating too much fruit!

a swapped test-playboy, set free by NOn, idolizing the tea fairy; Dragosani spiritual freedom agreement reached 18th Sept 2006


Lunadogmember
62 posts

Posted:
HAVE YOU TRIED USING GUINEAU PIG SEMEN FOR GLUE?

IN THE WORDS OF ONE LEADING EXPERT:

"Guinea pig semen sets like super glue and very quickly too"

https://www.oginet.com/pgurney/penprot.htm


GREETINGS

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