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Login/Join to ParticipateCarpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
I'm surprised this doesn't exist already. It needs to.
Yesterday I learned the origin of the term "red light district." Apparently it comes from colonial India, where the prostitutes would live a certain area near the British soldiers' camps. So, the British soldiers, in their bright red coats, would frequent these areas.
In plants, instead of breeds, you have cultivars. So granny smith, for example, is one cultivar of apples.
The curve on the end of a ballistic missile or bullet is called an ogive.
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
Eating poison ivy does not make you immune to it.
Pennslyvannia has no known forms of poison oak or poison sumac growing in the forest.
45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star
In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Nylon is a man-made fibre that is made from coal and petroleum.
The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m.
Lighthouse keepers were nicknamed "wickies" because they tended the lamps wick.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Sorry to tell you but..
I know about it because I made [Old link]
Your friendly neighbourhood mad scientist
479 posts
Location: Over the hills and far away, United Kingdom
What a quandary... Which one should I post to?
Oh, this one. D'oh.
The human brain isn't properly equipped to understand how spinning objects move, because they never occur in nature. That's why curve balls are so hard to hit with a bat/save from a goal, depending what sport you prefer...
"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
--Konstantin Stanislavisky
185 posts
Location: Dark side of the moon
Then why isn't it hard to catch a Diabolo??
Mata Ashita!
Time...Line?? Time isn't made of lines! It's made of circles! That's why clocks are ROUND.
Your friendly neighbourhood mad scientist
479 posts
Location: Over the hills and far away, United Kingdom
Speak for yourself. I suck at diabolo.
Gyroscope effect should keep it in the same plane though -- which makes catching diabolos a lot easier than if they were spherical. It's not that you can't teach yourself, it's that you're learning something you were never designed to do.
Which is pretty cool, TBH...
"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
--Konstantin Stanislavisky
Elusive and Bearded
3,597 posts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Written by: Anuebunnie
45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star
ya im not so sure about that one, or it needs to be defined better. Are we talking little children too? then maybe. But there is no way 45% of us american adults dont knwo that.
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
185 posts
Location: Dark side of the moon
Don't want to insult anyone in this...I'm scared that clown picture will eat me, but I think with that poll they proabably just grouped up a random bunch of people and asked them that. Although I hope it wasn't that many out of ten other wise they would of had to split someone in two to get that 5 %
Mata Ashita!
Time...Line?? Time isn't made of lines! It's made of circles! That's why clocks are ROUND.
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
I think that for polls like that the generally exclude children because that would really be unfair.
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...
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas...
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
my father, after eating baked beans, is a mass of gas
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...
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
Rouge needs a dog to blame for the gas when her dad isnt around
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
Your friendly neighbourhood mad scientist
479 posts
Location: Over the hills and far away, United Kingdom
Written by: Doc Lightning
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas...
Technically, it's plasma.
"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
--Konstantin Stanislavisky
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
we need to start a "get rouge a dog" fund
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...
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Written by: Doc Lightning
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas...
The sun is hot, the sun is hot
Elusive and Bearded
3,597 posts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
it's like a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
if you pick you nose your brain WON'T fall out despite what your mother told you
bet you didn't know that
Elusive and Bearded
3,597 posts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
If you pick yer belly button yer stomach WILL rip open.
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
Electro Ponce!
383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom
Written by: AnueBunnie
45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star
30something% or Americans can't name a country beginning with a U, now that's a worry.
random trivia and potential pub tie-breaker winning info here: A golf ball has 336 dimples
What're you looking at?
I assume you're being rhetorical?
What're you callin' me!?
Elusive and Bearded
3,597 posts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Written by: Larry
30something% or Americans can't name a country beginning with a U, now that's a worry.
i can i can
Urgay hehehe
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
143 posts
Location: Broomfield, Colorado
Written by: Larry
30something% or Americans can't name a country beginning with a U, now that's a worry.
I was going to say Uzbekistan!
Taurine...that delicious chemical found in all energy drinks...is derived from bull and oxen bile. Now you know why it's called "Red BULL."
"Watch those explosions in the sky and you'll go blind, but not this time. Will you live in hope or dark desire? What can I say? F*ck love give me fire." ~Cities Of Night by Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok)
Proudly MCRmy
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
does that mean vegetarians shouldn't drink it?
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...
185 posts
Location: Dark side of the moon
Not really, for all you could know it could be Bull WEE. That's okay to drink. Or tears...or hair maybe? There's hundreds of parts of Bull that aren't meat...
Ew. Mata Ashita!
Time...Line?? Time isn't made of lines! It's made of circles! That's why clocks are ROUND.
Elusive and Bearded
3,597 posts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Your friendly neighbourhood mad scientist
479 posts
Location: Over the hills and far away, United Kingdom
Dude. Brilliant.
"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
--Konstantin Stanislavisky
898 posts
Location: Binstead, Isle of Wight
Number one cause of death in Japan is lung cancer.
Number one cause of death in Indonesia: coconuts falling on peoples' heads.
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