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Malcolm Lowry had pnigophobia—the fear of choking on fish bones.
Augustus Caesar had achluophobia—the fear of sitting in the dark.
Androphobia is a fear of men.
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.
Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.
Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
fizzwheel
02-03-06, 09:02 PM
Scoobsophobia is a fear of being looked at.
:shock: I always thought he liked the attention
valleyboy
02-03-06, 09:15 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol:
I feel sorry for whover has this:
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women
I thought this was normal with married men??
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law
Again, thought most men had this as well:
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
Some bike related facts:
Suzuki started out making looms for the textile industry.
BSA started out making rifles
Jaguar cars started life as Swallow Sidecars.
MV Agusta started out making Aeroplanes, the first MV bike was called the "Vespa" but was later renamed after it was discovered Piaggio made a scooter of the same name.
The word "queuing" is the only word in the English language to have five consecutive vowels.
Erm...u...e...u...i....hmmm, why does the number 4 spring to mind?
:-k :lol:
Euouae has six consecutive vowels and, yes, it is a real word.
Correct spelling of queueing.
Ultrarevolutionaries is a word in which each of the five main vowels occurs twice.
Eunoia, six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.
Caesious, eight letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels in alphabetical order.
More here
http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml
How about 'Flooooozy'?! :lol:
Animal facts from me today :D
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Deer can't eat hay.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Giraffes can't cough.
Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.
As the season is upon us - Oscars from me:
Vito Corleone is the only role to achieve two oscars - Marlon Brando (Best Actor) in The Godfather and Robert De Niro (Best Supporting Actor) in The Godfather Part II.
The only films to win 11 Oscars are Ben Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings; Return of the King - the last being the only film to have won in all the categories for which it was nominated.
The only twins to win Oscars were Julius and Philip Epstien for Casablanca.
The only actor to be nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year was Al Pacino in 1992.
The only person to ever open the Oscar envelope to find their own name inside was Irving Berlin for Best Song (White Christmas, 1942).
Actors whose only Oscars have been awarded for Directing; Robert Redford (Ordinary People), Warren Beatty (Reds), Richard Attenborough (Ghandi), Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves) and Mel Gibson (Braveheart).
Scooby Drew
03-03-06, 12:29 PM
Fanta was originally invented by Max Keith in Germany in 1940 when World War II made it difficult to get the Coca-Cola syrup to Nazi Germany. Fanta was originally made from byproducts of cheese and jam production. The name comes from the German word for imagination (Fantasie or Phantasie), because the inventors thought that imagination was needed to taste oranges from the strange mix.
Can of cheese anyone?
Fanta contains more sugar than Coca Cola...
mysteryjimbo
03-03-06, 01:11 PM
On the subject of oscars
James Dean is the only person to receive 2 posthumous Oscar nominations
Food n Drink today :D
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
The first U.S. consumer product sold in the old Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.
mysteryjimbo
06-03-06, 12:51 PM
For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
They just need to hire my local barmaid!
My ones are:
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Angel Falls is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Are the US aware of this?
.
sharriso74
06-03-06, 03:33 PM
Do you remember the Michael Palin Pole to Pole series when they wouldn't let him on the base at the South Pole.
mysteryjimbo
06-03-06, 03:47 PM
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Are the US aware of this?
.
Possibly not as they believe anything outside the planets atmosphere belongs to them...... :lol:
The term nonce is an acronym, it stands for
Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise
It was written on the doors of sex offenders cells in Victorian prisons to let the warders know not to let them out for exercise with the other inmates to stop them getting beaten up or worse.
Its correct usage in the english language means "for the time being", "the present"
todays fact of the day:-
I couldn't get out of bed this morning.
that is all.
Horse hair brshes are made from Squirrel Fur :D
From the world of medicine
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.....and it takes just 3 pints of stella to **** it all up... :lol:
The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.
A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute.
Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.
philipMac
07-03-06, 04:16 PM
Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.
This is an interesting one. So, what they are measuring of course is the rate that an electrical pulse can propagate down a nerve cell, into a synapse, and have the signal jump over into the next nerve cell via a chemical signal.
Very good. And, these things all happen at measurable rates.
So, this number should be constant from animal to animal.
So, the guys in track running use it to define the quickest possible time an athlete can react to something (ie a gun in this case).
This means that if the athlete runs, after the gun goes off, and before this reaction time has passed, they are done for a false start.
Lovely.
Here is the thing though.
F1 drivers continiously react faster than this "fastest possible reaction time". Or, they have tested certain F1 drivers (M Shumacher for instance), and found that they are reacting to things impossibley quickly. :shock:
So... yeah. I thought that was interesting.
I suppose they are reacting to things before they happen. I suppose, they know that in *this* situation, *this* outcome is probable, and they react pre-emptively... :?:
sharriso74
07-03-06, 04:18 PM
Don't know about pain travelling at that speed banged my shin when I got home from the pub lastnight didn't hurt till this morning that's a good 6 hours
philipMac
07-03-06, 04:25 PM
Don't know about pain travelling at that speed banged my shin when I got home from the pub lastnight didn't hurt till this morning that's a good 6 hours
Above rules re nueral signal transduction dont apply to:
trips home from the local;
bike accidents;
Forgot to mention this. Thanks for pointing out this sharriso.
Nutkins
07-03-06, 05:07 PM
Aristotle died on this day, 322 BC.
I know, my calendar tells me so. (Current 2006, not from 322 BC).
Aristotle died on this day, 322 BC.
I know, my calendar tells me so. (Current 2006, not from 322 BC).
and tomorrow international womens day was celebrated for the first time in 1911... :lol:
Todays chosen subject: Creepy crawlies :shock:
A nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs is called a "nidus".
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4 1/2 mph. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.
Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter.
The film "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut" appears in the Guinness Book of World records, holding the record for most swearing in an animated film, with 399 instances of verbal obscenity (the word f$%k appears 146 times).
The film also contains 199 offensive gestures and 221 acts of violence.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54324
Ah, yes, very good, no, I was not aware of any of those things. But did you know that the albedo of the Earth is 0.39?
Anyone for geography :D
The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
The Nile river flows North.
Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.
There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Jelster
09-03-06, 02:18 PM
Not sure if we've had this one:
It is impossible for a human being to sneeze with their eyes open. the force would push the eyes from the sockets.
Also:
The Earth moves in its 585-million-mile orbit around the Sun approximately eight times faster than a bullet travels
you can put duct tape on a wart overnight to get rid of it faster.
The average American sees or hears 560 advertisements a day.
The hardiest of all the world's insects is the mosquito. It has been found in the coldest regions of northern Canada and Siberia, and can live quite comfortably at the North Pole. It is equally at home in equatorial jungles
You should never eat a polar bear's tongue due to possible vitamin A overdose.
Thomas Crapper is the name of the man who invented the toilet.
All found on the Internet so I cannot guarantee their authenticity
.
Stormspiel
09-03-06, 02:37 PM
Anyone for geography :D
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
Cornwall is the only county to share it's border with 1 other county :roll:
sharriso74
09-03-06, 02:46 PM
The smallest country in the world is the Vatican with an area of 0.2 square miles
Thomas Crapper didn't invent the toilet though he did improve it an popularise it. see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper (Sorry Jelster)
Gross fact:
Human poo is typically 50-75% water.
:oops:
donniej
09-03-06, 03:15 PM
The "monkey wrench" was originally known as the "adjustable spanner wrench" but wasn't widely used as it was a weak design. It was an American plumber who fixed the design.
Apparently he was quite ugly and the revised wrench was named after his nick-name... Monkey :D
When they say to give something the "whole 9 yards" is a refference to a P-51 Mustang which carried 27 feet of ammunition.
Jelster
09-03-06, 03:37 PM
Thomas Crapper didn't invent the toilet though he did improve it an popularise it. see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper (Sorry Jelster)
In my defence:
All found on the Internet so I cannot guarantee their authenticity
.
Musical facts today...im running out now :(
When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, Jimmy Page was left to honor the band's commitments, performing as The New Yardbirds. The group eventually evolved into Led Zeppelin.
The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.
"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
(used to live down the road from him :D )
Filipe M.
10-03-06, 01:35 PM
Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
(used to live down the road from him :D )
Watching Ferraris passing by all day, then? :wink:
Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
(used to live down the road from him :D )
Watching Ferraris passing by all day, then? :wink:and him flying around in his helicopter all day 8) actually met him when i was in the fire brigade, he wanted water pumped into a lake for his daughters wedding night party...had a big lazer show over the water but the lake level was too low so he hired out 3 appliances from the fire brigade so we could top the lake up in this big stately home he hired, and because the decor of the home didnt match his daughters dress he had the whole place redecorated for that 1 night then restored back to it's former glory the day after...allegedlly the wedding cost in the region of £250,000 :shock:
And another fact about the man himself...the house he bought in corsham used to be owned by camilla parker bowles :D
T S Eliot is an anagram of toilets.
Roald Dahl's mum couldn't spell Ronald.
S'true, honest, bloke in the checkout queue told me....
i used to live next door to Joe Royle, former Everton manager :D
philipMac
11-03-06, 07:28 AM
Last year, Tana Umaga (All blacks) introduced a new Haka.
Apparantly he felt the original one, the Ka Mate Haka wasnt agressive looking enough. :shock:
So, he got a new one, with extra added aggression plus plus.
Which is nice. 8)
So, now the deal is, if they just want to beat the other team, they wheel out the usual We are about to beat the sheet out of you Haka.
But, if they are getting a bit worked up. And, want to actually start the match off with a session of reefing off opponants arms and battering them about the place with the soggy end so they can subdue them enough to tear holes in thier throats to pull their tongues through, they use the Haka Plus Plus.
One time Ireland stood and faced the Haka. We got right up in their faces. Apparantly we got some respect for that. Like, they hammered us, as usual. But, none the less respect was earned.
Cloggsy
11-03-06, 08:58 AM
One time Ireland stood and faced the Haka. We got right up in their faces. Apparantly we got some respect for that. Like, they hammered us, as usual. But, none the less respect was earned.
I remember Phil Vickery (I think,) doing that - Awesome to see...
tinpants
11-03-06, 09:47 AM
Certainly was. Vicks and Lawrence Dallaglio both faced up to the All Blacks during the Haka. 8) I seem to remember that little squit Matt Dawson getting involved as well. :shock:
Hmmm. Like they're gonna be worried about him! Collossus of a man that he is. Not. :lol: :roll:
I was in the film "Revolution"
with
Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland,Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright,
Annie Lennox, Dexter Fletcher
Sid Owen & Richard O'Brien....
David Bailey was the photographer @ the film shoot kindly told me to "****ing move out of the shot" didn't know who the scruff bag was until I saw him taking photo's of the stars... that when I got all there autographs...
philipMac
12-03-06, 05:38 AM
We beat Scotland. And Wales. And Italy. But not B%@###dING france.
Inkland will be interesting. 8)
And...
Emm.
The reason they use those black and white stipey clacker board things for movies, is so they have a referance point to line up the audio track with the video track with one and other in the editing room .
3 percent of the population are homohydroarachnaphobic.
there scared of gay water spiders
Rowntree first patented the system for putting the bubbles in "Aero" bars in 1935
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB459582&F=0
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB459583&F=0
Buzz Aldrin's mum's maiden name was Moon.
The first petroleum powered vehicle ever produced was a motorcycle.
It was produced in 1895 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Daimler-1-motorcycle-1.jpg/180px-Daimler-1-motorcycle-1.jpg
philipMac
14-03-06, 03:29 AM
A few days back, some dudes were doing plumbing in Norway... and they attached the local pubs beer pipes onto her water tap by accident.
Next thing she knows... she has beer coming out of all her taps. 8)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_on_fe_st/beer_on_tap
Oh yeah, and Chef is out of South Park...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_en_tv/people_isaac_hayes
Didnt like them ripping on Scientology.
It is a little known fact (and closely guarded secret) that Peter Henry owns a Ducati 749 :wink:
tinpants
15-03-06, 01:01 AM
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: REALLY!!?!!
Cripes! And there was me thinking this was a website for owners of SV's! :shock: :D :wink:
Allegedly there are 33 ranks in the hierarchy of the Freemasons
ranging from "Entered apprentice" to "Soverign Grand Inspector General"
Some intersing ones inbetween are "Royal Arch of Enoch", "Knight of the Eagle & Pelican and Soverign Prince Rose Criox of Heredom" and "Grand Elected Knight Kadosh"
carelesschucca
15-03-06, 11:35 PM
No knights who say NI though, is there...... Actually I bet there is....
Quiff Wichard
16-03-06, 12:00 AM
on the (W)hole women have more hair than men .
:lol:
The term "chatting" originated in the trenches in WW1.
The men in trenches suffered terribly with lice infestations on their bodies and clothes.
The lice would lay eggs in the seams of the mens clothes. These eggs where known as "chats". Washing the clothes did not remove these chats, they needed to be physically squashed to prevent them maturing and producing more lice. This process was known as "chatting", invariably the men would sit in groups talking whilst doing this, hence the term "chatting".
This may also be the origin of the term "chatty" to describe something that is dirty or shabby.
wyrdness
16-03-06, 10:57 AM
The term "chatting" originated in the trenches in WW1.
The men in trenches suffered terribly with lice infestations on their bodies and clothes.
The lice would lay eggs in the seams of the mens clothes. These eggs where known as "chats". Washing the clothes did not remove these chats, they needed to be physically squashed to prevent them maturing and producing more lice. This process was known as "chatting", invariably the men would sit in groups talking whilst doing this, hence the term "chatting".
This may also be the origin of the term "chatty" to describe something that is dirty or shabby.
Bollox. The dictionary says that it's a 16th Century word, derived from 'chatter', which itself can be traced back to c.1225, chateren "to twitter, gossip"
I stand corrected.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story :wink:
******** to you too :D
Shamelessy nicked from the BBC :
A stronger British term for testicles, which rhymes with 'frollocks', is probably worth a guide entry of its own. To talk this word would mean to talk rubbish or to be misinformed, while to say something is 'the dog's...' (often gentrified as 'the mutt's nuts') would suggest it is the best there is. Legend has it that in the 1950s, construction kits like Meccano would be sold in boxes of various sizes. The list of contents which came with the standard size box would be headed 'Box, Standard' (which elided into 'bog standard' when spoken) and the larger box was the 'Box, Deluxe' which was spoonerised to create the phrase 'The Dog's B******s'. This is such a satisfying explanation for two common forms of British English usage that one really wants it to be true.
The word's probable derivation is so non-vulgar as to be quite amusing. Specifically, a bollock is a pulley-block at the head of a topmast, otherwise known as a bullock block. This was used to great effect to prevent the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the ******** from being censored. A refreshing example of the legal system grabbing hold of the wrong reason and using it to do the right thing.
Children tend to hate sprouts (and other green veg for that matter) because as your taste buds develop the ones which detect bitterness form first (to deter the munching of Yew trees and the like) and therefore the slight bitterness of all veg is accentuated. It's most likely that childhood dislikes would now be grown out of if you're an adult. Scientists have aslo proven that the average human requires only 10 tastes of something it initially dislikes for it to become accustomed to it and actually like it.
For example, if you take sugar in coffee and accidentally take a swig without sugar it tastes foul. If you were then to take ten or so sips your taste buds would adjust and stop looking for the sweetness you'd expect and you could enjoy the rest of the cup.
Too often we deny ourselves the pleasure of tasting new foods or revisiting past dislikes based on assumptions and memories whereas in reality we're capable of liking anything that is edible and non-toxic.
the average human requires only 10 tastes of something it initially dislikes for it to become accustomed to it and actually like it.
That is absolutely priceless information. I am going to have a chat to someone about that tonight. :wink: :lol:
Believe me! You'll get used to it! :lol:
the average human requires only 10 tastes of something it initially dislikes for it to become accustomed to it and actually like it.
That is absolutely priceless information. I am going to have a chat to someone about that tonight. :wink: :lol:
Believe me! You'll get used to it! :lol:
glad to be of service
glad to be of cervix
:wink: :lol:
Filipe M.
16-03-06, 03:05 PM
the average human requires only 10 tastes of something it initially dislikes for it to become accustomed to it and actually like it.
That is absolutely priceless information. I am going to have a chat to someone about that tonight. :wink: :lol:
Believe me! You'll get used to it! :lol:
Hmm... but I thought Grinch was already into marmite and chicken bovril! :?
wyrdness
16-03-06, 03:05 PM
I stand corrected.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story :wink:
******** to you too :D
Shamelessy nicked from the BBC :
The word's probable derivation is so non-vulgar as to be quite amusing. Specifically, a bollock is a pulley-block at the head of a topmast, otherwise known as a bullock block. This was used to great effect to prevent the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the ******** from being censored. A refreshing example of the legal system grabbing hold of the wrong reason and using it to do the right thing.
I'd hear that it was from the Old English word beallucas, which meant testicles.
There's a BBC page with some fun information here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/236988.stm
philipMac
16-03-06, 03:21 PM
Too often we deny ourselves the pleasure of tasting new foods or revisiting past dislikes based on assumptions and memories whereas in reality we're capable of liking anything that is edible and non-toxic.
I am as adventurous as the next chap... but, mother of god, you want to see some of the stuff the local Korean place serves up.
Cold Jelly fish, with cod intestines for starters...
Jaysus.
I stand corrected.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story :wink:
******** to you too :D
Shamelessy nicked from the BBC :
The word's probable derivation is so non-vulgar as to be quite amusing. Specifically, a bollock is a pulley-block at the head of a topmast, otherwise known as a bullock block. This was used to great effect to prevent the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the ******** from being censored. A refreshing example of the legal system grabbing hold of the wrong reason and using it to do the right thing.
I'd hear that it was from the Old English word beallucas, which meant testicles.
There's a BBC page with some fun information here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/236988.stm
More ******** here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/********
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Right then, time for some more badly researched crap for wyrdness to shoot me down on :wink:
Non facts today:
Thomas Crapper did not invent the flushing toilet.
The carburettor on the first Harley Davidson motorcycle was not made out of a tomato tin.
Neil Armstrong never uttered the words "Best of luck Mr Gorsky" whilst walking on the moon.
:D
Talking of Neil Armstrong, the pictures of the first man on the moon (taken by one of the astronauts) is allegedly Buzz Aldrin - Buzz was apparently so upset at not being the first on the moon he refused to take any pictures of Armstrong.
"The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is Uncopyrightable" :roll:
greeno76
21-03-06, 04:11 PM
"The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is Uncopyrightable" :roll:
....and dermatoglyphics
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestunrepeat
JG
"The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is Uncopyrightable" :roll:
....and dermatoglyphics
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestunrepeat
JG
Fact of the day!
No-one likes a smartarse. :wink: :lol:
No-one likes a smartarse. :wink: :lol:
and yet people seem to like you.
is that an oxymoron?
greeno76
21-03-06, 05:18 PM
"The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is Uncopyrightable" :roll:
....and dermatoglyphics
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestunrepeat
JG
Fact of the day!
No-one likes a smartarse. :wink: :lol:
Yeah, fairplay. I can't really take the credit either. I just punched it into Google.
JG
philipMac
21-03-06, 05:40 PM
"The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is Uncopyrightable" :roll:
....and dermatoglyphics
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestunrepeat
JG
Fact of the day!
No-one likes a smartarse. :wink: :lol:
Yeah, fairplay. I can't really take the credit either. I just punched it into Google.
JG
No way man :lol:. This is the official smart **** thread.
Carry on, smart as you like JG.
Weights and measures today
1000000000000000000000000 meters = 1 yottameter
1/1000000000000000000000000 metres = 1 yoctometer
3 barleycorns (lengthways) = 1 inch (or 48 hairs breadths)
1 mans load = 5 bushels
1 bengal maund = 120 lbs
1 Levantine Pig = 2'4"
1 Scotch Boll = 1 English sack
No other words in the english language rhyme with....
orange & Silver :D
No other words in the english language rhyme with....
orange & Silver :D
:-k
:-k
:-k
:idea:
Haliborange & Quicksilver?
:takeabow:
philipMac
25-03-06, 09:59 PM
This english lad, Paul Nurse, won the Nobel prize a short while back. He was over giving a talk to us there, nice talk, and I had a bit of a chat with him after, anyway...
It turns out, with his his million dollar Nobel prize money he got, he legged it down to the local bike dealer, decided he was going to go out and treat himself a bit, and he bought himself a shiney new Kawasaki GPZ 500 :shock:
He is well chuffed with it too apparantly. Much better than the 350 Kwak he had before.
Very convoluted way to get your hands on a Kwak though.
DanDare
27-03-06, 12:21 PM
All Polar Bears are left handed!
8) 8)
Jelster
27-03-06, 12:28 PM
All Polar Bears are left handed!
8) 8)
Have they got hands ?
.
DanDare
27-03-06, 01:03 PM
All Polar Bears are left handed!
8) 8)
Have they got hands ?
.
Erm, no I suppose not, but if they did they would be left handed.
Paws for thought!
The NASA 'Space Shuttle' IS actually defined as the orbiter, external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters complete together. And the orbiter is connected to the tank by one bolt only.
GSXR Carlos
27-03-06, 01:37 PM
A metre cubed (m x m x m) of water weights a metric ton*.
*varies slightly with temperature
Scoobs you got that off Scrap Heap Challenge 'scrappy races' didn't you :lol:
A metre cubed (m x m x m) of water weights a metric ton*.
*varies slightly with temperature
Scoobs you got that off Scrap Heap Challenge 'scrappy races' didn't you :lol:
I learned that at school. 1cc of water weighs 1g. :wink:
greeno76
27-03-06, 03:31 PM
A metre cubed (m x m x m) of water weights a metric ton*.
*varies slightly with temperature
Scoobs you got that off Scrap Heap Challenge 'scrappy races' didn't you :lol:
I learned that at school. 1cc of water weighs 1g. :wink:
When I was ~10 I learned that a litre of air weighs 1.2gramms to the tune of "A Spoon Full of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down" and it seems to be stuck in my head ever since - possibly blocking much more useful information from getting in!
JG
_Stretchie_
29-03-06, 02:15 PM
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
:notworthy: quality fact :D
:-k
Can remember the monkey,lion,elephant n i think a parrot....gotta go buy meself a box now to find the rest of the buggers :?
philipMac
29-03-06, 07:51 PM
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
I bought a box of animal crackers there. On the outside, it said, "DO NOT EAT IF SEAL IS BROKEN."
So, I opened the box up, and sure enough...
Now, where's my coat...
Amanda M
30-03-06, 07:50 AM
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
I bought a box of animal crackers there. On the outside, it said, "DO NOT EAT IF SEAL IS BROKEN."
So, I opened the box up, and sure enough...
Now, where's my coat...
:lol: :lol: :lol:
_Stretchie_
30-03-06, 06:48 PM
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
I bought a box of animal crackers there. On the outside, it said, "DO NOT EAT IF SEAL IS BROKEN."
So, I opened the box up, and sure enough...
Now, where's my coat...
There's no http://upload4.postimage.org/100630/Seal.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/100630/photo_hosting.html) in animal crackers.. And there's no F in Kangaroo either (think about it)
_Stretchie_
30-03-06, 06:55 PM
Oh yeah, and for todays offering....
• The original game of "Monopoly" was circular
• It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World
• One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year
• Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe
Oh yeah, and for todays offering....
• The original game of "Monopoly" was circular
• It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World
• One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year
• Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe
Your just looking these up on google now arent you :roll: :wink:
_Stretchie_
30-03-06, 06:58 PM
[quote=_Stretchie_]Your just looking these up on google now arent you :roll: :wink:
:shock:
That's a terrible thing to say
[quote=_Stretchie_]Your just looking these up on google now arent you :roll: :wink:
:shock:
That's a terrible thing to say
you mean it's true :wink:
_Stretchie_
30-03-06, 07:31 PM
Possibly... :oops:
localhost
31-03-06, 04:08 PM
A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot
philipMac
31-03-06, 04:42 PM
A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot
That's brilliant.
Where did you get that from?
localhost
31-03-06, 05:06 PM
A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot
That's brilliant.
Where did you get that from?
Well, as most things that was by word of mouth, but I have heard it from more than one place.
I will check in to it later on and see if i can trace it back to something reliable
Quiff Wichard
01-04-06, 09:57 PM
Archery is known officially as toxopholy ..
where theres a church in the country there will be a pub near it called the "new inn "... cos the church built it for the construction workers of said church... and hence it was a new "inn"..
look wen u drivin around..see a new inn- see a church
The Basket
03-04-06, 12:53 PM
A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot
Eh?During the Battle of Britain, an RAF fighter pilot had a life expectancy of 14 days...
I read a book on the Moon landings and they may be true...
A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot
Eh?During the Battle of Britain, an RAF fighter pilot had a life expectancy of 14 days.....
Have you seen how some of them ride???? :shock: :shock: :shock: Id give them less than 14 days. :twisted:
Though the current thinking by a mate in the know [having done it and now is in the office for the firm] you should expect a serious off every six months. Not necessarily fatal but enough to put you out of action for a fair while.
Ok, etymology is the origin and linguistic development of words. A good site for that is www.dictionary.com, which confirms Wyrdness' derivation of the term ******** btw. :D
Palace is actually derived from the hill in Rome where the wealthier population lived. This was the Palantine, the hill where Romulus was said to have built the first foundations of Rome.
Two months of the year are named after the Caesars. July after Julius, and August after Caesar Augustus. The remaining months are all derived from Roman origins too.
September - December were the seventh - tenth months of the calendar. January, February, March, May and June are named after Roman gods - Janus, Februus, Mars, Maiesta, and Juno. Only April is named from a word - aperire - which means to open.
:)
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