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I am an ignoramus, I would appreciate it if you could provide me with more knowledge - useful, informative truths about any subject you wish that would make me a wiser, more informed person. Many thanks.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Posh Spice has gone hip-hop.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm afraid i already knew that, but thanks anyway

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z is a jealous little bitch who wouldn't let Sean Paul onstage with his girl at the VMAs.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he was more jealous of her being onstage with the Queer Eye Guys, he wanted a little bit of that action for himself.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Jennifer Grey was the other person in the car with Matthew Broderick during his famous fatal carcrash.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

POSH SPICE IS ON ROC-A-FELLA?!?!?!?! JESUS GOD WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS WORLD COMING TO OMG OMG OMG *HEAD EXPLODES* I DISAVOW YOU JAY-Z!

Anyway, stevem, you might be interested in knowing that NFL big shot man Bill Parcells is referred to as "The Tuna", because apparently he quite resembles Charlie the Tuna.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ummm, e.g. stands for "exempli gratia"?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

If you ate 10,000 packets of Polos a day for a year, you'd become sterile.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally, check out the new Vogue! The ad for RocaWear with Posh is priceless.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevem, d'you know any filthy verses in any of the finno-ugric languages already?
I could post you a couple, dude.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any American artists who are viewed as a bit embarrassing at home but can fool people overseas?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Ellen, editor of "word" magazine (amongst many other things over the years) was in the band "ugly rumours" with tony blair!

(NB do not let pete see this thread)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The woman who plays Allysa Milano's boss on "Charmed" played Billy Crystal's gay character's female lover on "Soap." Katherine Helmond, who was the star of "Soap," also starred in the sitcom "Who's the Boss," which also starred Allysa Milano. So Allysa Milano and her "Charmed" boss WERE ALREADY CONNECTED THROUGH KATHERINE HELMOND FROM WHO'S THE BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

jewelly i think you just broke my brain.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I KNOW SAM, IT'S FUCKIN MIND BOGGLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z is dead to me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

More Jay-Z for me, I guess.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

He'll just blow up your car and then make you listen to Beyonce and Posh Spice, you know.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I know.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Nine people a year are killed by falling vending machines.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Falling vending machines don't kill people. People kill people.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew - the Fun Lovin Criminals?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Nine times a year, I push vending machines over.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

david hasselhoff?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting Facts

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the posh spice thing is made more amazing by the fact that the first single features M.O.P.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

You are allowed time off work for archery practice.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

In the 1996 film Surviving Picasso, starring Anthony Hopkins as the great Modernist genius, the filmmakers were refused the copyright to any Picasso painting by the painter’s estate (since they intended to portray Picasso true to life: as a callous misogynist). Forced to use imitations of all his works in the movie, the film is littered with desperate simulacra of Picassos as even identical copies were prohibited.

― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

There are things in the world called "disco maggots." They're live maggots dyed flourescent colors, used by fisherman as bait.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The fulmar (nordic for "foul gull") is born with the ability to defend itself by projectile-vomiting stomach acid.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The universe is full of holes, in the holes live moles.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Rats can't vomit.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Pigs can't sweat. Their flesh isn't pourous. They roll around in mud & whatnot (aka "rooting") to cool their flesh when they're hot. Thus the phrase "sweating like a pig" is totally preposterous!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Pigs can't sweat. Their flesh isn't pourous. They roll around in mud & whatnot (aka "rooting") to cool their flesh when they're hot. Thus the phrase "sweating like a pig" is based in fallacy!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to get a puppy and call him Dr. Bellini.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the term "rice paddy" is redundant because "paddy" means "field of rice."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Real thugs get down on the floor.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

some gems here, keep em coming - i can literally feel my brain pulsating as it expands

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The platypus is venomous.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing in the Old Testament forbids premarital sex. In the New Testament, only Paul speaks against it, and indirectly.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

is that really true?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad went to high school with Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad(the guy, not the dog owned by the Butthole Surfers).

Mark once got suspended for delivering a speech to his class whilst removing all of his clothing.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Scotland is the only country in the world in which coca cola is not the bigggest selling soft drink.

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

WRONG.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine, RJG? It really is! It's one of those things I thought of when I was a teenager, looked it up, and etc. The "no sex before marriage" thing is a common cultural rule, like "use a napkin" or "please wear pants" -- but there's no real Biblical basis for it.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

that's cool, tep.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

who's wrong you rude person?

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Humans are kosher.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Here is something nobody knows for sure: the reason we sleep.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The platypus is venomous

fuck!!

1642 Civil war breaks out when conflicts between Charles I and Parliament become insurmountable; Milton marries Mary Powell, the daughter of a royalist family, who some weeks later goes home to visit her family and does not return.

1643 In this year, Milton publishes his first tract arguing that divorce on the grounds of incompatability is allowable for Christians and should not be prohibited by civil or ecclesiastical law; he publishes further tracts on this subject in the next 2 years.

1645 Mary Milton returns to her husband.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

irn-bru used to outsell coca-cola for a long time. I believe this is no longer the case.

I wasn't being rude.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as to tremble with palsy and mix up their words. Such behavior gave rise to the familiar expression "mad as a hatter". The disorder, called hatter's shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt. Attacking the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioral symptoms.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i've always heard that the basis for the premarital sex thing being a creative interpretation of "thou shalt not commit adultery", only with "adultery" being anyone you're not married to.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

In Maine, it’s illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after he gives you a traffic ticket.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i've always heard that the basis for the premarital sex thing being a creative interpretation of "thou shalt not commit adultery", only with "adultery" being anyone you're not married to.

Yeah, but that's the modern view of it, the answers given when kids ask "why can't we have sex?" -- there were other bases for it before, it's just that the "religion is contained only in the Bible" thing is a post-Luther view, and the "if it doesn't say you can't, then you can" is pretty much a post-American view.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

people who are allergic to eating shrimp are very likely to be allergic to cockroach dung.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

*tears up newly perfected cockroach-dung/shrimp roll recipie*

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

In Kentucky, it's illegal to...

A) drive with no shoes on (I do this almost every day)
B) go an entire year without bathing (I'd like to be the officer on that call)
C) carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket on a Sunday

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any American artists who are viewed as a bit embarrassing at home but can fool people overseas?

Dandy Warhols were for along time, though FLC do own that one. Damm wheres Kate when you need a FLC joke or two.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The most northerly, westerly, and easterly points in the United States can all be found in Alaska.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's illegal in St. Louis to sit on a curb and drink beer out of a bucket.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn! Cuz you know how much I love drinking beer out of buckets and all.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hell, it's illegal to do that in ann arbor, too.

fuck, i NEED to leave this place.

ok, who knows where it's legal to sit on a curb to drink deer out of bucket?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 September 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

NEW ORLEANS!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 September 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Nova Scotia?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 8 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I love New Orleans.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 8 September 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Douglas Adams co-wrote two episodes of the 1980's cartoon show "Doctor Snuggles".

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The song "Melonella" by the Cocteau Twins is a listing of latin scientific names for various butterflies.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Rats cannot belch.

The first song I knew all of the words to is 'The Gambler.'

Semen is high in protein.

Most heart-attacks occur on Monday mornings.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew there was one thing safe for my low-carb diet. . .

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In Montreal, you can smoke in McDonald's.

― cybele (cybele), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Waffles just pancakes with little squares on 'em.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is one of the best children's books ever.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Goodnight Moon, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Everybody Poops, and Where the Wild Things Are a bit myself, but I get the feeling we're talking 'bout two completely different age demographics here.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Try Click Clack Moo.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

lies cybele lies!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

though smoking in malls was fun while it lasted

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Nickalicious ... you're right, totally different age demographics. But I love all of those that you mentioned.

The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind of another his mother said 'Be Quiet!' and sent him to bed without any supper. And that very night in Max's room a forest grew and grew, until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around. (Scary what resides in the back of the mind.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No silly rabbit, his mother called him "WILD THING" and Max said, "I'll eat you up!" so he was sent to bed without eating anything...

(My mind too... I knew I liked you, Laura!)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

*laughing* Thank you, Aimee. I knew that I was off on that. *HUGS* Grand book, nonetheless. I graduated from that to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Island of the Skog. And as an adult, well, I've bought all of the above for reading when I am having a bad day (in fact, whenever I buy books for friends/relatives kidlets, I buy myself a copy, too).

As far as something not known, goes: Waxed (but unflavored!) dental floss makes a great tool to use for cutting cakes into layers.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't sure if that sounded snotty... I'm so glad you understand me!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

*laughing* Not snotty at all, m'dear. I am sooo with you on this one. So how does Blueberries for Sal open? Or The Giving Tree? (Two other of my favs.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Octopi have eight penii.
Besides humans, dolphins are the only creatures to have recreational sex.
Dreams occur possibly as a byproduct of the brain running a systems diagnostic through its neural pathways, while our sleeping mind projects symbols to interpret these signals.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazing but true! Your left hand does not know what your right hand is doing!!

― Aimless, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

! Truly, I adore you.

"One day, Little Sal went with her mother to Blueberry Hill to pick blueberries. Little Sal brought along her small tin pail and her mother brought her large tin pail to put berries in. "We will take our berries home and can them", said her mother. "Then we will have food for the winter."

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

and "Once there was a tree ... and she loved a little boy..."

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That dream one vaguely disturbs me for some reason.. I dont like the thought my brain is doing a scandisk and degrag every night! :/

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I want to quote Paddington books.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Err.. DEFRAG.

I really can't type :(

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Aimee, some day I am going to show-up on your doorstep and offer to take turns with you reading our favorite childhood books.

(Actually, when I was really sick a while back, my mother would call and read me stories over the phone. Totally twee and absolutely the best medicine.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like you need some degragging trayce

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I am related to Matt Groening.
Monica Bellucci is hotter in Tears of the Sun than in Matrix: Reloaded, when it should've been the other way around.
Aphex Twin lives in a bank and drives a tank.
Gescom are not necessarily Sean Booth and Rob Brown, but in fact a large, nebulous umbrella project.
Mike 'µ-ziq' Paradinas once auctioned off his shorn ponytail on ebay, reaching a final (ultimately bogus) price of over $100. I was one of the bidders.
Thomas Pynchon recently (i.e. (c) 2003) wrote a foreward for a new edition of 1984.
David Lynch blurred out Laura Elena Harring's crotch in the Mulholland Drive DVD to prevent pervertalists from posting screengrabs online.
Liz Fraser is the Voice of God.
Diego Maradona has the Hand of God.
Hellboy likes pancakes.
James Joyce used cocaine.
Simone de Beauvoir privately resented JP Sartre's open affairs despite publicly endorsing open marriages.
I'm going to Taiwan tomorrow.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I like all of those books, the ones I've read, but you're mentalists for not mentioning Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! Or Peter Pan! (The book, particularly, much as I love the movie and was bummed that it seems to be on Disney's vault-list right now; the book has creepiness the movie doesn't even attempt.)

(Then again, this is the thread where I confess that I have never read Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows, which I'll rectify as soon as my Amazon shipment arrives.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, Tep!!! Good books listed, but The Wind in the Willows? How could you not have read this? *sniff* That is so sad. It was my 'lug around everywhere' book for years and years. Still is, sometimes.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I grew up in a very, very small town with a library smaller than my current apartment -- one of those towns where the bookstores are few and far between, and are either mall stores selling the latest bestsellers and perennial high school assignments, or used book stores where people can cycle through their Harlequins and Lone Stars. (I'm not sure towns like this exist anymore; the town I grew up in doesn't.) So the book just wasn't there! I got Alice for Easter, and the library had all the Baum Oz books and a few of the Ruth whatshername ones, and there were family copies of Peter Pan and Pyle's Robin Hood and Robinson Crusoe and Twain and Stevenson, but no Wind, no Willows.

(Saw the movie, of course, back when it used to run nearly every Halloween on the Wonderful World of Disney.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(My lug-around books were Alice, Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, and a collection of Twain short stories that had the Paine-Dunneka text of "The Mysterious Stranger," "The 1,000,000 pound banknote," "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," and a couple of others -- but not "The Celebrated Jumping Frog," ironically, so I didn't read that until I was doing hardcore Twain research in college, and it was the one story everyone else had already hit.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Paperback!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Booksmith, down my way :) It's since been bought out by either B&N or Borders, I forget which.

(I understand peoples' complaints about Barnes and Noble, but when the one in New Hampshire opened ... Christ, a bookstore the size of a grocery store? And all of the books were new? This was the first bookstore in the area to carry Kerouac - which, you know, when I was in high school, was a big deal. Especially since it was his neck of the woods, which meant I saw him as the anti-Robert Frost. Anyway, point being: Barnes and Noble. Holy crap, I can still remember the first time I went inside. Possibly the first time I spent triple digits on books and still had to leave some on the shelves that I wanted.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Only one in two million people has what we call the "evil gene." Walt Disney was one.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Where I lived, there was a big-ish old public library, but you had to get special dispensation from the librarian to get books out of anywhere but the kid's section until you were 14.

Plus, it was dark and sort of spooky in the stacks downstairs. The aforementioned Mr. P sucked ass unless you wanted cliff's notes (I didn't) or VC Andrews (okay, I did, I WAS 13!!)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we needed a separate borrower's card to get books out of the adult section, but I don't think there was anyone in town my mother didn't know through bridge tournaments or the country club, so that wasn't a problem. It was awhile before I realized the adult section had fiction, though, I think :) God knows how many times I read all the Curious George, Dr Seuss, and Oz books.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but smack me with a mackerel, I left out more must-be-mentioned kids' books, despite having talked about them on ILE not long ago: Roald Dahl! The first "big kids' books" I read by myself. I remember getting very excited when my teacher said she was going to read James and the Giant Peach to us, because I'd already read it on my own.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally would've had the crap kicked out of me on a daily basis if I hadn't been twice as tall as everyone and shaving since preschool.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

*fish slap*

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ow.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Baby. You told me to.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

1. People you think you know are not as nice as you imagined them.

2. You may be surprised to find that a person you know only as an evil monster from the stories you heard from another person is actually quite nice and that the person spinning those tales was the real devil.

― Rage Against the Coffee Maker (Rage Against the Coffee Maker), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Were boys supposed to read Ramona Quimby books? I did, but I had two older sisters whose old books I would read. How bout Amelia Bedelia? I used to love those for some reason.
The Little Miss and Mister books own all.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh say can you see, by the donzerly light ..." I so read the Ramona Quimby books. Judy Blume, too, even the ones that didn't have Fudge in them. (Poor Pee-tah, though. I was an older brother; I could relate.)

Little Miss and Mister, man, I was trying to explain those to someone a year or some ago. They had no idea what I was talking about! Kids today, with their MTV video games and their crystal meth.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a worm that infests certain snails and moves to inhabit their antennae. it then grows really big and the poor infected snail becomes maddened with the whole deal, climbs to the top of plant stems and of course gets eaten by a lucky bird, who ingests the worm, poos it out and another snail eats the offal, thus perpetuating the cycle.
whilst the worm is in the snails antennae, it gyrates, so the snail looks like it has psychadelic antennae - all movement and pulsation.

nasty.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a great idea for a thread!

seedless watermelons are triploids

― geeta, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

hedgehogs rarely foul their own nests
there are no golf balls on Mars

― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Woo-Hoo! Thank you, Alfie. You've just made me feel even better about getting a hedgie.

Let's see ... You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

The ability to curl your tongue into a taco shape is genetically determined, as is whether or not your ear lobes dangle.

Banana slugs have genitalia of both sexes, at different ends of their bodies. When they mate, they basically '69' and when when finished the gnaw off the other's penis.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(Regarding "The Celebrated Jumping Frog ..." . I grew-up in Amador County, California, one county north of Calaveras County, where the Jumping Frog Jubilee is held each year. My mother teaches in Calaveras Co. and gets most of the week of the frog jump off from work, as the school district has learned that students just don't show for classes while the party is happening.)

Another fact: There is a controvery with the Frog Jump, regarding what to do with the frogs following the contests. There is a problem with people releasing the non-native frogs into local bodies of water, where they pose a threat to the native animals and ecosystems.

Yet another fact: When washing seabirds to remove oil after an oil spill, you must allow time for the birds to create more of the natural bird-body oil to keep their feathers waterproof, else if you just dump them back in the water they will sink and drown.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it is impossible to eat a sugared donut without licking your lips.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Snorting powdered sugar does not have the same effect as snorting coke, according to my friends who used to do the former to look cool.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Browning's "A Toccata Of Galuppi's", Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Locksley Hall", and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" are all written in trochaic octameter.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It is impossible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Colour Field Expressionist painter Mark Rothko (who was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Russia) was to a strangely perverse extent, a victim of his own success. Struggling to reconcile his stellar reputation with his own view that ill health and old age had finished him as a painter worthy of note, his suicide in 1970 (he imbued a large quantity of the prescription neuroleptic pills and slit his veins above his elbows) was brought on by the chronic depression he suffered from. However this depression was itself hugely antagonised, and even directly caused by, his prolonged exposure to, inhalation and skin absorption of turpentine (a central nervous system depressant as well as a cause of emphysema, from which Rothko also suffered), which he used in large quantities to thin the paint he used in rendering the meditative monochromatic masterpieces that had made him a household name. As he himself said somewhat prophetically of one of his works right before he died: "The dark is always at the top."

― Alex K (Alex K), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides humans, dolphins are the only creatures to have recreational sex.

bonobos!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonobos are polyamorous too, and not only that, but not-strictly-hetero either. The males have what one might call "jousting contests". They're also very caring for their young (ie don't kill their babies when they suspect they were sired by another, like chimpanzees do).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

And how we gonna talk about books-of-our-youth and nobody before me gonna mention Watership Down?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Snails have all the luck!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Watership Down kicked ass -- I always think of the movie first, though, just cause I saw it younger. The sequel isn't as good, except in that "wahooey hooey, it's more Watership Down!" sort of way.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd forgotten about bonobos, whose intercourse is not limited to those sexually mature.
The male porcupine or hedgehog, when courting a female, rears up on hind legs and with his erect penis sticking out, urinating on to the female.
Male camels will taste the urine of a female to see if she is in heat.

Why do I know so many sexual habits of animals? Is it because I'm into beastiality? Why, no! When I was younger I had this wonderful book on animal facts, and it had a whole chapter on sex.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Animal Husbandry: Uses for Your Brain". Wonder if your parents worried about your going blind from eyeballing that chapter so often;>?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh hush. Behold, I do have a non-sex factoid:
Ostriches don't actually hide their heads in the ground, as is the common notion about them. Rather, they sit down, head and neck on the ground between splayed legs so that all that's visible is their feathery, bushy body, so that from a distance behind them, they appear to be shrubs.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, like that's nonsexual.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oedipus didn't want to go to bed with his mum. Like the rest of us, he found the idea abhorrent, but was told by an oracle that it was *going* to happen.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I did omit the fact that ostriches are performing auto-fellatio when predators and/or parents are around.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, that guy who's always calling me a motherfucker is an oracle?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom's middle name is Maisey.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the adjective for "heron-like" is ardeine.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It is possible to watch a live autopsy and still sleep at night.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

In addition to having eight penii, octopi are the most intelligent invertebrates, exhibiting problem solving abilities.

Rats can squeeze through a hole the size of a quarter ($0.25 US), and can gnaw through thick steel.

A camel's hump stores fat, not water. Camels can alter their body temperatures ten degrees from their normal level to decrease the difference b/w body temp and outside temp.

Vultures pee on their legs to cool off.

Certain species of eagles are monogamous. Even if when they part ways during the offseason, when it's time to nest, they will return to the same nesting spot.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(Not trying to be pedantic, just following the thread: in English, it's penises; in Latin, penes. Octopi would actually be octopodes, for that matter, but I think octopi has pretty much become an English plural for it.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what's great about you English? Octopussy! Man, I must've seen that movie... twice!

A muppet's not quite a mop, and it's not quite a puppet, but maaaaaaan, when you put them together...

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a cookie monster valentine pinned up on my bulletin board at work. And it isn't from Spencer.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it from COOKIE MONSTER?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i am prematurely balding.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I said it was a cookie monster valentine...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cserver.mii.instacontent.net/fastclick/cid6054/jballoon.gif

― out of control party animal, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.inger.net/uploaded_images/cookie.jpg

"Me wish you Happy Valentines Day!
Me want to see your tattoos!

Yom-OM-OM-OM *smak* *smak*"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

well they aren't of cookies...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so I know he's not an alien, but can I shag Cookie Monster for science?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

well they aren't of cookies...

boooo!

http://www.alohamonkeytattoo.com/tats/thumb_m_cookie.gif

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I always knew Cookie Monster was a bit of a perv.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, MINE aren't of cookies. An interesting idea, but again.. no.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.interq.or.jp/blue/cookie/images/cb01.jpg

as you can see Cookie Monster is disappointed by this. What should he eat, if not for cookies?

hmm. i think the graphic has a subliminal answer to this, but it's too obscure for me to divine.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

any 6 digit number that goes xyxyxy (like 525252) is divisible by 37

― ejad (daje), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

People actually thought a camel's hump stored water??

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

In Iceland, it is illegal to own a pet dog.

Geoffrey was a man, Bungle was a bear, George was a hippo, Zippy was just a puppet.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Bees and dogs can smell fear.

― Jonathan Lipnicki (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oedipus didn't want to go to bed with his mum. Like the rest of us, he found the idea abhorrent, but was told by an oracle that it was *going* to happen.

Wait, wait, didn't he want to go to bed with the woman who turned out to be his mum, or did he end up marrying the woman and closing his eyes and thinking of England (despite that fact that England wouldn't exist for a few more centuries...)?

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Swindon Town is the only football league club name which does not contain any letters contained in the word MACKEREL.

(pub quiz questions rule for this thread)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Similarly, Hull City is the only football club whose full name you can write down without having any letters you can colour in the bits that you could colour in if you were the kind of person who would colour in the enclosed bits of letters.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Sabre-tooth tigers were most likely scavengers rather than fearsome predators. Their teeth are just too long to be practical for use in an attack.
(How come the majority of these are animal-related?)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Because stevem is renowned for being particularly ignorant about animals.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

People actually thought a camel's hump stored water??

Even if it did (it doesn't; it stores food), were they thinking of pumping the water out, or using a tap?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Aisla, what if you drew a little heart over the i in Hull City? Then you could color it in.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Or colour it in, if that's more your style.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe drawing little hearts above 'i's is frowned upon in Hull.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm trying to come up with a song lyric that could rhyme "Abner Louima" with "Louis Prima".

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul McCartney is the only man to have UK number ones as a solo artist, a duo, a three-piece, a quartet, a five-piece, and a six-piece.

The longest held vocal note in UK chart history was performed by Morton Harkett.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucy Liu's favorite band is Fugazi.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

that CAN'T be true!

(she always seemed more of a Slint diehard)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I read it in In Style today, though of course they aren't exactly considered a reliable news source.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucy Liu's favorite band is Fugazi.

This proves that Fugazi is the greatest band on earth since LL hasn't even heard their music yet!

― shane, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Helmut Kohl and Bill Clinton used to having eating contests.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Underneath all my cool bright red hair dye, I am totally, 100% grey-haired :-(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuel for automobiles can be easily synthesized from hemp.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

No it cant - nothing to see here people, on your way.

― your friendly local oil company rep (trayce), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

as well as being able to squeeze through coin sized holes, rats can go for longer than camels without water.

animals that sleep through the summer to avoid a drought aestivate (cf hibernate).

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

do ants really never sleep?

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

rust ants, that is.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The infamous 14-foot tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde in badboy Brit artist Damien ‘dhharling’ Hirst’s 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' (1991) wears contact lenses.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

My radio at work picks up police radios as they drive past. (never heard anything particularly interesting though!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

it is physically impossible for a pig to see the sky.

also, a child's got more bones than a grown ups got.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn those pesky kids!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a natural law.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Natural Law Party manifesto states: "Natural Law unites - creating a truly united Europe as the first step to a united world."

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

In crashtests, Mercedes Benz uses real people dressed up as dummies.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Onu Endel, onu Endel/
türa nigu kellapendel!

Rita, seljas roosa kleit/
kleidi all kaks sitast reit!

(Stevem, guess you didn't know that. Or the other)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

If you're a freshman or a sophomore in an American university with 50 or more students per instructor, no one reads your papers.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

("in a class with 50 or more students per instructor, at an American university," rather.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If yr a middle school student in an inner-city American school, no one reads your papers.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're an American, you have a shitty education system.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert DeNiro has prostate cancer.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on now Oops, everyone knows that!

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I misread the thread title as "Tell me something I don't want to know"

(nb: no i didn't)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I am drunk right this very minute.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew that.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

steve didn't, fule.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

no but i figured

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

well color me predictable.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm caught up in a twirl.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.irishfoodshoppe.com/images/chocolates/twirl.gif

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh what's that? Tell me something I don't know about it (which would be anything)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bavarian word for "fool" is "Depp".

― Herbstmute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I sometimes think I can relate to Weezer songs.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My boss knocked her two front teeth out two weeks before her Bat Mitzvah.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Sharks don't sleep, and the way their respiratory system & gills work requires them to ALWAYs be moving in able to breath.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

He's behind you!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It's isn't really your fremme neppa venette.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Fish cough.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Roulette is considered by some people to be ‘playing with the devil’ because the numbers on the wheel add up to 666.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal @ 3410 c.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Your stomach has to produce a new mucous lining roughly every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

At one bar pressure, water boils at approximately 121 degrees centigrade.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Rerun is dead.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

:( I knew that.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

You cannot lick your own elbows.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Dale is right. Or at least, I can't.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless you dislocate your shoulder. If you dislocate your shoulder just to lick your elbow, you are officially the coolest person alive.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The last cigarette commercial appeared on US tv on December 31, 1970.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't believe i just tried to lick my own elbow. i nearly dislocated my jaw never mind my shoulder. but if i had a longer tongue it might've worked.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Word is that your own elbows taste like cotton candy.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand, stevem. I somehow actually made my tongue hurt.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I can totally lick my own elbows. I'm slobbering all over them right now. Mmm, delicious.

― Gene Simmons (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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