Interesting Facts That You Know

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

50 light years is next door. Get a space ship.

Oh for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only fifty light-years away you know.

I'm sorry; if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout.

I feel, with a sense of impending dread, that some Vogon poetry is in the offing....

Boru

[Jackalope]

Oh for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only fifty light-years away you know.

I'm sorry; if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout.

I feel, with a sense of impending dread, that some Vogon poetry is in the offing....

Boru

"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning"
by Grunthos the Flatulent

Putty. Putty. Putty.
Green Putty - Grutty Peen.
Grarmpitutty - Morning!
Pridsummer - Grorning Utty!
Discovery..... Oh.
Putty?..... Armpit?
Armpit..... Putty.
Not even a particularly
Nice shade of green.
As I lick my armpit and shall agree,
That this putty is very well green.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Liholiho, successor of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii, possessed an army composed entirely of 114 privates, 27 generals, and a Field Marshal.

Boru

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I feel, with a sense of impending dread, that some Vogon poetry is in the offing....

Boru

"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning"
by Grunthos the Flatulent

Putty. Putty. Putty.
Green Putty - Grutty Peen.
Grarmpitutty - Morning!
Pridsummer - Grorning Utty!
Discovery..... Oh.
Putty?..... Armpit?
Armpit..... Putty.
Not even a particularly
Nice shade of green.
As I lick my armpit and shall agree,
That this putty is very well green.

You....vicious....bastard....

Boru

[*Deidre*]

Mark Twain was the one who came up with...

''Sing like no one's listening...dance like no one's watching...love like you've never been hurt.''

I was surprised when I discovered that the other day. :=)

[naimless]

"Soy sauce" means "I am willow tree" in Spanish

[downbeatplumb]

There's nothing wrong with hypochondriacs that an expensive operation won't prolong.

(Stole that one - onion milkshake for the first one to source it correctly).

Boru

If hypochondria is a recognized condition, are they right?

[Clueless Morgan]

If hypochondria is a recognized condition, are they right?

As amusing a thought puzzle as that is, I'd have to say no. Hypochondriacs tend toward imagining physical ailments, so while a diagnosis of hypochondria might be a legitimate diagnosis, it's psychological in nature, it's not exactly a physical condition in the way an infection is a physical condition.



Fun fact:

In 1992, the CEOs of Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation, in order to avoid a costly legal battle over the use of a slogan, simply arm-wrestled for whose company would own it.

[Tobie]

"Mad" Jack Churchill, a Captain in the British Army, killed a German soldier in WW2 with a longbow and single-handedly took 42 prisoners using only his sword among other things. This guy was fucking awesome; http://www.badassoftheweek.com/churchill.html.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mark Twain was the one who came up with...

''Sing like no one's listening...dance like no one's watching...love like you've never been hurt.''

I was surprised when I discovered that the other day. :=)

You still haven't discovered it, because it isn't true. The line is part of the lyrics of a song, and dates from the late 1980s.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/02/dance/

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Fenian Brotherhood (Irish rebels in the US) actually launched several attempts to take over Canada in the 19th century, in an effort to force Great Britain out of Ireland.

These raids are not remembered for being stunning successes.

Boru