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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 4, 2014 at 5:22 pm
(September 4, 2014 at 10:48 am)Stimbo Wrote: (September 2, 2014 at 2:32 pm)Diablo Wrote: 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....
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 4, 2014 at 5:25 pm
(September 4, 2014 at 5:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (September 4, 2014 at 10:48 am)Stimbo Wrote: 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....
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"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.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 4, 2014 at 5:25 pm
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Liholiho, successor of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii, possessed an army composed entirely of 114 privates, 27 generals, and a Field Marshal.
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(September 4, 2014 at 5:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (September 4, 2014 at 5:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I feel, with a sense of impending dread, that some Vogon poetry is in the offing....
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"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....
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 5, 2014 at 1:26 pm
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. :=)
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 6, 2014 at 12:19 pm
"Soy sauce" means "I am willow tree" in Spanish
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 6, 2014 at 12:36 pm
(September 3, 2014 at 5:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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).
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 6, 2014 at 2:34 pm
(September 6, 2014 at 12:36 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: 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.
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September 6, 2014 at 3:38 pm
"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.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 7, 2014 at 2:48 am
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(September 5, 2014 at 1:26 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: 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/
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 7, 2014 at 1:12 pm
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.
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