Don't ask me anything...tell me something I never knew

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

I'm experiencing a void of useless facts today..help me please! *sniff*

[JohnKleeb]

1. I John Kleeb have a fear of baloney

[LincolnMcGrath]

3. Do not diss

Oscar Mayer Bologna!

[JohnKleeb]

4. I am not dissing I fear it Lincoln thats all

I wont diss it all because I am afraid of the reprisals the baloney mosnter may attack me.

[LincolnMcGrath]

5. mosnters scare me too

Sorry

[JohnKleeb]

7. Its ok Lincoln be being silly

I actually got a lot of response in my thread. Baloney still scares me but I think if I sleep with my steak he wont hurt me will he?

[LincolnMcGrath]

2. for nsmam

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
(Source: Verified)
(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. Really?

Me and who else?

[LincolnMcGrath]

9. Well, count me too!

[redeye]

42. What?

6.3 billion people in the world. 2 people per sexual intercourse. In other words, 200 million people are having intercourse per day, which means that on average every person is having sex once a month. There's something wrong with our species...

[Wonk]

8. I don't know what I know that you don't know

but if I did then I'd know what I knew that you didn't know and I could knowingly tell you something I know but you didn't know, but I don't know. You know?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. no

[Forkboy]

17. lmao

:)

[SOteric]

11. I can tell you

that the resting rectal temperature of a grizzly bear is 86.3 degrees Fahrenheit.

What I cannot tell you is what kind of an idiot would take the rectal temperature of a grizzly bear.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. But it's nice to know when camping

where one can heat something to 86.3 farenheit. Don't somemores need a bit more fire though? :shrug:

[SOteric]

13. Possibly...

I suggest we contact some of Dubya's cabinet members and have them conduct studies.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Hey George...could you shove this up Cheney's ass and tell me

if the marshmellows melt?

[SOteric]

15. ROTFLMAO

I've got no problem with that.

[JohnKleeb]

16. LMAO

I dont wanna check NSMA I am sure Curious George would.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. Well Cheney would have to take his hand out of George's ass

That's where you shove your hand up to work a puppet's mouth.

[JohnKleeb]

20. Would Cheney wash his shitty hands after that

[Maddy McCall]

19. Did you know that...

if you use a stereo cable and run it from your vcr to your telly, you actually get stereo sound!!!

I did not know this until last weekend. I have had a stereo tv hooked to the vcr and satellite with a mono cable for three years. Last weekend, on a whim, I bought a stereo cable (has three connectors on each end) hooked it up, and got blasted away by the great sound on my telly!

So, if you have a mono cable on your stereo tv, you ARE NOt getting stereo sound.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. I run my tv into an ass kicking set of bose speakers from my receiver

if I turn it up you can hear it at your house :D

here...listen..

[Maddy McCall]

23. LOL!

Well, for the technologically challenged like me, no such hi-fi in my house!

But my drinking and poker buddy has the bose system, and it is fucking awesome! When we watch movies with jets or copters in them, it sounds as if theyare passing right over the trailer.

Yes, I said trailer. This guy works off shore, has a trailer, but has every item of modern convenience and luxury you could ever dream about. LOL!

(Plus he keeps a stocked bar!)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. I judge people by the content of their character, not their home

but is it a double wide? (just being a smart ass :D)

[Maddy McCall]

33. Oh, yeah, it's a huge doublewide...

It's about three years old, and he should have had someone with taste help him pick it out because it has PURPLE carpet. I am NOT kidding...PURPLE carpet!

It has a huge deck outside: I helped him build it a couple of months ago. He's going to get a hot tub soon too. He is the guy I went with on the "Redneck Camping Trip from Hell." Remember that story? He is my best guy buddy--the greatest of the great--and I trust him with my life. Fine character, indeed!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

47. OK as long as you don't trust him with your fashion sense

[midnight armadillo]

63. Bose!?!

(Note: do not take the following rant personally. Slick advertising can take anyone down)

"ass kicking set of bose speakers"? Ha ha ha! Bose is well known in the audio industry for being kings of marketing - they spend more on ads than the entire rest of the hifi industry combined. And they do it to sell cheap-ass sh*t made in China. Paper cones, substandard electronics, terrible sound, all for a premium price.

There's a reason why no one else makes products that look like the Bose stuff - it sucks. A single 3" cone in their 'acoustimass' system is incapable of properly reproducing the highs OR the midrange. It's a matter of physics. Those 901 speakers need massive equalization to attempt to get even a reasonable reproduction of sound. Try turning off that outboard EQ and you'll see. Other manufacturers don't need such tricks (caveat: designs such as dipole cone speakers do need outboard EQ to avoid the 12 dB/octave rolloff that depends on the front baffle size).

There's a reason why Bose does not publish impedance and frequency response curves: they SUCK. THe "Bose Stores" contain a whole lot of hidden electronics (DSPs, EQ, etc) and special acoustic room treatments to make their stuff sound better.

Go to a hifi store and listen to something from a reputable manufacturer, like Paradigm, Energy, B&W, or Magnepan. Bring your overpriced, cheaply made, crappy sounding Bose speakers to compare with you, and be prepared to feel very ripped off when you here what true high fidelity sound reproduction sounds like.

The old saying: "No highs, no lows, must be Bose!"

[BritishHuman]

75. I like to think I'm smart

But I understood none of that.

Is there a more impenetrable phrase in the history of the English Language then designs such as dipole cone speakers do need outboard EQ to avoid the 12 dB/octave rolloff that depends on the front baffle size ?

:-)

[ForrestGump]

84. I understand 'front baffles,' at least

And those dipole cones certainly speak to me.....

I don't even think that hers are silly-cones.

[Forkboy]

22. Useless facts I have!

There are 52 cards in a standard deck and there are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards and 4 seasons in a year. If you add the values of all the cards in a deck (jack=11 queen=12, etc.) you get a total of 365 the same as the number of days in a year.

Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

Pac Man was originally going to be called Puck Man,but Namco saw that vandals might change the P to an F.

Saturn's density is lower than water,so it would float.

:)

[Maddy McCall]

24. I'm a mammal and I can pee backwards

Haven't you ever gone backroading? Sometimes out of necessity you have to pee on a country road, and when you do, you squat and pee backwards. :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: <--especially after those.

So, that useless fact is incorrect! :toast:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

27. Oh lord I am SO stuck in the picture!

[Maddy McCall]

29. LOL!

Well, it's true! :blush:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. K let me see if I got this straight

So the number of days in a year is a mob conspiracy started by Vegas Blackjack dealers
Never stand behind a thirsty cow
They are only trying avoid having their hand slam shut on their head
People might actually still be playing FUCK MAN
and Saturn is in my toilet and still won't go down
:evilgrin:

[Maddy McCall]

30. And never stand behind jchild on a dark country backroad.

LOL!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

31. at least after a few brewskis

[Forkboy]

35. Just dont invite me camping!

:D

[Maddy McCall]

37. Well, when you see me walk off...

with a roll of t-paper...just stay out of my way :-)

[Forkboy]

34. You got it!

:D

[Brother Buzz]

28. Oysters grow on trees in MulegŽ

It's a fact I learned in a book called Long Walk to MulegŽ - A True Story of Adventure and Survival in Baja California by Howard Hale
I bet you didn't know that!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. Hey waitta minute...you're pulling my leg!

how did they climb up there?

[Maddy McCall]

36. oops

oops

[Forkboy]

38. It was a fluke

they did it for the halibut...it only cost them a fin...they had a whale of a time...it was cod's will...if they hadn't they would have eeled over and died...they were looking for a better perch...ok I'll stop :D

[Brother Buzz]

39. Nope, not pulling your leg...

It's common knowledge in mulegŽ that they are not up in the trees but are attached to the exposed roots of the mangrove trees. The big mystery is how this little grove ever got going in the Gulf of Califormia as there are no other mangroves located in the gulf. Hmmmm...

[Maddy McCall]

40. American Indian useful facts:

In Choctaw village life, if a woman was caught having sex with a man besides the one to whom she was wed, the whole village would gather, and she would be tied to a stake, beaten, and then gang raped in front of the whole village before being ostracized.

In Natchez indian society, when a Great Sun (peace chief) or Tattooed Serpeant (war chief) died, parents strangled their children and threw them under the death litter as he passed by, to assure their children a special path in the Upper World.

Now, the good thing: In Iroquois society, before any men went to war, they had to wait until the council of the Beloved Women met and approved of their action. Women held much esteem and power in Iroquois society.

And, finally, did you know that the Iroquois Five Nations' Constitution provided the template for the U.S. Constitution? ONe of the authors of the US Constitution had spent a great deal of time with the 5 nations (which was 6 nations by the time he visited them) and he related info from their constitution to the other American founders as the constitution was being drafted....

So, did you know any of this? :-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

48. I did know that about the Iroquois

I believe the Magna Carta was also ripped from them

[catzies]

67. The Magna Carta was signed in 1215. So I don't think so.

But then again I could be wrong.

[noiretextatique]

41. well...

i was going to reply with some smart-ass comment worthy of NSMA, but i really just want to say that i want to hear your version of "willow weep for me"...again :hi:

[redeye]

43. You can't lick your own elbow...

...Eisenhower originally opposed dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima... A socialist wrote the original Pledge of allegiance... Einstein draft-dodged the Swiss army on the grounds that he had flat feet and varicose veins... Each of NYC's five boroughs has its own county... Flu has a higher fatality rate than SARS... Berkeley refused to admit people from Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, and other SARS-affected areas to its summer term this year... Washington said, "this country is not founded on Christianity"... Milton Friedman calls himself a liberal... Harvard University has a larger research budget than the US Government (I think)...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

49. *contorting elbow while reading post, stretching tongue as far as it goes*

[redeye]

94. Another fact:

Most people who read that try to lick their own elbow *L*.

[GAspnes]

44. I know something you don't know

but then, you knew that already.

[Robb]

45. Syrah and Shiraz are the same grape

...and the words don't rhyme. Shiraz should be pronounced "Shuh RAZZ".

[StaggerLee]

46. Gov. Jennifer Granholm was born in Canada-

Ok, maybe you already knew that but I just wanted to take this oppurtunity to post her pic.
:9

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

50. Shit! She'll never be president!

But then again nor will Sun Myung Moon...life is nothing if not trade-offs

[GOPisEvil]

53. Neither will I, dammit!

Stupid ex-post-facto laws. When I was adopted (by 2 US citizens overseas) I had to become naturalized to be a US Citizen.) But of course, neither of my parents were members of Congress at the time. Now, since a US Congressman adopted a kid and found out that citizenship is not automatic, the law was changed. So future overseas adoptees will be eligible, but I'm not!

It's ok - I don't want the job anyway. :D

[trof]

51. My right little toe and the next one are webbed.

But I'm not sure how you can drop this unknown fact into the conversation.
;-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

52. Your toes quack me up!

;-)

[trof]

54. Can't swim in a straight line.

Just go in counter-clockwise circles.

[blm]

80. Dan Aykroyd has webbed feet.

He shows them off in Mondo Video.

[alfredo]

55. "Stairway to Heaven" borrows heavily on

"O'carolan's Dream"

[DS1]

56. Tabasco Sauce makes great copper and brass cleaner

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

57. Tabasco sauce does NOT MAKE a good aphrodesiac

*nine-and-a-half-weeks-moment*

[GOPisEvil]

58. I can't think of a single erogenous zone that is enhanced by hot peppers!

:scared: :nuke:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

59. Never engage in heavy petting after making salsa

says the voice of experience. :freak:

[BurtWorm]

60. Or after eating frijoles.

:nuke:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

62. Well for sure

no anal action..even half a finger can prove deadly.

[GOPisEvil]

64. OK - I am laughing like a freak now!!!

People walking by my office are giving me strange looks (well, stranger than usual).

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

65. I'll try to be more office friendly in the future

Oh, who the hell am I kidding????

[GOPisEvil]

66. Try having a phone conversation with Midori...

...talk about laugh my ass off...I had to close the damned door! :D

[GOPisEvil]

61. Never rub your eyes or or go to the bathroom after chopping peppers!

The first one I can attest to. The second...I've heard stories (and screams of pain).

I recommend disposable gloves...

[catpower2000]

68. There's this festival in East Harlem...

It's called the Giglio Festival.

Here's the link:

http://www.newsday.com/features/ny-lsfaith0726,0,4818409.story?coll=ny-features-headlines
(Sorry about popups)

I heard about this on NPR about a week ago and it was MY most interesting useless fact of the week. I think you'll enjoy it too!!

Cat :)

[ForrestGump]

69. My hand is 8-1/2 inches long

I'm just glad it's not a foot.

[Paragon]

81. Funny, that's the length from my thumb to my index finger

;-)

[ForrestGump]

83. My goodness. Then you really do have a foot-long

hand. You could wear tabi as gloves, dude!

Not even.....like, Andre the Gaint's totally dead, dude (RIP, Andre)

[5thGenDemocrat]

70. I bring this one up occasionally -- but you may have missed it

In all the runnings of the Indianapolis 500 (since 1911), there has never been a driver in the field named "Smith."
And the first winner, Ray Harroun, was from my hometown -- the Center of the Universe -- Saginaw, Michigan. He's also credited with inventing the rear-view mirror.
John
Fount of useless knowledge.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

73. Now THERE's the kind of useless knowledge I was (dis)interested in!

thanks! :D

[Cheswick2.0]

71. there are no diphthongs in Italian vowels

pity

[ForrestGump]

72. You just HAD to bring thongs into it

Can the yaks be far behind?

[catzies]

74. Don't engage in heavy petting with a yak after making salsa.

n/t

[KamaAina]

76. There is no rhyme for 'orange' in the English language

which probably explains why Angelenos have yet to come up with a suitable nickname for their neighbors to the south :evilgrin:

[BritishHuman]

78. Or "silver"...

Or month.

[BritishHuman]

77. According to the US Army Survival Manual

A dead walrus will yield eight quarts of milk. Eight!

What's worse, if you go back an hour later, it will yield eight more!

The important question is, who discovered this fact?

[blm]

79. The Cleveland Indians used to be the Cleveland Naps...

named after their great player/manager Napoleon Lajoie.

[TXlib]

82. You are made of stardust.

All the chemical elements in your body, except for hydrogen, were produced in the cores of stars billions of years ago, and then dispersed throughout the cosmos in supernovae, or less impressively, as smaller stars blew off their outer atmosphere before becoming white dwarfs.

You are connected to the universe in the most intimate of ways!

[ScreamingMeemie]

85. A scallop has 36 eyes....and they are

blue in color. Got this from the Trivial Pursuit game..

[redeye]

95. blue in color...

...as opposed to blue in size?

[Character Assassin]

86. 2Tek guitar bridges are no longer manufactured.

The world weeps.

[Interrobang]

87. A mesquite tree requires four gallons of water a day.

Creole languages often have simpler grammatical structures than their parent language(s).

The thorn (a letter used in Old English) is the source of that obnoxious spelling 'ye' as in 'ye olde,' because it vaguely looks like a y (especially in early typography, which is the origin of the convention), but is pronounced 'th.' So when you see a 'ye olde,' technically you should pronounce it 'the olde' and not 'yee olde' like everyone else does.

You can get maple syrup from any kind of maple tree's sap (except that sugar maple sap works best), just as you can get opium from any kind of poppy, except for "California poppies," which aren't really poppies.

The plant commonly known as ditchweed was industrial hemp approximately 100 years and more ago.

Arabian horses have one less vertebra than other horse breeds.

Good enough?

[bearfartinthewoods]

88. pepsi works well for deglazing a pan after browning meat for stew.

if you are out of wine...pepsi is fine.

[Darth_Ole]

89. The state sport of Maryland is jousting.

On an average day, the Pentagon uses up 666 rolls of toilet paper.

AND THE MOTHER OF ALL USELESS FACTS:

The average career in the NFL is 3.3 years, the attention span of a goldfish is 3.3 seconds, and American women have an average of 3.3 pregnancies during their lifetime... Strange, huh?

[shugah]

90. did you know that earthworms

eat dirt? and when they have digested it, they "cast out" that dirt around the holes they live in. the "left behinds" are called worm castings. earthworms are very beneficial to gardens, as the dirt eating aerates the soil.

earthworms have 5 pairs of hearts.

earthworms breath by absorbing oxygen thru their moist skin.

earthworms can grow to up to 12 ft in australia.

[RainDog]

91. I just posted asking if a Canadian guy wanted to marry me

bet you didn't know that. :)

[ChemEng]

92. Cholosterol is use in building cell walls......

So you need some cholseterol in your blood to help make new muscles!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

93. Y'all are the kings and queens of useless facts.

Just got in. Late night. Rough day...was ready to go hang myself and then I read this thread with these useless facts and told myself "I can't hang myself! There's so many useless facts left to know."