A Saudi Arabian woman can divorce her husband if he does not bring her coffee.
Stay tuned for tomorrow' s fun fact!
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
The word "taxoffame" only generates a single link when you enter it into Google.
Soon, there will be two Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
The largest lake is in fact the capsian sea, which is a misnomer.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Lake Baikal has 20% of the world's fresh, unfrozen water and more natively-evolved species of plants and animals than any other lake on earth.
It's also the oldest (25 M years) and deepest (1,700 M) lake in the world, which is the reason for it's biodiversity.
Dagonee
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
There is enough cement in Hoover Dam to build a 4 lane freeway from California to Maine.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
And there are no bodies buried in it. The deepest wet concrete ever got was about six inches.
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
Some of you might like this. On average, you are no more than 3 feet away from a spider at all times. Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
But if there were bodies in it they would have left cavities after decomposing, which could easily be found up to a certain depth with a . . . well, I forgot what it's called, but I saw it on the Discovery Channel.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
The apricot is a member of the peach family.
Walt Disney was impotent.
Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
I can assume that he is still impotent, though. Satyagraha
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I have no intentions to find out.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:But if there were bodies in it they would have left cavities after decomposing, which could easily be found up to a certain depth with a . . . well, I forgot what it's called, but I saw it on the Discovery Channel.
More like you read it in the latest edition of Nerdular Nerdence.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
Jonbert, you know I'm too busy looking at hot guys in Ambercrumbie and Finch Quarterly. Sheesh.
[ June 27, 2004, 05:13 PM: Message edited by: weezer ]
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Whatever. You hide your Nerdular Nerdence behind your Ambercrumbie & Finch Quarterly just so the other kids don't suspect that you're a nerd.
[ June 27, 2004, 05:17 PM: Message edited by: Jon Boy ]
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
What "other kids?" School's out, git.
[ June 27, 2004, 05:16 PM: Message edited by: weezer ]
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Hoser.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
"Your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries."
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
When tons of ice and snow slid down Huascaran Peak in the Andes Mountains, nearly 4,000 people were killed. Some 30 years later, it is still considered the world's worst avalanche.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
One time I thought about going skiing, but then I remembered I don't have any money.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
"Entomophagy" refers to eating bugs. Something we all have done. Some eat more than others, of course. If you drink fresh homemade cider or ride a motorcycle, you probably eat more than the average person.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
Or always sleep with your mouth open.
[ June 27, 2004, 05:29 PM: Message edited by: weezer ]
Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :
....or practice the John the Baptist diet......
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
what's that?
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Mmm . . . locusts.
*crunch*
Posted by Fishtail (Member # 3900) on :
quote:If you...ride a motorcycle, you probably eat more than the average person.
Only if you don't wear a full-face helmet!
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Fishtail,
I feel it's only polite to point out you have a grasshopper stuck between your teeth. Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
What is locusts, precious?
[ June 27, 2004, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: weezer ]
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I'll give you a hint: they're crunchable.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
You keep nasty locusts! Give it to us raw and wriggling!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
By raise of hands, who believes that weezer is really Jon's sister, and who thinks he's gone back to talking to himself?
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
No! I really am his kid-sister. He's about 6 1/2 years older than me. Would Jon Boy do this:
supposably Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Gah!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
ACK! Ok, ok, I believe you! STOP!
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I'm happy weezer is on Hatrack, even if it's only because she wants to pick up on all the hot, single, male Jatraqueros.
[ June 27, 2004, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Brinestone ]
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
[ June 27, 2004, 06:42 PM: Message edited by: weezer ]
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Jon, you laugh now, but try going home for the holidays, only to wake up with shaving cream on your face, and peanut butter in your hair.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Wow. Original. And I have a whole six months to get ready for it!
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
Yeah! Raspberry scented shaving cream and chunky peanut butter! Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Cool, weezer,
now you can have Jon Boy explain the "out of context" thread and why you're in it.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
what?
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I'll tell you when you're older.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
pygmies!
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
Elephants are the only animals on this planet that cannot jump. Fancy that.
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
Uh yeah, you know, opposed to ones on other planets.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Let's think about this. What about: clams oysters slugs snails centipedes ants millipedes Bob (the guy with no arms, no legs, swimming) snakes (some can, but can all?) Anemones
Surely, you don't believe that all of these can jump?
[ June 27, 2004, 11:01 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
And not counting animals that have no legs . . .
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Dead possums don't play any more.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
*Has never seen a hippo jump*
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
T_Smith, you added an offer to do something evil to Jonbert, eh? Muh-ha-ha-ha Talk to me.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Oh, please. T's idea of a prank is to rearrange the posters in his own room and then blame it on someone else.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
Or is it? Dun-dun-dun. Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
And wait a minute, Jon. You had to leave and didn't play Scrabble with me because it was "getting late," but here you are chattin' it up on Hatrack.
Posted by Kraid (Member # 6302) on :
quote: Oh, please. T's idea of a prank is to rearrange the posters in his own room and then blame it on someone else.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Female mosquitoes look for hosts to suck blood from after mating.
So that makes us...?
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
Ack! Maybe elephants are the only land mammals that can't possibly jump.
Posted by Jerryst316 (Member # 5054) on :
The Hudson River isnt actually a river but a title estuary because it is deeper than the body of watter it flows into.
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
specifics, shmecifics
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Florida is soon predicted to surpass Idaho in potato production. Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
The world's first Computer Programmer was Ada Lovelace, who was daugther of Lord Byron.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I never even knew Byron HAD a daughter. I read he was rather on the gay side.
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
quote: Even for adults, 4000 mg of Tylenol and 2400 mg of ibuprofen are considered to be daily maxima. If he's a pediatric, it's probably less. And for an adult, a temp of 103 usually warrants a trip to a doctor. For kids you may want to go at 102
Posted by Snarky (Member # 4406) on :
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not a real word.
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Etymology Combination of elements suggesting largeness or length, deliberately forming a word likely to induce the fear it denotes: hippopotomonstro- (irregular blend [influenced by connective -o-, from French, from Latin, from Greek—connective vowel of most nouns and adjectives in combination] of hippopotamus and monstro-, from Latin monstr-, monstrum, monster) + sesquippedalio- (incorrectly formed from sesquipedalian or Latin sesquipedalia, things one and a half feet long) + -phobia, from phobia
[edit] Noun The fear of long words. [edit] Usage "Never say, 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia'. I'm scared of that word; it's too long!" [edit] Quotations 2002 - However, we assume that despite the best endeavours of science, some phobias will always remain. These include paraskavedekatriaphobia, or fear of Friday the 13th. And hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which is fear of long words. - anon, The Scotsman (April 9, 2002) page 13. 2002 - Those who find this column troubling are suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words. Or, more likely, rupophobia - a fear of rubbish. - Chris Lloyd in The Northern Echo (December 14, 2002) page 10 ___
In the book Useless Knowledge, this enormous word was misinterpreted by the authors as two words, causing them to list the fear of long words as the following:
hippopotomonstroses and quippedaliophobia —further distortions of an already very incorrectly formed word (see Etymology above)!
[edit] Synonyms sesquipedalophobia
[ July 01, 2004, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I love long words.
Its hippo's that scare me.
Posted by Snarky (Member # 4406) on :
Yes, I know you can find plenty of "dictionary" entries online that give you a definition and etymology and whatnot, but the fact is that the word hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia was made up as a joke.
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
The is sad but apparantly true.
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival
EDIT: I'm not saddened for the ants just the fact of slavery
[ July 01, 2004, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: Mr.Gumby ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Interesting biological quirk.
-Trevor
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Ants invented the arch as an architectural element several hundred million years before humans did.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
IIRC, the concrete in the Hoover Dam will not be completely hardened for another 40 years.
It keeps getting stronger and stronger.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:Whatever. You hide your Nerdular Nerdence behind your Ambercrumbie & Finch Quarterly just so the other kids don't suspect that you're a nerd.
I love this thread.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
wasn't China's Great Wall that was built and had human corpses in it? Weren't they the workers? I heard a story about a woman whose husband had been working on the wall, but he never returned. The woman was walking on it one day when the bitterness of her tears opened a section of the wall to reveal her husband's remains.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:wasn't China's Great Wall that was built and had human corpses in it? Weren't they the workers? I heard a story about a woman whose husband had been working on the wall, but he never returned. The woman was walking on it one day when the bitterness of her tears opened a section of the wall to reveal her husband's remains.
There are about a half dozen men similarly entombed in Sears Tower.
The way I heard the explanation was that the construction crews were pouring concrete into the core supports (keep in mind that this building is nearly a quarter mile TALL!) and a could guys either lost balance or got knocked over or something. Even if the concrete crew were to stop pouring instantly, the sheer volume of concrete being poured ensured that there would have been no way to have rescued the fallen so they had to just keep on going.
Goody
Posted by Turgan (Member # 6697) on :
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (also known as Black Lung) is a disease that is usually in a coal miners body.
Mosquitos Get Athletes Foot.
Schwarzeneggar is hard to spell if your taking a test.
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