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By raise of hands, who believes that weezer is really Jon's sister, and who thinks he's gone back to talking to himself?
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Ha ha! T_Smith enlists Teen Girl Squad to get revenge on a guy who hasn't done anything to him. That's awesome.
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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.
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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?
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Oh, please. T's idea of a prank is to rearrange the posters in his own room and then blame it on someone else.
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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.
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The Hudson River isnt actually a river but a title estuary because it is deeper than the body of watter it flows into.
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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
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)!
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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.
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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
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Ants invented the arch as an architectural element several hundred million years before humans did.
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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.
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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.
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