Is your head filled with useless information that you'll probably NEVER use (except here or if you ever play Jeopardy)?

Purge here.

During the latter 18th century and early 19th, the going rate a hunter could get for a male deer was a dollar. That's where the slang term earning a "buck" came from.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of western civilization,
he replied, "It would be a good idea">

i can name actors/actresses and every movie i have seen them in. tends to annoy people, lol

GOOD START BEECHFARMER,

How fun!

1. A pregnant goldfish is called a "Twit".

2. Many birds and low flying bi-plane pilots in tropical regions can suffer from "Pneumonoultramicroscopicvocanicosilicoconious" , a rare, lond and hard to pronounce lung disorder caused by constant exposure to air-born volcanic ash.

TWIT TWIT HOORAY!!! always wondered where that word came from.

I wonder if birds who fly with bi-planes have self-esteem problems?


The genesis for the movie "ET" came at the end of "Close Encounters of a Third Kind"

As Richard D. was getting on the spaceship, Spielberg was thinking that a young "ET" might have been in wonderment, and he remembered the days he (Spielberg) missed his school bus.

one of my fav sites is http://www.gullible.info

• New evidence suggests that a dog's sense of smell is sensitive to the pheromone produced by humans in a state of fear, giving some credence to the adage that dogs can smell fear.

During the American Westward Expansion, the was a basic template for the construction of a "sod home". It was made with mud, grass, hay, and very often bovine waste.

The rope woven bed was put in one corner with only two "sides" to exit from. If you went the wrong way, you could be faced with (quite literally) a bunch of BS.

That is REALLY "getting up on the the wrong side of bed".

I was also curious of the word "twit" and the following -

Twat: fathead: a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

obscene terms for female genitals

I know most people know this already, but still cracks me up.

Thomas Crappy invented the modern day toilet

(I went to the College of Useless Knowledge)

I wonder how the vegetable was named the cumquat?

What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic?


He was allergic to carrots.

Trash or garbage is a major form of environmental pollutant, with many types taking hundreds of years to properly decompose when thrown away. The truth is shocking, yet it’s something we can all try and do something about. Here are 10 facts about trash to consider, plus some practical tips for ways of reducing your garbage, recycling it and helping the environment.
1. On average, American’s throw away about 3.5 pounds of trash each day.
2. Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, Americans throw up to 25% more trash, amounting to a massive five million tons extra. Of this, about four millions tons is believed to be made up of wrapping paper and shopping bags.
3. One third of all garbage thrown away by Americans is packaging. As lots of packaging takes years to fully decompose, it’s worth making the effort to try and cut down on the amount of packaging and bags you use.
4. Different types of rubbish take varying amounts of time to properly decompose. Top of the offenders are Styrofoam and plastic containers which take one million years to fully decompose. A disposable (spot the irony in the name) diaper takes 550 years and an aluminium can takes between 200-500 years. At the other end of the scale, a wool sock takes one year and a paper bag one month to decompose.
5. Estimates suggest that the average American office worker uses up to 500 disposable coffee cups each year.
6. About 200 million gallons of used motor oil is illegally dumped in the US each year.
7. Unwanted junk mail is frequently thrown away and up to 44% is ditched without even being opened.
8. We use more than 67 million tons of paper each year – which works out as about 580 pounds per person.
9. A large amount of garbage is either incinerated or buried in landfills. About a quarter is currently recycled, but if we were more careful and spent time sorting and separating different types of materials, we could significantly increase our recycling abilities.
10. The time taken for glass to break down isn’t known. However, as we’re still finding pieces of glass made over 3000 years ago, we can only assume it’s a long time.

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Hey Beachie - gimme that pickle

The war on terror has nothing to do with Iraq. This is another historical rewrite. The reality is that the pro-war movement in this country since 9/11 has plainly spoken of dealing with Saddam Hussein as part of the war on terrorism almost from the very beginning. Here's George Bush in a speech given on 9/20/2001:


"Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes visible on TV and covert operations secret even in success.
We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest.

And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.

From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

Iraq certainly was a state that harbored and supported terrorists and the approach Bush discussed, the Bush Doctrine, was adopted and talked about often in relation to Iraq during the lead up to the war. As proof, look to a column called "Answering 50 Frequently Asked Questions About The War On Terrorism" that I wrote back on March 13, 2003:


Why are we going to invade Iraq? Nine days after 9/11, George Bush said,
"(W)e will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

That definition fits Iraq and since they happened to be the easiest nation to make a case against at the UN and in the court of World Opinion, they were our next logical target after Afghanistan -- although they're not our last target."

The war on terrorism cannot be won as long as there are terrorist supporting states out there. So one way or the other, we need to get those rogue regimes out of the business of supporting terrorist groups of international reach. Saddam led one of those regimes and now, happily, he's gone -- perhaps before the US was hit with an Iraqi based terrorist attack:


"I can confirm that after the events of September 11, 2001, and up to the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services and Russian intelligence several times received ... information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the United States and beyond its borders, at U.S. military and civilian locations." -- Russian President Vladimir Putin as quoted by CNN on June 18, 2004
Even John Kerry, the flip-flopping Democratic candidate for President last year, seemed to at least agree that the fate of Iraq was crucial to the war on terror:


"Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that and I disagree with the Governor [Howard Dean]." -- John Kerry, 12/15/03
Kerry even pointed out that he thought Saddam might give WMDs to terrorists:


"I would disagree with John McCain that it�s the actual weapons of mass destruction he may use against us, it�s what he may do in another invasion of Kuwait or in a miscalculation about the Kurds or a miscalculation about Iran or particularly Israel. Those are the things that - that I think present the greatest danger. He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It�s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat." -- John Kerry, "Face The Nation", 9/15/02
Now if even John Kerry of all people is willing to admit that Iraq is "critical to the outcome of the war on terror" and that Saddam was the kind of guy who might use terrorist groups to attack the US, we should be able to at least agree at this point that it's not the least bit disingenuous to suggest that Iraq is an important part of the war on terrorism.

the plastic thingy on the end of shoelaces is called an aglet.

Jax

I KNEW THAT... used it in game of Scrabble.. I was sooo smuggg...


How are you?
Roxanne

i am doing well..you??