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05/18/2008 04:14:47 PM · #76 |
recently i was learning about how speakers work and although I sorta knew already about sound waves, something just dawned on me. The earth is a completely silent place. What you call noise and sounds, only exist in your head after your brain has translated the pulsations of your ear drum.
Message edited by author 2008-05-18 16:17:56. |
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05/18/2008 04:18:14 PM · #77 |
Originally posted by CarpeLumen:
Originally posted by Trinch:
Originally posted by Jib:
urine is sterile |
Hopefully this won't impact activities of anyone here, but don't count on urine being sterile. I believe there are some kidney diseases that will contaminate urine. Also, if there is a bacterial infection downstream, you can count on the urine picking up some nasties. |
Not to flaunt my wildside, but as said above, urine is only sometimes sterile. I found this out when i mysteriously passed my kidney infection on to my gf....... |
Too much information
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05/18/2008 04:26:52 PM · #78 |
Originally posted by Jedusi:
Cleave is the only word in the English language to have two completely opposite meanings.
a) to bind together.
b) to split apart. |
Um... there are many of those: fast, overlook, weather, sanction, strike, etc. The King James Bible often uses "let" in the sense of "forbid." |
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05/18/2008 04:30:35 PM · #79 |
Originally posted by Mr_Pants:
Isn't the sun the nearest star? |
Yup, and it takes the light of our sun a little over 8 minutes to travel the 93 million miles to earth. At the same rate of speed, it would take 4.22 years to reach the next closest star! |
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05/18/2008 04:46:12 PM · #80 |
the answer to most things you don't know the answer to is ' surface area ' ;}
ok i made that up - but think about it !
Message edited by author 2008-05-18 16:47:39.
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05/18/2008 04:53:12 PM · #81 |
Originally posted by Mr_Pants:
The whale is an insect and lives on bananas. |
THAT, I did not know. lololol |
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05/18/2008 04:54:26 PM · #82 |
In the movie Casablanca Rick never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!"
Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly gay main character on network television on ABC's Soap, which aired from 1977 to 1981.
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Winston Churchill, one of England's greatest politicians, historians and statesmen, was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Aerosmith's Dude Looks Like a Lady was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.
Charles Manson was a scientologist.
Zsa Zsa Gabor wins the list of most married female celebrities with a record 9 husbands. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner tie for second at 8 husbands.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
The first interracial kiss on TV took place November 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner and Lt.Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichol on an episode of Star Trek.
Doris Day, the wholesome actress whose movie career was on a down slide by the late Sixties, was approached to play the role of Mrs. Robinson. She turned the part down because she thought the movie was "trashy."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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05/18/2008 04:54:41 PM · #83 |
Originally posted by photom1946:
Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. |
I was born on a 13th. lol |
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05/18/2008 04:54:55 PM · #84 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Um... there are many of those: fast, overlook, weather, sanction, strike, etc. |
Sanction, yes. But the others?
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05/18/2008 05:01:55 PM · #85 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by scalvert:
Um... there are many of those: fast, overlook, weather, sanction, strike, etc. |
Sanction, yes. But the others? |
fast (moving) vs. fast (firmly rooted)
overlook (pay attention to/supervise) vs. overlook (escape attention)
weather (withstand) vs. weather (erode)
strike (a miss) vs. strike (to hit)
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05/18/2008 05:03:04 PM · #86 |
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia means the fear of long words.
Isn't that ironic :P |
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05/18/2008 05:13:54 PM · #87 |
secretary is the longest word typed entirely with one hand (assuming you are using the correct fingers on the home row keys and not hunt-n-pecking lol)
gullible is not in the english dictionary |
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05/18/2008 05:13:59 PM · #88 |
"Hey baby, wanna wrestle" rarely works as a pick up line.
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05/18/2008 05:20:36 PM · #89 |
Originally posted by vxpra:
"Hey baby, wanna wrestle" rarely works as a pick up line. |
that reminded me...The only difference between sexual harassment and a compliment is whether the person likes you or not. |
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05/18/2008 05:21:02 PM · #90 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
secretary is the longest word typed entirely with one hand (assuming you are using the correct fingers on the home row keys and not hunt-n-pecking lol)
gullible is not in the english dictionary |
Pretty sure when I type secretary I don't reach all the way over with my left hand pointer finger to reach the y... or did I learn incorrectly?
Evan
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05/18/2008 05:21:04 PM · #91 |
Originally posted by photom1946:
The Fujifilm FinePix S5Pro came out after the S3 because #4 is a bad luck number in Japan, NOT #13...now we have gotten too obscure! |
Many multi-storey buildings (particularly apartment blocks) in Japan don't have a fourth floor - elevator buttons will have 1.2.3.5.6., but no 4. (I think the same is true for China).
The reason for this is that one way to say 4 in Japanese is shi (based on the Chinese pronunciation), and this is a homophone for death. |
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05/18/2008 05:25:34 PM · #92 |
Originally posted by StOlafPhotographer:
Originally posted by sabphoto:
secretary is the longest word typed entirely with one hand (assuming you are using the correct fingers on the home row keys and not hunt-n-pecking lol)
gullible is not in the english dictionary |
Pretty sure when I type secretary I don't reach all the way over with my left hand pointer finger to reach the y... or did I learn incorrectly?
Evan |
oh no, then what word is it...crap I thought that was the word...my bad
OH it's Stewardesses. sorry I leave now
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05/18/2008 05:26:26 PM · #93 |
Termites have been known to eat food twice as fast when heavy metal music is playing.
For every person on the earth, there are two hundred million insects.
There are about a million ants per person.
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites. |
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05/18/2008 05:28:13 PM · #94 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Originally posted by StOlafPhotographer:
Originally posted by sabphoto:
secretary is the longest word typed entirely with one hand (assuming you are using the correct fingers on the home row keys and not hunt-n-pecking lol)
gullible is not in the english dictionary |
Pretty sure when I type secretary I don't reach all the way over with my left hand pointer finger to reach the y... or did I learn incorrectly?
Evan |
oh no, then what word is it...crap I thought that was the word...my bad |
Interesting, I alternate using my left and right hands to type 'Y'
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05/18/2008 05:29:18 PM · #95 |
Originally posted by Jac:
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites. |
iiieeeeehieeeeehieeeeeeeee I knew that but reading it again gives me the chills
Brrrrrrr! |
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05/18/2008 05:32:05 PM · #96 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Originally posted by StOlafPhotographer:
Originally posted by sabphoto:
secretary is the longest word typed entirely with one hand (assuming you are using the correct fingers on the home row keys and not hunt-n-pecking lol)
gullible is not in the english dictionary |
Pretty sure when I type secretary I don't reach all the way over with my left hand pointer finger to reach the y... or did I learn incorrectly?
Evan |
oh no, then what word is it...crap I thought that was the word...my bad
OH it's Stewardesses. sorry I leave now |
No worries! :)
evan |
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05/18/2008 05:41:11 PM · #97 |
Oh and I got this one out of my bio book (oh finals how I hat... love you)!
-Provided that a spider is allowed to finish its web, a spider will always build its web perfectly the first time. That is unless it's on drugs...
Evan |
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05/18/2008 05:41:14 PM · #98 |
| A pillow you've slept on for 6 years has 1/10 of it's weight made up of your dead skin cells. |
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05/18/2008 05:42:21 PM · #99 |
Originally posted by tjbel05:
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
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Not so, they have very good memories. |
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05/18/2008 05:49:23 PM · #100 |
Originally posted by Wildcard:
Originally posted by tjbel05:
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
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Not so, they have very good memories. |
Yup, that's another myth Mythbusters busted. They taught some goldfish to swim through some holes to get to food or something. |
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