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Copy Clerk  Posts: 108 Joined: 7 May 2008 | |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 67 Joined: 15 Apr 2008 | How about this one: If you eat dinner at an inn in the country of Denmark and you are still hungry after eating your food, you don't have to pay for the meal. It is actually a law. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1259 Joined: 5 Dec 2007 |
Fact, Western Cape Peninsula is the most beautiful place on Tellus. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2016 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
And so swarms in the entire country of Ethiopia and half of Saskatchewan. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2011 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | (Previously Macromedia Shockwave) Adobe Flash player is 12 years old and still the most commonly used media format of its type. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 131 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | It's total myth that you shouldn't go swimming for twenty minutes after eating. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 304 Joined: 23 Mar 2008 | Shiek is a girl. |
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Paperboy Posts: 37 Joined: 15 Dec 2007 | Sherlock Holmes used inductive, not deductive reasoning. |
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PROBATION  Posts: 2456 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | Hitler had two brothers, both of whom vowed not to procreate to let the family line die off with them... User was put on probation for: HowTo: Talk to Girls. (3 days) |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 970 Joined: 8 May 2008 | this is more or less a question, why does the metric system mainly use meters, and not decimeters? The american system (I don't know what its called) mainly uses feet and not yards |
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Paperboy  Posts: 40 Joined: 23 Feb 2008 | Hitler was NOT a vegetarian it is just a myth. |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 723 Joined: 9 Jan 2008 | The saying "Wagwon" usually exclaimed by many 'Rastas' is an abbreviation for "What's going on?" The saying "Bumba Clout" is a saying derived from the Jamaican spoken language. "Bumba", meaning 'vaginal', and "Clout" meaning 'towel.' Basically if you are called this, you are being called a sanitary towel. Enjoy! The average penis size has actually decreased from 6 inches to 5.5 inches due to an increased level of oestrogen in drinking water. Have difficulty sucking it nub! The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.# Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. # Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Hash '#' next to the ones I'm not to sure about. |
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Muckraker Posts: 304 Joined: 23 Mar 2008 |
The metric system is based off of its base units. In the case of distance, this unit is the meter, and is thus more oftenly used than its subunit; the decimeter. I believe the only time this is not the case is with the kilogram, which is the base unit of mass. Oh, and the american system is called the Imperial system. |
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Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 970 Joined: 8 May 2008 |
you repeated about 5 things and some of that stuff (liek the exploding sark) sounds like BS, yes orcas kill sharks but they dont explode. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 |
Quite ironically, chemists use the opposite; the mole is in terms of grams, and the main unit of volume is the dm^3 (more commonly called the 'litre') |
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PROBATION  Posts: 1931 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 | The Universe itself is 3K. -270 degrees C. Pluto is not a planet. The Great Wall of China can't be seen from Outer Space. Ozone smells of lavender and is fatal to humans. User was put on probation for: Why is EPIC the only descriptor that people use nowadays?. (3 days) |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 786 Joined: 22 Aug 2006 |
I don't believe anyone implied otherwise? |
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Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 723 Joined: 9 Jan 2008 |
Sorry, I am very tired. It should be no excuse but twitchy fingers, copy and pasteing, 12:30 in the morning do not go hand in hand. Goes to bed. |
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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 700 Joined: 12 Sep 2007 | American alligators' penis size is thought to be declining due to estrogen mimicking compounds in pesticides, antibiotics, and (curiously) cosmetics. (The next time you think you hate your job, just be glad you're not gainfully employed measuring alligator penises.) |
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Press Junketeer  Posts: 409 Joined: 29 Mar 2008 | The meter is one second (thats the lowest measure, not the time it takes) of rotation of the earth Tom Selleck was supposed to be Indiana Jones Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy never, EVER appeared in Captain Pugwash Dr Seuss used to write propaganda films, specifically SNAFU cartoons |
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Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 970 Joined: 8 May 2008 | Mark Twain was born the night Haileys comet passed through the atmosphere, and died the next time it happened ...and a song by kasabian |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2011 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | The city planet in Star Wars 'Coroscant' is latin for 'Shining', or 'lit up'. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2235 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
Because a meter is small enough that it is easy to judge something in metres |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1379 Joined: 4 Nov 2007 |
I was ready to cry bullshit on the EXACTLY part but I looked it up and you're right. This isn't some cosmic coincidence but more likely because scientists knew the speed of light more accurately than the length of the standard metre, so in 1983 the metre was defined as 1/299,792,458 of a light-second. That's so very bizarre. |
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Press Junketeer  Posts: 364 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
And also Norse mythology - wherein Odin pinned himself with a spear to the World Tree to gain mystical knowledge, aforementioned Tree has a giant squirrel living in it, and a giant wolf will eat the sun at the end of the world. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 12 Joined: 3 Feb 2008 |
That's a misconception, Holmes did use inductive reasoning but he also used abductive reasoning and deductive reasoning, but it's still thought that his primary was deductive reasoning. |
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Muckraker Posts: 233 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 |
They did, however, have the worst names in the history of false names. Along with their friend Master Bates. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 127 Joined: 8 May 2008 | Actually, Janus is a combination of Promeuthus (I think that's how you spell him) and his brorther, whom I can't remember. |
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PROBATION Posts: 2456 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | My favorite thought involving theories: The Manhattan Project scientists feared that the first detonation of a nuclear bomb would ignite ALL of the Hydrogen in the Earth's atmosphere and destroy the world. It was a theory they had... And yet they still pushed the button ANYWAY! User was put on probation for: HowTo: Talk to Girls. (3 days) |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2016 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
Prometheus is the proper spelling, and no it is suspected he could be an amalgamation of Hermes and Athena, but that's just one theory and not very well accepted. Janus has no confirmed true counterpart in ANY ancient religion, which made him unique. Also, I must admit I got my myths crossed, it wasn't Apollo who had unknown but speculated euro origins, I forget who it was but one of them did. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 64 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 |
My favorite part of that is the scientists were actually betting with one another over whether or not the Earth would be destroyed. That stuns me. The first time I heard this story when I was thirteeen, I said "yeah, but how were the people betting money the Earth would be destroyed going to collect if they won?" THOSE were the minds we put in charge of building the most devastating weapon in the history of man. I would be shocked, but considering the rest of human history.... |
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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 659 Joined: 3 Apr 2008 | Hitlers maternal grandmother was a jew goeblles (gahh spelling) was gay a cats urine glows under blacklight Chuck norris lost his virginity at the age 18, he attended a martial arts competition, every woman in a one mile radius was impregnated instantly, they then gave birth to the 1972 miami dophins team, the only undefeated team in the history of the NFL (okay that one was BS) |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2235 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
Don't forget the ship of evil made of Dead mens toenails (I swear I did not make this up) |
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BANNED  Posts: 1695 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 | The earwig has two penises User was banned for: Escapist Election! (First eliminations). (30 days) |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2573 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
Ohh, so that's what those two pointy things are. |
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It is compulsory for boys to have at least 2 hours longbow practice (in England), taught by their local vicar.
It is legal for an Englishman to shoot a Welshman with a longbow, provided the Englishman is in England and the Welshman is on the Welsh side of the border.
If 2 trains aproach each other in Texas, they both must stop and neither may pass until the other one has passed. (This one was attached to the back of another law that someone - I forget who - didn't want passed, in the hope that the bill wouldn't be passed. Unfortunately the back of the other bill wasn't checked before it was passed!)
Throughout the whole of England it is illegal to eat mince pies on the 25th of December.