wierd and wacky facts

[mmmcannibalism]

 

I like that website. This article had me in stitches:

 

 

 

http://www.snopes.com/lost/fraction.asp

 

 

 

The comment from the senator about the Dewey Decimal System and Truman was hilarious. Oh lord.

 

 

 

Reading that hurt my soul.

 

 

 

I sure hope they retracted that legislation

 

 

 

If not I really need to start writing humor about that state

[EdgedThesis]

 

I like that website. This article had me in stitches:

 

 

 

http://www.snopes.com/lost/fraction.asp

 

 

 

The comment from the senator about the Dewey Decimal System and Truman was hilarious. Oh lord.

 

 

 

Oh god:

 

 

"We're sick and tired of hearing about how everything in our culture, from art to entertainment to education, is aimed at the 'lowest common denominator' of society. We're took aggressive action to do something about it yesterday by eliminating that denominator."

 

 

 

Can't... stop.. laughing...

[Riku3220]

Diana Ross's (The woman who sings 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough) 2nd husband died in a rock climbing accident. I guess there was a mountain high enough...

[Lenin64]

Oh god:

 

 

"We're sick and tired of hearing about how everything in our culture, from art to entertainment to education, is aimed at the 'lowest common denominator' of society. We're took aggressive action to do something about it yesterday by eliminating that denominator."

 

 

 

Can't... stop.. laughing...

 

Sounds like something out of The Onion.

[1_man_army]

Diana Ross's (The woman who sings 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough) 2nd husband died in a rock climbing accident. I guess there was a mountain high enough...

 

 

 

Diana Ross also missed the first penalty on 1994 Fifa World Cup. Roberto Baggio missed the last penalty in that tournament but he has a much more stylish haircut than Diana Ross.

 

 

 

Edit - This is the best clip I could find of it (without having the whole opening ceremony).

 

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[Robert_de_Sable]

If you had to give a random person either ecstasy or peanuts, you should give them ecstasy. (No seriously, its safer)

 

 

 

unless his parents find out and they are against drugs and own a shotgun then its not.

 

You are the funniest person alive. Your wit cuts me like the blade of a sword.

[angryjoe]

Roberto Baggio missed the last penalty in that tournament but he has a much more stylish haircut than Diana Ross.

 

...but he is a massive [bleep]

[michel555555]

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

 

 

 

Disproved. :(

 

 

 

great site. although you have to admit that the resemblance between the song and plague are uncanny and we'll never know fo sure if Kate Greenaway wrote the original version or if she wrote it down from another source. and if she did it could have still been based apon the black plague only written after the fact.

[PumpkinPete112]

The play West Side Story was originally written to be Christians vs Jews, not Sharks vs Jets. (Lol some kid told me that while I was at the after party for it cause we just did it for school)

[michel555555]

rudolf the red nosed raindeer was originally a mascot created by a shopping mall

 

 

 

edit:

 

 

 

http://snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

 

 

 

wow coca-cola at one time had cocain in its recipy lol

[AceBeam]

In Canada milk comes in bags.

 

Idiot no.

[i_love_burritos]

2) the childs song ring around the rosey was actually a serious song used to teach children about certain plagues and diseases.

 

 

 

 

 

ring around the rosey,

 

 

 

certain plagues manifest as red patches on the skin with a white circle of flesh around them.

 

 

 

 

 

a pocket full of posies,

 

 

 

the sent of sertain flowers was supposed to keep the effects of these plagues at bay

 

 

 

ashes, ashes,

 

 

 

obviously to warn people to burn the bodies or

 

 

 

we all fall down

 

 

 

 

In the poem its "ATICHOO, ATICHOO, we all fall down" thats onomatopeia for sneezing dontcha' know ?

 

Its not "ashes"

 

 

 

Either way, you are wrong, this myth/ or rather urban anecdote has been floating around for a long time, but only recently been disproved. I'll try to find some information.

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

 

 

The connection between this Rhyme was made by James Leasor in 1961 in his non-fiction book ' The Plague and the Fire. Some people are sceptical of the plague interpretations of this rhyme, many stating that words in the rhyme cannot be found in Middle English. The sceptics must be referring to the later version of the rhyme, possibly with American origins, the English version is "Ring a ring o' rosies" using the Middle English "o" as a shortening of the word "of". The written word " posies" is first mentioned in a poem called 'Prothalamion or A Spousal Verse' by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). We believe that this addresses the views of the sceptics.

 

 

 

 

But folklore scholars regard the theory as baseless for several reasons:

 

 

 

the late appearance of the explanation means that it has no tradition, only the value of its content

 

 

 

the symptoms described do not fit especially well with the Great Plague

 

 

 

the great variety of forms make it unlikely that the modern form is the most ancient one, and the words on which the interpretation are based are not found in many of the earliest records of the rhyme

 

 

 

European and 19th century versions of the rhyme suggest that this 'fall' was not a literal falling down, but a curtsy or other form of bending movement that was common in other dramatic singing games

[eias]

apparently a sneeze is an equivalent eighth of an orgasm.

 

or at least the feeling before the sneeze.

 

I forget where I read that. prolly not true.

 

What about taking a crap on rush hour?bet that feels double the orgasm,at least for me..

[I_am_Geed]

apparently a sneeze is an equivalent eighth of an orgasm.

 

or at least the feeling before the sneeze.

 

I forget where I read that. prolly not true.

 

What about taking a crap on rush hour?bet that feels double the orgasm,at least for me..

 

 

 

lol :lol:

[1_man_army]

Roberto Baggio missed the last penalty in that tournament but he has a much more stylish haircut than Diana Ross.

 

...but he is a massive [bleep]

 

 

 

I don't care what he is like as a person, I admire him because he was a brilliant player.

[kamireborn1]

In Canada milk comes in bags.

 

Idiot no.

 

 

 

Maybe not all of it, but when I was in Canada for two weeks a few summers ago, every milk we got was in bags..

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm, weird facts? Elephants.

 

-Elephants are the only animal with four knees.

 

-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

 

-Elephants can pick up a penny with their trunk, but can also move a tree.

 

 

 

I know a few more, too (:

[deathdrow]

In Canada milk comes in bags.

 

Idiot no.

 

 

 

Maybe not all of it, but when I was in Canada for two weeks a few summers ago, every milk we got was in bags..

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm, weird facts? Elephants.

 

-Elephants are the only animal with four knees.

 

-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

 

-Elephants can pick up a penny with their trunk, but can also move a tree.

 

 

 

I know a few more, too (:

 

Milk is most common in bags. you buy packs of three.

 

You can get them in cartons too, and jugs, but bags are most common.

[Dizzle229]

Wel always joked that my dad must be the book of utterly useless knowledge. When we moved I went through his boxesand what do I find? The Book of Utterly Useless Knowledge :lol: :thumbsup:

[angryjoe]

Roberto Baggio missed the last penalty in that tournament but he has a much more stylish haircut than Diana Ross.

 

...but he is a massive [bleep]

 

 

 

I don't care what he is like as a person, I admire him because he was a brilliant player.

 

Don't actually mind Baggio really, I was confusing him with Roberto Di Matteo when I wrote that. :mrgreen:

[AceBeam]

In Canada milk comes in bags.

 

Idiot no.

 

 

 

Maybe not all of it, but when I was in Canada for two weeks a few summers ago, every milk we got was in bags..

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm, weird facts? Elephants.

 

-Elephants are the only animal with four knees.

 

-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

 

-Elephants can pick up a penny with their trunk, but can also move a tree.

 

 

 

I know a few more, too (:

 

Milk is most common in bags. you buy packs of three.

 

You can get them in cartons too, and jugs, but bags are most common.

 

I'm Canadian. Not once have I seen bagged milk.

[deathdrow]

In Canada milk comes in bags.

 

Idiot no.

 

 

 

Maybe not all of it, but when I was in Canada for two weeks a few summers ago, every milk we got was in bags..

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm, weird facts? Elephants.

 

-Elephants are the only animal with four knees.

 

-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

 

-Elephants can pick up a penny with their trunk, but can also move a tree.

 

 

 

I know a few more, too (:

 

Milk is most common in bags. you buy packs of three.

 

You can get them in cartons too, and jugs, but bags are most common.

 

I'm Canadian. Not once have I seen bagged milk.

 

well. I know they have bagged milk in quebec, ontario, alberta, and nova scotia.

 

And I'm Canadian too.

[killerbeer0]

apparently a sneeze is an equivalent eighth of an orgasm.

 

or at least the feeling before the sneeze.

 

I forget where I read that. prolly not true.

 

 

 

You know... Similar feeling, different location. Sounds pretty absurd though.

[michel555555]

In Canada milk comes in bags.

 

Idiot no.

 

 

 

Maybe not all of it, but when I was in Canada for two weeks a few summers ago, every milk we got was in bags..

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm, weird facts? Elephants.

 

-Elephants are the only animal with four knees.

 

-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

 

-Elephants can pick up a penny with their trunk, but can also move a tree.

 

 

 

I know a few more, too (:

 

Milk is most common in bags. you buy packs of three.

 

You can get them in cartons too, and jugs, but bags are most common.

 

I'm Canadian. Not once have I seen bagged milk.

 

well. I know they have bagged milk in quebec, ontario, alberta, and nova scotia.

 

And I'm Canadian too.

 

 

 

Used to live in alberta never once saw bagged milk.

[deathdrow]

In Canada milk comes in bags.

 

Idiot no.

 

 

 

Maybe not all of it, but when I was in Canada for two weeks a few summers ago, every milk we got was in bags..

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm, weird facts? Elephants.

 

-Elephants are the only animal with four knees.

 

-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

 

-Elephants can pick up a penny with their trunk, but can also move a tree.

 

 

 

I know a few more, too (:

 

Milk is most common in bags. you buy packs of three.

 

You can get them in cartons too, and jugs, but bags are most common.

 

I'm Canadian. Not once have I seen bagged milk.

 

well. I know they have bagged milk in quebec, ontario, alberta, and nova scotia.

 

And I'm Canadian too.

 

 

 

Used to live in alberta never once saw bagged milk.

 

I know they have it.

 

My grandparents live in red deer, and they always have bagged milk.

[michel555555]

lived in edmonton, had friends all over the place, and my dad worked over most of the province and i've only hear of or seen cartons and jugs.