"I didn't know that..."
I thought that we should start a thread with cool little trivia facts that you pick up along the road of life so that we can all share in the minutiae that will one day win one of us the title of Jeopardy Champion! (ok, maybe not, but you get the point.)
Here's mine:
Over the weekend, I was wallowing in boredom on an airplane and I was forced to read the crappy magazine that US Air puts out. I read a pretty good article on the Happy Birthday song and I found out that AOL owns the rights to it!! (Is there anything they don't own???)
Here's mine:
Over the weekend, I was wallowing in boredom on an airplane and I was forced to read the crappy magazine that US Air puts out. I read a pretty good article on the Happy Birthday song and I found out that AOL owns the rights to it!! (Is there anything they don't own???)
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The shock/blow of hitting the ground startles him into breathing. He's up walking in a matter of minutes, following his mom around.
Saw that on Animal Planet one night and thought "owww...what a way to come into the world...PLOP!"
and you cant re-copyright anything... especially if its public knowlegde...
E PLURIBUS UNIX
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[quote]CD-RW drive (writes CD-R discs at 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at 10x speed, reads CDs at 32x speed)
Source: <a href="http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html"; target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html</a>; <hr></blockquote>
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<strong>Did you know the new iMac can burn CD-Rs at 24x, CD-RWs at 10x, and read CDs at 32x?
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Holy freakin crap! I just bought a 24x firewire CDRW because it was top o the line. I can't believe Apple did that. Woohoo!
Thread related material:
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Damn I wish I was a pig...
<strong>Too bad you can't match that with a 800 MHz G4 and a 60 GB (OR BIGGER!!!!) hard drive. Oh well.
Thread related material:
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Damn I wish I was a pig...</strong><hr></blockquote>
But then how would you satiate your Mac obsession?
And pigs like apples, don't they?? The plot thickens. [to be continued]
<strong>Did you know the new iMac can burn CD-Rs at 24x, CD-RWs at 10x, and read CDs at 32x?
But....wait a minute... I´m already a pig <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
By the summer of 1861 Wilmer McLean had had enough. Two great armies were converging on his farm for what would be the first major battle of the Civil War. Bull Run, or Manassas as the Confederates called it, would rage across the aging Virginian?s farm, a Union shell going so far as to explode in the summer kitchen. Now McLean moved his family from Manassas, far south and west of Richmond and out of harm?s way, he prayed, to a dusty little crossroads called Appomattox Courthouse. And it was there in his living room, three and one half years later that Lee surrendered to Grant. McLean could rightfully say that, "the war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."
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[Edit: I swear I didn't do that...]
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[Mr. Burns-like tenting of the fingers...]Now, if only I were a Freudian [/Mr. Burns-like tenting of the fingers...]
Did you know...
The LEGO company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund, Denmark, in 1916. Today it has over 9,000 employees worldwide. The Danish words Leg and Godt were put together to make "LEGO." Later, it was discovered that in Latin, the term "Lego" means "I put together" or "I assemble."
<strong>Did you know that when baby giraffes are born, their moms don't lay down like other animals and that the little baby falls about 6 feet out of his mother?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have a giraffe one too. I thought of it before I saw yours.
The giraffe is the only mammal that doesn't yawn.
Lions don't yawn when they are tired and going to sleep but before they hunt to wake up.
Yhoohoo! chocolate drink is sterile until opened.