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retalivity

Jesus christ...how did he sleep??
Id have ended it all long before my 90s!!

mzungu

retalivity wrote: »

Jesus christ...how did he sleep??
Id have ended it all long before my 90s!!

By all accounts he lived a good life and he married twice and had eight children. I believe one of his coping mechanisms was to alter his breathing pattern (a technique taught to him by specialists at the Mayo Clinic) between hiccups which managed to suppress some of the noise. Even at that though, it must have been really annoying. There would have still been the constant physical motions of the hiccups to deal with. Not nice.

stesaurus

mzungu wrote: »

The longest bout of hiccups ever recorded was 68 years from 1922 to 1990. George Osborne's hiccups started when he was weighing a hog for slaughter. From his recollection, he bent over to pick up the hog but instead fell down. The doctor told him he burst a blood vessel tin his brain, and in doing so damaged a part of his brain that inhibits the hiccup response.

At the start, he averaged about 40 hiccups per minute, but this gradually tapered off over the decades and he was reduced to 20 hiccups per minute when they eventually ceased in 1990. Somewhat annoyingly, as he aged and became slower at eating, his food had to be blended in order for him to eat properly. This was because he was unable to properly eat his food in-between hiccups.

At a rough estimate, he hiccuped over 430 million times in his life.

He died a year later in 1991 at the ripe old age of 97.

Wow! I've had hiccups last all day and throughout the night and I thought that was bad. My ex-wife nearly murdered me after just that one night. I can't imagine going so long like that, I'd definitely have been pushed down the stairs.

Realt Dearg Sec

mzungu wrote: »

retalivity wrote: »

Jesus christ...how did he sleep??
Id have ended it all long before my 90s!!

By all accounts he lived a good life and he married twice and had eight children. I believe one of his coping mechanisms was to alter his breathing pattern (a technique taught to him by specialists at the Mayo Clinic) between hiccups which managed to suppress some of the noise. Even at that though, it must have been really annoying. There would have still been the constant physical motions of the hiccups to deal with. Not nice.

How did he sleep?

gozunda

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Horse is hippos in latin

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you have that somewhat incorrect. Hippopotamus is greek for river horse.

Philip is lover of horses in Greek ....

Ipso

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

How did he sleep?

Dolly Parton style, on his back.

gozunda

puppieperson1 wrote: »

the amount of imported meat we consume in ireland is huge despite the fact that we produce a lot of meat. imported chicken turkeys pork etc and prawns tiger prawns and fish all from china and chile YUCK

The amount of imported vegetable and fruit produce we consume in Ireland is huge despite the fact we produce lots of vegetables and fruit. Imported apples potatoes lettuce etc and mint and french beans from Kenya blackberries from Peru and garlic from China YUCK.....

764dak

Aye-aye's incisors grow perpetually.

gozunda

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you have that somewhat incorrect. Hippopotamus is greek for river horse.

The Pheasant2

764dak wrote: »

Aye-aye's incisors grow perpetually.

Also the case with all rodents I believe

mzungu

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

How did he sleep?

They subsided during sleep and returned when he awoke.

Professor Moriarty

Your ears and nose continue to grow until the day you die. Or maybe not. Some theories suggest that cartilage continued to grow when bones have stopped. Other theories suggest that cartilage droops as you get older. Either way, human ears and noses get larger as you are.

Realt Dearg Sec

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Your ears and nose continue to grow until the day you die. Or maybe not. Some theories suggest that cartilage continued to grow when bones have stopped. Other theories suggest that cartilage droops as you get older. Either way, human ears and noses get larger as you are.

Reminds me of Billy Connolly, "I'm not sure what God has planned for the latter years of my life but whatever it is it seems to require vast amounts of nose hair."

py2006

Michael Jackson's song, 'Bad', was originally intended to be a duet with Prince.

Allegedly, the opening line of the song put Prince off , "You're butt is mine...".

MikeyTaylor

py2006 wrote: »

Michael Jackson's song, 'Bad', was originally intended to be a duet with Prince.

Allegedly, the opening line of the song put Prince off , "You're butt is mine...".

I knew that it was meant to be a MJ/Prince duet.

While most know that Nothing Compares 2 U was penned by Prince, few are aware that it was released by his short lived funk band, The Family in 1985.

New Home

Prince wrote "Manic Monday", too, which was one of The Bangles' greatest successes.

Scott Tenorman

New Home wrote: »

Prince wrote "Eternal Flame", too, which was one of The Bangles' greatest successes.

Was it not “Manic Monday” he wrote?

New Home

You're absolutely right, apologies.

MikeyTaylor

New Home wrote: »

Prince wrote "Manic Monday", too, which was one of The Bangles' greatest successes.

That explains why it sounds like 1999!

New Home

More like 1986, which, incidentally, was the same year as the Chernobyl and the Challenger disasters. :eek:

harry Bailey esq

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Horse is hippos in latin

I actually knew that one, although the proper term is water horse;)

Duckworth_Luas

py2006 wrote: »

Michael Jackson's song, 'Bad', was originally intended to be a duet with Prince.

Allegedly, the opening line of the song put Prince off doing the duet, "You're butt is mine...".

The eventual video was directed by none other than Martin Scorsese.

Buford T. Justice XIX

https://twitter.com/DiffusePrioR/status/1048184949281632256?s=19
Interesting distribution of famine relief during the famine

The Pheasant2

The Giant anteater has the largest claws of any mammal, as well as the lowest basal body temperature at 32C.

mzungu

It is possible to sneeze with your eyes open.

However, nose and eyes are linked by cranial nerves, so the stimulation from the sneeze travels up one nerve to the brain, then down another nerve to the eyelids, triggering a blink for most people. This blink is most likely to prevent any germs getting into your eyes.

Conchir

A toilet on a ship is referred to as the head. This probably comes from the days when sailors would go up to the bow or 'head' of the ship, to lean out over the rails there and do their business. So going to the toilet was known as 'going to the head'.

Why they went to the bow and not the stern is another matter. Some people think it's because back in those days, the captain's cabin was at the stern, and captains didn't necessarily want sailors' poop falling past them.

And there's no relation to the poop deck!

BaZmO*

The word Bungalow is originally an Indian word meaning a house in the Bengali style.

pleas advice

py2006 wrote: »

Michael Jackson's song, 'Bad', was originally intended to be a duet with Prince.

My head is in a spin
My feet don't touch the ground
Because you're near to me
My head goes round and round
My knees are shakin' baby
My heart it beats like a drum

It feels like
It feels like I'm in love

The 1980 disco hit 'Feels like I'm in Love' by Kelly Marie was originally written for Elvis Presley


It was written by the lead singer of Mungo Jerry, Ray Dorset, of 'In the summertime' fame

"I wrote Feels Like I'm In Love in 1977 with Elvis Presley in mind and even recorded it Elvis-style on my demo. My producer, Barry Murray, was about to send it to Elvis when he got a phone call saying Elvis had died. After that, I kinda put it to bed for a while. Kelly Marie had a few minor hits in France and had been hanging around our office a bit. I thought she had a good voice, so I asked her if she wanted to record the song."

mzungu

The US spied on the USSR during the Cold War using the SR-71 Blackbird.

The Blackbird was capable of speeds reaching 2,200mph (3,540kph) while its futuristic shape and black paint full of radar-absorbing iron made it virtually undetectable.

The SR-71, built by Lockheed, served with the US Air Force from 1964 to 1998. A total of 32 of the reconnaissance aircraft were built while 12 were lost in non-combat accidents. According to military data the plane cost $85,000 per hour to operate.

The cool part is that the Soviets helped build it!

The airplane is 92% titanium inside and out. At the time when they were building the airplane, the US didn't have the ore supplies – an ore called rutile ore to be exact. It's a very sandy soil and it's only found in very few parts of the world. The major supplier of the ore was the USSR. In order to get it without arousing suspicion, the US operated through Third World countries and bogus operations and were able to get the rutile ore shipped to the United States to build the SR-71.

764dak

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Also the case with all rodents I believe

And lagomorphs (rabbits and hares).

Rodents, lagomorphs, tree shrews, colugos, and primates comprise a group of mammals known as euarchontoglires (or supraprimates). This close relationship makes rats and mice suitable for science experiments.