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Lady_Macbeth · 14-01-2006 01:43AM

silas wrote:

The one that reads the news on todayfm (I think tully is her surname), her mother used to do the voice of Bosco

So that solves that then. Bosco was FEMALE! :eek:

Font22 · 14-01-2006 01:44AM

despite what many people think the great wall of china is not visible from space

Lady_Macbeth · 14-01-2006 01:48AM

Font22 wrote:

despite what many people think the great wall of china is not visible from space

/me wanders off to cancel trip to space...................

RoundyMooney · 14-01-2006 01:49AM

Font22 wrote:

despite what many people think the great wall of china is not visible from space

ah nuts... I wanted to see that...

Creature · 14-01-2006 01:57AM

So if I acetylate milk will I get milky heroin?

Despite what you may have heard your hair and nails don't contiue to gow after you die. Your skin merely tightens and retracts making the hair and nails look longer.

Scraggs · 14-01-2006 01:59AM

You're more likely to get hepatitis in a dentists chair than a tattoo parlour

nlgbbbblth · 14-01-2006 02:03AM

Dead rats don't lay eggs.

There were soldiers in World War I.

Creature · 14-01-2006 02:07AM

nlgbbbblth wrote:

There were soldiers in World War I.

Thats definitely wrong. Everyone knows it was the space marines vs. goblins in WWI

HashSlinging · 14-01-2006 02:16AM

Someone fell into a VAT of Guinness in James street and died, happened about 50 years ago.

nlgbbbblth · 14-01-2006 02:21AM

HashSlinging wrote:

Someone fell into a VAT of Guinness in James street and died, happened about 50 years ago.

Their family won't have been pleased.

Zebra3 · 14-01-2006 02:51AM

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Their family won't have been pleased.

They were Guinness drinkers then?

slipss · 14-01-2006 05:05PM

Commissar wrote:

I'm pretty sure that wasps and bees have very different stings, one being acidic and the other basic. Toothpaste is basic so will only neutralize the sting of the ... wasp (50/50 shot here). For bee stings you need an acidic substance such as vinegar.

And now that I've gone and declared this to everyone it's probably time to check if I have the slightest clue what I'm talking about.

Edit: "For example, wasp stings are alkaline but bee stings are acidic. So if you get stung you need to put bicarbonate of soda on a bee sting and vinegar on a wasp sting."

Well I was half right.

http://www.york.ac.uk/res/sots/downloads/theacidtest.pdf

shhhhhhhh I nearly had them rubbing toothpaste on themselves

rubadub · 14-01-2006 05:45PM

HashSlinging wrote:

Someone fell into a VAT of Guinness in James street and died, happened about 50 years ago.

An average of 1 french man dies per year falling into wine vats, they are overcome buy the carbon dioxide that the fermenting wine produces and they fall in when they pass out.

Slippers · 14-01-2006 08:19PM

This year spring will start at 11:21pm GMT on the 3rd of February.
link link

monroe wrote:

oh yeah ..

and Mairlyn Monroe did comit suicide sadly..........

I'll fight that one out with anyone

Is that as opposed to murder or as opposed to accidental overdose?

Capt'n Midnight · 14-01-2006 08:30PM

Last year had a leap second.

GLaDOS · 14-01-2006 10:27PM

A male seahorse is the only male creature that gives birth

A cow was once sentanced to two days in prison for eating the lawn outside the couthouse in Wellington New Zealand

an oyster can change sex several times in its life

In 1914 a display was held to mark the completion of the Panama Canal; an invitation was sent officially to an non-existent organisation, the Swiss navy. The invation was later withdrwn by an embarresed US state department

James Scott, Australia, was lost in a blizzard in the Himalayas but survived for 43 days on only two chocolate bars

Saint John was the only member of the twelve apostles to die a natural death

Dogs sweat through their paws and nose

The queen is forbiddan to enter the House of Commons

There is a place in Norway called Hell. There is a town in Swedan called A. Every continant in the world has a city called Rome. There is a village in France called Y

:v: :v: :v:

Capt'n Midnight · 14-01-2006 11:09PM

ScienceNerd wrote:

James Scott, Australia, was lost in a blizzard in the Himalayas but survived for 43 days on only two chocolate bars

Complete tosh http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=530 - it was 42 days

And there is a place on earth that hasn't had signifigant rainfall for at least 2,000,000 years

GLaDOS · 14-01-2006 11:28PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Complete tosh http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=530 - it was 42 days

My Apologies (picky a$$hole)

daiixi · 14-01-2006 11:30PM

MorningStar wrote:

The number of the beast is 612 not 666

I thought the number of the beast was 9????

monkeyfudge · 15-01-2006 12:13AM

daiixi wrote:

I thought the number of the beast was 9????

No, no, no... my ex-girlfriends phone number is 5126-81283482.

gaf1983 · 15-01-2006 01:34AM

Here's a story, I stole it off some other forum, but remember hearing something like it and if it's true it's unbelievable:

Japanese officials are investigating claims that two men living in jungle in the Philippines are Japanese soldiers left behind after World War II.

The pair, in their 80s, were reportedly found on southern Mindanao island.

The men were expected to travel to meet Japanese officials on Friday, but have yet to make contact.

The claim drew comparisons with the 1974 case of Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda)who was found in the Philippines jungle unaware the war had ended.

'Incredible if true'

The two men on Mindanao contacted a Japanese national who was collecting the remains of war dead on Mindanao, according to government sources.

They had equipment which suggested they were former soldiers.

"It is an incredible story if it is true," Japan's consul general in Manila, Akio Egawa, told the AFP news agency.

"They were found, I believe, in the mountains near General Santos on Mindanao Island.

"At this stage we are not saying either way whether or not these two men are in fact former soldiers. We may be in a better position later today," he said.

According to Japanese media reports, the pair had been living with Muslim rebel groups and at least one of them has married a local woman and had a family.

The BBC's Tokyo correspondent says the likelihood is that they are well aware the war is over but have chosen to stay in the Philippines for their own reasons.

Remote jungle

Mindanao has seen more than two decades of Muslim rebellion and many areas are out of central government control.

Japan invaded the Philippines in 1941, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and set up a brutal puppet government.

In the closing months of the war, there was heavy fighting with US troops in the mountainous, heavily forested islands.

The Sankei Shimbun daily said the men would most likely be members of the Panther division, 80% of whom were killed or went missing during the final months of the war.

It speculated there could be as many as 40 Japanese soldiers living in similar conditions in the Philippines.

When Lt Onoda was found on the Philippines island of Lubang in 1974, he initially refused to surrender.

Only when his former commanding officer was flown over from Japan did he agree to leave the jungle.

He later emigrated to Brazil.

Sam Vimes · 15-01-2006 02:17AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

And there is a place on earth that hasn't had signifigant rainfall for at least 2,000,000 years

is that place underground

but seriously where is it? probably antarctica?

btw antarctica is the biggest desert in the world.

monkeyfudge · 15-01-2006 02:19AM

Commander Vimes wrote:

is that place underground but seriously where is it? probably antarctica?

btw antarctica is the biggest desert in the world.

Either Antartica or Galway... It hardly ever rains in Galway.

Sam Vimes · 15-01-2006 02:23AM

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Sam Vimes · 15-01-2006 02:28AM

in the middle ages, priests were allowed marry but they kept having children and passing the family house onto them. of course the church provided the priest with that house so to prevent the church losing money, they invented the idea that priests shouldn't marry

the 747's wingspan is longer than the wright brothers' first flight

apparently about 5 years before the first flight, some big scientist guy published a paper all about how powered flight was impossible. this probably isn't true. i was told it yeeears ago

in one episode of the simpsons (an old one) smithers is black. one of the people animating it didn't know who he was so just decided to make him black. as the comic book guy would say, worst mistake ever. his name is Jeff Albertson btw

twentycentshift · 15-01-2006 02:32AM

quantum mechanics- when observed, light packets (quanta) act differently than when not observed. this may mean that when we see something we actually change it. laboratory experiments may not reflect our world as it really is afterall. just the act of observing changes what we are observing.

now that's trippy......

LovelyHurling · 15-01-2006 02:36AM

Interesting - I always knew my computer was laughing at me....

LovelyHurling · 15-01-2006 02:40AM

The female cat is always impregnated every time she is served by a tom

Cows do not have four stomachs - they have a foretomach and one true stomach

The llama is a ruminant

It is possible to cross a lion and a tiger - the reult is a liger

twentycentshift · 15-01-2006 02:42AM

LovelyHurling wrote:

Interesting - I always knew my computer was laughing at me....

it's laughing WITH you , not at you.......

Sam Vimes · 15-01-2006 11:04AM

twentycentshift wrote:

quantum mechanics- when observed, light packets (quanta) act differently than when not observed. this may mean that when we see something we actually change it. laboratory experiments may not reflect our world as it really is afterall. just the act of observing changes what we are observing.

now that's trippy......

you say they act differently if they're observed but if they didn't observe them the last time, how do they know that what they did this time is different?

i can just picture the little quanta now:

one says to the other "ever get the feeling your being watched?"

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