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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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 Posted - 11/23/2004 : 14:27:03
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There's only one street in the world which has produced two Nobel Peace Prize winners, in the township of Soweto near Johannesburg.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
2025 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2004 : 13:53:06
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This is really not trivia but I didn't know where else to put it and frankly I don't think any one will give a shite either.
After being forced to listen to the crappy radio stations for middle aged people who have no taste in music, I realised that Mrs. Sarah McLaugclan(spelling?) does a little Yoda impression in her song.. I thought it was amusing.
"...I've messed up. Better, I should know..."
Heh...neat.
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frank black conspiracy
~ Abstract Brain ~
1126 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2005 : 03:35:27
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I heard this yesterday for the very first time, never knew before then...
DeaD RiNGeR - before comas were understood and known of, some people were buried alive when presumed dead.
When graves were dug up for whatever reason, they found the corpses with fingers to the bone and scratches on the coffin.
Some families were pretty freaked by this so buried loved ones tied to a string, attached to a bell above ground. Just in case.
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 01/06/2005 : 12:35:54
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Originally posted by frank black conspiracy
I heard this yesterday for the very first time, never knew before then...
DeaD RiNGeR - before comas were understood and known of, some people were buried alive when presumed dead.
When graves were dug up for whatever reason, they found the corpses with fingers to the bone and scratches on the coffin.
Some families were pretty freaked by this so buried loved ones tied to a string, attached to a bell above ground. Just in case.
This made much more sense to me when I realized you said "comas" rather than "commas". It seemed a bit harsh to use live burial as a punishment for bad grammar.
Trivia: the world's biggest organism is probably a mushroom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3692136.stm |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2005 : 13:24:10
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I thought exactly the same thing upon first read Darwin. Damn speed reading.
"All music if folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."
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frank black conspiracy
~ Abstract Brain ~
1126 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2005 : 13:28:47
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easy mistake'a to make
commas is with two ms, right? coma's one? how confusing. |
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Posted - 01/06/2005 : 19:03:07
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Did you know, you don't actually have to sleep every night no! Sometimes one in two, occasionally one in three, does me no harm not at all. I feel just fine right now.
*sob*
Frank Black ate my hamster |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 12:06:11
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I think you're onto something tre, check it out;
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/28/1038386258850.html?oneclick=true
World's oldest lady attributes longevity to....
"an unusual, if predictable, sleeping pattern.
It began when she was a mere 110, when she had an operation for an injured hip. The recovery was fine, but she began sleeping for an entire day, followed by a day of being awake.
Over the past five years, this has extended to two days solid sleep, and two days wide awake. It is indeed unconventional, but who is going to argue with the oldest person in the world?"
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 12:13:21
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Yeah, I may have shocking bags under my eyes but I'll outlive the lot of you!
Frank Black ate my hamster |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 01/07/2005 : 12:16:14
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
but who is going to argue with the oldest person in the world?"
me
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2005 : 12:19:24
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Originally posted by Tre
Yeah, I may have shocking bags under my eyes but I'll outlive the lot of you!
Frank Black ate my hamster
In another story on her I read she said that and the fact that she never eats white refined sugars. So...
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
2025 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2005 : 12:49:28
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sleep is soooo last week.
No, my dog won't bite you, though she has the right to |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2005 : 22:26:30
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India Pale Ale (IPA), is a distinct style of beer and is characterized as a sparkling pale ale with a high level of alcohol and hops. The creation of India Pale Ale (IPA) during the 1790s was the result of tremendous efforts by British brewers to overcome a difficult problem. During the 1700s beer did not keep well on long ocean voyages, especially into hot climates. These hot environments resulted in the arrival of flat, sour beer.
The East Indies market was a very tempting but difficult one to enter for British brewers. After Britain had established itself in India by the early 1700s, it had a large number of troops and civilians demanding beer. However, the long hot journey proved a difficult one for the dark ales and porters of England. Ships typically left London, cruised south past the equator along the coast of Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and then crossed the Indian Ocean to reach Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras. The temperature fluctuations were huge, and the rough waters of southern Africa resulted in an extremely violent voyage.
Despite these obstacles, however, brewers did try to establish exports to India. Early shipments to India contained bottled porters, the favorite beer in London, which generally arrived flat, musty, and sour. The answer to the great beer problem finally came from a recipe created by George Hodgson at the Bow Brewery in East London. Hodgson began shipping Hodgson's India Ale during the 1790s. India ale was a variation of his pale ale, which Londoners had been drinking since the mid-1750s. Pale ales were so called because they were lighter in color than the popular brown ales and dark porters and stouts.
Before refrigeration and pasteurization, the brewer's only weapons against spoilage were alcohol and hops. Alcohol provided an unfriendly environment for microbes and the hops prevented the growth of the bacteria which cause sourness. Therefore high alcohol content and high hopping rates could protect beer from the souring associated with long storage times. Hodgson took his pale ale recipe, increased the hop content considerably, and raised the alcohol content. The result was a very bitter, alcoholic, and sparkling pale ale that could survive the challenges of travel and shelf life in India. Hodgson's success became legendary.
Thanks in part to Hodgson's recipe, the Indian beer market expanded greatly. In 1750, about 1480 barrels left England for India -- in 1800, 9000 barrels were exported, an increase of about 7500 barrels in annual shipments. The success of IPA was soon copied by the Salt, Allsopp, and Bass breweries who all claim to have been the first to copy Hodgson's style. American brewers also began brewing IPA for the export and home markets. Ballantine's IPA dates back to the early part of the 20th century when IPAs were still strong in both popularity and alcohol content.
The expansion of the Indian beer market caused by Hodgson's IPA ultimately led to the building of Asia's first breweries. In the late 1820s Edward Dyer moved from England to set up the first brewery in India at Kasauli (later incorporated as Dyer Breweries in 1855) in the Himalaya mountains, producing Asia's first beer Lion. Dyer set up more breweries at Solan, Shimla, Murree, Rawalpindi and Mandalay. Another entrepreneur, H G Meakin, moved to India and bought the old Shimla and Solan Breweries from Edward Dyer and added more at Ranikhet, Dalhousie, Chakrata, Darjeeling and Kirkee. In 1935, when Burma was separated from India, the company was restructured with its Indian assets as Dyer Meakin Breweries, a public company on the London Stock Exchange. Following independence in 1949, N.N. Mohan took over management of the company and the name was changed to Mohan Meakin. The company continues to produce beer across India to this day and Lion is still available in northern India. |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 05:52:19
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What's fun about that?
Don't believe the type!
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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
2025 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 06:40:07
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I'm just going to go ahead and assume that everyone already knows what Bohemian Rhapsody is REALLY about. If not, I am prepared to tell you.
If time is my vessel, then learning to love
Might be my way back to sea |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 12:20:16
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Well I can tell you that he wrote whilst getting a blowjob at the piano.
Don't believe the type!
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
1811 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 13:12:35
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| from a man or a woman? |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 13:14:18
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I didn't know he was bisexual? I thought he was homosexual. Well you learn something new every day.
Don't believe the type!
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 13:17:33
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Indeed so thanks for that.
Don't believe the type!
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 18:18:46
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| did you know that in Canada it is illegal to witness and/or photograph a seal being killed, under the "Seal Protection Act" |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 20:35:54
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| In Alaska this past week, I learned that there it is illegal for a bartender to give a free drink (bastards!). |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2005 : 08:54:55
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| did you know that sea lions actually descended from lions? |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 09/26/2005 : 19:19:18
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"piano" in Italian means "slowly"
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 09/27/2005 : 01:12:06
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I thought 'piano' meant 'softly', as in musical terms.
Ooh, he's got an arm off! |
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whoreatthedoor
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
2873 Posts |
Posted - 09/27/2005 : 01:29:05
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Originally posted by Coldheartofstone
I'm just going to go ahead and assume that everyone already knows what Bohemian Rhapsody is REALLY about. If not, I am prepared to tell you.
If time is my vessel, then learning to love
Might be my way back to sea
No. Freddy said he didn't know what it's all about.
PS: You're no longer around here Coldie, so I don't know why I'm asking.
And all the drugs that I don't have the guts to take
To soothe my mind so I'm always sober
Always aching, always heading towards
Mass suicide, occult figurines
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
7442 Posts |
Posted - 09/27/2005 : 01:55:58
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Fun fact that will have kathryn interested: during an hour of swimming at a municipal pool, you will ingest more than a third of a cup of urine.
Denis
"We brush our teeth with tequila." - Guitar Wolf |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/28/2006 : 16:43:18
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The Red Savina Habanero is a strain developed from a mutant red pepper found in a field of orange Habaneros in 1989. It was found and developed by Frank Garcia, one of the 3 founders of GNS spices, which "owns" the Red Savina. The story goes that Frank was plowing under a large field of orange Habaneros rather then sell them at a much cheaper price then that which was negotiated for before planting. In the process of distorting the crop he spotted a plant with red fruit growing in the field. One red fruited plant among all these orange ones was rather odd and got his attention. He stopped the tractor, plucked up the plant and tossed it on the tractor and forgot about it for a while. The seeds from that single plant were grown, and through selective breeding, the Red Savina strain was developed. In 1994, the Red Savina set a world record for heat at 577,000 Scoville units. There have been a few contenders and some who have tried to cheat by adding Capsaicin extract, but to date the Red Savina Habanero is with out a doubt the world's hottest Chile Pepper grown on the plant earth. |
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scruvs
= Cult of Ray =
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2006 : 10:33:06
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An early working title for the book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was "The Emerald City," but it was allegedly changed because there was a rumor that a jewel in the title of a book was bad luck.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2006 : 11:29:01
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during the making of THE WIZARD OF OZ, the entire cast of "munchkins" stayed at the Culver Hotel next to MGM Studios, where they reportedly had wild sex orgies and out of control parties, requiring police intervention.
in the 60's, Charlie Chaplin bet the Culver Hotel (which he then owned) to John Wayne in a poker game, and lost. Hence the name of the downstairs bar "Duke's Hideaway"
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1485 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2006 : 12:07:19
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| The average persons' hair grows 1/2 inch a month. |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2006 : 14:45:02
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The average ice cube can't tell the difference between Diet Dr. Pepper and regular Dr. Pepper.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2006 : 05:41:30
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David Bowie owns the rights to Connect 4.
 I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
Edited by - Cheeseman1000 on 06/19/2006 05:42:20 |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2006 : 05:45:24
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John Malkovich is an avid sewer, has a large button collection and used to do needlepoint.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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