Useless Information Competition
 

Random useless information is great to bring up in conversations...making it I guess, usefull information?.?

for instance...

the Red Hot Chili Peppers couldnt write a song for months because Anthony had writers block so bad, it almost broke up the band.

What useless crap do you know?

Ones forearm and foot are the same length...

My forearm and foot aren't the only things that are the same length...

"stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with only using your left hand (using proper typing technique)

lmao xwesleyx

what's the other...your ass crack? :)

The names of the lions in front of the New York City Public Library are Patience and Fortitude, named by then mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...

More animals die in the desert by drowning then by dehydration. This is because when the annual rains come a lot of animals become gorged on the water pass out and drown. Or they get stuck in the muds and the water level rises above them and they drown.

If you take the population of China and line it up 4 people wide and have them walk by you the line would never end. This is becuase of the birth rate in China. When a person is born at the end of the line when they get to you the would be in their mid 40s or so.

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That's assuming the mummy and daddy Chinese take a break from walking past every now and again
:p


The Great Pyramid at Giza has a perimeter which is equal to the circumference of a circle whose radius is equal to the height of the pyramid. It's af if it were a linear representation of a hemisphere.

"Typewriter" is the longest word using letters only on the top row.

And shouldn't this go in Tilted Nonsense?

30000 people fainted on the live televisation of King Edwards giving up of the thrown in 1936

dreamt is the only english word ending with "mt"

George W Bush owns a timber company

John Kerry pays a lower income tax rate than I do

Dick Cheney has a gay daughter

John Edwards was a trial lawyer

The list goes on and on............................-->

Book rhymes with cook.

This thread has had 15 replies to it.

A golf ball has 336 dimples on it, and a dime has 118 ridges on the side.

The strawberry is the only fruit with it's seeds on the outside

There are three words in the english language that begin with DW -
Dwell, Dwindle, Dwarf

(Guess what West Wing episode I just watched?)

If you divide your height by the heighth of your hips, you'll get 1.6180339887...

If you divide your arm length by the length to your elbow, you'll get 1.6180339887...

If you divide your leg length by length of your knee you'll get 1.6180339887...

A DNA molecule measures 34 by 21 angstoms, divide them and you'll get 1.6180339887...

The amount of times that venus rotates around the sun, divided by the number that earth rotates the sun will equal 1.6180339887...

There are thousands upon thousands of things on earth that one way or another will equal 1.6180339887...

The number 1.6180339887... which continues on infinitly is called "PHI" or "The Divine Ratio". It is closely related to the Fibonacci series of numbers. Which if you divide backwards, will always equal PHI. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13, Etc Etc.


In turn.... PHI ROCKS!

The sacred beverage of the Aryans is known as Soma in India and Haoma in Persia. Current theory is that it is made from the Harmel Shrub, the main psychoactive ingredient of which is harmeline. Here's where it gets weird: On the other side of the planet, in the uplands of Uruguay and Paraguay, the Guarani (they're the ones in <i>The Mission</i> - excellent film, but I digress), have a different favorite pychoactive beverage. It's a drink made from the <i>yag&eacute;</i> vine. It's active ingredient is also Harmeline. They call the drink <i>jauma</i>. That is pronounced: haoma. (From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568360754/qid=1097941706/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-0966060-9954269?v=glance&s=books"><i>Essential Subsatnces</i> by Richard Rudgley</a>.)

Most male mammals have a bone in their penis called the baculum or <i>os penis</i>. Humans do not. This is the genesis (pardon the pun) of the myth that woman was created from man's rib bone.

Beer has been brewed for at least 7000 years, but only in the last 300 has it been flavored with hops on any kind of a regular basis.

Venus rotates 5.3 times for eact turn about the sun, and it does so backwards, so that, assuming one could see the Sun from Venus, it would rise in the west and set in the east 5 or 6 times a year.

Menoman just explained Phi, the third most important mathematical constant (and the neatest to the non matematician), and everyone knows the most important, Pi, which is equal to 3 in Alabama :D, and the ratio of a circle's circmfrence to its diameter everywhere else, 3.14159....

In between is <i>e</i>, which is a number such that the integral from 1 to <i>e</i> of the function 1/x equals 1. It is also the infinite summation of the series 1/x!. 2.718281828459.... It is the base of the natural logarithm, and has broad applications in statistics and engineering.

Just after Phi is <i>i</i> which is called the imaginary number and defined as the square root of -1.

OK, here's the neat thing: <font size="+3"><i>e</i>^<i>i</i>&pi;=-1</font>

I read your other thread on PHI, Menoman. Fascinating stuff, I'd never heard of it before.

Well, with the election coming up, here's a bit of interesting but useless Presidential information.

President of the United States for just one short day.
Quick: Who were the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Presidents of the United States (under our current Constitution)? If you're like the typical American, you probably have no clue.

So here's a refresher for you:

#11 was James K. Polk

#12 was David Rice Atchison

#13 was Zachary Taylor

Hold it! I can hear you screaming all the way over here - David Rice who?

They never taught you about this guy in history class. In fact, they said that Taylor was Prez #12, not #13.

What's going on here?

First, a bit of background:

David Rice Atchison was born on August 11, 1807 in a place named Frogtown, Kentucky. Today it is called Kirklevington (They should have stuck with Frogtown).

At the young age of 36, Atchison was appointed to the United States Senate to replace a Missouri Senator that had just died. He held this office for 12 years, from 1843 to 1855.

Then it happened:

President James Knox Polk was scheduled to step down from office at noon on Sunday, March 4, 1849.

Uh, oh! BIG problem!

It seems that President-elect Zachary Taylor was a religious man and refused to be sworn in on a Sunday. It was the Sabbath. Taylor insisted on waited until the following day.

The big question arose: Who was going to serve as the President during this twenty-four hour period?

Normally, the Vice-President (George M. Dallas at the time) would fill the position, but his term expired along with Polk's. Dallas had actually resigned as President of the Senate on Friday, March 2nd.

Under the law, the Presidency then fell to the President Pro Tem of the Senate. You can guess who that was - David Rice Atchison! Atchison had just been elected for an additional term to this office during the closing hours of the Thirtieth Congress.

As a result, Atchison legally became the President for a twenty-four hour period, even though he was never elected to this office or sworn in.

Now if you were President for a day, what would you do? Declare war on some dinky little nation? Bomb your enemies? Appoint your friends to office? Make some weird executive decision?

Atchison did none of these things. When asked what he did on this day, he commented "I went to bed. There had been two or three busy nights finishing up the work of the Senate, and I slept most of that Sunday."

In other words, this particular day was uneventful in American history. No major executive decisions needed to be made.

Many, including Atchison, have questioned whether or not he was actually President. Technically, Atchison was appointed as President Pro Tem for each session of the Senate. Since the previous session of the Senate had been dismissed, one could claim that Atchison's term had expired (even though he was to continue in this role when the Senate reconvened for the next session).

This leads to a very interesting question: If there was no President, Vice-President, President Pro Tem, a dismissed Senate, and a dismissed House of Representatives - Who in the world was running this country?

Even if one could prove that Atchison wasn't President for the twenty-four hour period between the two Presidents, he definitely had the job for several minutes.

Here's why:

On Inauguration Day the first person to be sworn in was David Rice Atchison as President Pro Tem. So now he was definitely President (congratulations!). Atchison then ended this short stint as President with the swearing-in of the new Vice-President, Millard Fillmore (he would become President in just sixteen months following the natural death of Zachary Taylor). The entire Senate then proceeded to the east portico for the inauguration of the new President.

So ends the reign of one David Rice Atchison as the leader of the United States. We may never truly know for sure if he actually was President for that short period of time, but, let's face it, it makes for a better story to think that he was.

Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.

-Mikey

Oh yeah... and "Weird Al" Yankovic has a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture. He was also his high school's Valedictorian at the age of 16.

-Mikey

A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head, and the only reason it dies it starvation.

A scorpion will sting itself to death if you pour whiskey on it's back.

Has anyone else got a book of these? I was almost compelled to start cheating and upping my post count!! Oops, sorry mods.

Natalie Gulbis is the hottest women's golfer ever. Apologies to Laura Davies.

Ray Harroun invented the rear-view mirror, and used it to win the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911.

Useless Celebrity Facts:

David Allen Grier, the comedian, has down syndrome.

Glenn Danzig sleeps with a teddy bear.

Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaprhodite.

Carbon, a "molecule", has 13 protons, which scientists commonly call "atoms".

Oprah Winfrey was born on a steamboat.

The secretive PEZ company, known for candy production, is owned by Gene Siskel.

Gene Siskel owns a company? I didn't know the dead could own companies.

You can slow a vampire down by giving him something to do, like pick up poppy seeds or unravel a net. (They're quite compulsive.)

The home team must provide the referee with 36 footballs for each National Football League game.

I'm not wearing any pants.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

I can fold a t-shirt, and towels into a perfect six inch square. Useless, i tell you.

And the easiest way to verify that your t-shirt is folded into a perfect 6 inch square, assuming you have no ruler, is with a dollar bill, which is...6 inches.

Did I mention I have three other things that are the same length as a dollar bill?

Horses and rats can't puke.

Aspirin is deadly to cats.

A porkupine (sp?) can take more than the lethal human dose of heroin and still be ok.

If you feed it correctly, the average housecat could live to be as old as me - 23.

Methane emissions from cattle is such an environmental worry here in NZ, that we have a "fart tax" that farmers have to pay. However cows release most of their methane thru burping, so it should be burp tax...but the fart tax name stuck.

My girlfriend is Vet.

BUT WHY DOES HE WEAR TOWELS AFTER HE'S OUT OF THE SHOWER? IT MAKES NO SENSE!

A regular person cannot kiss his/her own elbow. If you can, you are irregular.

correct spelling of word is porcupine. when a male and female porcupine mate, the male pisses all over her and soaks her with his urine. that is when copulation occurs.

Henry VIII had a great passion for music.
He played several instruments and had amassed a considerable collection of them over his lifetime.
When he died he left a collection that included 5 bagpipes, 78 recorders, 78 flutes, 10 trombones, 14 trumpets, & a mechanical virginal.

(I found this while looking for the history of the recorder)

Looks like some of us need to hit Snopes.com!

Shakespeare may or may not have invented the word 'assassinate' (and 'bump'), but 'assassin' is generally thought to come from the Crusades, where a group of Muslim fighters fought under the influence of hashish. They were called the 'hashashin', which mutated into the modern 'assassin'.

I've never found any good evidence suggesting that Shakespeare invented it, but it's commonly thought that he invented 'assassinate'. Maybe he invented 'assassinate', but not 'assassin'. Maybe the truth about that is for someone else to post :)

Eh? Any idea how successful they were?

heheh.. hey, too bad about those ears, dude ;-)

first, something which many forum members would find useful: "it's" does not mean "its", it means "it is"

now on to the usless again: no piece of paper can be folder in half then in half again as many as 7 times

I'm the most regular person I know. First thing, every morning! :thumbsup:

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

John Cleese's character in "A Fish Called Wanda" - Archie Leach, was taken from Cary Grant, whose real name was Archibald Leach.

James Earl Jones - one of the most recognizable voices in America (Darth Vader, "This is CNN", etc) stuttered so severely as a child that he was practically unable to speak.

When Spencer Tracy won the Academy Award for best actor in 1937, the statue was engraved with the name Dick Tracy.

Therefore Suave is now banned from going to Finland (at least until he puts some pants on).

Right now my underwear drawer is full of rolled t-shirts exactly 6" long. I don't need a damn dollar bill.

My kitty lived to be 20! She died less than a week after my dog passed away. He was 14. I guess we fed 'em right! :thumbsup:

Also, an osterich's eyeball is as big as its brain. And it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

or, attempt to pass the shirt through the metal posts on the headboard/footboard of any bunk bed at air force basic traning, as one properly folded t-shirt will pass between two of the posts, just touching the edges.

:)

If you did, theres a good chance you'd pop your eyes out.

:( I had to put some on for work today anyways.

I just came across this at LowBrow.com:

"Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.

This made him ...

(Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good)

A super callused fragile mystic, hexed by halitosis."

I just felt compelled to say that this is true.


And to the person who asked if they were successful, I am not sure about that, but the reason they were called Hashashin's is well.... after every successful assassination/combat, they all went and got stoned into a drug induced stupor!

racecar is a palindrome

Gandhi, led his people to liberty

A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

The world's costliest coffee, at $130 a pound , is called Kopi Luwak. It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.

My favorite food is cheeseburgers.

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.

The United States Navy has a gauge for measuring sea-sickness. It's called the Motion Sickness Indicator (MSI), and it's included in a craft's modeling software to ensure that the ship doesn't ride too rough. There are even charts that plot sea sickness vs. time (with sea sickness approaching zero after a couple days at sea). The MSI is determined from actual testing. That is to say, they find a bunch of college kids, strap them into a simulator, and roll them around until they puke. For, like, three days straight. They record all the different conditions that cause them to puke and use the values to calculate the MSI range.

god my brother could win this hands down.. he'll be 18 in january..and he's already looking forward to joining tfp heh.. so when he turns 18.. I'll make sure he hits this thread :P

The statue of Teddy Roosevelt in London is electrified, by Roosevelt's request, so pigeons won't shit on it.

"Peas" almost rhymes with "meats." Really, approximate rhyme is an element of poetry.

In most states, if there is a domestic disturbance call, the man will automatically be arrested.

thank you... I keep forgetting their names and I walk past them all the time...

The 70's bands 10cc and Lovin' Spoonful all are named after the average amount of ejaculate.

The name "Wendy" didn't exist in the english language until the writing of the book, "Peter Pan" by J M Barrie.

There are more Subway (restaurants) in the U.S. than McDonalds

Sorry, the 10cc thing is just a myth.

As all sports fans know, the Los Angeles Dodgers were once the Brooklyn Dodgers before they left New York City for tinseltown. What you may not know, is that they acquired the nickname "Dodgers" by virtue of the fact that the residents of Brooklyn were sarcastically referred to as "trolley dodgers" by the residents of Manhattan. At the turn of the century, Brooklyn was famous for its extensive trolley system, and the arrogant Manhattanites tagged Brooklynites with this unfavorable nickname. Various attempts were made to change the name from the Dodgers to the Robins, Superbas, and the Kings, but alas, the team was stuck with Dodgers.

That Salem Witch Trial stuff? All caused by ergot poisoning. Ergot is a psylocibin[sic] fungus that affects rye grain. LSD is a derivative of ergot. The folks in Salem ate a ton of Rye bread... I can't answer why. Ennyhoo, eating ergot poisoned bread causes all sorts of vomiting, delusions, hallucinations, skin-crawling-ness. The Salem folks were all Puritans and freaked the fuck out.


http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1037.htm

Also, Napolean's penis was "about one inch long, resembling a grape."

People started saying "Bless you" when others sneezed because they believed that your soul briefly left your body immediately following a sneeze, leaving one vulnerable to possession.

Crumple up some toilet paper; drop it into your toilet with the folds facing upward. The water in your toilet bowl will soak into the tp and as it does the wod will open up similar to that of a beautiful rose blooming from it's rose bud...except it's just some fuckin tp in your toilet. If you try this it is almost certain that you are extremely bored.

Asta!!

When a radio fluke leads the crew of a 727 to believe that their plane is about to be shot down by Russian fighters, the ensuing nose dive to evade the expected attack can break the sound barrier. My dad was in the Air Force at a radio station when it happened (mid 1970's)

That's quite a famous myth.

height division=1.7933
leg division=1.7368
arm division=1.66666
(i'm 5"7.5' and to the hipbone is 37.5" so i'm a tad disproportionate)
on the other hand, many have the same size ring finger as they do shoe-if they are of average build.

Well, technically, you didnt measure right, as you would have to be autopsied or have surgery to measure these correctly. They are the measurements from exactly at your joint with your arm extended perfectly.

But as you can see, even with slightly off measurements, your very close on each one.

Hell, you didn't mentioned I had to be skinless!!! :lol:

The animal poisons earlier reminded me of this one; grapes (and by natural extension raisins) are poisonous to dogs. My parents' dog loves grapes, oops.
So are "Chocolate, cocoa, onions and macadamia nuts," if Snopes is to be believed.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp

The infamous Godzilla roar is actually the sound that the old rusty gate outside of their studios would make upon opening it. I was reminded of this because I just got finished seeing <i>Godzilla Vs Space Godzilla</i> on TV.

Asta!!

Last Easter my chihuahua ate a bunch of chocolate my fiancee had left within the dog's reach. I freaked when I found all the empty wrappers and called 2-3 vets emergency #'s. All of them pretty much laughed at me and said that milk chocolate wasn't as serious as dark chocolate, because of the dilution. I was told to watch her and if che got sick to take her in.

All that happened was she had what appeared to be chocolate covered poo the next few days.

Later, I asked a friend I had graduated high school with, who is a vet and he said some dogs are more immune to the effects, Chihuahuas are an example because they come from Central and South America and probably had built up a resistance.

BUT, the poison stays in their system for the rest of their lives so the more they eat, eventually it will kill them. For a normal chihuahua to die from chocolate according to him, the dog would have to eat it's weight in Hershey's milk chocolate bars, in their lifetime, for a normal German Shepard it could only take 1-2 Hershey bars, in a lifetime.

Needles to say Dinky will never be eating anymore chocolate.

Here's how to have 3 consecutive "because" in a setence:

"You can't start a sentence with because because because is a conjuntion"

thanks.. i've had that useless info for many many years...

and we still don't like the B&Ters.. we lump them all together into one title no.. Bridge and Tunnel people... okay. some of my best friends are B&Ters...but still.

In any random gathering of 30 people, there is something like 90% chance that two of them will have the same birthday (can't remember the exact percent, but something unbelieveably high).

Alanis Morrisette appeared in the very end of Jay & Silent Bob Strike back, AFTER she was identified in the credits.

pulp fiction is technically a disney movie. disney owns miramax, the company that produced pulp fiction.

The moon is moving away from the earth at a rate of about one inch a year.

Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system, is still 4.3 light years away.

Christopher Columbus was not a genius because he thought the world was round and everyone else thought it was flat, it was an accepted fact by that time that the world was round, Columbus was just incredibly bad at math and calculated the world to be about 8,000 nautical miles smaller in circumfrence then it really is. If America wasn't where it is, his mission would have failed because he only brought enough food for a one way trip, and his calculations showed the east coast of Asia being right about where the east coast of America is(give or take a little).

Gallileo wasn't officially forgiven and apologized to by the church for being right until sometime in the 1940s(I think it was the 1940s, but I'm probably wrong, but it was still a very long time after his death.)

Related useless information: Alanis Morisette's "You outta know" was about Dave Coulier. Yup, Uncle Joey from Full house :thumbsup:

The temperature at which copper melts is "Fahrenheit 1984." The Statue of Liberty is made of copper.

Makes ya think, eh? ;)

If you ever get stung by a jelly fish, the easiest way to counter the poison is to have someone pee on the sting. Acids and Bases, ya kno.

syzygy is the only word in the english language to have 3 y's. It also relates to the formation of 3 objects in a straight line (kind of like the word itself). Look it up, www.dictionary.com .. neat word.

it's also the name of a really good downtempo/idm dj here in seattle.

now that was a good one. that made me want to rethink the whole use of the internet for information if this is what i am learning!!!! top post btw. :thumbsup:

You're right. My high-school math teacher showed us the mathematical proof. I think the number of random people in a room to have a 100% chance of duplicate birthdays is only 24.

-Lasereth

Some Birthday Facts:

In England, when you reach 80, 90 or 100 years of age, you receive a telegram from the Queen.
In Japan, usually only the birthdays of 60, 70, 79, 88, and 99 rate gifts. Also, gifts consisting of less than ten items in a set should be given in odd numbers (tea cups are sold in sets of five). Avoid the numbers 4 and 9 in general. White gift wrap is associated with death (so is four of something).
Germans take birthdays seriously, sometimes receiving a half-day of vacation. Flowers and wine are common gifts among friends.
In China, small birthday gifts are given by family and friends. Age 30 is considered becoming an adult (there's quite a celebration). For men, age 60 is usually combined with retirement (for those doing physical labor). Don't give clocks as gifts (the Mandarin word for clock is similar to one for death). Avoid wrapping the gift using white, black or blue colors.
The French and Italian celebrate Name Days more so than birthdays.
In India, black and white gift wrapping is considered unlucky.
In the Islamic world, green is a good color to use for wrapping.
In Korea, the two most important birthdays are the 100th day and the 60th year.

Well, I can tell you that this isn't true. To have a 100% chance of duplicate birthdays, you'd need 366 people (not counting leap year birthdays). The math is a bit tricky and I don't feel like working it out right now, but I'm willing to accept that 30 people have a 90% chance for duplication ;)

I think the forumula for finding the probability of a duplicate birthday is:

1 / (1/365 + 1/364 + 1/363...1/n-1) where n is the number of people in the room. I'm not sure, and that tends to disprove the theory that 30 people have a 90% chance, since using 30 for n results in a chance of about 9%, not 90%. But I got my degree in psych, any math students out there want to comment? :)

the worse ass-whooping in a soccer world cup was in Spain 1982, when El Salvador lost 1-10 agains Hungary.

Makes me feel proud to be salvadorean. :)

You cannot lick your own elbow.

I bet the guy from metalica could ;)

It's a well known math problem known as the "Birthday Problem" - the number of people you need is a logarithmic function.

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birth...planation.html for more information, or Google.

This is why I got my degree in psych and not math ;)

actually, she's not. hermaphrodite would suggest that she has both male and female sexual organs, which is untrue. i read about this in my genetics text book. she was born with XY chromosomes, but does not have the correct hormones to produce male genitalia. it’s actually quite common. most girls that have this don’t find out until the time they should be having menstruation, at which time doctors have been known to tell them they have cancer on their ovaries, when in fact they are going in to remove testes which have not descended form inside the body. some medical professionals feel that it creates a problem with gender identity, so they don’t inform the person of the actual situation.

A gallon of milk weighs 10 lbs...

Usless information related to this: The Count on Sesame Street is named thus as a double meaning. He is the count (as a title) who loves to count (because he's a vampire who compulsivly counts things).

John Rhys-Davies, the actor who played Gimli contributed his voice to the character Jarek in the video game Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Along side him was famous actor Tony Jay, who contributed his voice to the evil Beholder Lord Zantam.

Speaking of voice acting and video games, the person who contributed their voice to Sephiroth in the US Version of Kingdom Hearts was none other than Lance Bass (from N*Sync). And on the subject of Kingdom hearts, the secret boss named Kurt Ziza was named thus because of a contest that, when entered, would give the winner of the contest a monster named after them. As you can tell, the winner was Kurt Ziza. ;)

The Beatles only refused to tour with one group, that group was the KINKS.

In 1964 the Beatles and KINKS were touring together and the KINKS classic "You Really Got Me" came out. Back in England in those days they would have a lineup of many groups and the 2 headliners would each end a 1/2. The KINKS were to end the first 1/2 then the Beatles would end the last half as they were the biggest act.

The groups played 2 concerts and at both venues the calls for the KINKS (and the booing) while the Beatles played became so troublesome that by the 3rd show the Beatles had refused to go on after the KINKS. By the fifth show, the audiences boos and calls for the KINKS had gotten so bad, John Lennon flatly refused to go out at all. The KINKS were promptly dropped for the Rolling Stones.

The warring pair of "KINKY BOOTS" in the animated Beatles classic was a jab at Ray and Dave Davies, John Lennon was once quoted as saying the only band that could ever be bigger than the Beatles would be the KINKS, but, that would never happen because they were to busy trying to off one another.

John Lennon's favorite "non Beatles" song in the mid 60's was "Wonderboy" by the KINKS.

Sorry have to get this KINKS Trivia out.......

"Captain Jack" by Billy Joel is believed to be about masturbation when in reality it is about Jon Smalls heroin addiction.

Humans and guinea pigs are the only organisms who need to get vitamin C in their diets.

Actually, a kid did lick his own elbow. Here is the story from the Washington Post:

"Jack Burtis disproved a Snapple fact by licking his elbow."

Every morning, George Clancy, principal of St. James Middle School in Johnson City, N.Y., starts the school day by making announcements on the public address system, then reading an inspirational quote and a Snapple Real Fact. One day last spring, the Snapple fact read:

"It is impossible for humans to lick their own elbows."

Within seconds, virtually every one of the school's 175 students -- and several teachers -- were attempting to lick their elbows. None of them could do it -- except Jack Burtis.

Jack -- then a 10-year-old fourth-grader with supple arms and a long tongue -- effortlessly licked his elbow. He showed his teacher, who immediately sent him down to the principal's office. He showed Clancy, who heralded the lad's achievement by calling the local newspaper and writing to Snapple.

The newspaper, the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, put a picture of Jack on the front page. The folks at Snapple called Clancy and asked if they could send the "Snapple Lady" to the school.

"I said, 'She's not like a Hooters lady, is she? This is a Catholic school,' " Clancy recalls.

Actually, the Snapple lady is Wendy Kaufman, a peppy, portly, middle-aged Everywoman who appeared in Snapple ads. When she came to St. James, two local TV stations sent news crews to record the historic event.

"Are you ready?" Kaufman asked Jack.

He was ready.

"Go, Jack!" she commanded.

He stuck out his left arm, twisted it so the elbow faced up, leaned forward and licked his elbow. The crowd went wild.

"Oh, my God!" the Snapple Lady screamed. "Oh, my God! He did it!"

She gave him a Snapple backpack and three cases of Snapple.

"Jack's gaining celebrity status because of his unique talent," reporter Justin Pizzi informed the WBNG-TV Action News audience.

Contacted later by The Washington Post, Jack reflected philosophically on his multimedia celebrity.

"It's cool," he said, coolly.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

A gallon weighs just over 8#