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Sen · 07-17-2003, 12:56 PM

Those who know me, know that I'm a wealth of useless knowledge and am a force to be reckoned with when it comes to trivia.

My idea for this thread is for everyone to post worthless facts that they have locked away in their heads. It doesn't matter how you learned the fact, whether through job, hobby, Trivial Pursuit -- it doesn't matter what category the information falls into, Pop Culture, Science, Literature, whatever as long as it's true.

I'll start off with this:

The last episode of Leave it to Beaver was filmed 6 weeks before the assasination of John F. Kennedy.

What'ya got?

uncle phil · 07-17-2003, 01:02 PM

dale evans' horse's name was buttermilk...

GSRIDER · 07-17-2003, 01:29 PM

My finger hurts

Sen · 07-17-2003, 01:39 PM

While I'm sure it's true that you're finger does hurt and technically it does qualify as useless information, I was really going for things more like this:

Pee Wee Reese's real first name was Harold.

spectre · 07-17-2003, 01:40 PM

George Hallas named the Bears as a "thank you" to the Cubs for letting the team play in Wrigley Field. Hallas decided on naming the team "the Bears" rather than "the Cubs" because he felt that "football players are bigger than baseball players, and Bears are bigger than Cubs."

paddyjoe · 07-17-2003, 02:06 PM

It's impossible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze.

well, go ahead and try!

spectre · 07-17-2003, 02:12 PM

Metallica's song "The Four Horsemen" was originally known as "Mechanix" when Dave Mustaine was with the band. After kicking out Mustaine, Metallica kept most of the music from the song, but changed the lyrics and extended the length of the song. Mustaine later released the original "Mechanix" on Megadeth's first CD titled "Killing is My Business ...and Business is Good!"

I'm a wasteland of useless information. I can do this all day.

Sen · 07-17-2003, 02:14 PM

Good Stuff.

The Sun is 8 light minutes from the Earth. If it ever burns out, we won't know it until 8 minutes later.

Sen · 07-17-2003, 02:16 PM

Spectre, that's fascinating. I love Metallica.

Here's a music one for you.

The band Cracker was originally named Camper Van Beethoven and released 2 or 3 albums under that name.

micah67 · 07-17-2003, 04:16 PM

four out of five doctors surveyed feel that they are four out the five most surveyed doctors.

Before they were The Beatles, they were also known as "Beetles", and "Silver Beetles".

Fly · 07-17-2003, 04:18 PM

the skin at the end of my dink is pink.

Sen · 07-17-2003, 05:03 PM

Speaking of the Beatles, the original band lineup was:

John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Pete Best
and Stuart Sutcliffe.

Stuart was John's best friend but left the band because he fell in love with Atsrid Kirchherr and went to follow her bohemian lifestyle. Pete Best was replaced with Ringo right before they hit it big.

Also, there's a movie about Stuart and his story called "Backbeat."

spectre · 07-17-2003, 05:17 PM

More music randomness. Black Sabbath was originally a blues band called "Earth." After finding out that there was another band with that name, the members needed to find a new band name. The name "Black Sabbath" was suggested by Terry "Geezer" Butler. He got the name from a Boris Karlov movie titled "Black Sabbath."

Batman976 · 07-17-2003, 06:26 PM

Here's some mosquito trivia in honor of the fact that I was eaten alive today:

Mosquitoes are the common vector for malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue fever.

Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.

hawkeye · 07-17-2003, 08:52 PM

The Kansas song Portrait(He Knew) is not about Jesus as most people think, but Einstein

Munku · 07-17-2003, 10:55 PM

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

"The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Wonder what it did to his liver?) That researcher also invented microwave popcorn.

laxative · 07-18-2003, 12:01 AM

98% of the people who chat on the internet are homosexual.

gxman · 07-18-2003, 12:52 AM

bullshit laxative, provide some refrences, otherwise I don't believe it

Fremen · 07-18-2003, 06:25 AM

We are time-traveling right now! It's just so slow-w-w-w you don't hardly notice.

Sen · 07-18-2003, 07:04 AM

Honey is the only food that never spoils.

It's actually a molecule composed of 6 carbons, 12 hydrogens and 6 oxygens.

Donkeypuncher · 07-18-2003, 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gxman
bullshit laxative, provide some refrences, otherwise I don't believe it

hahaha WOW, somebody's a little touchy...

Alex, the dead friend in The Big Chill whose funeral brings everyone together, was played by Kevin Costner but you never see him in the movie. All scenes with his face were eventually edited out.

BonesCPA · 07-18-2003, 08:40 AM

If you take the outside walls of the Philadelphia Art Museum, and extend them up, all four corners will meet at a point exactly one mile above the ground.

Mongolguy · 07-18-2003, 11:02 AM

There was once a king elected president of the U.S.

uncle phil · 07-18-2003, 12:48 PM

harry truman's middle name was s...just s...

Donkeypuncher · 07-18-2003, 01:10 PM

Carmen Electra's real name is Tara Patrick.

That still makes me laugh.

Minx · 07-18-2003, 01:17 PM

Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.

HEY JADZIA!

okay okay you'll know why I'm giggling if you read the position of the day ever!

Minx · 07-18-2003, 01:22 PM

Two more...one for all my American friends....

The border between the USA and Canada is the world's longest at 3,987 miles.

And one just for flyman....

The banana is the world's largest HERB! hmmm maybe that urban myth about banana peels was right after all!

analog · 07-18-2003, 02:28 PM

There's no such thing as suction.

Example- when you think you're "sucking" on a straw to drink something, you're actually just lowering the pressure inside your mouth and the straw so that the pressure OUTSIDE your mouth (the pressure affected downward on the liquid) is pushed into it.

So, you really can't get your dick sucked- good news is, she can still blow you. lol

God of Thunder · 07-18-2003, 03:08 PM

Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, never acted again. He later went on to become a veterinarian.
He was offered a five picture contract after Willy Wonka, but turned it down.

As a matter of fact, out of all the wonka kids, Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) is the only one still acting.

Donkeypuncher · 07-18-2003, 03:40 PM

my single favorite piece of movie trivia...

The actor who starred in 1971's "The Anal Dwarf" also played an Ewok in "Return of the Jedi."

Fremen · 07-18-2003, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Donkeypuncher
my single favorite piece of movie trivia...

The actor who starred in 1971's "The Anal Dwarf" also played an Ewok in "Return of the Jedi."

"The Anal Dwarf" lmao

Oh my God, that's funny!!
Thanks, DP.

crow_daw · 07-18-2003, 09:23 PM

Spiderman director Sam Raimi features a shot of his first car in ALL of his movies.

fallen_angel · 07-19-2003, 12:53 AM

I have the worst luck with guys. all the ones i find have girlfriends but want me on the side for some nookie.

gloveshot3 · 07-19-2003, 05:18 AM

FleetwoodMac was once a fantastic BLUES band (1964-1973)

Diceman · 07-19-2003, 08:44 AM

The presence of hair on the middle segment of the fingers is a genetically inherited trait.

On July 19 1962 the first trans-atlantic telephone call was made between London and New York via the Telstar communications satellite.

God of Thunder · 07-19-2003, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bones
god of thunder, why you stealing my willy wonka thunder??

willy wonka is my topic of choice.

my all time favorite movie and know just about everything about it.

i know peter personally, he is still a vet in NY

nice work though

Didn't mean to steal your thunder. The recent talk of Tim Burton re-making it caused me to look up the original on IMDB and I learned that.

Tell Peter I said hi and I still enjoy watching the movie. It's a timeless classic.

Here's one from my area of expertise then, KISS.

Of all of the members of KISS, Bruce Kulick and Tommy Thayer are the only ones to have not changed their name.

They are:
Chaim Witz = Gene Simmons
Stanley Eisen = Paul Stanley
George Peter Criscoula = Peter Criss
Paul Daniel Frehley = Ace Frehley

Paul Caravello = Eric Carr
Vincent Cusano = Vinnie Vincent
Mark Norton = Mark St. John
Bruce Howard Kulick
Eric Mensinger = Eric Singer
Tommy Thayer

Sen · 07-20-2003, 06:08 PM

"Bleating" is a sound shared in common by calves, sheep and goats.

Nostromo · 07-20-2003, 07:12 PM

Here's a fascinating bit of trivia

Two famous people who died on the toilet:

1. Elvis Presley
2. Judy Garland

Sen · 07-21-2003, 06:43 AM

A duck's quack is the only sound that has no echo and no one know's why.

pr0f3n · 07-21-2003, 12:01 PM

If you don't cut the head off of meal worms, they will eat their way through an Iguana's stomach

R.I.P, Spike

07-17-2003, 12:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sen Insane Location: Midwest	Worthless Trivia Game Those who know me, know that I'm a wealth of useless knowledge and am a force to be reckoned with when it comes to trivia. My idea for this thread is for everyone to post worthless facts that they have locked away in their heads. It doesn't matter how you learned the fact, whether through job, hobby, Trivial Pursuit -- it doesn't matter what category the information falls into, Pop Culture, Science, Literature, whatever as long as it's true. I'll start off with this: The last episode of Leave it to Beaver was filmed 6 weeks before the assasination of John F. Kennedy. What'ya got? __________________ "I want to announce my presence with authority!" "You want to what?" "I want to announce my presence with authority!!" Last edited by Sen; 07-17-2003 at 02:54 PM..

07-17-2003, 01:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	dale evans' horse's name was buttermilk... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-17-2003, 01:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
GSRIDER spurt king Location: Out of my mind	My finger hurts __________________ No signature at this time.

07-17-2003, 01:39 PM	#4 (permalink)
Sen Insane Location: Midwest	While I'm sure it's true that you're finger does hurt and technically it does qualify as useless information, I was really going for things more like this: Pee Wee Reese's real first name was Harold. __________________ "I want to announce my presence with authority!" "You want to what?" "I want to announce my presence with authority!!"

07-17-2003, 01:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	George Hallas named the Bears as a "thank you" to the Cubs for letting the team play in Wrigley Field. Hallas decided on naming the team "the Bears" rather than "the Cubs" because he felt that "football players are bigger than baseball players, and Bears are bigger than Cubs." __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head

07-17-2003, 02:06 PM	#6 (permalink)
paddyjoe through charlatans phone Location: Northcoast	It's impossible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze. well, go ahead and try!

07-17-2003, 02:12 PM	#7 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	Metallica's song "The Four Horsemen" was originally known as "Mechanix" when Dave Mustaine was with the band. After kicking out Mustaine, Metallica kept most of the music from the song, but changed the lyrics and extended the length of the song. Mustaine later released the original "Mechanix" on Megadeth's first CD titled "Killing is My Business ...and Business is Good!" I'm a wasteland of useless information. I can do this all day. __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head

07-17-2003, 02:14 PM	#8 (permalink)
Sen Insane Location: Midwest	Good Stuff. The Sun is 8 light minutes from the Earth. If it ever burns out, we won't know it until 8 minutes later. __________________ "I want to announce my presence with authority!" "You want to what?" "I want to announce my presence with authority!!"

07-17-2003, 02:16 PM	#9 (permalink)
Sen Insane Location: Midwest	Spectre, that's fascinating. I love Metallica. Here's a music one for you. The band Cracker was originally named Camper Van Beethoven and released 2 or 3 albums under that name. __________________ "I want to announce my presence with authority!" "You want to what?" "I want to announce my presence with authority!!"

07-17-2003, 04:16 PM	#10 (permalink)
micah67 Thor Location: 33:08:12N 117:10:23W	four out of five doctors surveyed feel that they are four out the five most surveyed doctors. Before they were The Beatles, they were also known as "Beetles", and "Silver Beetles". __________________ ~micah

07-17-2003, 04:18 PM	#11 (permalink)
Fly see the links to my music? Location: Beautiful British Columbia	the skin at the end of my dink is pink. __________________ BASTARD SterlingStudios

07-17-2003, 05:03 PM	#12 (permalink)
Sen Insane Location: Midwest	Speaking of the Beatles, the original band lineup was: John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe. Stuart was John's best friend but left the band because he fell in love with Atsrid Kirchherr and went to follow her bohemian lifestyle. Pete Best was replaced with Ringo right before they hit it big. Also, there's a movie about Stuart and his story called "Backbeat." __________________ "I want to announce my presence with authority!" "You want to what?" "I want to announce my presence with authority!!"

07-17-2003, 05:17 PM	#13 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	More music randomness. Black Sabbath was originally a blues band called "Earth." After finding out that there was another band with that name, the members needed to find a new band name. The name "Black Sabbath" was suggested by Terry "Geezer" Butler. He got the name from a Boris Karlov movie titled "Black Sabbath." __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head

07-17-2003, 06:26 PM	#14 (permalink)
Batman976 is you wicked? Location: I live in a giant bucket.	Here's some mosquito trivia in honor of the fact that I was eaten alive today: Mosquitoes are the common vector for malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue fever. Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet. Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito. You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.

07-17-2003, 08:52 PM	#15 (permalink)
hawkeye back from sabbatical Location: Mosptopia	The Kansas song Portrait(He Knew) is not about Jesus as most people think, but Einstein __________________ You're not fat, You're just a giant ball of love, covered in anger.

07-17-2003, 10:55 PM	#16 (permalink)
Munku Lost Location: Florida	A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Wonder what it did to his liver?) That researcher also invented microwave popcorn.

07-18-2003, 12:01 AM	#17 (permalink)
laxative Loser Location: the bathroom	98% of the people who chat on the internet are homosexual.

07-18-2003, 12:52 AM	#18 (permalink)
gxman Loser	bullshit laxative, provide some refrences, otherwise I don't believe it

07-18-2003, 06:25 AM	#19 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	We are time-traveling right now! It's just so slow-w-w-w you don't hardly notice. __________________ Google

07-18-2003, 07:04 AM	#20 (permalink)
Sen Insane Location: Midwest	Honey is the only food that never spoils. It's actually a molecule composed of 6 carbons, 12 hydrogens and 6 oxygens. __________________ "I want to announce my presence with authority!" "You want to what?" "I want to announce my presence with authority!!"

07-18-2003, 08:40 AM	#22 (permalink)
BonesCPA No. It's not done yet. Location: sorta kinda phila	If you take the outside walls of the Philadelphia Art Museum, and extend them up, all four corners will meet at a point exactly one mile above the ground. __________________ Back into hibernation.

07-18-2003, 11:02 AM	#23 (permalink)
Mongolguy Crazy Location: My own little world. 'Cause they know me there.	There was once a king elected president of the U.S.

07-18-2003, 12:48 PM	#24 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	harry truman's middle name was s...just s... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-18-2003, 01:10 PM	#25 (permalink)
Donkeypuncher Psycho Location: Pasadena, CA	Carmen Electra's real name is Tara Patrick. That still makes me laugh. __________________ "take me down, little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the Queen of The Underground"

07-18-2003, 01:17 PM	#26 (permalink)
Minx Junkie Location: Up yonder	Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair. HEY JADZIA! okay okay you'll know why I'm giggling if you read the position of the day ever! __________________ You've been a naughty boy....go to my room!

07-18-2003, 01:22 PM	#27 (permalink)
Minx Junkie Location: Up yonder	Two more...one for all my American friends.... The border between the USA and Canada is the world's longest at 3,987 miles. And one just for flyman.... The banana is the world's largest HERB! hmmm maybe that urban myth about banana peels was right after all! __________________ You've been a naughty boy....go to my room!

07-18-2003, 02:28 PM	#28 (permalink)
analog Banned	There's no such thing as suction. Example- when you think you're "sucking" on a straw to drink something, you're actually just lowering the pressure inside your mouth and the straw so that the pressure OUTSIDE your mouth (the pressure affected downward on the liquid) is pushed into it. So, you really can't get your dick sucked- good news is, she can still blow you. lol

07-18-2003, 03:08 PM	#29 (permalink)
God of Thunder Talk nerdy to me Location: Flint, MI	Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, never acted again. He later went on to become a veterinarian. He was offered a five picture contract after Willy Wonka, but turned it down. As a matter of fact, out of all the wonka kids, Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) is the only one still acting. __________________ I reject your reality, and substitute my own -- Adam Savage Last edited by God of Thunder; 07-18-2003 at 03:10 PM..

07-18-2003, 03:40 PM	#30 (permalink)
Donkeypuncher Psycho Location: Pasadena, CA	my single favorite piece of movie trivia... The actor who starred in 1971's "The Anal Dwarf" also played an Ewok in "Return of the Jedi." __________________ "take me down, little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the Queen of The Underground"

07-18-2003, 09:23 PM	#32 (permalink)
crow_daw Idolator Location: Vol Country	Spiderman director Sam Raimi features a shot of his first car in ALL of his movies. __________________ "We each have a star, all we have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone who sees it will be blinded." - Earl Simmons

07-19-2003, 12:53 AM	#33 (permalink)
fallen_angel Psycho Location: Somewhere between the Havens and the Earth	I have the worst luck with guys. all the ones i find have girlfriends but want me on the side for some nookie. __________________ from the Havens I have fallen. . . to the earth as a mangled form. . . writhing in pain, my wings torn and bloodied. . . I have one purpose, only one goal. . . to find you and love you, for I am your. . . fallen angel

07-19-2003, 05:18 AM	#34 (permalink)
gloveshot3 Crazy	FleetwoodMac was once a fantastic BLUES band (1964-1973)

07-19-2003, 08:44 AM	#35 (permalink)
Diceman Tilted Location: London	The presence of hair on the middle segment of the fingers is a genetically inherited trait. On July 19 1962 the first trans-atlantic telephone call was made between London and New York via the Telstar communications satellite.

07-20-2003, 06:08 PM	#37 (permalink)
Sen Insane Location: Midwest	"Bleating" is a sound shared in common by calves, sheep and goats. __________________ "I want to announce my presence with authority!" "You want to what?" "I want to announce my presence with authority!!"

07-20-2003, 07:12 PM	#38 (permalink)
Nostromo Upright Location: Burlington, Ontario	Here's a fascinating bit of trivia Two famous people who died on the toilet: 1. Elvis Presley 2. Judy Garland __________________ "If it ain't broke, don't break it."