twenty conversations about one thing
In 1999, Half.com’s marketing team made a visit to the town of Halyway, Oregon to ask the mayor to change the name to Half.com. Although reluctant at first, the mayor took the request up with city council for further discussion. Half.com offered financial support to the community if they agreed to change the name. On January 19, 2000, Half.com became the first dot com city in the world.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language-823 words without a period
Danny Carrey, Tool’s drummer was once a percussionist for Green Jelly.
In 1996 Pope John Paul II claimed that evolution was a scientific fact and that evolutionism and creationism were not in conflict so long as it’s accepted that God create(s/ed) the Soul.
A snail can sleep for 3 years, lucky fucker.
The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'
In 1994 Oklahoma rapist Darron Bennalford Anderson received a 2,200-year jail sentence. When he appealed and won a new trial, he was convicted again and resentenced to more than 90 additional centuries behind bars - including 4,000 years each for rape and sodomy, 1,750 years for kidnapping, 1,000 years for burglary and robbery, and 500 years for grand larceny.
In July 1997, the state Court of Criminal Appeals held that the grand larceny charge was double jeopardy on the robbery conviction and thus dismissed it. So the court cut Anderson's sentence by 500 years, speeding up his release date to the year 12,744!
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
In 1962 there was an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika. An isolated fit of laughter amongst a group of 12 to 18 year old schoolgirls rapidly rose to epidemic proportions. Contagious laughter propagated from one individual to the next, eventually infecting adjacent communities. The epidemic was so severe that it required the closing of schools. It lasted for six months.
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S. but technically it's number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the union. Considering this year’s election I want to forget about them again.
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.”
-- Senator Dan Quayle, 9/15/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92, The New Yorker, 10/10/88, p.102)
In every single Seinfeld episode, there is a Superman picture or statue somewhere.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/image_pop/l_052_02.html (you’d think we could come up with names more inventive and less-generally-dumb-sounding).
The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its Ph is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. While excessive consumption of phosphates could lead to dietary imbalances that might contribute to osteoporosis, only a small fraction of the phosphate in the American diet comes from additives. Most comes from meat and dairy products.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
On December 16, 1997 hundreds of Japanese children suffered seizures and convulsions following their viewing of a "Pocket Monsters" cartoon on television. Most children said they felt sick and had vision problems after seeing Pikachu, one of the characters, flash its eyes during the cartoon. Additional children ended up in the hospital after the cartoon segment was replayed in the evening news. Neurologists believe that the children suffered photosensitive epilepsy induced by the flashing.
Almost any product that can be made from wood, cotton, or petroleum (including plastics) can be made from hemp. There are more than 25,000 known uses for hemp. Henry Ford dreamed that someday automobiles would be grown from the soil. The Ford motor company, after years of research produced an automobile with a plastic body. Its tough body used a mixture of 70% cellulose fibres from Hemp. The plastic withstood blows 10 times as great as steel could without denting! Its weight was also 2/3 that of a regular car, producing better economy. Henry Ford was forced to use petroleum due to Hemp prohibition. His plans to fuel his fleet of vehicles with plant-power also failed due to Alcohol prohibition at the time. You can build a house with hemp. Today it is being used to produce caulking, cement, fiberboard, flooring, insulation, paneling, particleboard, plaster, plywood, reinforced concrete and roofing. The hardened material is resistant to rotting, rodents, insects and fire.
The old "Adam & Steve" trick doesn't really work to support the Christian argument against homosexuality. If God had created merely one gender there'd have been no room for deviation. God created two genders, thus giving us two choices. Don't let Christians feed you this poor excuse for an argument; it is what is called a "fallacy."
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language-823 words without a period
Danny Carrey, Tool’s drummer was once a percussionist for Green Jelly.
In 1996 Pope John Paul II claimed that evolution was a scientific fact and that evolutionism and creationism were not in conflict so long as it’s accepted that God create(s/ed) the Soul.
A snail can sleep for 3 years, lucky fucker.
The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'
In 1994 Oklahoma rapist Darron Bennalford Anderson received a 2,200-year jail sentence. When he appealed and won a new trial, he was convicted again and resentenced to more than 90 additional centuries behind bars - including 4,000 years each for rape and sodomy, 1,750 years for kidnapping, 1,000 years for burglary and robbery, and 500 years for grand larceny.
In July 1997, the state Court of Criminal Appeals held that the grand larceny charge was double jeopardy on the robbery conviction and thus dismissed it. So the court cut Anderson's sentence by 500 years, speeding up his release date to the year 12,744!
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
In 1962 there was an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika. An isolated fit of laughter amongst a group of 12 to 18 year old schoolgirls rapidly rose to epidemic proportions. Contagious laughter propagated from one individual to the next, eventually infecting adjacent communities. The epidemic was so severe that it required the closing of schools. It lasted for six months.
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S. but technically it's number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the union. Considering this year’s election I want to forget about them again.
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.”
-- Senator Dan Quayle, 9/15/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92, The New Yorker, 10/10/88, p.102)
In every single Seinfeld episode, there is a Superman picture or statue somewhere.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/image_pop/l_052_02.html (you’d think we could come up with names more inventive and less-generally-dumb-sounding).
The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its Ph is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. While excessive consumption of phosphates could lead to dietary imbalances that might contribute to osteoporosis, only a small fraction of the phosphate in the American diet comes from additives. Most comes from meat and dairy products.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
On December 16, 1997 hundreds of Japanese children suffered seizures and convulsions following their viewing of a "Pocket Monsters" cartoon on television. Most children said they felt sick and had vision problems after seeing Pikachu, one of the characters, flash its eyes during the cartoon. Additional children ended up in the hospital after the cartoon segment was replayed in the evening news. Neurologists believe that the children suffered photosensitive epilepsy induced by the flashing.
Almost any product that can be made from wood, cotton, or petroleum (including plastics) can be made from hemp. There are more than 25,000 known uses for hemp. Henry Ford dreamed that someday automobiles would be grown from the soil. The Ford motor company, after years of research produced an automobile with a plastic body. Its tough body used a mixture of 70% cellulose fibres from Hemp. The plastic withstood blows 10 times as great as steel could without denting! Its weight was also 2/3 that of a regular car, producing better economy. Henry Ford was forced to use petroleum due to Hemp prohibition. His plans to fuel his fleet of vehicles with plant-power also failed due to Alcohol prohibition at the time. You can build a house with hemp. Today it is being used to produce caulking, cement, fiberboard, flooring, insulation, paneling, particleboard, plaster, plywood, reinforced concrete and roofing. The hardened material is resistant to rotting, rodents, insects and fire.
The old "Adam & Steve" trick doesn't really work to support the Christian argument against homosexuality. If God had created merely one gender there'd have been no room for deviation. God created two genders, thus giving us two choices. Don't let Christians feed you this poor excuse for an argument; it is what is called a "fallacy."