'Scrobbled' from someone's LostFm journal...

[mesila]

Oh, I love Lists of Useless And Totally Undocumented Factoids.

If anyone knows for certain that any one of these are not true, let's have some correction, and I'll spread the love back to the source, so to speak.

1. About 80% of women wear the wrong size bra. (What's the "right" size?)
2. The first paintball guns were used to mark trees. (As I'm

Comments

[faeriemuriel]

35....Wouldn't the cause of death be, y'know...old age?

52. They wouldn't have been TV antennas then, would they?

[paulkienitz]

"12. Over half of the state names in the USA cames from Native American languages. (Bullshit, at least half and probably more are Spanish, and that leaves the rest.)"
It's true, I recently counted them.

The dumbest claim in the list has to be the one about farting the energy of an atomic bomb. Someone clearly slipped a decimal place or five.
"15. The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco."
According to Wikipedia, it's from Kyoto. (But the inventor of the first mechanical fortune cookie maker was from Oakland.)
"35. When an elephant dies of old age the cause of death is usually hunger."
Well this would be true of any animal that has to forage in the wild.

I can totally believe that more people die in donkey accidents than airplane accidents.

Spanish cities, oh, it said STATES. Duh beast (me)

[mesila]

It's true, I recently counted them.Count me among Stoned Doofuses Not Paying Attention, because I totally spaced on STATE names, and somehow parsed it as CITY names, of which my Kaliflowernia bg has me totally loused up thinking EVERY damn thing is named after something Spanish, either because Mexicans live there, or because some dippy SUBURBAN DEVELOPERS in 1982 all thought every new town (the ones who are hip deep in SHIT now being too far away from urban centres for anyone to be able to afford to commute to work any more...San Ramon comes immediately to mind, those poor sots. I remember my Contra-Costa-borne ex Johannes took me out once, on one of our early dates, and would not tell me where he was taking me because he said I'd find it absurd

[acidexia]

"74. A person classified as "ugly" in San Francisco may not walk down any street."

WTF?

[mesila]

On that LostFM blog where I grab-and-slapped this from I posted a reply:

"A person classified as 'ugly' in San Francisco may not walk down any street."

"However, in many of our 'finer' neighbourhoods (like mine) the person classified as 'ugly' can walk UP the ass of the classifier with steel-toed boots."

[acidexia]

Nice one hehe.

I'm just having a hard time understanding how this could be stated as a fact without being a ridiculous joke.

[alzm]

The skunk comment.

I know for a fact what smoking a lotta weed is like over here where it's semi legal due to re;atively low danger due to consumption, marijuana is allowed to be sold in coffeeshops.
Thing is these coffeeshops are now forced to disallow the use of tobacco.
As such, you can not smoke a reefer the way we allways did any more and have to smoke the american way.
This is one of the few american imperialist scams Iactually approve.
Or efforts towards generalising the world you could say.
I toke my weed and trust in Choronzon to deliver me something blasphemous to digest.