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Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« on: November 08, 2010, 12:04:23 PM »
I'm not talking about "I've found my estranged father," or some life-changing shit like that.

Just some answer to a seemingly irrelevant, yet exceedingly annoying stupid question you've had for years.

I'll go first...

Q - Why do they [bars, restaurants, McDonald's] pour gallons of ice cubes into the urinals in men's bathrooms?

A - Becuase it apparently reduces the odor.

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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2010, 03:46:59 PM »
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2010, 04:07:07 PM »
I learned why I see idiots walking about with furry animal tails hanging out their pants.

I learned why no matter how I try to get my teeth white they never get there.  Gingers have a reddish pigment in their teeth.

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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2010, 04:20:28 PM »
I learned that if you have a bunch of lightning bugs, you won't have fire ants.  Because lightning bugs love fire ant larvae. 
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2010, 04:23:26 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on November 08, 2010, 04:20:28 PM
I learned that if you have a bunch of lightning bugs, you won't have fire ants.  Because lightning bugs love fire ant larvae. 

Somebody is feeding you a line of Bullshit....... We have lightning bugs up here & fire ant mounds galore..... The ants are still here and growing in population....
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2010, 04:29:33 PM »
Not stupid, but perhaps trivial:

Roger Bannister is still alive.

My dad was in the Air Force; from first to fifth grades I attended four schools in as many states.  In each school I read in a textbook about Roger Bannister's boyhood injuries and how he overcame them to be a famous runner.  In adulthood, when I thought of him and his inspiring story, I assumed that he had long since passed away.

A few weeks ago I was talking about schooldays to my wife, who didn't remember ever reading about him, so I looked him up in wikipedia.

I'm forty-six.  I first read about Roger Bannister forty years ago.  He's still alive.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2010, 04:33:45 PM »
Quote from: Thor on November 08, 2010, 04:23:26 PM
Somebody is feeding you a line of Bullshit....... We have lightning bugs up here & fire ant mounds galore..... The ants are still here and growing in population....

Whoops.  What I meant to say is that if you have lightning bugs you don't have a lot of fire ants, because fire ants eat lightning bug larvae.  Which may or may not be true, but last year I had lightning bugs, and no fire ants, and this year I had less lightning bugs, and a minor amount of fire ants.

But most importantly, I learned that some people are just plain ole grumpy. You would think after having their bitch slapped out of em, they might mellow a little bit, but that don't work one iota.   :tongue:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2010, 04:40:12 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on November 08, 2010, 04:33:45 PM

But most importantly, I learned that some people are just plain ole grumpy. You would think after having their bitch slapped out of em, they might mellow a little bit, but that don't work one iota.   :tongue:

Not with THIS Native Texan!!  :-) :popcorn: :tongue:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2010, 04:59:53 PM »
Quote from: Thor on November 08, 2010, 04:40:12 PM
Not with THIS Native Texan!!  :-) :popcorn: :tongue:

Sounds like someone is as full of wind as a corn-eating horse.... :whistling:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2010, 08:52:31 PM »
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2010, 08:55:56 PM »
Quote from: ExGeeEye on November 08, 2010, 04:29:33 PM
Not stupid, but perhaps trivial:

Roger Bannister is still alive.

My dad was in the Air Force; from first to fifth grades I attended four schools in as many states.  In each school I read in a textbook about Roger Bannister's boyhood injuries and how he overcame them to be a famous runner.  In adulthood, when I thought of him and his inspiring story, I assumed that he had long since passed away.

A few weeks ago I was talking about schooldays to my wife, who didn't remember ever reading about him, so I looked him up in wikipedia.

I'm forty-six.  I first read about Roger Bannister forty years ago.  He's still alive.

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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2010, 08:57:44 PM »
Author EB White had halitosis so bad that he was almost a hermit - very, very rarely ever went to a social function.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2010, 10:35:12 PM »
That I really did see one of these-
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2010, 10:58:13 PM »
Obama was born in Hawaii
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2010, 11:09:43 PM »
Thermal nanite technology and holograms brought down the WTC towers.

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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2010, 11:43:47 PM »
Nigerian princes are sitting on a boatload of cash they're trying to launder and give me a cut of, if only I'll write them a small check to "cover expenses."
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2010, 12:42:41 AM »
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I learned why no matter how I try to get my teeth white they never get there.  Gingers have a reddish pigment in their teeth

Thanks for sharing mamacags.  I did not know that.  I'd still like them whiter though  :-)
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2010, 11:09:18 AM »
The smartest dog in the world is the Border Collie.

2 Presidents owned Newfoundland dogs.===Lewis and Clark took a Newfoundland dog on their trip out west and when the Indians caught the dog they threatened to kill all Indians in the settlement if the dog was harmed and not returned.

FDR was so in love with his Scottie Falla that there is a statue of the dog at his feet in W. DC

Bill Clinton's dog , Buddy was the only friend he had that he could talk to without wondering if the conversation would be leaked.

This I am not so sure of but I do remember there is a Statue of an Irish Wolf Hound in Denmark???   Seems the dog was the  beloved pet of the king and after leaving his baby in the care of the dog he came home to find blood everywhere and no baby.  He killed his dog only to find the baby safe and a dead Wolfe behind the curtains.   Story is the king forever after never smiled.

The storeys of men in combat and the dogs that lived with them slept beside them and died to protect them--then the storeys of our combat troops that moved heaven and earth to bring home their dogs only to see them killed as not suitable for life in America.     SOB's  that prevented this.



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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2010, 02:01:26 PM »
Obama is black, sort-of.....
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2010, 02:31:40 PM »
Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2010, 03:04:04 PM »
Michelle Obama has wonderful fashion sense.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2010, 09:17:37 PM »
Quote from: cavegal on November 09, 2010, 03:04:04 PM
Michelle Obama has wonderful fashion sense.

Since you didn't indicate any sarcasm, you deserve a BS for that statement....
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #22 on: November 10, 2010, 07:04:48 AM »
Quote from: Thor on November 09, 2010, 09:17:37 PM
Since you didn't indicate any sarcasm, you deserve a BS for that statement....

Uh, the title of the thread is "Name One Stupid, Trivial Fact You've Learned via the Internetz..."

I'd say Michelle Obama's fashion sense is stupid all by itself. No need for additional sarcasm indicators.

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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #23 on: November 10, 2010, 09:36:17 AM »
Quote from: HollywoodNeoCon on November 08, 2010, 12:04:23 PM
I'm not talking about "I've found my estranged father," or some life-changing shit like that.

Just some answer to a seemingly irrelevant, yet exceedingly annoying stupid question you've had for years.

I'll go first...

Q - Why do they [bars, restaurants, McDonald's] pour gallons of ice cubes into the urinals in men's bathrooms?

A - Becuase it apparently reduces the odor.


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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #24 on: November 10, 2010, 09:54:54 AM »
Quote from: HollywoodNeoCon on November 08, 2010, 12:04:23 PM
Q - Why do they [bars, restaurants, McDonald's] pour gallons of ice cubes into the urinals in men's bathrooms?

A - Becuase it apparently reduces the odor.



It really does reduce the odor?  I don't know about that, the urinals that I've seen with ice cubes in them don't seem to smell any better than those without.
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