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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #25 on: November 10, 2010, 11:27:42 AM »
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #26 on: November 10, 2010, 11:37:57 AM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on November 10, 2010, 11:27:42 AM
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.

man, that's pretty obscure.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2010, 11:43:17 AM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on November 10, 2010, 11:27:42 AM
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.

I think that's wrong.  They are round because it is a shape that doesn't allow the cover to be manipulated in such a way that the cover could pass through the hole.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2010, 11:48:46 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 10, 2010, 11:43:17 AM
I think that's wrong.  They are round because it is a shape that doesn't allow the cover to be manipulated in such a way that the cover could pass through the hole.
Oh yeah, that's it.  So much for remembering the trival facts.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2010, 12:16:23 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on November 10, 2010, 09:54:54 AM
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.

That's primarily due to the fact that most of us don't hang around in some Panama City, "Sailor, wanna hump-hump?" bar....




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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #30 on: November 10, 2010, 05:05:15 PM »
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....
OK Thor the topic is.....ONE STUPID,TRIVIAL FACT! so as soon as I can 1+ to you..... :-) :popcorn:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #31 on: November 10, 2010, 06:06:12 PM »
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #32 on: November 10, 2010, 06:10:17 PM »
Quote from: Thor on November 10, 2010, 06:06:12 PM
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
Seems this is a "true" fact!! :hammer:   +1 :popcorn:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #33 on: November 10, 2010, 06:33:44 PM »
Quote from: Thor on November 10, 2010, 06:06:12 PM
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

Awwwwww..........  :grouphug:


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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #34 on: November 10, 2010, 06:37:40 PM »
St. Jerome (circa 347-420) was the first person in history who could read without moving his lips.

Actually, I learned that in an old--I think from the 1930s--issue of the New Yorker magazine, not on the internet.  In case one doubts, the New Yorker used to have "fact-checkers" on their staff, and in its heyday the New Yorker was famous for being accurate.

Not so much the past 35-40 years, though.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #35 on: November 10, 2010, 06:44:42 PM »
Did I kill this thread?

It was really active until I posted.

Sorry; didn't mean to.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #36 on: November 10, 2010, 06:57:46 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 10, 2010, 06:44:42 PM
Did I kill this thread?

It was really active until I posted.

Sorry; didn't mean to.

Absolutely not!  I think everyone just went to go eat dinner. 
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #37 on: November 10, 2010, 07:02:25 PM »
I learned that Rule 34 is true.   :whistling:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #38 on: November 10, 2010, 07:03:19 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 10, 2010, 06:44:42 PM
Did I kill this thread?

It was really active until I posted.

Sorry; didn't mean to.
No I do not think you did. I am going to go and watch TV now.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #39 on: November 10, 2010, 07:56:29 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on November 10, 2010, 11:27:42 AM
Years ago I learned that manhole covers were round because that reduces the total amount of space needed for access.
Unless, like my idiot cousin, you try to use a 30" lid on a 36" manhole, then it falls straight to the bottom and stays there for 30 years
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #40 on: November 10, 2010, 11:21:18 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 10, 2010, 06:37:40 PM
St. Jerome (circa 347-420) was the first person in history who could read without moving his lips.

Actually, I learned that in an old--I think from the 1930s--issue of the New Yorker magazine, not on the internet.  In case one doubts, the New Yorker used to have "fact-checkers" on their staff, and in its heyday the New Yorker was famous for being accurate.

Not so much the past 35-40 years, though.

That is such a bizarre thought.  Reading silently is so second nature for me, that the idea of people not being able to is somewhat incomprehensible. 
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #41 on: November 11, 2010, 07:31:14 AM »
Quote from: Thor on November 10, 2010, 06:06:12 PM
People on the innerwebz are more backstabbish & assholish than they would be in normal life........ :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

Pot, meet kettle.

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Just to keep this on track, with all the exploits, wars, and battles that Lawrence of Arabia (T.E. Lawrence) went through, the guy died in a motorcycle accident in England at the age of 46.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #42 on: November 12, 2010, 03:42:11 PM »
It's only stupid and trivial in the subject matter concerning . . .

Members of certain message boards will believe any tripe that is posted about those that they despise.

(DU, anyone?)
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #43 on: November 14, 2010, 04:13:30 PM »
Washington DC has more residents than the entire state of Wyoming. :popcorn:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #44 on: November 14, 2010, 05:40:54 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on November 14, 2010, 04:13:30 PM
Washington DC has more residents than the entire state of Wyoming. :popcorn:

No shit?!?!?!?

That's really amazing.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #45 on: November 14, 2010, 05:43:12 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on November 14, 2010, 04:13:30 PM
Washington DC has more residents than the entire state of Wyoming. :popcorn:

I'd go with Wyoming.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #46 on: November 14, 2010, 06:22:55 PM »
Ants never sleep.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #47 on: November 14, 2010, 08:07:08 PM »
The NRA did NOT originate in the United States.  The original NRA was founded in Great Britian in 1860.  The US NRA didn't form until 1871.
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #48 on: November 14, 2010, 09:35:37 PM »
Obama got elected as the President of The United States of America.   :argh:
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Re: Name one stupid, trivial fact you've learned via the internetz...
« Reply #49 on: November 15, 2010, 01:38:03 PM »
Quote from: JLO on November 14, 2010, 09:35:37 PM
Obama got elected as the President of The United States of America.   :argh:

 :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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