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Useless info about pop:

 

In the States, Mountain Dew has a ton of caffeine in it. In Canada, it has NO caffeine whatsoever... There's apparently some sort of regulation that stipulates that clear (or I guess "non-brown") soft drinks can't contain caffeine. (Or so I'm told.)

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First of all; Steve your hairdo is... ridiculous. ^_^

 

Second; I might have just sneezed in my cocaine.

 

And finally third; I do prefer plain ol' normal Coke from Europe, not Pakistan. Pakistani Coke taste way too sweet imo. :">

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Which one is better?

 

The American Dew or it's Canadian counterpart...

No clue... Never had the American one. But I do like caffeine a helluva whole lot... In fact, I'm going to go have caffeine right now. (I was up pretty late writing. :wub:) *heads to coffee machine*

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Atton's Motivation July 30: CHAPTER 26 is up!

 

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DISCLAIMER: These posts may contain humour. No warranties as to the gelogenic qualities, either expressed or implied, are undertaken by the undersigned. All rights reserved. This does not affect your IQ. Any issues, see your psychologist or increase your dosage. --Metadigital

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No :lol:"

 

[1]Best drink ever=Sprite and maybe 7up....

[2]Sprite just makes me thirstier (even more so than Pepsi, Fanta or the like). Don't know why.

 

[3]The best drink ever is Melon Soda, available from the best vending machines in Japan.

1. You don't drink caffeine yet, Baley? Boy are you gunna be trouble soon ... :)

2. It's probably the eighteen grams of sugar / carcinogenic-sugar-replacement that you drink with the can ...

3. I shall continue to regard all products derived from a Japanese vending machine with paranoid skepticism, based on my mercifully-little knowledge and exposure. I'll stick to San Pelegrino for effervescence and Coca Cola for energy fuel (supra-zero cold, in glass bottles, just as God intended).

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Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

 

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Han**** and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

 

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

 

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

 

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

 

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

 

Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

 

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

 

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (How did they study this? Ummmm?)

 

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

 

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

 

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

 

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

 

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

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

--John Stewart Mill--

 

"Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.....you could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns."

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Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (How did they study this? Ummmm?)

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It was a couple of NY vets who noticed the pattern in cats that had survived after falls from high buildings, then conducted an a posteriori inductive analysis to provide their hypothesis.

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Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (How did they study this? Ummmm?)

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It was a couple of NY vets who noticed the pattern in cats that had survived after falls from high buildings, then conducted an a posteriori inductive analysis to provide their hypothesis.

 

Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

Here's some more useless info:

 

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

 

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

 

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

 

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

 

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 

There are more chickens than people in the world.

 

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

 

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.

 

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

 

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's Its A Wonderful Life.

 

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the bill encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

 

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)

 

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

 

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

 

The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence Oz.

 

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

 

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

 

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

 

 

 

 

Isn't learning fun.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

--John Stewart Mill--

 

"Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.....you could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns."

--Black Hawk Down--

 

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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

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Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

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Isn't learning fun.

So a jiffy = 1 centisecond?

What about left handed people?

Approximately 70% of the world's legal crop of poppies is grown in Tasmania, Australia (for opiates used in medicine).

Some people are starting to question this goldfish fact, most notably some followers in The Path of Nemo :-

Doesn't a nickel have 119 ? (Or is it 117? can't remember and I don't have one to count ...)

Yes.

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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

...

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

...

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

...

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

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Isn't learning fun.

So a jiffy = 1 centisecond?

What about left handed people?

Approximately 70% of the world's legal crop of poppies is grown in Tasmania, Australia (for opiates used in medicine).

Some people are starting to question this goldfish fact, most notably some followers in The Path of Nemo :-

Doesn't a nickel have 119 ? (Or is it 117? can't remember and I don't have one to count ...)

Yes.

 

I'm actually just getting most of these off of a useless info website :D

 

Which is my que to copy and paste some more:

 

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

 

Most lipstick contains fish scales

 

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people

 

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants

 

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building

 

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion

 

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive

 

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth

 

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth

 

Clinophobia is the fear of beds

 

Porcupines float in water

 

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head"

 

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet

 

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"

 

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

 

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur

 

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

 

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

 

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland

 

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average

 

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

 

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times

 

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks

 

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night

 

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone

 

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside

 

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove

 

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

 

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee

 

The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

 

A ****roach can live several weeks with its head cut off

 

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

--John Stewart Mill--

 

"Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.....you could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns."

--Black Hawk Down--

 

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The veracity of useless info does not need to be checked. Thats the beauty of it. :D However this is not an open invitation to spam!! :angry:

 

Got it :)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

--John Stewart Mill--

 

"Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.....you could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns."

--Black Hawk Down--

 

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Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people

Death to the lefty freaks! :D

 

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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants

Yes, but that doesn't stop kirottu... :)"

 

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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside

Let's put it to the test, shall we?

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Useless info: The original AD&D module called Ravenloft was written by the same people who wrote the dragonlance campaign setting.

 

Useful info: There is one place left in our diplomacy game. You know you want to.

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