Yep. Ironically, that is the reason they had to cancel the show. It increased interest in 1969 Dodge Chargers as collectible vehicles so much that the price for spare parts shot up like tulip bulbs in Holland. Sadly, the cost of fixing the General Lee between each episode eventually bankrupted John Schneider (Bo Duke). He was forced to stop acting and pick up country singing as a way to pay back the body shops and Public Works agencies in the state of Georgia.
The name confusion goes a little deeper. The red panda is also called a bearcat, though it is neither bear nor cat. Another creature called the bearcat is the binturong, which also neither bear nor cat.
When I was little, I thought all cats were female and all dogs were male. (Don’t remember when I learned better.)
I remember asking my mother why she didn’t just hand over the credit card every time she visited a store. “Because then you don’t have to pay, right?” (Learned differently right after Mom stopped laughing. However, some people still seem to think this.)
Have you heard the storyabout the poet and the computer scientist?
Close. The real truth of cosmic balance is, if there is a major plane crash, there will be another one within a couiple of days. Observing the news media, this would appear true, but many plane crashes go unreported by the media, unless there had been a newsworthy one in the recent past. A Russian cargo plane crashing in Siberia or a Peruvian air force training flight crash in the Andes would not be reported by the world media, unless it happened a few days after a major airline passenger plane had crashed.
From Walt Disney. In the Mickey Mouse comic strips, all bystanders and bit-part players who wre male are dog-like caricatures, with a long muzzle, round black nose, and/or droopy ears. Women were more humanoid.
Since the world’s population growth is around 80 Million a year, with Babbage’s assertion that a 16th of a person is added per moment, means there are around 1.28 billion moments a year. Since there are 31536000 seconds per year, a moment, these days, is about 1/40th of a second it appears.
Some in my family believe fans make air cooler.
The venom of the daddy longlegs is among the most deadly on earth, strong enough to kill ten grown men with a single bite. However, since its fangs are too small to puncture human skin, it’s essentially harmless to us.
I have a cousin (once removed) who still believes this . . . even though she’s now in her 60s. She thinks a male dog impregnates a female cat, who then has a litter of mixed puppies and kittens.
She also thinks Alaska and Hawaii are right off the coast of California, like they were in her schoolroom maps.
High IQs do not run in that branch of the family.
That is a common belief even for Americans that are not intellectually challenged. I went to Hawaii for the second time a few years ago. Most people that I mentioned it to thought that it was just a short flight from California. I had to explain them that my flight from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California was only roughly at the half-way point (about 5 hours for each leg on a large airliner). It was worth it but Hawaii is a U.S. state in the South Pacific and not even remotely close to anything else.
Alaska can be the same. The state is more than twice size of the state of Texas and all of France. Some of it is reasonably close (days by boat or many hours by plane) to the rest of the continental U.S. but it isn’t incorrect to say that you can see Russia from parts of it. You most certainly can from inhabited islands in the Bering Strait that are only a couple of miles apart and split between American and Russian jurisdictions.
Even most Americans don’t truly realize how big the totality of the U.S. is. Oddly enough, I find that more true for urban dwellers than rural people. The latter are used to driving long distances to get even basic necessitates while people in Manhattan think that is the entire world.
Most people believe Hawaii is just naturally a part of the USA. But Hawaiians of Japanese ancestry still outnumber Hawaiians of American ancestry. It came to be American because American interests brutally overthrew a peaceful democratic monarchy. Hawaii is further west than French Tahiti, and Los Angeles is closer to Cuba than to Hawaii.
It’s somewhat mythical to believe that South Pacific islanders were, in general, peaceful. They were actually warlike, often invading neighboring islands.
The Hawaiian monarchy may have evolved into a more settled peaceful regime ever since King Kamehameha I of the Big Island conquered the other islands and unified them, but it was brutal. There is a famous touristy vista point in the hills behind Honolulu overlooking a cliff and into a large beautiful verdant canyon, where Kam cornered the Oahu defenders and forced them all off that cliff.
By the time of Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani, things may have settled somewhat.
I’m not so sure if American commercial interests (the C&H Sugar family, or maybe the Dole Pineapple family) brutally overthrew them. As I learned it, the Hawaiian royalty were rather naive in the ways of the bigger world of geopolitics, and were dazzled by the trappings of royalty that they saw when they visited England. They were easily bought out by the big money interests – sort of like the legend of the Indians selling Manhattan to the colonists for a handful of glass beads.
The Immaculate Conception.
I’ll tell him. This will probably confirm for him that the practice was widespread.
jtur88 writes:
> Most people believe Hawaii is just naturally a part of the USA. But Hawaiians of
> Japanese ancestry still outnumber Hawaiians of American ancestry.
I’m not sure what you mean here, but the racial/ethnic breakdown of the population of the state of Hawaii (I assume as of the 2010 census) is as follows:
Non-Hispanic White, 22.7%
Non-Hispanic Black, 1.5%
Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
Non-Hispanic Asian, 37.7%
Non-Hispanic Pacific Islander (including Native Hawaiian), 9.4%
Hispanic of any race, 8.9%
Non-Hispanic mixture of Asian and Pacific Islander, 9.4%
Other, 10.2%
(I just quote the statistics. I don’t make up the groups. I quoted the statistics from one website. Others may differ.)
So if you’re trying to say that the population of the state is mostly still descendants (mostly Asians and Pacific Islanders) of the people who were there before it became a territory of the U.S., as opposed to the descendants of those who arrived from elsewhere after it became a territory, I’m not sure this is true or not. Besides those Hawaiians who consider themselves to be of Japanese ancestry, other Asian and Pacific Islander ancestries which are significant percentages of the state’s population include Filipino, Chinese, Samoan, and Korean. At what point did each of these groups arrive there? I don’t know. Do you?
While this is incorrect, it is hardly “weird.” You can understand why people would believe an immaculate conception was the Immaculate Conception.
I remember this coming up as an answer at a trivia competition (the answer, for anyone who doesn’t know, is that the Virgin Mary’s birth was the result of the Immaculate Conception.) People were FURIOUS. We had born, raised and educated Catholics screaming that the answer could not possibly be true. It is just so verbally deceiving.
I worked with a guy years ago, an otherwise intelligent software developer, who adamantly believed that frozen water could not be cooled to a temperature lower than 0 C. In his mind, an ice cube in a freezer set to -10 C would stubbornly resist the ambient temperature and remain at 0 C.
A friend who insists: “Beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.”
In reality she gets pretty fucked up regardless of order.
I was at a party with a person that I really like and respect, and she asserted the “fact” that Mr. Rogers always wears sweaters because he has arms covered in tattoos which he got while being a sniper in the military.
I knew she was wrong but I was aghast that this particular person would be the type of person to repeat such outrageous claims. I actually believed her for a second. Unfortunately (?) I didn’t have a smart phone at the time so I couldn’t be like “LOOK, SNOPES SAYS IT’S FALSE!” so I just kind of let it go for the moment, looked it up when I got home, and quietly felt bad about it ever since.