# Calling all Cliff Clavens....More Useless, Pointless Facts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158 "2007-02-21T23:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/1 "2007-02-21T23:06:57Z")
1. No US president in history can have a birthday that falls on President’s Day (the 3rd Monday in February). 2. The Toyota Corporation’s market cap (the value of its stock) is higher than that of Nissan, Honda, GM, Ford and Daimler-Chrysler COMBINED. Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/2 "2007-02-21T23:14:43Z")
Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille Leseur have never been in my kitchen either. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/3 "2007-02-21T23:19:42Z")
It is a little known fact that the Aborigines of central Australia were the first to practice selective breeding of Dingos to carry off babies. But it was not until the Europeans came that we got the phrase “Dingo’s got yo’ Baby”. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/4 "2007-02-21T23:57:44Z")
Cocktail wieners were originally intended as a garnish for cocktails. 98% of the dust in the average home is made up of corn flake particles. According to legend in the small German village of Hegensdorf, Christmas is spearheaded by a small elf in crotchless leiderhosen climbing through people’s windows and depositing fistfuls of sauerkraut and two uncooked bratwurst in each boot hung by the fireplace. The next morning, the family gathers the boots and places them on the fire to cook, after which the meal is consumed and _Flügengrolße_ – the erstwhile elf – is praised with flatulation in his honor. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/5 "2007-02-21T23:58:20Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut] 1. No US president in history can have a birthday that falls on President’s Day (the 3rd Monday in February). [/QUOTE] “… can have …” or “… has had…”? The latter sounds more logical. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/6 "2007-02-22T04:10:53Z")
Every bone in Houdini’s body was, in fact, double jointed. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/7 "2007-02-22T04:18:44Z")
All flights bound oversees from the U.S. are required to have an extensive weapons cache and survival equipment stowed in the cargo hold in case the plane crashes into hostile territory and the passengers have to form a rogue militia group amongst themselves. Part of Flight Attendant training is based on that of the Navy Seals. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/8 "2007-02-22T04:30:24Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] “… can have …” or “… has had…”? The latter sounds more logical. [/QUOTE] No ‘can have’ is correct. Try reading the US Constitution sometime. Gosh! -The plastic used for Apple IIe’s in the 1980s actually contained unsweetened applesauce. -The rose is the official flower of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. 1. Bowling was originally called “Cumberwhacking” and made use of 29 pins-- or cumbers-- instead of 10. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/9 "2007-02-22T04:35:24Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > > [@Jackknifed Juggernaut](#): > > > > 1. No US president in history can have a birthday that falls on President’s Day (the 3rd Monday in February). > > “… can have …” or “… has had…”? The latter sounds more logical. I think it would be best to phrase it thus: “President’s Day can never fall on the birthday of any past US president.” (P-Day changes every year 🙂 ) … And in the spirit of the thread: The _USS Arndt-Henderson_ was the first operational submersible to be powered entirely by potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/10 "2007-02-22T04:57:18Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] No ‘can have’ is correct. Try reading the US Constitution sometime. Gosh! . [/QUOTE] Huh? From article 2, section 1, the qualifications appear to be: \*No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. \* > **[Article II](https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii)** The holiday associated with Washington’s birthday got moved to the 3rd Monday in February effective in 1971. > **[Presidents' Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_day)** > > Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolutionary War, presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and served as the first U.S. pres... A person born on that day would be eligible to run in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/11 "2007-02-22T05:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Huh? From article 2, section 1, the qualifications appear to be: \*No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States. \* [/QUOTE] No, keep reading, I know it’s in there somewhere. And I’m pretty sure Nixon was behind it. Speaking of Nixon, if you were to look back at all our presidents, you’ll find that the numeric value of every letter in their name was equally divisible into the year in which they were first elected. So according to my calculations, our next president has to be named Yolnick McWawa. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/12 "2007-02-22T06:07:59Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] No, keep reading, I know it’s in there somewhere. And I’m pretty sure Nixon was behind it. [/QUOTE] Not gonna. You say it’s so, show me the cite. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/13 "2007-02-22T12:06:10Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Not gonna. You say it’s so, show me the cite. [/QUOTE] His post _is_ his cite. Sheesh. While we’re on the subject, though: Every president of the United States to date has learned to play the harpsichord at one time or another. No president of the United States has ever been to Schenectady. Former president Gerald Ford could write legibly with either foot. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/14 "2007-02-22T12:16:07Z")
In Norway there is a belief that Johan Vaaler in 1899 was the inventor of the paper clip, which as a fact is wrong, since paper clips were already in production in the 1890’s and were patented already in 1867 by Samuel B Fay in the states. But as a consolation, the cheese slicer is in fact a norwegian invention, patented by Thor Bjørklund in 1925, for which he did not get the Nobel peace price. Cheese! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/15 "2007-02-22T13:08:48Z")
If you took all the veins out of a man’s body and laid them end to end, that man would die. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Quigers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Captain\_Quigers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Quigers)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/16 "2007-02-22T13:23:54Z")
This post is meant solely to increase my post count This sentence merely to increase the post size. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/17 "2007-02-22T14:02:24Z")
Even if he could speak, due to the shape of his larynx, a reindeer could not pronounce the word “lasagna.” ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/18 "2007-02-22T14:22:38Z")
[According to this website](http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/), Chuck Norris is the reason Waldo is hiding. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/19 "2007-02-22T15:09:27Z")
Well, well, well. It appears that while I was sleeping, my OP was the butt of some jokes. So phooey on you! Phooey on all of you! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158/20 "2007-02-22T15:28:43Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Not gonna. You say it’s so, show me the cite. [/QUOTE] -We’re all aware that the word ‘cite’ comes from the word ‘citation,’ but did you know ‘citation’ comes from the Aramaic word ‘Sitahwaeg,’ which roughly translates to ‘Up your nose with a rubber hose!’ -And it’s no coincidence that ‘Sitahwaeg’ sounds alot like ‘Sweathog.’ -‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ was originally planned as a ‘Murder, She Wrote’-style mystery, with Uncle Jesse taking on the role of the crime-solving Jessica. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-cliff-clavens-more-useless-pointless-facts/393158.md?page=2)