# Cleanup's Useless Facts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669 "2003-02-21T23:47:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/21 "2003-02-22T01:02:46Z")
It is still inaccurate 😉 P.S. Don’t take any of this the wrong way, you seem very likely to fit in here. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/22 "2003-02-22T01:02:58Z")
**Cleanup** left-square-bracket, letter b, right-square-bracket,left-square-bracket, letter b, left-square-bracket, letter b, right-square-bracket,right-square-bracket,left-square-bracket,left-square-bracket, slash, letter b,right-square-bracket, slash, letter b, right-square-bracket, left-square-bracket, slash, letter b, right-square-bracket. Yes, the ‘quote’ button. Hence me telling people to reply to my post in order to figure out how I did it. I ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/23 "2003-02-22T01:05:54Z")
> [@](#): > > P.S. Don’t take any of this the wrong way, you seem very likely to fit in here. **Bippy** I suspect you didn’t type what you meant to type. As I don’t think it is possible to take the wrong way being told that you will probably fit in somewhere. (I think you missed a 'not) Or were you being ironic? I am slow. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/24 "2003-02-22T01:10:24Z")
in hindsight it is possible to misinterpret “do a reply to this post to see what I had to type to get that” at least two ways. I should have typed “press the quote button to see how I did that” ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/25 "2003-02-22T01:14:24Z")
Oh no, I see, the Don’t take any of this the wrong way went with my refutation of that 500 mph blood thing. It wasn’t meant to go with the “you seem very likely to fit in here”. That definitely shouldn’t have been a comma, but I am addicted to follow-on sentences, which is of course a very bad habit, don’t you agree? :), Bippy ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/26 "2003-02-22T01:17:53Z")
ahhh, I see. Change the comma to a full-stop (I am British, sue me) and the sentence reads perfectly! It’s amazing how much difference a few pixels can make (or a slightly taller dot)! ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/27 "2003-02-22T01:18:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*in hindsight it is possible to misinterpret “do a reply to this post to see what I had to type to get that” at least two ways. > I should have typed “press the quote button to see how I did that” \*\* Yeah. I thought it was just “reply to this to give me an answer,” and I took you for an obvious retard. Maybe it was **too** obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/28 "2003-02-22T01:20:59Z")
I agree. **Cleanup** probably will fit in here. That is if something that I am suspecting about **Cleanup** turns out not to be true (and I hope it does) ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/29 "2003-02-22T16:58:11Z")
Why the hell does everyone **bold** member names? Lobsang. **Cleanup** is a rebel. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/30 "2003-02-22T17:06:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*(I am British, sue me) \*\* I’m American. Don’t tempt me! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/31 "2003-02-22T17:08:57Z")
Just had to check the “octupus eating own arms” thing. Apparently that’s not through hunger, but [stress.](http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tcp/faq.html#eatarm) Rats do the same, so it seems. Carry on, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/32 "2003-02-22T20:10:28Z")
When rats are under stress, they eat octopus arms? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/33 "2003-02-22T23:32:21Z")
A grammatical conspiracy. :o ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/34 "2003-02-23T04:14:32Z")
when eat octopus arms bring pie ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/35 "2003-02-23T04:45:18Z")
To get back to the OP, and not hijack the thread any further (especially with Weeble and Bob references. though the bolding one wasn’t too bad)… If New York City were as densely populated as Alaska, 14 people would live in Manhattan. More babies are born in September than any other month. ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/36 "2003-02-23T04:52:44Z")
The organisers of the replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre had to get special permission from the authorities to have a thatched roof built. Thatched roofs were banned in London after the Great Fire. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669/37 "2003-02-23T05:05:11Z")
If you put all of the unverified `facts’ spread online from end to end, there would be no end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanups-useless-facts/156669.md?page=1)