The station is called Comedy Central because its headquarters is located in Chicago, in the CENTRAL time zone.
The Elecman stage from the first Mega Man game was Babe Ruth’s favorite song (yes, one of my friends actually used to tell us that when we were kids…)
Listening to country music causes brain damage. Brain-damage causes people to enjoy country music, resulting in a vicious cycle.
Ben “Cooter” Jones, who you may remember from The Dukes of Hazzard, was so nicknamed due to his amazing powers of cunnilingus.
I’m stealing this.
Hehe. I posted the Prep H factoid when I was very drunk on Fark a few years back. I also posted it on a cannabis site and a few others. I may have posted it here as well?
Wisdom teeth were named after George W. Wisdom, the first person to have them.
I so convinced my sister that this was true.
When I lived in Texas I would tell my coastal friends that all flags in Texas fly at half-mast on the anniversary of the day Alaska was made a state.
Coincidentally, the same day of the year that Stephen Austin was given a land grant in Texas.
Nice! 
Like the time I noticed that Regan was a hallucination and the cold war didn.t happen.
It was very disapointing to learn that the Vietnam War hand’t happened. I had some difficulty telling that to one of my boy friends.
Sorry, I happened once and my mother has not forgiven me.
This has been proven to be true, but only for music recorded after 1973. MIT did a study using Hank Williams & Hank Williams Jr. songs.
George Bush shot down 7 MIG fighters in the Vietman war and awarded a Bronze Star. He kept it quiet due to his legendary humility.
NASA found that their mission support in Houston could experience significant stress during a mission (as was portrayed in the excellent 1995 Ron Howard film “Apollo 13”).
To help the large crew with their stress, NASA awarded a contract for the SBG room.
The Stress Be Gone (SBG) room was an 8’ x 13’ room with no windows converted from an unused office at Mission Control. The room was painted gloss white on all four walls and floor and ceiling. A 2’ x 2’ door was centered on three walls.
What would happen is that a stressed crew member or 3 would be brought into the well-lit room. It’s interesting to note that an exhaustive study was conducted that showed that adding a fourth person actually added stress to the participants, though future studies to determine why never happened, due to budgetary cuts.
Anyway, a maximum of 3 crew would be in the white room with the bright, though soothing lights. After precisely 47 seconds all three 2’ x 2’ doors would open and out would run 29 golden retriever puppies, each wearing a colored bow (4 red, 4 yellow, 4 purple, 5 blue, 11 white, 1 magenta).
It was found that pulse and blood pressure of the patients dropped to “level 2: calm” (level 1: dead happening only once due to heart failure of one patient) within one minute and ten seconds.
It is also interesting to note that NASA determined that the best age of the puppies was 4 months and 3 days to 4 months and 11 days. It’s best to stop here and not describe the lubricating paste that NASA also developed around the same time and by the same contractor. An old timer, frequent to over drinking and eating anything on hand, once ate 3 tubes of the paste, saying it tasted like horse meat, which he swore tasted like dog meat. But again, it’s best not to go into that.
Do a web search.
I once convinced a grown woman that kittens’ bones are actually entirely cartilage for the first year of their lives. This is why they bend so well.
If you’re using an electronic pocket calculator, and you try to use it to divide something by zero, it will explode.
This is why I hesitated to post in this thread. Sometimes I’m convinced myself that country music actually DOES cause brain damage.
Alice Cooper is the author of Go Ask Alice.
The Australian emu has a curiously shaped palate, so even if it could talk, it could never pronounce the word “lasagne”. (Stolen from this board).
You’ve heard about “make-up sex,” right? Well, it’s nothing compared to “dueling columnist sex.”
Anyway, this post’s amazing fact: The whale is not a fish – it’s an insect.