# I Love Bacon **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 22, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379 "2000-11-22T22:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![melchizedek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@melchizedek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melchizedek)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/21 "2000-11-23T21:47:51Z")
Cool collection of trivia… How about adding : ‘Jesus Wept.’ Shortest verse in the Bible too. John 11:35. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/22 "2000-11-23T22:44:28Z")
That’s why I never eat Twinkies…nasty nasty things are they! ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/23 "2000-11-24T00:54:31Z")
1. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are not a couple. They are a drawing of a couple. (-R. Magritte?) 2. I think I’ve heard that Barbie’s waist size actually scales to something like 18, not 23. 3. The shortest sentence I can come up with, and I think this one is hard to beat if it’s legit, is “O!” No subject or object, but hey, I think it would make it into the New York Times. 4. If you’re allowed to count backwards, you reach “a” a whole lot sooner than one thousand: Negative one. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/24 "2000-11-24T01:47:29Z")
Or if you count in Spanish, Quatro(4) ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/25 "2000-11-24T03:32:07Z")
“O!” is not technically a sentence (having no subject or predicate), but, rather, is an interjection. Still, as you said, it would work in the Times. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/26 "2000-11-24T03:33:34Z")
60 minutes has a theme song “tick tick tick tick…” ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/27 "2000-11-24T04:01:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fnord1966 \* > \*\*Or if you count in Spanish, Quatro(4) > \*\* It’s _C_uatro. I think Quatro (Quattro?) is Italian. Sorry for bothering you. Pointless post. Carry on. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/28 "2000-11-25T19:18:13Z")
Actually, the Ring Around the Rosie thing is from the Bubonic plague. I can go look it up, but I’m not sure if I want to bother. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/29 "2000-11-25T19:31:44Z")
This is from the guidebook to the “History of London” section of Madame Tussaud’s. > [@](#): > > The ancient rhyme “Ring-a-ring o’ roses” derives from the circular red blotches which appeared on the skin of victims of the Plague. “Ring-a-ring o’ roses, A pocket full of posies, A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down” are the words to the song; sneezing was one of the symptoms of the disease, and posies a supposed deterrent… whilst falling down represents it’s ultimately fatal conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/30 "2000-11-25T19:36:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hypergirl \* > \*\*Actually, the Ring Around the Rosie thing is from the Bubonic plague. I can go look it up, but I’m not sure if I want to bother. \*\* You shouldn’t have bothered, **hypergirl** , cuz actually, that’s not the origin of the Ring Around thr Rosie thing according to snopes: [http://128.242.205.65/spoons/fracture/rosie.htm](http://128.242.205.65/spoons/fracture/rosie.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/31 "2000-11-25T20:36:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades: King David, Clubs: Alexander the Great, Hearts: Charlemagne, Diamonds: Julius Caesar [Snopes claims](http://128.242.205.65/errata/cardking.htm) that’s also not true. And BTW, **nineiron** – Technically, “Go” is not a complete sentence. It has no subject. The subject is simply implied, the complete sentence there would be, “You go.” Cecil had something to say about ‘the whole 9 yards’ thing [here](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_252.html) and there was a follow-up to it [at the end of this article](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001117.html) which deals directly with the claim of the OP statement and states that the phrase didn’t show up in print until the mid-1960s. And at [Hershey’s webpage](http://www.hersheys.com/products/kisses/index.html) it says “While it’s not known exactly how Hershey’s Kisses got their name, it is a popular theory that the candy was named for the sound or motion of the chocolate being deposited during the manufacturing process.” I think if anyone would be able to verify that, it would be Hershy’s, but seeing as they only say it’s a theory, I wouldn’t put too much stock in that little bit of trivia. ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/32 "2000-11-25T21:38:58Z")
I just had another thought: wouldn’t “I do” also be a complete sentence? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/33 "2000-11-25T21:41:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zero Hero \* > \*\*I just had another thought: wouldn’t “I do” also be a complete sentence? \*\* So I guess that disproves the “I am” statement. I’m willing to bet not many more of those are going to be factual. I have heard about Tom Saywer being the first novel typed on a typewriter before, but I don’t remember where. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/34 "2000-11-25T23:50:38Z")
Here’s a site that claims Mark Twain was indeed the first. He wrote letters on one initially. [http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cymach4.html](http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cymach4.html) Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/35 "2000-11-26T00:20:32Z")
As to food, I don’t think lutefisk spoils. And if it did, who would know? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/36 "2000-11-26T02:44:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \* > \*\*As to food, I don’t think lutefisk spoils. > > And if it did, who would know? \*\* Likewise gefiltefish. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/37 "2000-11-26T05:18:37Z")
Does sugar count as a food? Because I don’t believe it spoils, either, if kept dry. For that matter, what about salt? But now we may be stretching the definition… ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/38 "2000-11-26T06:01:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beruang \* > \*\*Does sugar count as a food? Because I don’t believe it spoils, either, if kept dry. > > For that matter, what about salt? But now we may be stretching the definition… \*\* So what does qualify as a food? Why isn’t sugar a food? Why is honey? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/39 "2000-11-26T22:24:20Z")
The multiplication one and the “One Thousand” one are true. I would not be in the least surprised if they were the only “facts” in that list that are. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379/40 "2000-11-26T22:50:50Z")
> [@](#): > > The term “whole 9 yards” came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at one target, it got the “whole 9 yards.” No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It amazes me that nobody’s ever thought of this, but although most U.S. fighter planes in WWII carried .50 cal guns as their main armament, the ammo loaded per gun was not the same from plane to plane or even loadout to loadout. There wasn’t a standard ammo belt length. The phrase “the whole nine yards” has _never_ been shown to have been attached to this concept. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-bacon/42379.md?page=3)