In 1921, Henry Ford built an auto assembly plant in Perth, Australia, and hired an all-kangaroo workforce for it. He had to shut the place down after only six months because it turned out the kangaroos were notoriously unreliable about showing up for work.
In 1922, Davis Laden-Hargreaves III, who headed the disastrous Perth Operations, chose to relocate to Oahu to try again establishing an assembly plant. It closed six months later. Turns out, Hawaiians are equally unreliable about showing up for work.
In 1923, Davis Laden-Hargreaves III learned that Hawaiians actually are quite reliable about showing up for work. They did not show up in 1922 because no one could understand a word he was saying, and thought he was just handing them money out of the goodness of his heart.
In 1993 Hawaii stopped entering the “USA’s Most Landlocked State” competition
after having come in the last 5 for the previous 60 years.
Hawai’i has spent at least $150 trying to get Rhode Island to abandon its nickname of “The Ocean State” especially since Rhode Island is of course not an island. The Hawai’ians have been unable to raise more money for their efforts because nobody in either state gives a damn.
Cedric T Rhode, after whom Rhode Island was named, was killed
in the 1855 partial eclipse of the moon by the sun when he went out
without his parasol.
The Hitsong Lay Trivia Mine in Lesotho was sold in June 2025 to a private
buyer from Iceland who relocated it to Grímsstaðir, a settlement in north-east
Iceland where there is known to be a rich deposit of Sodium bi-Triviate.
This is converted to Trivia using the Obblie process which involves boiling it
with a mixture if Copper Sulphate and Potassium Triumvirate, and leaving
the resultant purple sludge to dry in a “Troast House” for a minimum of six
minutes.
The hole in Lesotho where the original mine was has been converted into an
active volcano.
Lesotho was named for French explorer Robert La Salle and Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.
Lesotho is the Castilian pronunciation. In the Americas, it’s pronounced “Le-sox-o.”
The Gulf of America was so named by the sitting president after voters in New Mexico agreed to change their state’s name to New America.
It is spelled “Gulf of America” on maps, but it’s pronounced “Throat-Wobbler Mangrove.”
I worked on the movie Marathon Man as the assistant gopher for the secretary to the assistant to the backup makeup artist. During some downtime while shooting the dental scene, Laurence Olivier filled a cavity for me.
In 1991 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences considered giving an Oscar to Gremlins 2 for using the line “Is it safe?” during the dental torture scenes.
Sorry about my last post. I see now that I was answering Lie About Yourself in the wrong thread.
Carry on.
I thought it fit into the thread, but maybe we can incorporate it.
Corporate America has discovered a gulf between domesticated gophers and the subterranean denizens of Florida mangrove forests. Studies to improve their relations have been halted by local folk who oppose to snooty academics traipsing around their everglades.
Governor DiSantis is promoting a bill outlawing the domestication of gophers.
We now have learned the reason Trump’s caddies move his ball is to stop gophers from snatching them, according to reports from the president’s head groundskeeper, Carl “Willie” Spackler.
Trump has announced that with all the time he has spent playing golf, he’s so good now that he doesn’t have to cheat any more!
(… although he also announced that he’s also not going to cheat any less… )
-”BB”-
George Santos has declared himself the King of San Quentin and claims to have formed his own SWAT team to keep the penitentiary calm and safe.