Nothing Rhymes with Orange. Other useless facts needed...

If you are always looking for ‘fun facts’, you may have already seen these, but a couple that I’ve always liked are:

  1. Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald. (Don’t have a cite, but I’ve heard him talk about it on the Today show.)

  2. The alpine salamander has a pregnancy that can last up to two years and always results in twins.

OED

The full poem regarding the rhyme of “silver” goes:

To find a match for “silver,”
Or any rhymeless rhyme
Requires only will, ver-
bosity, and time.

It’s Stephen Sondheim. Of course.

  • FCF

Those bums?! What do they know? :smiley:

The Capital of Nevada is further west than Los Angeles.

and

From an article on North Korea yesterday, their leader, Kim, has one of the world’s largest Daffy Duck memorabilia collections.

and

Many people noticed in the recent spate of Michael Jackson stories, one of the kids at Neverland Ranch in the background was Leonardo DiCaprio. Leo’s publicist says Leo has no comment about his vist there back then.

ooh, I remember another one from the Smithsonian - armidillos only have quads.

There are two United States Presidents whose middle initial “S” did not stand for anything - Harry S Truman and Ulysses S. Grant.

(At least that’s what Grant claimed. He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant. When he went to West Point he gave Ulysses as his first name and S as his middle initial, apparently based on his mother’s maiden name, Simpson. Later on, he insisted that the S stood for nothing. He probably just thought that U. S. Grant sounded cool.)

Look, said the estranged orange, how deranged an exchange is taking place here. :smiley:

Last month was the billionth time I had to do this.

Moderator’s note:

Well my, my, haven’t you been the busy little troll! This is the second pile of yours I’ve had to sweep up in IMHO just today.

You got your wish. Consider yourself killed.

TVeblen,
IMHO mod

This thread makes me thing of one thing:

“We’ll all avoid scurvy if we just eat an orange…”