Jimi Hendrix was in the 101st Aiborne
Dirtiest thing ever said on TV: “Gee Ward, you were mighty hard on the Beaver last night.”
On a Top-40 hit: “Tighten up on my organ now!”
A baseball has 131 stitches
SNAFU means Situation Normal, All Fucked Up
Kent Brockman’s real name is Kenny Brocklestein
There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.
There are no rhymes in the English Language for Month, Purple, Orange, or Silver.
Barbie’s last name is Roberts.
It took 214 crates to ship the Statue of Liberty to the U.S.
The three notes in the famous N.B.C. triad are G, E, and C used because NBC was originally owned by the General Electric Corporation.
R2D2 was named for the abbreviation of Reel Two, Day Two.
HAL, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, was a spoof on IBM, each letter in HAL being one previous to the letters in IBM.
It takes an average of 1 hour to boil an ostrich egg.
There are an average of 1,250 “O’s” in a can of Spaghettios.
The longest sausage ever made was 68 feet in length.
The largest male waist ever measured was 118 inches around. (Make sure you read as waist, not waste!)
And just for fun, You can’t lick the back of your head.
Not true.
Bullshit. That’s an average of two hours a day, every day of those 60 years.
Arthur Clarke denies this, and I tend to believe him. HAL, as I recall, stands for either “Heuristically designed Algorithm” or simply “Heuristic Algorithm”.
It’s the latter Baldwin.
Cat pee glows under blacklight.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds. (thanks, Snapple facts!)
Flamingoes are pink from all the shrimp they eat. (thanks again!)
A golf ball has 336 dimples on it (there’s a specific word for that dimple, isn’t there?)
Someone mentioned earlier that “strengths” is the longest one-syllable word. So is “screeched.”
Oh, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember hearing once that the Eiffel Tower grows and shrinks roughly 6 inches each year due to the expansion/contraction of the metal in heat and cold.
Here is the source where I got that tid bit
Spam…the email kind…got it’s name from “The Spam Song” by Monty Python.
Babies are not really born with “half a brain”. All the parts are there, its just over time you develop more interneurons between different parts. This is hardly the same as “half a brain”
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald (in a sense). Ray Kroc and Walt Disney served in the same army troop in WWI. (Hey, I'm reading Fast Food Nation)
Ken Norton, Jr. is the only NFL player to play on three straight SB champions. (49ers and Cowboys).
Tiger Woods is the perfect name for one of the greatest golfers in history. OK, thats opinion, but come on, could he have a better sounding and more descriptive name?The Straight dope kicks ass.
The plastic thing at the end of a shoelace is an aglet.
The prongs on a fork are tines.
The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
You can’t lick the Steaight Dope
oops. You can’t like the Straight Dope either
The “G” in Maynard G. Krebs stands for “Walter”.
Hey, don’t ask me; the guy was a beatnik.
Shinobu Sekine won the 1972 All Japan judo tournament (a no-weight divisions tournament) at a bodyweight of 172 pounds. He also won a bronze medal in the 1971 Open division (also no weight divisions) in the World Championships, and the gold medal in the 1972 Olympics (middleweight).
Regards,
Shodan
Cool, that would be an inverted C Major Triad.
On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an Honorary Harlem Globetrotter
The word “algebra” comes from an Arabic word meaning “the reunion of broken parts.”
According to my Webster’s Concise Encyclopedia, the national tongue of Singapore is Malay, and Chinese, Tamil and English are official languages. I mention this only because some friends and I wondered about it over lunch yesterday and I was looking it up anyway.
You sure it’s not Feb 29th?
The digits of any number that is multiplied by nine, either add up to nine or consist of nines, or consist of nines and zeroes.