I know that a perfect number is any number who’s divisors (itself excluded) add up to itself. The first perfect number is 6 (1, 2, 3)
The second, third and forth are:
28, 496, 8128.
Yes, but it’s not funny if you tell it that way. 
You did realize it was a bad American joke, right?
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, had six children with his wife Magda, and they were named Helmut, Helga, Hedda, Heide, Holde and Hilde. (Actually, Helmut was hers from a previous marriage.)
The movie version of the book “The Outsiders” by SE Hinton came about due to mail to Francis Ford Coppola from a classroom (4th grade I believe) at Lone Star Elementary in Fresno, Ca. They felt that the story would make a great movie, Mr Coppola apparently agreed and went on to direct and produce the film.
They have a plaque at the school autographed by the various stars of the movie in their library.
um, ya, uh I guess I did. ha ha.
Umm…I think this is a variation on the adage: “Never pick a guinea pig up by its tail; it’s eyes will pop up.”
Why is this so? Have you ever tried to pick up a guinea pig by its tail? They don’t have one. (Well, you can actually feel some tail vertebrae under the skin, but as such they don’t have tails.)
A previous poster to this thread, I think it was gex gex, said that their trivial contribution was that they knew that the following could be scanned as an actual sentence:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Okay, someone has got to help me figure this out.
can it be re-phrased as:
"Buffalo from Buffalo confuse (i.e., buffalo) buffalo from Buffalo? I suppose that works, even though the sentence is basically a nonsense construction - not that I should be expecting much from a sentence who’s main point is to repeat the work “buffalo”, eh?
How about this one: I know how to scan the following sentence -
That that that that boy wrote is not that that that that boy wrote.
have fun.
I’ve seen this particular bit of trivia before - in Steven Pinker’s “The Language Instinct”, I believe - and I think that’s pretty much right… Also, I don’t know about putting as many buffaloes as you want in, but I think you can extend it to at least eight…
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
i.e., “buffalo from Buffalo who are buffaloed (confused) by other buffalo from Buffalo, will in turn buffalo other buffalo from Buffalo”.
Well, that’s my trivia contribution, I guess. (It’s also my second post in, ooh, about eighteen months of lurking.)
Actually, I knew that too. Spooky! :eek:
I know the porosity range of the basal-most sand member of the Frio formation at NAD27 Zone 4204 X=2709439, Y=307239.
But I’m not tellin’.
But, sadly, not the correct spelling.
Anyhoo, I know that Leonid Breznhev and Eamonn Andrews and I share the same birthday, only I have a slim chance of enjoying mine though…
Man this is a great thread.
A ‘Jiffy’ is 1/100th of a second
A thousand pardons, China Guy. My jokes often lack the crucial element of “being funny”. I’ll do you the favor of not trying to explain it and making it even worse- 
A thousand pardons, China Guy. My jokes often lack the crucial element of “being funny”. I’ll do you the favor of not trying to explain it and making it even worse-
That “that that” that boy wrote is not that “that that” that boy wrote.
There’s a longer and trickier variation on this one, but I can’t recall it at the mo.
I think Cecil may have taught me this, but green eyes are green because of fat deposits. Yes, green-eyed people (like myself) have fat eyes.
Captain never said ‘Beam me up, Scotty’ in ST:TOS
Your foot is the same length as your forearm (from wrist to
elbow) - any contortionists wishing to disprove/prove this? Photographic evidence only…
TWAIN (the tech used by scanners etc) stands for ‘Technology Without An Interesting Name’
Elephants are the only animals with 4 kneecaps.
Bananas are not fruit - they are a type of herb (something to do with banana ‘trees’ not being trees, I believe)
Doctor Who has been played on TV/Film by more actors (and occasionally actresses) than any other character - I used to know how many, but I forgot - somewhere around 15-20 IIRC - more if you add radio shows in too!
Terry Pratchett is the most shop-lifted author in Britain
I used to be able to recite entire scripts from Blackadder and Red Dwarf but - alas - this facility has deserted me in my dotage
it’s ‘Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio’, NOT 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well;
it’s '“All that glisters is not gold.” NOT “All that glitters is not gold.”
it’s “Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” NOT “Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.”
There’s more, but it’s strangely hard to come up with them like this - i need someone to start a conversation with me to trigger my brain cells…
Further notes: ShadowWarriors can’t proof read… first line should, of course, read ‘Captain Kirk…’
The cinygmula mayfly nymph is distinguishable from other fast-water
“clinger” type nymphs by a notch on its forehead.
The cinygmula mayfly nymph is distinguishable from other fast-water
“clinger” type nymphs by a notch on its forehead.