Teach me stuff!

[wordcross]

I dunno. If i'd been McDonalds I reckon i probably would have refused to open a store there on principle. The Golden Arches are a trademark of the company and all. Still, money is money, and opening the store gets them money, so i can see why they ultimately went along with it.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[Chuck]

[Coyote]

I know I'm going to regret asking this, but...what the heck does that have to do with survival?
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Hard work may pay off in the long run, but laziness pays off right now.

[Courk]

What the genius said.

[Chuck]

I thought I'd find out by posting it here.

[Samadhi]

Well, if you're in a spaceship in the outer solar system you'll know you can land on it since it's not a star.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[NeocortX]

Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting drinks machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

[Dread Pirate Westley]

[Courk]

No, by writing it his family can now survive.

[Dread Pirate Westley]

Well, yes, that was the case. In fact, upon further review, his editor will also probably be fired, as well!

[Coyote]

Well, I can't say I'm all too happy about inadvertantly causing everyone on the Survival Calendar project to lose their livelihood. On the other hand, you'd think people involved with such a project might have taken a bit of time to research the question of how to survive if you lose your job, rather than looking up totally unrelated fluff about Herschel and his telescope.

What does make me happy is that no one seized the opportunity to make some incredibly lame pun involving the word 'Uranus'. Why do you think I was reluctant to ask the question in the first place?

Let's just hope I don't regret pointing that out.
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Hard work may pay off in the long run, but laziness pays off right now.

[wordcross]

You mean, Let's hope Uranus doesn't regret.... aw screw it.
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[Guest]

Who are sheffield F.C. which league/division?

[casinopete]

"Vegetable" and "Fruit" are culinary categories along with "Nut," "Herb," "Spice," and "Grain." In this sense, they are exclusive, and people are correct to decide whether a particular foodstuff is a fruit XOR a vegetable.

People get confused rather often because the word "fruit" also has a distinct scientific meaning - the ripened ovary, together with its seed(s).

Things like tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers, are vegetables, culinarily speaking, and fruit, scientifically speaking.

Nuts are fruits, too.

Allspice and nutmeg are also fruits in the scientific sense.

Rhubarb stands apart for being a fruit, culinarily, but definitely not a fruit scientifically (only the stalk is edible).

European Union trade rules define the carrot to be a fruit.

[NeocortX]

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

[Doc Borodog]

[casinopete]

He does say a hummingbird, not all hummingbirds. fnord.

[NeocortX]

^

Maybe whoever I got that fact from is from some exotic, far-away country where the pennies are heavy, and the hummingbirds are light.

[Coyote]

[NeocortX]

[Dread Pirate Westley]

[wordcross]

% is too low
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[Courk]

Yeah. Jamie and Adam found out that a duck's echo is just very similar to the initial quack and bladdy blah blah technical stuff. It was fun watching them try to make a duck quack without making any noise themselves.

[extropalopakettle]

You can grow moss by putting some clumps of moss in a blender with a 50/50 mix of buttermilk and water, blending it well, and pouring over porous rocks or bricks or other substrate (which must be kept somewhat damp).

[Dread Pirate Westley]

The 1,241,100,000,000th digit of pi is 5.

[zorT Kitty]

The Wal Mart TV network is the 5th largest in the country.

[The Cruciverbalist]

[Kd]

*snerk* Like, of course it is.
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Guess who's back, back again, Kd's back, tell a friend.

[Quailman]

As for the echo of a duck's quack, I don't know about Mythbusters. Did they cite the absolute authority?

[extropalopakettle]

[Guest]

A fart is really the sound of your @ssh0le clapping.

[Dragon Phoenix]

[groza528]

extro beat me to it, Verbal
How about "You get more than twice the workout by frowning that you do by smiling."

[Samadhi]

[Vader]

I saw that episode. It was indeed very funny when they were trying to make the Duck quack. The duck wouldn't stop quacking UNTIL they set up for the tests. My Wife and I were laughing the whole time.
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Duct tape is like the force they both have a light side and a dark side and they bind the universe together.

[Samadhi]

It proves the old saying, "A watched duck never quacks."
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Termital]

How to mail a fresh brain, provided it is legal in your part of the world. Well, OK, it leaves out the part about affixing proper postage, but still..
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_{Better ways to push & pull!}

[Doc Borodog]

[casinopete]

More than 400 different smurf figurines have been manufactured. The first three did not include Papa or Smurfette, nor did they include Brainy, Handy, Clumsy, Hefty, Vanity, Jokey, or Greedy.

The first three were Normal Smurf, Gold Smurf and Convict Smurf:

[extropalopakettle]

Smurfs are asexual.