Let's play a game...

[Dookus]

you tell me something fun and interesting. If I already knew it, or it's not interesting, I'll punch you in the neck. If I like it and I didn't know it, I'll give you a hug.

C'mon...

[democracyindanger]

1. "Methodist" and "Impressionist" were originally slurs.

[Dookus]

2. ok

:hug:

[democracyindanger]

5. woohoo!

[JVS]

9. So was "Lutheran"

[Left Is Write]

28. To some people, it still is.

Also should add that Luther did not want his "movement" named after him.

[cruadin]

36. So were "Shaker" and Quaker."

[motely36]

3. Lea DeLaria will be starring in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days

in New York.

[Dookus]

6. I'll let you skate

only because it has lesbian content, which is marginally interesting.

:hug:

Any other actor, and you'd be rubbing your neck right now, going "ow, ow, ow!"

[motely36]

8. phew....

[Tweed]

4. A group of Irish-Americans attempted to take over Canada,

hold it hostage from the British crown and free Ireland. The Irish-Americans were civil war vets. This happened twice. The American government had to step in.

[Dookus]

7. I'll need a link before

deciding your fate.

[BeatleBoot]

10. The word "Pumpernickel"

comes from the French phrase, "bon pour Nicole", which means "good for Nicole"

Nicole was a horse that a member of French royalty rode.

The bread was accidentally made by a bread maker when he/she used sugar that got too close to the open fire oven and burned. The resulting loaf was brown in color.

So they fed it to Nicole, the royal horse, and she dug it.

Seriously.

[Dookus]

12. BZZZTTT!!!

:neckpunch:

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpumpernickel.html

[BeatleBoot]

14. Go tell it to my English prof from 20 years ago or so pal....

I got a 4.0 on the 8 page paper...

:P

We didn't have no stinkin' internet back then, sonny boy...

(Try a Karate chop next time. Neck punches suck!)

[Dookus]

16. I would like to hunt down your English professor

and deliver a personal neck-punch.

[Worst Username Ever]

81. oops

[name not needed]

11. Ironically,

Slayer's album God Hates Us All,was released on September 11th, 2001.

[Dookus]

13. So sorry

:neckpunch:

Slayer is not interesting. Never was, never will be. Sorry, old chap.

[yardwork]

30. Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft" was released on 9-11-2001

I bought it that day and the lyrics of the first song were remarkably apropos.

Even if you know this I don't deserve a neck punch because, it's Bob.

[NYC Liberal]

15. When glass breaks, the cracks travel at 3,000mph.

[Dookus]

17. fair enough

:hug:

[NYC Liberal]

19. Yay!

:hi:

[JVS]

18. whoa!

[NYC Liberal]

21. LOL, that was my reaction.

And to photograph it, the camera has to shoot at 1/1000000 of a second.

[Shrek]

20. The flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper.

Really!

[Dookus]

23. alas

I knew that. I also know that the story is questionable. So sorry.


:neckpunch:

[Shrek]

25. Drat!

That hurt.

I quit this stupid game.

[JVS]

22. Spontaneous Human Combustion has many critics who make much of the fact...

that victims of Spontaneous Human Combustion are generally obese alcoholics that were near an open flame at the time of incineration. These conditions have lead to people to question how spontaneous the combustions truly were

[Dookus]

24. Damn...

I knew that. My deepest regrets.

:neckpunch:

[fluffernutter]

26. did you know that 1 in 3 snake bite victims

is drunk and 1 in 5 has a tattoo?

[Dookus]

27. I did not know that

:hug:

[sparky_in_ma]

29. A male witch

is not a warlock. A male witch is a....witch.

[Dookus]

32. Oh dear...

I knew that.

:neckpunch:

No offense.

[sparky_in_ma]

34. None taken

:)

[SheilaT]

31. The Pentagon

is the site of the original National Airport in DC. It was called Hoover field back then. The location wasn't very good, and the main runway lined up with the Washington Monument, so planes had to maneuver adroitly to avoid it. June 16, 1942 the new National Airport opened, freeing up a convenient place to construct a huge new office building for the military.

Here's a link http://www.metwashairports.com/National/history.htm

[Dookus]

33. Good enough!

:hug:

[TOhioLiberal]

35. did you know...

that when a horse is born his/her eyes are as big as they'll ever get?

[Dookus]

37. I did not!

:hug:

[St. Jarvitude]

38. The tradition of crowning the Inaugural Ball King and Queen...

The tradition of crowning the Inaugural Ball King and Queen proved awkward in 1857, when a count of the votes ended up pairing bachelor president James Buchanan with vice president John Breckinridge. The new president ordered everyone present to cover their eyes while the two performed the traditional dance. 14 people peeked through their fingers and were later shot.

[Dookus]

42. I don't believe you...

:neckpunch:

[St. Jarvitude]

44. B.. b.... but SomethingAwful said it!

It must be true!

[Maddy McCall]

39. Most of the arrowheads that people have hanging on their walls...

are what the Indian flintknappers threw away as junk. They have flaws, so they were never finished, but were thrown on the ground as junk.

Archaeologists call them "preforms."

And that stuff--the flakes--that gets knocked off during arrowhead production is called "debitage" by archaeologists. It can tell you about the methods that were used to produce the projectile point. Indeed, most arrowhead hunters leave the debitage behind when they find points, which is sad, because if they would pick it all up and save it, they could learn more about the points they collect.

:-)

[Dookus]

43. Not bad, not bad...

:hug:

[ornotna]

40. Did you know

That if the story of Noah's ark are true, there would have been approximately 43,000 animals on board with only 8 people to care for them for at least 275 days. I'll bet it smelled horrid.

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/noahs_ark/index.html

[Dookus]

45. hrmm....

I don't believe your numbers. Didn't he have seven pairs of some animals, and single pairs of others? Even if only one pair, there are certainly more than 21,500 species of animals. Sorry, it's a neck-punch.

:neckpunch:

[ornotna]

55. You hate me for my freedom, don't you

:P

[XanaDUer]

41. I'm too scared to play...

:scared:

[7th_Sephiroth]

46. Operation Northwoods was thought up by

George herbert walker bush, and carried out by his son, purely because otherwise, he would have been a forgotten president

[Dookus]

47. Sorry...

:neckpunch:

[7th_Sephiroth]

48. *as your fist makes contact with my neck

the .357 bullet makes contact with your intestine*

[bloodyjack]

49. A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut

:hug:

[Dookus]

50. I knew that...

no hug for you. Neck-punch.

:neckpunch:

[proud2BlibKansan]

51. If you leap to your death from a tall building

you will die of fright before you hit the ground.

[Dookus]

52. Not true

:neckpunch:

[proud2BlibKansan]

56. But my 8th grade science teacher

said so.

[Dookus]

57. Well

some people survive falls from high places. If they'd died of fright prior to impact, NOBODY would ever survive a fall. But some do.

Your teacher deserves a neck-punch.

[proud2BlibKansan]

67. I didn't like that teacher anyway

And now I get to hit her! Yippee!!

[Dookus]

77. No...

*I* get to hit her. Just bring her to me.

[proud2BlibKansan]

78. Your game is a lot more fun

for you than for me :(

[northzax]

53. rain falls from the sky

at an average of 21 feet per second.

[Dookus]

54. Hrmm.....

not terribly interesting... but I'm feeling generous.

:hug:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

58. " German " was almost the language of the colonies ...

Since King George of England , who spoke no English was also a King of Hannover . But of course we all know that the language of the colonies became English . So George Dubya Bush is the second of head of state who does not speak the language of the country that he supposedly governs .

[Dookus]

59. I knew that

but your joke made me giggle, so I shall grant you mercy.

:hug:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

60. This thread is hillarious btw .

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

61. If the queen had balls, she'd be king

[Dookus]

62. I've known plenty of queens with balls

and not one of them a king.

:neckpunch:

[northzax]

63. if you google "dookus"

you get 3710 hits, the second and third of which involve beheadings. Whereas, if you google 'northzax' you get 830 hits, none of which involve beheadings.

[Dookus]

64. very interesting...

:hug:

[LDS Jock]

65. The singing voice of Natalie in West Side Story

and the voice of Eliza in My Fair Lady were both done by the same lady, Marni Nixon. Nixon also sang as one of the nuns on The Sound of Music and it was the only time her face appeared on a musical with her voice.

Oh, you're gay so you probably already knew your musical trivia. One moment while I brace for the neck punch. OK, I'm ready now.

[Dookus]

66. You disappoint me

:neckpunch:


Of COURSE I knew that! Sheesh!

She also was the voice of Anna in "The King and I" and the Grandmother in "Mulan"

I aced my GSATs (Gay Scholastic Aptitude Test)

[LDS Jock]

68. yes, the King and I too.. but

I didn't know about the grandmother in Mulan

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

69. Wilhelm II never abdicated from the throne of King of Germany .

So technically ... :: neckpunch::

[Dookus]

70. Thank you for saving me the effort.

[LDS Jock]

71. since I was punched last time, I'll try again

There is only one state in the US, entirely surrounded by other states, in which you can travel to by heading straight south from some part of the bordering states.



From Benton County you can reach Oklahoma, Little River leads to Texas, Ashley to Louisiana, Phillips to Mississippi, Mississippi County to Tennessee, and Clay County to Missouri. It was a final Jeopardy question once, but I knew it because it is my home state.

[Dookus]

72. Well

you're stretching the boundaries of "interesting", but you're a nice guy, so ....

:hug:

[LDS Jock]

73. lol.. aww

OK, so I'm a map nerd. But I got my hug anyway.

[JohnKleeb]

74. wow thats neat

ummmmm ok lemme see if I can avoid getting punched in the neck, Napoleon had a descendant in Teddy Roosevelt's cabinet and FDR had Edison's son in his. *gets ready to duck*.

[Dookus]

75. Sounds good to me

:hug:


on edit: And if you duck during a neckpunch, you'll just end up getting head-punched.

[JohnKleeb]

76. phew

I wasn't worried that you'd know but that you may find it uninteresting, I read a lot on the presidents, FDR even appointed the vice presidential candidate who ran against him to head the navy department too.

[bobbobbins]

79. All you need is love

not many people know that

[Democracy Died]

80. Did you know that you can drink your own urine as a last resort

to get your nutrients?

[Worst Username Ever]

82. The phrase "the whole nine yards" originated from pilots in WW2.

The machine guns mounted in the wings of fighters were fed by belts of ammunition 9 feet long. If you went all-out on a target and gave is the entire belt of ammo, you were said to have "given it the whole nine yards."

*straps on neck padding*

[Democracy Died]

83. Do you know that you can touch all four states at once?

Called the Four Corners, you can touch Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah all at the same time.

[bobbobbins]

86. all 4? the other 46 feel left out

[Worst Username Ever]

84. Tucker looks like that dog from Van Wilder.

[sakabatou]

85. I got $127.50 in 5 min. yesterday

[dubyaD40web]

87. Did you know.....

George Washington was the first president under the US constitution of 1789. However, the US was an independent nation for 13 years before the Constitution was signed. For one year during this time John Hanson served as "President of the US in Congress assembled." Technically, he was the first president of the United States.

http://www.didyouknow.cd/fastfacts/politics.htm

[DelawareValleyDem]

88. Kevin Costner was born on this date

so was A.A. Milne but he's in no condition to celebrate

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

89. Return to the 36 Chambers is perhaps the best album made in the 90s

[Midlodemocrat]

90. I'll play

The S in Harry S Truman's name isn't an abbreviation for anything.