Tell me something I don't know!

[UrbScotty]

[joeybee12]

1. Carravagio's works are extremely homo-erotic!

The art thread got me thinking.

[kitkatrose]

2. Okay

The human body generally carries around ten pounds of feces at all times. Fun biology fact for the day. I love AP Bio.

[everythingsxen]

3. If you...

Turn around from where you start on the first level of the first board of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and jump in the lake and swim to the bottom, you will find a secret rocket launcher. On the island, just beyond that lake, there is a secret phone booth that you can use and Sam will make a witty jab at Duke Nukem.

Didya know that?

[RandomKoolzip]

4. I'm constructed entirely out of liverwurst.

And my memory chips have been cut from the purest dolomite.

[Bertha Venation]

5. I have two cats named after presidents

Bonus points if you can guess the presidents (hint - check my home page - see profile)

And an all-expenses paid day trip to Cucamonga if you can guess why I named them after those presidents

[joeybee12]

7. How old are the cats--tell me and then I'll guess!

[Bertha Venation]

8. nine-year-old littermates . . .

[everythingsxen]

9. My guess..

Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.

Why? I bet the one named Senior pukes everywhere and you named junior because he ate your list of friends and pooped it out. :D

[Bertha Venation]

14. clever but wrong, and . . . gross!

;)

[joeybee12]

11. Harry S. Truman and Richard Nixon--I cheated!

[Bertha Venation]

16. well done! now, the question is . . .

why? Forget the trip to Cucamonga, this is for $5,000* and the rest of your clothes!

* To be paid one penny at a time throughout your life, as you find pennies wherever they might be.

[joeybee12]

18. And the answer is "Why not??"

Anyway, my littermates are female, so I named them Scarlet and Melanie, after my favorite movie. How did I decided which was which--well, Scarlet was quite the loud one as a kitten, and Melanie never amde a peep.

[Bertha Venation]

23. Good answer.

:D

[La_Serpiente]

6. The Marianas Trench

off of the coast of Guam is the deepest part in the world. It is 10,924 m, or almost 11 km (7 miles deep)

[UrbScotty]

21. Sorry, I knew that.

;-)

[Robb]

10. Static guard spray

...has an expiration date.

[Swede]

12. Alexander the Great may have died from the West Nile Virus.

Just saw that on Discovery.

[joeybee12]

17. Really? read a book that theorized acute alcoholism

He loved his wine.

[Leftist78]

13. got one

the odor eliminator in Febreze is derived from corn.

[toddzilla]

15. too close of a lobe separation and you will lose vacuum at idle

but you will gain top-end power!!

:silly:

[Insider]

19. SoHo

learned on city confidential today:
soho section of the city comes from 'south of houston street'

i did not know that.

[UCLA02]

27. ...and Tribeca

is "Triangle Below Canal"

[Insider]

30. big grin

i did not know THAT. sometimes this msg board is just plain fun.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. I am not really Grumpy at all...

;)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

22. It seems that I have had a relative in every American War

all the way back to the Indian Wars of 1648 which were fought in the wilderness now known as The Bronx.

[populistmom]

24. People who are breastfed have higher IQs

Sources:

Horwood and Fergusson, "Breastfeeding and Later Cognitive and Acadenic Outcomes", Jan 1998 Pediatrics Lucas, A., "Breast Milk and Subsequent Intelligence Quotient in Children Born Preterm." Lancet, 1992; 339:261-262Vol. 101, No. 1

Morrow-Tlucak M, Haude RH, Ernhart CB. "Breastfeeding and cognitive development in the first 2 years of life". Soc Sci Med. 1988:26;635-639
Lucas A., "Breast Milk and Subsequent Intelligence Quotient in Children Born Preterm". Lancet 1992;339:261-62

Wang YS, Wu SY. "The effect of exclusive breastfeeding on development and incidence of infection in infants." J Hum Lactation. 1996; 12:27-30

[EV1Ltimm]

25. paintball is safter than bowling.

... just so long as you're wearing goggles :)

[UCLA02]

26. Hahn's beer is really sour...

especially when you're drinking it and it says "Packaged on 9/11/02"

(Since it's Australian, wondering if that means "Sept. 11" or "November 9." Either way it's over a year old. Gotta tell Trader Joes to rotate it's stock better.)

[NightTrain]

28. Necrophiliac enema nurses rule Nebraska

Betcha didn't know that, huh?

[populistmom]

29. My mom went to nursing school in Nebraska

Guess that explains why she's so damned strange. :crazy:

[LincolnMcGrath]

31. LUNCHABLES

Are packed by oompa loompas