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Did You Know?; Totally Stealing this from Wiki!
Topic Started: May 4 2007, 03:15 PM (210 Views)
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At least I didn't use the word random.

Did You Know Bold Lane is listed as one of the ten "most secure places in the world", alongside Air Force One, Area 51, and Fort Knox?

They claim its only a parking garage. :unsure:
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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No I didn't, is the answer.
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Eral
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I take it that the carpark is full of Lambhorginis and Rolls, to warrant such a level of protection. :blink:
Overkill, anyone? :lol: That is dedication to the cause. I'm betting that the person in charge is TOTALLY obsessive-compulsive.

I wonder if Parksafe could be hired to help out in Iran? :unsure:

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Did you know...

that should Gordon Brown succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister he will be the first one ever that wasn't educated at Oxford or Cambridge?
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No I did not know that. Sounds a bit like a secret society type thing. :cyber:
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Is there a third high status university we don't know about? :blink:

Did you know...
square numbers actually form a square?
If you use little square blocks to make them.
I found this out this week. Almost as exciting as when I figured out how multiplication works.


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I did know that, there are also triangle numbers, 1,3,6,10,15,21 for instance that make an equilateral triangle.

No, no high-status 3rd university, and if you watch Blackadder you know Oxford is a dump anyway. :D
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I can tell you all the triangular numbers to 100, now. Had no idea of their existence until last week. :lol:

I love my job.

Is Gordy going to use this as a "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" plus, or will it work against him?
Here the bootstraps are always a plus: one of the reasons our Premier is popular is he is the son of a Lebanese migrant (see? multiculturalism works!) Will it work in England?
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Did you know that Frank Sinatra spent 16 hours in jail in 1938 over a Breach of Promise case?

(The papers are a bit bored with Paris H - they are spreading out to other famous people who spent time in jail.)
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Dorothy Parker was arrested for protesting the Sacco and Vanzetti execution. She was charged with loitering and sauntering, and fined five dollars, which she was all too happy to pay.
I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
-Min Jin Lee
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May 8 2007, 05:16 AM
I can tell you all the triangular numbers to 100, now. Had no idea of their existence until last week.  :lol:

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I read the article :read: on wiki on triangular numbers then of course followed the links to the 'other' numbers, (haxagonal, pentagonal, friedman and narcissistic ( what now there are numbers that are self centered and concieted ? :unsure: ) numbers)
Now I got a headache, :angry:

thanks. :fish:

And I always though I was good at math, must be old age getting to me.
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Narcissistic numbers? :lol: That is truly fabulous. :margarita:

I have always admired Dorothy Parker, even after reading a biography that suggested she was REALLY horrible. Loitering and sauntering sounds like something she would have thoroughly enjoyed. But really, who wouldn't? :)
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Did you know that the last man drawn and quartered in France, for the crime of the attempted regicide of Louis XV, was executed by the same man who executed Louis XIV?

That's a very bitter irony. Talk about wrong time, wrong place. If only he had attempted to stab XVI, not XV: he would have been a hero.
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Did You Know Babies Start Lying As Early As Six Months Old - Not so innocent, indeed!

I'm not sure I would call 'fake crying' lying but I'm not a child behaviorist.

IRT Eral - Going on a French history kick, eh? No, I did not know that. It's all a matter of context, I guess. :unsure: Or, what goes around comes around or live by the scaffold, die by being drawn and quartered.
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Jul 1 2007, 01:47 AM
Did You Know Babies Start Lying As Early As Six Months Old - Not so innocent, indeed!

I'm not sure I would call 'fake crying' lying but I'm not a child behaviorist.

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Dr Reddy said: "Fake crying is one of the earliest forms of deception to emerge, and infants use it to get attention even though nothing is wrong. You can tell, as they will then pause while they wait to hear if their mother is responding, before crying again.

"It demonstrates they're clearly able to distinguish that what they are doing will have an effect.


I'm sorry, but that is boneheadedly assinine. They aren't "fake crying." They want attention and they know they'll get it if they cry, so they cry. They're not actually trying to pretend something is wrong. What's wrong is they aren't getting any attention.

Six-month-old babies have limited vocabularies, you morons. "Hey, I need some attention over here" isn't part of the lingo; "WAAAAA!" is. "I'm glad you're paying attention" isn't part of the lingo, either, but a smile is.

Friggin idiots and the idiots who write stories about them.
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Started off looking up the Trianon, ended up finding out Sanson executed over 2000 people. Google. It's a gift to obsessive fast readers.

Fake crying? :lol: Yep, there's a man who has missed something important in his child behaviour studies. They can't talk, dummy. :rolleyes: And even babies get bored.
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Did You Know? Underwear's historic role... in Western learning

:D
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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That's quite fascinating, and I'm filing it away for future reference.
I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
-Min Jin Lee
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Jul 13 2007, 04:31 AM
That's quite fascinating, and I'm filing it away for future reference.

PANTS!
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As much as I admire underpants, I don't think this article is really making the link between the spread of literacy and the wearing of underpants. Wearing underlinen did not make people want to read.
"Ooh, I have on a fine new cotton shift, I think I'll go down to the local monastery and see what's the latest news on Copernican theory." <_<
Any definitive proof that books were made from second hand clothing?
"Hmm, I have a large pile of worn undergarments. I know, I'll send them down to the printer, he'll put them to good use." :shrug:

I am very disappointed. I was hoping to see underpants-shaped books, at least. :grumpy:
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Not exactly, but I do know that the rag-and-bone man would come around and buy up the various household junk, then resell it to those who could make it back into something useful.

It is true that once up on a time, waste was practically unheard-of.
I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
-Min Jin Lee
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I reckon the rich were always wasteful and it was the poor that had to make things go further.

But anyway, I reckon underwear would be perfect for scratch'n'sniff books.... probably get a very good price if it comes from the right person. (yes I apologise profusely for that, well not really ;D)
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:yuck: :cry:

All those nannas with obsessions about clean underwear are really happy to not be here at this moment.
Ewww.
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