 | | | Subject: useless facts
Posted Jan 16, 2004 by (Mahatma) 2legs - Resident loon and Cloud Cuckoolander -- Bliss is folding towels.
This is a reply to this Posting
| | Posting
4
  | | Uless facts.... Well they arn't are they? I mean, like, you know, like usless facts can be useful, won't that make them useful facts, rather than useless facts like, I mean, imagine, you are at a really dull party, probably a dinner party, and these facts suddenly come into a world of their own, perhaps that is the answer, somewhere, in a far far off galaxy, is a world full of entirely usless facts which are useful... or perhaps not, I don't know.
|
| | | Subject: useless facts
Posted Jan 16, 2004 by Random person
This is a reply to this Posting
| | Posting
7
| | Are you sure 9V batteries kill people? I've tested them on my tongue and felt a slight tingle. How do they kill you?
And, in deference to the topic:
Andre Kanchelskis is the only footballer to score in each of the Manchester, Merseyside and Old Firm derbies;
Rotherham United is the only English league football club whose name contains all five vowels.
|
| | | Subject: useless facts
Posted Jan 16, 2004 by dasilva
This is a reply to this Posting
| | Posting
8
| | Yes they do - it's not the voltage that kills it's the current drawn and there's a _lot_ of juice in them little square things, which is why they're used for such high power drain pieces of kit (radio control transmitters and the like)
About 12 pedestrians are killed in the UK by cyclists (around 90 serious injuries) - anyone know the figures for drunken old soaks on electric invalid carts?
|
| | | Subject: useless facts
Posted Jan 18, 2004 by The Godfather of Cheesecake
This is a reply to this Posting
| | Posting
15
| | Did you know that Thelonious, as in Thelonious Sphere Monk, is the Latinized version of the German name Tillman?
Also, the real name of Dizzy Gillespie is John Birks Gillespie; this is what the song title "Birk's Works" refers to.
While I'm on the subject, perhaps you've seen pictures of Dizzy Gillespie playing the trumpet and noticed his puffed-out cheeks. If you're wondering why they're so grotesquely huge, it's because Diz actually ruptured the epithelial lining in 'em while playing trumpet. Ouch.
|
|
