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Post 3341

Cheerful Dragon

Doubly useless and doubly wrong.

See posting 3281 for the original, and posting 3285 for my response proving it is incorrect that it will 'never happen again'. smiley - tongueoutsmiley - nahnah


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Post 3342

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

the worlds longest song titleis"i'm a cranky old yank in a clanky old tank on the streets of Yokahoma with my Honolulu mama doin my beato beato flat on my seato Hirohito blues" by Hope&Crosby


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Post 3343

airscotia-back by popular demand

You should see the 'B' side smiley - erm


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Post 3344

swl

today is the longest day of your life

and so is tomorrow



http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/


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Post 3345

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

Led Zeppelin only released one single"the immigrant song"B side"she drives funny cars"


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Post 3346

airscotia-back by popular demand

In 2006 crazyhorse was given a book about musical facts.smiley - winkeye


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Post 3347

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

nope strictly memory...funny how remember useless stuff but i*
m useless at face name recognition


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Post 3348

airscotia-back by popular demand

I applaud your memory, and withdraw my innaccurate useless fact then. smiley - biggrin


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Post 3349

Lt. Thrace (formerly Death of Rats and Rodent like humans)

john wayne couldnt ride a horse. in fact he kept falling off. apparently he also couldnt shoot his way out of a paper bag, and on set someone else had to shot from the sidelines to make it look authentic.


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Post 3350

airscotia-back by popular demand

Clint Eastwood is actually allergic to horses. smiley - erm

Which begs the question, were all those horses in the spaghetti westerns thinking;

"Are ya feeling breathless punk..........well are ya?"


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Post 3351

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

wayne was born Marion Morrison




from the tip of ones finger..index to the 1st0joint is approx 1 inch on everyone


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Post 3352

invisibleknight

Here's one for Crazyhorse.

SOS - ABBA

is the only record ever released where both artist and song title are a palindrome.

CrazyHorse?
After the Indian Chief or the 70's track by The Osmonds?
Or did MentalMule, LooneyLipinzaner, Bonkersbronco, Strangestallion not quite have the same ring?


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Post 3353

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

chief and neil youngs band......the osmonds..leave it out never even heard of the tune til recently


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Post 3354

Baron Grim

Guess what President Theodore Roosevelt brought back from his cross-country train tour in 1903?

A baby BADGER! smiley - magic


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Post 3355

A Super Furry Animal

>> from the tip of ones finger..index to the 1st0joint is approx 1 inch on everyone <<

That depends on what you mean by "approximately"...technically, anything from 0.5" to 1.4999999999999*" can be defended as "approximate".

RFsmiley - evilgrin

* etc.


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Post 3356

Baron Grim

And if we find some freaks, one with a joint only 1/8th inch long and the other, a giant, with a joint 9 inches long, their joints are within an order of magnitude.


Heheheh... I said "joint". heheheh.


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Post 3357

airscotia-back by popular demand

Talk about bonging your own drum smiley - erm Any dope can say that.smiley - smiley


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Post 3358

Cheerful Dragon

"Clint Eastwood is actually allergic to horses". There is no reference to this 'fact' on IMdB. Many of the references I could find on the web looked like they had been copied from the same source. The one unique reference I could find was on where it states "It is reported that Clint's gap in western-making was due to a mid-life allergy to horses." Note the word 'reported' - kind of similar to 'alleged', in my book.

"john wayne couldnt ride a horse. in fact he kept falling off. apparently he also couldnt shoot his way out of a paper bag, and on set someone else had to shot from the sidelines to make it look authentic." Actually, John Wayne rode to school every day before his parents ranch failed. There were films where he fell of his horse during filming, but he always continued work, even when suffering from broken bones. I've not been able to find anything that says he couldn't shoot. Besides, if somebody was shooting for him, they'd have to stand behind him, not on the sidelines.


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Post 3359

Cheerful Dragon

Argh! Forgot to post a link to the site that had the 'reported' allergy. It's http://www.clinteastwood.net/welcome2.html


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Post 3360

The Groob

The smallest book in the Library of Congress is Old King Cole measuring just 1/25 inch by 1/25 inch, or about the size of a full stop.

Who drummer Keith Moon had an irrational fear of the periodic table.

Half of all coffee drinkers drink it black.

Yellow type on a black background is considered to be the most eye-catching colour combination.


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