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Baron Grim Posted Jun 17, 2008
The song "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies was at the top of the U.S. charts for...
just one week.
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Jun 17, 2008
Song 2 by Blur peaked at no. 2 in the UK charts 
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 18, 2008
Heheh...
Cow's milk contains 3% protein. Cat's milk contains 10%. 
The trouble is sitting on that tiny stool with that tiny bucket.
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 23, 2008
Some alternate names for the film GREASE (1978)
Italy/Spain - Brillantina
West Germany - Schmiere
Mexico/Venezuela - Vaselina
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 30, 2008
The human brain uses about as much energy as a string of fairy lights, 10 watts.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jul 1, 2008
And requires about 20% of your daily allotment of calories.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jul 8, 2008
The little pointy bits on forks are called "tines".
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 8, 2008
The little pointy bits on shoelaces are called "aglets".
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swl Posted Jul 8, 2008
A marathon runner will burn 1800 calories during a race.
There's 2500 calories in a 12" pizza.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 8, 2008
there is a lesson there
eat a pizza before running a marathon
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Jul 8, 2008
Why not? Other than it tasting worse than rabbit food? (I've tried rabbit food so I'm in the know *taps nose)
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jul 9, 2008
You obviously weren't eating the right kind of salad. It was probably healthy or something, I bet that's what was wrong with it.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jul 9, 2008
I have a question, by the way. Were the Rolling Stones British, or American?
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Jul 9, 2008
That should be are cos they're still going 
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jul 9, 2008
Meh. Anyway, I believe I now know why Douglas Adams named it a "Babel" Fish. Behold: http://www.omniglot.com/babel/english.htm
You're probably best off skipping to the one at the end.
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 10, 2008
Eating salads (roughage) before a marathon greatly increases the likely hood of suffering from explosive diarrhea during the race.
(This qualifies as USEFUL information... Sorry about that.)
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