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HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/16/2009 3:03:19 AM)
Heee! I am abashed with appreciation fpr your appreciations... and with that... in ancient Greece, in the original Olympics, athletes found guilty of a false-start could be FLOGGED as a punishment!

DarkSteven -> RE: Trivia (10/16/2009 5:55:32 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DarkSteven The following words end in "uum": Vacuum Continuum Menstruum Triduum There is one and only one work that contains "uum" within it: Muumuu Oops. I forgot "duumvir".

HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/16/2009 5:59:30 AM)
sounds like Boromir's dullard cousin...

TwistedHeart74 -> RE: Trivia (10/16/2009 7:54:34 AM)
101 dalmations, peter pan lady and the tramp and mulan are the only disney movies where both parents are present & dont die through the movie Geezzz Disney...morbid much??

HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/16/2009 8:37:18 AM)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil man speaking of animation, live actors and animation mixed together was done lonnnnng before Roger Rabbit, which claimed it as a "first"

fluffypet61 -> RE: Trivia (10/16/2009 10:56:05 AM)
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel-arch bridge, in Fayetteville, West Virginia. With a length of 3,030 feet (924 m), it was for many years the longest in the world of that type. Its arch extends 1,700 feet (518 m). The New River Gorge Bridge carries U.S. Highway 19 over the New River at a height of 876 feet (267 m), making it the highest vehicular bridge in the Americas, and the second-highest in the world. Every year on the third Saturday in October - tomorrow - the bridge is closed to vehicular traffic for an event called "Bridge Day". A feature of this event is B.A.S.E. jumping, which is an extreme sport of parachuting off of the bridge. http://www.officialbridgeday.com/

HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/17/2009 3:53:21 AM)
MONDO COOL, Fwuffy! [:)][:)] not too far from where I was born, in Oz, there are some cliffs. these cliffs are pretty "sheer", they go up rather high, and overlook the Ocean. only fairly recently, have paleo-folk specializing in "sea bugs" (like trilobites, as reff'd in the original Godzilla film) had a look at the cliff, looking for fossils of sea bugs and plants and shells... long story short, they found stuff that wwas dragged from the sea floor, that indicates around 50,000 years ago, a tsunami hit what we now refer to as "The Sydney Area", a wave that had to be over ONE HUNDRED FEET HIGH. for reference, this wave - if hitting the California Coast - would have kept going until it hit mountains. as we are surrounded by Ring of Fire places, the next Gargantua Wave could happen easily in our lifetime. meaning (for old farts like me) before 2040

fluffypet61 -> RE: Trivia (10/17/2009 8:40:26 AM)
New word for me - polymath - a person whose expertise spans many fields. Example: Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (23 July 1907 - 10 January 1997) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor. She wrote 30 books; but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard which were based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. i enjoyed the TV-mini series in the 1980's made from her book The Flame Trees of Thika.

HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/19/2009 12:52:09 AM)
since fwuffy might like these... "why is phonetic not spelled phonetically...?" in the middle ages, animals could be tried and found guilty as per humans, in Europe.

fluffypet61 -> RE: Trivia (10/19/2009 2:30:20 PM)
Suppose Professor Mc Gonagall was making a list of possible passwords for the Gryffindor Tower. If she were to make passwords of 7 distinct letters from the letters of the English alphabet, how many of these passwords will have "A" in the middle? 127,512,000 (Hint: highlight the box to see answer)

HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/20/2009 5:17:49 AM)
holy crap! that is amazing! the first Aussie Olympic big winner was back in the late 1890's (we began early) John Cleese's original family name was "Cheese". The original costume for Spiderman was BLACK and red, not blue and red.

fluffypet61 -> RE: Trivia (10/20/2009 4:55:06 PM)
The three Fates, or Moirae as they were known, were Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. It was said that they decided the lifestyles and lifespans of every mortal being. Clotho was the spinner who produced the thread of life, Lachesis would measure out the allotted span of each person's life, and Atropos was responsible for cutting the thread and so ending that life. Atropine is a derivative of belladonna, as well as other plants, and has a variety of uses including dilation of pupils in ophthalmic treatment, as well as regulation of slow heartrate in resuscitation cases. It can be deadly when given in overdose though, and so was named after Atropos, the cutter. Interestingly, her Roman equivalent was called Morta, or Death.

TwistedHeart74 -> RE: Trivia (10/20/2009 5:51:15 PM)
Awesome info Fluffy!

MakeMeSmile4U -> RE: Trivia (10/20/2009 7:57:07 PM)
Tarzan was (still is??) the first animated Disney character to have nipples

sunshinemiss -> RE: Trivia (10/20/2009 8:13:46 PM)
Now wait a doggone minute... I'm sure I saw some cartoon porn with that poly girl and the midgets.

HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/21/2009 1:15:22 AM)
Dublin, one of the most Catholic cities on earth, has Cuchullain (an Irish PAGAN demigod) sitting in his death-moments in the National Post Office Window (the NP being a major symbol of "fuck you, Orangemen, this land is OURS")

fluffypet61 -> RE: Trivia (10/21/2009 6:34:28 PM)
Historic Route 66 goes from Santa Monica, California through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and ends in Chicago, Illinois. The movie "Cars" (2006) is set around this old highway. This route was approximately 2,448 miles long. I-40 runs from Barstow, California all the way to North Carolina. It goes through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and ends in North Carolina. This interstate is approximately 2,554 miles long.

HatesParisHilton -> RE: Trivia (10/22/2009 2:55:24 AM)
Holbein was a Euro Artist of reknown, Holbein ( a faboo art materials company bearing his name) is... JAPANESE. THE TARANTULA can live for over 15 years. If it's not fucked with. according to the Mayan Calendar, it's all over for this planet in less than 2 years. I am glad I am not dieting or skimping on the chocolate. until recently, most copies or editions of Nosferatu looked silly and jumpy because the twats making the copies from the master were too twittish to take into account the original frame rate. Now that "geek culture" has bothered to be more than nancyboys in Elvis Costello glasses, digital tech has allowed for the original FPS to be taken into account and thus we can have a similacrum of the cinematic experience of Max Shreck as the first "Vlad" as the first film-goers got to enjoy.

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