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I did not know that... trivial stuff you just learned

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Maybe these are all good album names for a single band. 

One of my proudest moments in life occurred when I was ~10-12 years old and on a family vacation. The hotel we were staying at had live bands in the bar area and a little chalkboard sandwich board thing in front of the entrance to advertise each night's act. 

"Cat Sass" was the name of the band one night, and I found their chalk and added an apostrophe so that it then appeared to proclaim that "Cat's ass" would be playing that evening. 

24 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Maybe these are all good album names for a single band. 

One of my proudest moments in life occurred when I was ~10-12 years old and on a family vacation. The hotel we were staying at had live bands in the bar area and a little chalkboard sandwich board thing in front of the entrance to advertise each night's act. 

"Cat Sass" was the name of the band one night, and I found their chalk and added an apostrophe so that it then appeared to proclaim that "Cat's ass" would be playing that evening. 

Apple, far from tree, and whatnot.

3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yep, allergic to doze nuts too.

I'd hate to see the test you had to take to determine that.

11 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

I'd hate to see the test you had to take to determine that.

Anal insertion of a walnut?

1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Anal insertion of a walnut?

You have to test ALL nuts.  Start with the coco de mer:

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10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You have to test ALL nuts.  Start with the coco de mer:

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Look, I don't speak no fancy Latin.  Where I come from, we call that a Gorilla Pap Smear.

Alligators are ornery because they have all those teeth and no toothbrush.

Only one US President has lost a son to war.  T. Roosevelt

Caterpillars don't actually form what we think of as "cocoons" to turn into butterflies.  Those are moths. 

IT WAS ALL A LIE! 

What most people think of as cocoons are chrysalides - thus, what most people think of "cocoons" are actually caterpillars turning into butterflies.

All certified mail is registered.  But all registered mail is not necessarily certified.  

5 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Only one US President has lost a son to war.  T. Roosevelt

Possibly not true.  There is some thought that Beau Biden's cancer was caused by chemical exposure during his service.

7 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Only one US President has lost a son to war.  T. Roosevelt

And Teddy Jr. was well over 50 when he died in Normandy, so it's not like he was cut down in the flower of his youth.

But that is an amazing stat.  I wonder how many presidential sons have even seen action. 

2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Possibly not true.  There is some thought that Beau Biden's cancer was caused by chemical exposure during his service.

Dude…..

6 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

And Teddy Jr. was well over 50 when he died in Normandy, so it's not like he was cut down in the flower of his youth.

But that is an amazing stat.  I wonder how many presidential sons have even seen action. 

Quinten died in WW1.  Flew in 94th Aero Squadron

 

He was 20.

Edited by Gil Bang

Didn't know until recently the reason why you cross the safety chains on a trailer is to create a "cradle" for the tongue should it come unhitched.

I unhitched South Austin's mom tongue last night

49 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Quinten died in WW1.  Flew in 94th Aero Squadron

 

He was 20.

Well I stand corrected.  So Teddy has 2, everyone else zero.

Was just thinking about the Venus flytrap for some reason.  Everyone thinks about the flytrap part, but I thought for a second, wait, where did the Venus part come from.  Then I was like

 

oh.  oh. oooohhh.

Speaking of presidential offspring dying in battle, I'm touring Chickamauga battlefield this morning and just learned that Captain Samuel Jackson died in the battle. Though he was only a grandson of Andrew and also happened to be fighting on the wrong side.

The historical record is spotty, but it's believed his last words were "Get these motherfucking Yankees off my motherfucking land."

22 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Was just thinking about the Venus flytrap for some reason.  Everyone thinks about the flytrap part, but I thought for a second, wait, where did the Venus part come from.  Then I was like

 

oh.  oh. oooohhh.

I'd ask @Not a cat, as the avatar seems relevant.....;)

11 hours ago, Not a cat said:

Well I stand corrected.  So Teddy has 2, everyone else zero.

I believe all of FDR’s sons fought in WWII, as in actually fought in combat.  I know James was with the 2nd Raiders, who were kind of like special forces.

On 3/20/2024 at 2:37 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Maybe these are all good album names for a single band. 

One of my proudest moments in life occurred when I was ~10-12 years old and on a family vacation. The hotel we were staying at had live bands in the bar area and a little chalkboard sandwich board thing in front of the entrance to advertise each night's act. 

"Cat Sass" was the name of the band one night, and I found their chalk and added an apostrophe so that it then appeared to proclaim that "Cat's ass" would be playing that evening. 

that's like changing hoof arted to who farted. it was already the joke anyway. you should reconsider how proud you are. 

On 3/20/2024 at 2:37 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Maybe these are all good album names for a single band. 

One of my proudest moments in life occurred when I was ~10-12 years old and on a family vacation. The hotel we were staying at had live bands in the bar area and a little chalkboard sandwich board thing in front of the entrance to advertise each night's act. 

"Cat Sass" was the name of the band one night, and I found their chalk and added an apostrophe so that it then appeared to proclaim that "Cat's ass" would be playing that evening. 

 

When I worked at Barton Springs Pool as a lifeguard back in the day, there was this poster in the first aid room of a kid diving into shallow water. There was a girl yelling at him "Dave, don't dive, that's the shallow end!" Then a picture of Dave paralyzed in a wheel chair. 

The caption said "Dave will never dive again." Except that it was two lines centered so the caption actually said

                                                                                   

                                                                                               Dave will never

                                                                                                   dive again. 

 

Some clown with great penmanship took a sharpie that exactly matched the color of the caption and wrote in the word "muff" at the beginning of the second line. Matched the font perfectly. Unless you looked really really close you couldn't tell the word had been added. 

 

3 hours ago, stc said:

that's like changing hoof arted to who farted. it was already the joke anyway. you should reconsider how proud you are. 

You should reconsider how stupid your supporting example is. 

5 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

You should reconsider how stupid your supporting example is. 

let's consider it then:

hoof arted phonetically is who farted. 

cat sass phonetically is cat's ass. 

i considered it and it's a great example. the band's name was already a joke and then you explained the joke to anyone dumb enough to not understand.   

18 minutes ago, stc said:

let's consider it then:

hoof arted phonetically is who farted. 

cat sass phonetically is cat's ass. 

i considered it and it's a great example. the band's name was already a joke and then you explained the joke to anyone dumb enough to not understand.   

Let's consider it written out then:

"Hoof arted" needs significant reconstruction to become "who farted" so your example would be great if everything else was different. 

 

22 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:
23 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Caterpillars don't actually form what we think of as "cocoons" to turn into butterflies.  Those are moths. 

IT WAS ALL A LIE! 

What most people think of as cocoons are chrysalides - thus, what most people think of "cocoons" are actually caterpillars turning into butterflies.

Both wrong. What most people think are cocoons ... are actually Wilford Brimley.

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6 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

What most people think are cocoons ... are actually Wilford Brimley.

You know how I know you're old?

24 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Let's consider it written out then:

"Hoof arted" needs significant reconstruction to become "who farted" so your example would be great if everything else was different. 

2 moves is not significant reconstruction. add a w in front hoof and then erase an o...whoofarted. goddamn that was tough, i can see how it would be too complicated for your smooth brain to figure out. 

13 minutes ago, stc said:

2 moves is not significant reconstruction. add a w in front hoof and then erase an o...whoofarted. goddamn that was tough, i can see how it would be too complicated for your smooth brain to figure out. 

Thanks for the handy diagram, Dr. Science. It all makes so much more sense now. 

I contend that erasing letters and adding more letters amounts to much more obvious tinkering than merely adding an apostrophe, but I don't expect you to understand the subtleties here, as you're apparently still struggling to understand basic rules of capitalization. 

1 hour ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

This argument is fart oo important to be on the trivial thread.

Fixed it for you 

3 hours ago, stc said:

2 moves is not significant reconstruction. add a w in front hoof and then erase an o...whoofarted. goddamn that was tough, i can see how it would be too complicated for your smooth brain to figure out. 

Are you and shadow op 2.0 related and on/off the same meds? 

On 3/17/2024 at 5:42 AM, Bevo&Pevo said:

 

 

No love for the sloop?

John B?

23 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I unhitched South Austin's mom tongue last night

Get in line, my slice.

22 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

You know how I know you're old?

You know how old WB was then?

You know how old WB was then?
Younger than we are now. Especially you.

I am a lifelong Beatles freak/fan.  I have heard the song "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"  approximately 17257 times. I have seen the Ed Sullivan Show performance of that song approximately 9754 times. I recently learned that the lyrics are NOT
 

And when I touch you
I feel happy inside
It's such a feelin' that my love
I get high
I get high

I get high

but, rather:

And when I touch you

I feel happy inside

It's such a feelin' that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide

I can't hide

I am dumbstruck, flummoxed, hornswoggled etc...


 

This past Thursday the first ever tweet became old enough to vote.  For some reason this fascinated me when I learned it.

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On 3/19/2024 at 8:30 PM, CleverNickname said:

I saw a black bear in Big Bend in '06. Looked like a scrawy black lab. The end.

Same, 2017. The one I saw in Lassen Volcanic NP? More like a bear. It also got all up in our campsite, despite having our stuff in a bear container 100 yards away. We moved camp for the night...

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1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

Same, 2017. The one I saw in Lassen Volcanic NP? More like a bear. It also got all up in our campsite, despite having our stuff in a bear container 100 yards away. We moved camp for the night...

Damn. I sooo want to get Lassen, but I'm always in the area a week or two too soon and Bumpus Hell is still closed. I think I may have to wait until the kids are in college and I can do that sweet sweet September/October travel.

On 3/22/2024 at 3:48 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

You should reconsider how stupid your supporting example is. 

He’s not wrong. 

13 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

I am a lifelong Beatles freak/fan.  I have heard the song "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"  approximately 17257 times. I have seen the Ed Sullivan Show performance of that song approximately 9754 times. I recently learned that the lyrics are NOT
 

And when I touch you
I feel happy inside
It's such a feelin' that my love
I get high
I get high

I get high

but, rather:

And when I touch you

I feel happy inside

It's such a feelin' that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide

I can't hide

I am dumbstruck, flummoxed, hornswoggled etc...

 

You were probably high.

On a side note, I spent hours and hours and hours as a child sitting in front of our big stereo console that was like a piece of furniture, listening to the red and blue Beatles greatest hits albums, reading and singing along with the lyrics in the liner notes.

I could never find an exact match but the stereo console looked something like these:

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I am a life-long Beatles fan, too.  I didn't know until a few months ago that Eric Clapton played the lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  I always thought that it was George channeling his inner Clapton.

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

You were probably high.

On a side note, I spent hours and hours and hours as a child sitting in front of our big stereo console that was like a piece of furniture, listening to the red and blue Beatles greatest hits albums, reading and singing along with the lyrics in the liner notes.

I could never find an exact match but the stereo console looked something like these:

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Everybody and their dogs had one of these.  Now, 99% of them are in landfills. What a country.

"Oh. Here's a 4 page thread on trivia I'm sure is probably full of interesting and strange facts. Let's just go ahead and click on this last page and see what's in here."

On 3/20/2024 at 3:48 PM, InkaUtexas said:

Anal insertion of a walnut?

 

1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

"Oh. Here's a 4 page thread on trivia I'm sure is probably full of interesting and strange facts. Let's just go ahead and click on this last page and see what's in here."

 

What do you expect? This is the Surly.

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