The little paper boxes that Chinese food often comes in are called "oyster pails". Emily Dickinson may have suffered from S.A.D. (As a S.A.D. sufferer myself, I knew as soon as I read "A Certain Slant of Light" as a teen that she was "like me"...) So, add your own random but interesting fact... Enlighten me. And please try to keep it from getting too political...*please*... EDITED TO ADD: oops, this is more Green Room isn't it?
The Three Stages of Denial: 1. They're throwing flowers, not grenades. 2. It's a mission, not a quagmire. 3. I have a legacy. [Adapted from the forthcoming autobiography of George Bush, Tough Shit (a coloring book).]
Only a select few know that the Devil paid for Bush's soul with shares of Halliburton (common stock, Class "A").
In Physics, there are four fundamental forces that mediate interactions between EVERYTHING! They are (in order of relative strength): Strong Nuclear Force Electromagnetic Force Weak Nuclear Force Gravity
The Holy Grail of physics is the development of a Grand Unified Theory, leading to the old joke that physicists have GUTs. See, e.g., in this regard, http://books.google.com/books?id=7k...ts=GH_DmOO-yJ&sig=tDNxnOY5yGblKO15NFAYUphUVIg
^And gravity is the *weakest* of the four forces, being proportionally MUCH weaker than the other 3. In fact, the attraction of a simple, small fridge magnet can overcome the entire gravitational attraction of the Earth.
In France, "french toast' is called pain perdu, which means "lost bread". Because it's meant to be made with old bread.
From Wiki: Alfred Hitchcock famously used Bosco Chocolate Syrup as fake blood in the shower scene in his black and white masterpiece Psycho (1960). [1] This same technique was reportedly used in other black and white horror films, including Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Mel Blanc was in radio before he did Looney Tunes. He also did the voice of Twinki in Buck Rogers TV show. Bruce Cambell and Sam Raimi have worked on several movies together. Bruce's most famous roles are as Ash in the Evil Dead trilogy, with the third being Army Of Darkness. UFO lore has it that Gene Roddenberry was contacted by a time traveling alien named Kirok and told him to write Star Trek as a means of educating humanity for the future. (I don't believe it myself). The Titulus Rasa is the headboard of Christ. It is said to be the only surving part of the cross that Christ was crucifried on. The cross was burned by Muslims hundreds of years ago. On it is written IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM or INRI for short. Hitler's life was saved by the suitcase bomb being moved just a couple of feet behind the table leg at the last minute. One man's hero is another man's villain. Stephen King once commented that "I was Luke Skywalker in another dimension". The full name of the Statue Of Liberty is Statue Of Liberty Enlightening The World. Leonardo DaVinci painted The Last Supper in oils on plaster. Plaster and oils do not mix well and that's why the picture looks crumbled. Babylon 5 was fully written and planned before any filming began. The NAZIs were the first to invent jet engines and were the first to use a jet airplane in combat. NASA was founded using Nazi technology and Nazi scientists.
Statistically, between 1 and 100% of people who die in bed have a clock-radio on the end table. Excessive application of carcinogens causes cancer in rats. Birth is the leading cause of death.
No shit. Huh. (I'll bet you knew that in the Zombie flick Night of the Living Dead that the "bodies" the zombies munched on were ham covered in Bosco?)
>< I'd almost rather eat the bodies than chocolate-flavored ham. If human didn't have so much cholesterol...
The sound of the spacecraft opening in the original War of the Worlds was made with a mayo jar being opened in the bowl of a functional toilet.
