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The Chewbacca Defense

Joined: 29 May 2004 Location: The ROK and a hard place
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:40 am Post subject: Useless Information and Bizarre Facts |
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This could be interesting.
Since its my thread I'll go first,
The dude that played the gay guy 'Lamar' in 'Revenge of the Nerds', did the voice of the Paladin in Diablo 2.
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semphoon

Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: Where Nowon is
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: |
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Fact number 1 - The habit of clashing glasses before drinking together (Cheers etc), was original done by kings when they would meet and they would clash glasses to mix their drinks. This showed that neither drink was poisoned.
Fact number 2 - Koreans have no tear ducts. Or knees.
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okokok

Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:33 am Post subject: |
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Kurt Cobain's comical performance of 'Smells like teen spirit' on British music show 'Top of the Pops' was a Morrissey impression. |
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rawiri

Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="okokok"]It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.[/quote]
wrong. |
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billybrobby

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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*A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries
*Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."
*Gary Burgoff (Radar on MASH) always kept his left hand out of the view of the camera, either in his pocket or under a clipboard, because his left had is deformed.
*Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter "E."
Lifted from "a website" |
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formerflautist

Joined: 30 May 2006
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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12 a.m does not exist. |
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laogaiguk

Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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formerflautist wrote: |
12 a.m does not exist. |
I heard this before, it sounds ok...
We have leap years, but truthfully there are ~365.25 days in the year. So if you divide it up you get a really small amount of time added to each day, but since all you need is less than one one trillionth of a nanosecond to make 12 am true, ...  |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Meet the cymothoa exigua.
Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite attaches itself at the base of the spotted rosesnapper fish's tongue with its claws, and drinks from the artery which supplies the tongue with blood. As the parasite grows, less and less blood is able to reach the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue with its own body. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue, except that it has to share its food with the parasite. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish [1]. Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, it supplements its diet with food particles, thereby relieving strain on the host's circulatory system.
Freakier but very large picture here: http://www.uj.ac.za/zoology/images/gallery/!Tongue%20replacement%20isopod.jpg |
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Yesanman
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Location: Chungnam
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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W.D. 40 stands for 'water displacement lubricant perfected on the 40th try'. |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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The assassin of US president, William McKinley, shot him at point blank range twice by cleverly putting a handkerchief over the gun and shooting the president in a handshake line-up. Genius! A handkerchief!!
I bet the presidents bodyguards had some explaining to do that night. |
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gotte00
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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asians are missing an enzyme that breaks down alcohol |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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khyber wrote: |
*Gary Burgoff (Radar on MASH) always kept his left hand out of the view of the camera, either in his pocket or under a clipboard, because his left had is deformed.
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I'll one-up you on this. Scotty from Star Trek lost his middle finger on his right hand on D-Day so they tried not to show it ever. There are a couple scenes in the movies where it's visible. |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Asian "ear wax" is not waxy. It's powdery! |
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