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29 May 2006

FACTS! [More:]

FACT: All Canadian Prime Ministers since Sir Charles Tupper have been members of a shadowy, powerful orginization that holds sway over the mainstream media, an orginization known as CEMA

FACT: Although chiefly and justly reknown as the world's largest mammals, blue whales are also very very good at crosswords.

FACT: Despite strident claims to the contrary in many authorized and unauthorized biographies, Lauren Bacall did not insist on strangling an understudy almost to death before every performance. It was after.

FACT: If you lived on the planet Mars, a "year" would be over two hundred billion days long.

FACT: Johnny Cash did not "[shoot] a man in Reno, just to watch him die", it was actually to learn about the circulatory system.

FACT: Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is physically unable to appear at-ease in a photograph. It is thought that this is because, when he was a child, his father purchased what he thought was a brownie-box camera from a pawn broker. It turned out to be an adult novelty item.

FACT: From July of 1856 to September of 1919, the mayoralty of New York City was decided by trials of combat.

FACT: The so-called "Silk Road" trade route was, for a brief time actually paved with silk for over 94% of its length. This is considered to be the second worst idea in mass transit ever. The first is The Big Dig.

FACT: On this day in 1912, 15 women were fired from their job at Curtis Publishing for dancing the Turkey Trot during their lunch break.
posted by cmonkey 29 May | 13:20
FACT: Eating too much toast can cause you to change gender. Toast-fanciers are advised to limit their intake to no more than three slices a day.
posted by essexjan 29 May | 13:31
FACT: Boston, Massachusetts' Big Dig isn't really a mass transit system, but an extension of Waxahachie, Texas' Superconducting Supercollider.
posted by Smart Dalek 29 May | 13:52
Fact: Marmalade is an excellent glass cleaner.
posted by mudpuppie 29 May | 13:58
[Fact: I grew up next-door to Waxahachie, Texas, and it's pronounced "Walks-a-hatchie," just for the record.]
posted by mudpuppie 29 May | 14:00
Fact: the word Waxahatchie is an Indian term that, when translated, means Mudpuppie is a Moonpie.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 May | 14:04
FACT: Lipstick Thespian is actually the man behind hit BBC television comedies.
posted by cmonkey 29 May | 14:10
FACT: The Moleko people of the upper San Susi rainforest are the world's leading producers of social networking applications.

FACT: Burma accidentally changed its name to Myanmar due to a general's cat calling his office, and is too embarrassed to change it back.
posted by stilicho 29 May | 14:14
FACT: Cmonkey is the little man that I dress up like a leprechaun and take for walkies out in the bright English summer for inspirational purposes on said comedies.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 May | 14:17
FACT: Most BBC so-called "comedies" are produced as serious drama for the home market. They only seem funny to North American audiences because of the accents.
posted by Capn 29 May | 14:22
FACT: You cannot steal my pot of gold, because it is too well hidden.
posted by cmonkey 29 May | 14:27
FACT: You will dance for me, 'Chauny Boy, you will dance for your supper!
posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 May | 14:31
FACT: I will dance a jig of misery, the childlike tears pooling at the toes of my suffering feet while you laugh at the little man dancing before you in shame, the audible sobs echoing around your cruel estate like duck calls, calling my green comrades to free me and then you will be the one to dance and you will dance in fire.
posted by cmonkey 29 May | 14:36
FACT: The only thing funnier than watching a man dressed like a leprechaun and dancing for his supper, is when that man calls for his "green comrades" and all this other little 'Chauny Boys appear and are forced to Riverdance for my amusement.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 May | 14:48
FACT: cmonkey's pot of gold is under a false bottom in a decorative case on the coffee table in the living room. Sometimes he forgets to put the false bottom back in.
posted by Capn 29 May | 14:49
FACT: You should probably not buy bedsheets that were seized by the police.
posted by Capn 29 May | 14:56
What! What!

Oh, I see. 'Chauny as in Corny.

*goes back to sleep*
posted by seanyboy 29 May | 14:57
The Alan Parsons Project is widely considered to be the progenitor of what today is known as "drum'n'bass."
posted by deadcowdan 29 May | 15:30
(actual) FACT: My first cousin was in The Alan Parsons Project.
posted by Capn 29 May | 15:35
FACT: It was determined in a clinical trial, run by staff at Johns Hopkins and using hundreds of subjects, that 72% of diagnosed schizophrenics who hear the song "Psychobabble" by The Alan Parsons Project three times in a row will stop exhibiting schizophrenic symptoms.
posted by deadcowdan 29 May | 15:47
Fact: the word Waxahatchie is an Indian term that, when translated, means Mudpuppie is a Moonpie.

Fact: Lipstick is closer than he realizes. "Waxahachie" actually means Buffalo Pie, as in shit.
posted by mudpuppie 29 May | 17:30
FACT: One year from now I will still be running the Ceiling Cat meme into the ground.
FACT: In the popular tv series, Popeye is in fact eating cilantro. The tv execs figured the American public were not familiar with cilantro, and besides it didn't rhyme with 'finich', and so they disguised it as spinach. However, it is cilantro that will make you strong to the finish.
posted by elizard 29 May | 21:26
LIES!!!!!!!
posted by mudpuppie 29 May | 21:45
FACT: Much as I adore her, I would kick mudpuppie's ass in an arm wrestling match. I eat cilantro, mudpuppie does not. Quod erat demonstratum.
posted by elizard 29 May | 21:51
Okay, maybe not in arm wrestling. But I could pick her up and swing her around.
posted by elizard 29 May | 22:00
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