The Mature, Intellectual Discussion Thread

[BellHop58]

Since we are talking about Shakespeare..anyone ever heard about the "Curse of Macbeth"

It's pretty interesting. http://home.flash.net/~manniac/macb.htm

 

[whs_singingrose]

Did you know that Einstein was stupid? He couldn't read and was looked down upon the other students. He just used his head to figure out everything.

He wasn't stupid, he had a learning disability

 

[whs_singingrose]

Since we are talking about Shakespeare..anyone ever heard about the "Curse of Macbeth"

It's pretty interesting. http://home.flash.net/~manniac/macb.htm

I've never heard that before.

So did my entire school curse Shakespeare's Tavern by talking about Macbeth before the play started?( No we weren't quoting any lines..we we're saying how stupid it was going to be.)

 

[PopStar]

He wasn't stupid, he had a learning disability

Oh, i didn't know that. I was just trying to remember what i heard on NOVA 6 months ago.

And looking at my Ripley's Believe It or Not! calender....

....The basilisk, a lizard of South and Central America, can run as far as a quarter mile on the surface of a lake or pond.

• The African Catfish leaves the water each night and crawls on land to find its food.

• Minerva Bonham of Ontario, Canada, was struck by lightning, and had all of her hairpins pulled out of her hair! (1951)

• German designer David Kiavins made a 13-ft.-high piano that wieghs two tons and has a built-in staircase and balcony!

• "Floccinaucinihipiliffication" is the act or habit of estimating something as worthless!

• Mary Elizabeth Feldman of Charleston, S.C., has invented "Ghost Away", a chomomile based spry for children to use against ghosts and monsters under their bed!

Also, I find this rather funny, but, many people believe that Thomas Crapper invented the toiletlmao: ). That is not true. That is just a tale(although it would be a very funny coincidence... ). The REAL inventory of the toilet is Sir John Harrington, godson to Queen Elizibeth.

Also, here are some wierd facts from Kluts:

• there's enough gas in a tank of gas to lift it up into orbit.

• there are more electrons in this one dot --->> • than there are people on the planet. (not sure if that dot exactly, but the picture is in my book LOL.

• lipstick contains fish scales

• the electric chair was invented by a dentist.

• A women once cracked her gum (chewing gum) so loudly in a courthouse in Fresno, CA, it was mistaken for gunfire and she was arrested.

• Arcturus, a star located 36 light-years away, recently began recieving broadcasts of I Love Lucy. The radio waves have been traveling through space since 1951.

• For decades, Albert Einstein's brain was kept preserved in a jar in a Kansas Doctor's Office!

• Termites emit so much methane, they're increasing the hole in the ozone layer. (Just like cows!)

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain!

• If you were to shrink the solar system to the size of your body, with the sun at the top of your head and Pluto at your feet, Uranus would be right where you'd think it'd be.

• In Mexico, you can buy a pow wow, a brand of bubble gum with a hot chili pepper center.

• New Hampshire license plates, with the motto LIVE FREE OR DIE, are made by jail inmates.

• No matter how high they drop, bugs cannot fall to their deaths. Air resistance slows them down. (DRAT!!!)

Well, I'm sure you learned a lot of unuseful, but fun information about things today.

 

[whs_singingrose]

Oh, i didn't know that. I was just trying to remember what i heard on NOVA 6 months ago.

And looking at my Ripley's Believe It or Not! calender....

....The basilisk, a lizard of South and Central America, can run as far as a quarter mile on the surface of a lake or pond.

• The African Catfish leaves the water each night and crawls on land to find its food.

• Minerva Bonham of Ontario, Canada, was struck by lightning, and had all of her hairpins pulled out of her hair! (1951)

• German designer David Kiavins made a 13-ft.-high piano that wieghs two tons and has a built-in staircase and balcony!

• "Floccinaucinihipiliffication" is the act or habit of estimating something as worthless!

• Mary Elizabeth Feldman of Charleston, S.C., has invented "Ghost Away", a chomomile based spry for children to use against ghosts and monsters under their bed!

Also, I find this rather funny, but, many people believe that Thomas Crapper invented the toiletlmao: ). That is not true. That is just a tale(although it would be a very funny coincidence... ). The REAL inventory of the toilet is Sir John Harrington, godson to Queen Elizibeth.

Also, here are some wierd facts from Kluts:

• there's enough gas in a tank of gas to lift it up into orbit.

• there are more electrons in this one dot --->> • than there are people on the planet. (not sure if that dot exactly, but the picture is in my book LOL.

• lipstick contains fish scales

• the electric chair was invented by a dentist.

• A women once cracked her gum (chewing gum) so loudly in a courthouse in Fresno, CA, it was mistaken for gunfire and she was arrested.

• Arcturus, a star located 36 light-years away, recently began recieving broadcasts of I Love Lucy. The radio waves have been traveling through space since 1951.

• For decades, Albert Einstein's brain was kept preserved in a jar in a Kansas Doctor's Office!

• Termites emit so much methane, they're increasing the hole in the ozone layer. (Just like cows!)

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain!

• If you were to shrink the solar system to the size of your body, with the sun at the top of your head and Pluto at your feet, Uranus would be right where you'd think it'd be.

• In Mexico, you can buy a pow wow, a brand of bubble gum with a hot chili pepper center.

• New Hampshire license plates, with the motto LIVE FREE OR DIE, are made by jail inmates.

• No matter how high they drop, bugs cannot fall to their deaths. Air resistance slows them down. (DRAT!!!)

Well, I'm sure you learned a lot of unuseful, but fun information about things today.

Wow! that's very insightful and hilarious at the same time!

 

[Mnementh]

I've never heard that before.

So did my entire school curse Shakespeare's Tavern by talking about Macbeth before the play started?( No we weren't quoting any lines..we we're saying how stupid it was going to be.)

I wish you luck finding a better Shakespeare play!

 

[whs_singingrose]

I wish you luck finding a better Shakespeare play!

Well what was really funny was this was back before winter break.. It was cold..

Oh, and during the play, one of the actors totally spit in the other's face as he was saying his lines!

 

[Shaymojack]

EAT MORE COWS!!! They have too much gas. THEY ARE OUT TO DESTROY EARTH!

Now that that's out of the way, who can explain my dozens of typos while making this sentence? I must have hit backspace like, a bunch. >_<

 

[BellHop58]

Lets have some fun facts about animals...shall we?


A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. ( So we should drink not eat! )

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can. (Did not know this...why don't rats live in the desert?)

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. (That's impressive!)

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. (Take that rats!)

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living. (once again )

During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis. (Cute but yet so sad at the same time)

Rats can't throw-up. (I wonder if Camels can )

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer. (Awesome!)

When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats. (Darn those rats! Camels win.)

I'm not sure if this is true cause I can't figure it out...

This is "supposedly" the longest sentence only using one word in the english language.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

 

[Pirate Me]

Fun Fact Time!

A snail can sleep for three years.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The original name of the Bank of America was the Bank of Italy.

Left-handed people live slightly shorter than right-handed people.

You're 66 times more likely to get arrested in American than in France.

The ten most generous contries are all in Europe.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you will produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against the wall can burn up to 150 calories an hour.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal rock music.

One in two billion people will live to be over 116 years old.

The Spanish word 'esposa' means 'wife'. The plural, 'esposas' means 'wives', but also 'handcuffs'

 

[Cardinal]

The Spanish word 'esposa' means 'wife'. The plural, 'esposas' means 'wives', but also 'handcuffs'

It's so true!
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.



I like pie. Once in math class, my teacher was talking about pie. I thought she was going to give us some until I found out that it's actually a number. I don't want to eat a number. So I jumped out the window.

 

[Shaymojack]

Why'd you jump out the window? Numbers are quite tasty.

 

[rosesredrosered]

Fun Fact Time!
Left-handed people live slightly shorter than right-handed people.

No!!!!!!!!!!!

(I'm left handed, if you hadn't figured out.)

 

[Pirate Me]

Fun Fact Time!
Left-handed people live slightly shorter than right-handed people.

No!!!!!!!!!!!

No!!!!!!!!!!!

(I'm left handed, if you hadn't figured out.)

Eh, I wouldn't believe that.
I found it on two different fun fact sites but come on, the only thing different between right and left handed people are different hands used.

 

[whs_singingrose]

It's so true!
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.



I like pie. Once in math class, my teacher was talking about pie. I thought she was going to give us some until I found out that it's actually a number. I don't want to eat a number. So I jumped out the window.

In my math class we had a day devoted to pie the food and pi the number..
It was fun and yummy!

 

[mikeyandscoobyx2]

Cows give mad cow disease.. But they're also called cows. And calf. So HAH. i think this thread should be a sticky now that we waste our lives posting on it.

 

[mikeyandscoobyx2]

It's so true!
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.



I like pie. Once in math class, my teacher was talking about pie. I thought she was going to give us some until I found out that it's actually a number. I don't want to eat a number. So I jumped out the window.

Was this number.. 3.14?

My teacher tortured us in math by eating italian ice.. Like 5 of them, and she just kept them in a trash can.. Why does math relate to food?

Sally had 5 Apples, Sally Ate 3. How many are left? 2 ZOMG 2

 

[Cardinal]

Sally had 5 Apples, Sally Ate 3. How many are left? 2 ZOMG 2

OMG, that's wrong!

Sally did eat three apples, but then she gutted one to get the seeds out and planted 5 of them in a mini-orchard. After adding ridiculous amounts of Miracle-Gro, the apple trees grew in only 2 days. By then, the last remaining apple had gone rotten because Sally didn't put it in a container. The trees produced "t" amount of apples in "x" amount of time, so therefore she was left with "x(t)" apples at any given time.

 

[XxCuriosityxX<3]

RANDOM FACTS!​

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.​

 

[Mnementh]

OMG, that's wrong!

Sally did eat three apples, but then she gutted one to get the seeds out and planted 5 of them in a mini-orchard. After adding ridiculous amounts of Miracle-Gro, the apple trees grew in only 2 days. By then, the last remaining apple had gone rotten because Sally didn't put it in a container. The trees produced "t" amount of apples in "x" amount of time, so therefore she was left with "x(t)" apples at any given time.

Now that's my kind of logic