Guitardian wrote:Well whatever it was, drinking beer instead of water helped keep them alive. I dunno I didn't pay THAT much attention to the show... just got the gist of it, then went and had a pint.

Jolly good show! Us brits know that a pint solves EVERYTHING. No word of a lie xD

McDonald's and the T.V. show "Dallas" helped end communism in Russia.

Wearing headphones for an hour will increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times.

Dettol kills 99.9 percent of bacteria. Fact.

Hippopotami are the only animals that kill for their own amusement. (Rather than to hone hunting skills or to defend themselves or their territory)

regarding the Hippo thing:

People kill to mount heads on their walls. I overheard a guy at the bar bragging about how he blasts groundhogs with his shotgun out of the window of his car as he drives by. Palin likes to shoot wolves out of helicopters with her kids. I don't think they eat the wolf meat, or the groundhog shotgun blasted carcasses.

I just skimmed this thread looking for pictures. Now I'm nauseous.

You're welcome.

James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was at D-Day in World War II. He was shot six times and lost a finger.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the USA

Coney Island Hot Dogs are not intended to involve ketchup, only dark mustard, dog, and bun. Chicago style hot dogs are meant to involve everything you can fit on the bun. Yankee Stadium sells more hot dogs than any other baseball field. Hot Dogs are lower in fat and higher in protein than any other processed meat.

last useless fact:
I love hot dogs. I am eating one now. I have it on a garlic bun with cheese, chopped onion, mustard, and chili. I guess that would be a 'Chicago Style'.

Hot dogs arent really made from dogs...

God I want a hot dog now! Thanks a lot!

Jihadnik wrote:Hot dogs arent really made from dogs...

God I want a hot dog now! Thanks a lot!

In New York City, it's legal to have up to 5% of a hot dog contain insect parts or rat feces.

In "The Old West" any Outlaw who enjoyed the use of his wedding tackle had only 5 bullets in their 6 shot revolvers, resting the hammer on the empty chamber, as the guns had a tendency to misfire.

Heart disease has continually been the leading cause of death in the united states, leading by quite a large margin, in the range of 25-27% each year of all total deaths.

Knowing that now makes me want a big plate of fried greasy food.

Research scientists cause cancer in rats.

Once you have set up your desired sound and chained in your effects, if you set an amplifier's master volume knob at exactly the point where you can visually notice the speaker cone moving, you have the perfect resonance from the speaker cabinet. No oomfing and no weak tinny sound.
edit... sorry... that is potentially not a useless fact to some of you... so here's a useless one:
Baked beans are good on hot dogs. (speaking from my experimental hot dog experiance, can't cite any other source, sorry)

mmm....

Guitardian wrote:Once you have set up your desired sound and chained in your effects, if you set an amplifier's master volume knob at exactly the point where you can visually notice the speaker cone moving, you have the perfect resonance from the speaker cabinet. No oomfing and no weak tinny sound.
edit... sorry... that is potentially not a useless fact to some of you... so here's a useless one:
Baked beans are good on hot dogs. (speaking from my experimental hot dog experiance, can't cite any other source, sorry)

mmm....

Ironically, I found the beans comment more useful. xD

In most cases... baked beans.... aren't.

helgrenze wrote:In most cases... baked beans.... aren't.

It depends on what kind of hot dog you have.

I am naked.

Fruit on pizza is a bad idea. Sorry "hawaiian style".
An ice cream float made using beer is also a bad idea.
If you stand on a beer can perfectly balanced, and have someone slightly tap the side with a pencil or a marble or whatever, it will smash flat faster than you can keep your balance.

Grapes and Pineapple and Tomatos.
Pizza fruit toppings...
What goes on yours? Meat and meeeat with a meatshake?

Guitardian wrote:Coney Island Hot Dogs are not intended to involve ketchup, only dark mustard, dog, and bun. Chicago style hot dogs are meant to involve everything you can fit on the bun. Yankee Stadium sells more hot dogs than any other baseball field. Hot Dogs are lower in fat and higher in protein than any other processed meat.

last useless fact:
I love hot dogs. I am eating one now. I have it on a garlic bun with cheese, chopped onion, mustard, and chili. I guess that would be a 'Chicago Style'.

Which is amazing because I love only mustard, no ketchup. Also, the original nathans (on coney island) has several different types of mustard, but only 1 type of ketchup for those foreigners.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Guitardian wrote:Coney Island Hot Dogs are not intended to involve ketchup, only dark mustard, dog, and bun. Chicago style hot dogs are meant to involve everything you can fit on the bun. Yankee Stadium sells more hot dogs than any other baseball field. Hot Dogs are lower in fat and higher in protein than any other processed meat.

last useless fact:
I love hot dogs. I am eating one now. I have it on a garlic bun with cheese, chopped onion, mustard, and chili. I guess that would be a 'Chicago Style'.

Which is amazing because I love only mustard, no ketchup. Also, the original nathans (on coney island) has several different types of mustard, but only 1 type of ketchup for those foreigners.

I have yet to try a Coney Island Hot Dog. I hear they are amazing. The closest I've had is a Saberret Hot dog from the stand and those are AMAZING.
Are Coney Island Dogs better?

No. It depends on what you want. Coney Island are the perfect simple hot dog. And, as Maverick pointed out, yeah they are good just so long as you get the right mustard. Sometimes simplicity is better... but... if you dont have the right mustard go chi style.

This debate was actually brought up in the movie "2010" from like 20 years ago. Adrian Kronoer and Haywood Floyd agreed on the Coney Island hot dog at Yankee Stadium with the dark mustard as the thing they missed most about being back on Earth, while they were out orbiting Jupiter.

HOT DOG TIME!!!

Tomatoes are a fruit, and are the single exception to the 'dont put fruit on pizza' rule in my head.

Mushrooms have almost no nutritional value whatsoever, yet post-modernist composer John Cage supposedly survives with an almost exclusively mushroom diet. I guess it is possible to eat too much of something, he's still alive...

I like my hot dogs.. "Philly Style" (thats what others have called it..... as I am originally from that area).
Mustard and topped with kraut. And Vendor Dogs are some of the best.

For Guitardian....

(from 2010)
Heywood Floyd: I'd love a hot dog.
Walter Curnow: Astrodome. Good hot dogs there.
Heywood Floyd: Astrodome? You can't grow a good hot dog indoors. Yankee Stadium. September. The hot dogs have been boiling since opening day in April. Now that's a hot dog.
Walter Curnow: The yellow mustard or the darker kind?
Heywood Floyd: The darker kind.
Walter Curnow: Very important.

I highly reccommend actually going to nathans on coney island. It's right near the street, you don't have to look at any of the gross stuff.

Even if you don't want to ride the line for like 45 minutes, you can still go to like any nathans in the city. They're all good

Well, now I know where im going for lunch.

Darth Vader never says "Luke, I am your father.
Sherlock Holmes never says "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty rhyme does it mention he is an egg.
Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of SIXTEEN different countries.

She's the reigning queen in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

captain Kirk never says "beam me up scotty"

yeah doesn't he always phrase it like something like "Mr. Scott... 2 to beam up" or something along those lines (depending of the numbers I guess)?

Queen Victoria never said "We are not amused."

The only character to ever die in the origional series G.I. Joe cartoon was named "grunt". And he didn't exactly die, just got left behind in a paralell dimension during the first season and was never seen again. They may as well have named him "redshirt".

"Grunt" was my first G.I.Joe toy when I was around 7 or 8 years old. I was mad that they took him out of the cartoon so I saved up my allowance for a "Snake-Eyes" toy (the one before the kung fu grip when all their arms all straight and rigid)

This turned out to be a great investment for an 8 yearold because saving up my allowance for a few weeks ended up paying off $100 dollars for me 15 years later from some smelly guy at GenCon back when I was a broke college kid.

My R2d2 from when I was 4 got me $150, despite being very worn and played with.

The best toy though... was the C3Po that came apart and went on chewie's back in a cheap plastic harness.. he went for $200.

GIJoe taught kids that guns always miss, and M16s fire laser beams and helicopters blowing up always results in a parachute... essentially... nobody dies when you fight. Then gave a public service announcement. Kids that grew up watching those cartoons are now serving in the middle east and getting their limbs blown off by IEDs.

YO JOE!

Guitardian wrote:GIJoe taught kids that guns always miss, and M16s fire laser beams and helicopters blowing up always results in a parachute... essentially... nobody dies when you fight. Then gave a public service announcement. Kids that grew up watching those cartoons are now serving in the middle east and getting their limbs blown off by IEDs.

YO JOE!

You rarely notice these kind of things on your own. (useless fact)

All the significant female characters in the G.I. Joe series hold some kind of "leadership" role.. but are never the actual leader of either group.

Many of the characters used as mascots by ships were drwn by cartoonists such as Walt Disney and his employees.

Meaning that some of them are indeed valuable.

Hugh Laurie (aka Dr. House) actually has an English accent. He just fakes it for the show.

Hugh Laurie played the father in the Stuart Little films. Try watching House after seeing SL.... talk about contrast.

I like Helgrenze's hot dog quote from 2010. Yeah I'm still on this hot dog kick.

For our dear mod Frazzled.

The word Daschund means "Badger Hound" in german. Although in Germany they have two classifications, Dackel and Teckel. The difference being that those wishing to be a Teckel must go through testing.

Both receive a blood test for pedigree, and if it is a pedigree the dog receives a tattoo under one ear and is called a Dackel. If the dog can follow a 48 hour old blood trail it receives another tattoo in the other ear and is then called a Teckel. The Teckels are then trained as hunting dogs.

The floppy ears and curved tail were bred into the species so that dirt couldn't get into the dog's ear canal and the curved tail makes them more visible in tall grass similar to the velociraptors in Jurassic Park. The tail also allowed them to be pulled from holes in the ground if they got stuck.

It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the amps.

Hugh Laurie (House) Was also in Blackadder as well as Monsters vs Aliens and, Dalmations and Friends and The Borrowers

Guitardian wrote:It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the amps.

Mine goes to 11 by the way.


The dark angels chapter does have a secret.

They are inspired by the poet Lionel Johnson and his poem "The Dark Angel" which is supposedly about his homosexuality.

Although their real secret is that all Dark Angel marines are actually two squats, with one standing on top of the other.

halonachos wrote:

Although their real secret is that all Dark Angel marines are actually two squats, with one standing on top of the other.

Well that would explain the long skirts.....