The Quite Interesting Thread.

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**Ensis Ferrae**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:A Pineapple is over neither the Apple or Pine Genus. It is in fact a Berry!

the pineapple got its name from the Anglo-European settlers who were shown this fruit, who said that it looked like a pine cone, but tasted rather like an apple.

**jmurph**

Elnicko5 wrote:
There are no (actual) words which rhyme with orange, month, silver, or purple.

Purple rhymes with "hurple/hirple" archaic from Scottish meaning to hobble or limp. Curple was also used by one author....

There are half rhymes to orange and silver lozenge/challenge/scavenge/orange salver/silver. There are also multiple word rhymes (door hinge/orange) and chilver (a female lamb).

Also, if you want to see someone get way to excited about all this: http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

For more interesting trivia :http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/100_facts.htm

**Ozymandias**

The Almond, Pecan, and Walnut are not in fact nuts. They are drupes.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

**M_Stress**

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the classical composer who did "The flight of the bomblebee" had a neurologic problem that allow him to "see music".

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The US Marines do not wear unit patches or U.S. flags on any of their uniforms, nor name tags on their service and formal uniforms.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

A dress coat, sometimes called a swallow-tail or claw-hammer coat, is the coat that has, since the 1850s, come to be worn only in the evening by men as part of the white tie dress code.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The French Foreign Legion is open to French citizens, who amount to 24% of recruits.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Yellowstone National Park, was established by the U.S. Congress as a national park on March 1, 1872.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The Sun is currently traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud in the low-density Local Bubble zone of diffuse high-temperature gas, in the inner rim of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, between the larger Perseus and Sagittarius arms of the galaxy.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Virginia is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Mars has approximately half the radius of Earth, has about 15% of Earth's volume and 11% of the mass.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The Black Sea has an area of 436,400 km² (168,495 sq mi), and a maximum depth of 2,212 m (7,257 ft).

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Originally, it was planned that the figures on Mount Rushmore would be carved from head to waist, but insufficient funding forced the carving to end with the faces and the basic outline of Washington's coat.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Uncanny X-Men remains Marvel Comics' only Silver Age title to retain its consecutive issue numbering since its conception.

**Miguelsan**

Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest, deepest lake of the world and also the biggest fresh water repository. It contains more water than all the Great Lakes together.

M.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The SS Great Eastern was the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the world without refueling.
Her length of 211 metres (690 ft) was only surpassed in 1899, by the 705 feet (215 m) RMS Oceanic.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Bell Rock Lighthouse (built 1807-1810) is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse and masonry work on which the light house rests was constructed to such a high standard that it has not been replaced or adapted in over 200 years.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The first person to jump from the Brooklyn bridge was Robert E. Odlum on May 19, 1885.
He survived the pre-announced jump, but died shortly thereafter from internal injuries.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The London Sewer system built between 1859 and 1865 required 318 million bricks, 880,000 cubic yards (670,000 m³) of concrete and mortar, and excavation of over 3.5 million tonnes of earth.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

By the time the Panama Canal was completed, a total of 27,500 workmen are estimated to have died in the French and American efforts to build it.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Warren Gamaliel Harding, the twenty-ninth President of the United States, received 60% of the national vote and 404 electoral votes in the 1920 presidential election.

**Imperial**

It takes aprrox 90 minutes to be asleep completely

**focusedfire**

Benedict Arnold was not a traitor.

**focusedfire**

Paul Revere was not the only rider on the mid-night ride. He was one of three.(Sounds borgish, Think more americans would learn their history if seven of nine were in it?)

**focusedfire**

Texas was illeagally annexed into the US through a rigged election.(Election fraud???? In the US????NAHHH!!!

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**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Skunk Anansie are one of the greatest bands the world has ever known, and yet are often sidelined by the more 'modern' tripe such as Fall Out Boy and other assorted drivel.

**reds8n**

Selling Jesus was ace. I once got really caned with their ex-guitarist on Brighton seafront, shortly befor horrifically offending Jeremy Beadle's neice.

@ topic:

During the winter of 1609-1610 colonists in Jamestown Virginia resorted to cannabalism to survive.

On the 24th of january 1961 the USAF accidentally dropped two MARK 39 thermonuclear bombs.......on North Carolina.
Parts, including radioactive material, remain "lost" till this day.

linky

**theHandofGork**

"Blimp"is an onimonapea, named after the sound made when flicking a fully inflated dirigible.

**theHandofGork**

focusedfire wrote:Benedict Arnold was not a traitor.

Incorrect.
If one assumes that all of the American revolutionaries were traitors, then Benedict Arnold was too, since he participated in numorous battles on the colonial side. His heroism at the Battle of Saratoga led to the French involvement in the war.

His actions after being given command of West Point are clearly traitorous (offering it for over twenty thousand pounds and a commission).

Arnold's actions fit every reasonable description of a traitor, even though he was never legally convicted as one.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Olympus Mons, on mars, is the largest volcano in the solar system and is three times higher than Mount Everest