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Melissia wrote:Crocodile meat is actually quite tasty.

That's really all there is to say on the matter.

You ever had Crocodile Jerky?

I've heard it's delicious, and as a Jerky Nut I would love to have some, but alas.....

alas spoon's don't cut jerky? also, a gas mask would probably be an impediment to any jerky-eating escapades.

1: The name "Teddy Bear" comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy".


2: The only nominally circular state boundary in the United States is the "Twelve Mile Circle" between Delaware and Pennsylvania.

3: Benvolio, whilst disappearing from the later stages of Romeo and Juliet is the only member of the younger generation of Montagues to survive the events depicted in the play. (I'm reading Romeo and Juliet currently)


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Also for the oragamists amongst us...
4:

Ussain Bolt clocked a top speed of 24 Miles Per Hour, or 38-39 KPH.

The Housecat has been clocked at 30 miles per hour.

It doesn't matter how fast you run. Mr. Buggles will catch you.

Here's an intresting fact: During operation Market Garden in the battle at Ostterbake, a German Officer of the 17th SS Infantriedivison was shot 16 times in the leg by a machine gun and still commanded his platoon for another hour before passing out due to blood loss.

There you go

Francis "Franky" Brohm, 23, of Marietta, Georgia was leaning out of a car window and decapitated by a telephone pole support wire. The car's intoxicated driver, John Hutcherson, 21, drove nearly 12 miles to his home with the headless body in the passenger seat, parked the car in his driveway, then went to bed. A neighbor saw the bloody corpse still in the car and notified police. Brohm's head was later discovered at the accident scene.

Lee Seung Seop, a 28-year-old South Korean, collapsed of fatigue and died after playing the videogame StarCraft online for almost 50 consecutive hours.

An unidentified intoxicated man from St. Petersburg, Russia, was accidentally killed, by the folding couch on which he lay, following a dispute with his wife. The irate wife kicked a handle that released a folding mechanism for the couch, left the room, and did not return for three hours. The couch had folded away, into the wall, trapping the husband within and killing him.

And I saved the best for last....

David Phyall, 50, the last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, Hampshire, England, cut off his own head with a chainsaw to highlight the injustice of being forced to move out.

dogma wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Jackson. Jackson was a fantastic President. Really, the only thing he had against him IMO was he was for slavery. Chalk it up as a "It was how things were done back then" I dont care. But other then that, he is one of Americas greatest heroes

Indian removal wasn't exactly a shining mark on his roster either.

...... They had it coming?

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
A male baboon can kill a leopard.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
A roach can live up to nine days without its head.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
A woman's sense of smell is most sensitive during ovulation.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
According to legend, there is a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.
According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.
Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!
Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers' ranch.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Hope you enjoyed.

The ideal air:fuel ratio for most 4-stroke gasoline engines is 14.7:1 (measured in pounds)

Your Check Engine Light is only used to indicate emissions failures.

The radiator cap is rated in psi. Without a pressurized cooling system, the anitfreeze/water mixture in your engine would evaporate and boil out of the engine upon shutting the engine off. Every pound of pressure applied raises the boiling point by 7 degrees Fahrenheit.

Most engine ideal operating temperatures are around 190 degrees Fahrenheit. A "COLD ENGINE" is anything below this ideal temperature.

Cold engines can cause poor emissions and poor fuel economy. The reason for this is that the vehicle wants to warm up to ideal temp as soon as possible. To do this it adds more fuel than air to the mixture. This is referred to as running "rich".

When an engine is cold the oil is not properly warmed up and not at the correct pressure. The crankshaft spins on a pressurized film of oil to prevent wearing of the main rod and journal bearings. Also, combustion gases sometimes get past the piston rings and build up condensation in the oil pan. Because the oil is being thrown around constantly it temporarily mixes with the water in the oil pan. This is known as EMULSION. This sludge build up is catastrophic to the engine and is identified by a "chocolate milk-like" oil.

There's a Nazi running for office in Illinois. Seriously, an actual bonafide Illinois Nazi.

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Kangaroo is, in my opinion, more delicious than beef.
However, there are no wild kangaroos in England, and thus no viable population to harvest their meat from.

Like rabbit, it's a meat that need to be cooked well, or else it becomes too tough.

sebster wrote:There's a Nazi running for office in Illinois. Seriously, an actual bonafide Illinois Nazi.

Ah yes, Art Jones.


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sebster wrote:

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Kangaroo is, in my opinion, more delicious than beef.
However, there are no wild kangaroos in England, and thus no viable population to harvest their meat from.

Like rabbit, it's a meat that need to be cooked well, or else it becomes too tough.

Coincidence?

DickBandit wrote:Your Check Engine Light is only used to indicate emissions failures.

Absolutely false.

Trondheim wrote:Norway in opposition to popular belife acctuly sucks monkey balls to live, and we are a nation ruled by mediawhores

Come and live in the UK for a while, you might change your mind.

The WoW Signal

Bonus point if you can name the X files episode it was referenced in.

America makes the best quality cars evah!

Frazzled wrote:America makes the best quality cars evah!

Unless you want to turn or slow down.

corpsesarefun wrote:

Frazzled wrote:America makes the best quality cars evah!

Unless you want to turn or slow down.

Exactly! Who needs turning?

That's what the illegals are for! Turning our cars!

corpsesarefun wrote:

Frazzled wrote:America makes the best quality cars evah!

Unless you want to turn or slow down.

Science has created male egg cells and female sperm cells out of stem cells.

Melissia wrote:Science has created male egg cells and female sperm cells out of stem cells.

Yay for scientists with too much time on thier hands!

Great White wrote:Each year, approximately thirteen thousand people are killed in car accidents in Thailand.

I'm surprised it's not more.

I've been to Thailand. The roads are an absolute madhouse.

AustonT wrote:

Melissia wrote:Here's something controversial: I don't hate Space Marines,

Well, apparently it is, because a bunch of people still think I do and react violently to any suggestion that I don't.

LIES MELISSIA HATES SPACE MARINES!!!!

Ya, pretty sure Melissia lies to herself about hating Space Marines so she can hate Spacee Marines more.

A man can break the neck of a mountain lion with just his bare hands, no sweat.

True fact.

Frazzled wrote:A man can break the neck of a mountain lion with just his bare hands, no sweat.

True fact.

It helps if he's got the weight advantage.

Plus, he's got reach on them.

Frazzled wrote:A man can break the neck of a mountain lion with just his bare hands, no sweat.

True fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=O5gldxTmLsQ
You saying you COULDN'T have that thing?

Sonophos wrote:

Melissia wrote:Science has created male egg cells and female sperm cells out of stem cells.

Yay for scientists with too much time on thier hands!

Aren't they supposed to be curing cancer or something?

An in-shape human is a better adapted long-distance runner than a horse.
It's to do with the structure of our legs, pelvis, and ability to sweat, apparently.

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:An in-shape human is a better adapted long-distance runner than a horse.
It's to do with the structure of our legs, pelvis, and ability to sweat, apparently.

Aren't humsn like in the top3 or something in ability to do long distance running? HAH! Take that Molemen!

Using a Black Templar with a boltgun to proxy an Ultramarine with a boltgun is the same as using an ork boy with a shoota to proxy a genestealer.

Frazzled wrote:

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:An in-shape human is a better adapted long-distance runner than a horse.
It's to do with the structure of our legs, pelvis, and ability to sweat, apparently.

Aren't humsn like in the top3 or something in ability to do long distance running? HAH! Take that Molemen!

Indeed.
And they say we're puny as a species. Pah.