Fun Facts

Hey guys long time no see.

Bridgetender keeps it real. Hell of a friend!

@Hotluvrs - I thought Louisiana was on that list too?

All that time wasted being noble…

BT

I recently learned two new terms.

In several states it’s still possible to sue someone because they’ve had criminal conversation or because they’re guilty of alienation of affection.

So, if I don’t have written permission I’m not fucking someone else’s wife in Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, or Utah.

Fun fact:

I'm old enough to remember the phrase "oh-oh, SpaghettiOs!"

The son of a friend has a special sort of color blindness that apparently enabled him to pick out camouflaged areas from satellite surveillance photos.

Fun Fact:

The myth that carrots improved night vision was a ruse propagated by the British government in the early years of world War 2 as a putative reason for why the British could suddenly spot German bombers at long distances, even in the dark, as a cover for the actual reason: the invention of radar.

Fun fact...

Just cleaned out the inbox of my general, everyday e-mail address. That fucker probably feels better after taking a dump of 1,365 e-mails no longer needed!

:-D

To Boinkster's point... I think preservative is an apt metaphor. Some of the biggest A holes in the world - notably some politicians - seem to have a substance like creosote. Some dark oily toxin that preserves them, no matter how sickly they seem to be. I won't mention my current poster child for this phenomena. Dick Cheney used to come to mind. Never understood how he recycling his toxic self unti I realized that he's about 20 years younger than I thought and just looks like the crypt keeper.

Nope

Pickled. I think the word you're looking for is pickled not preserved.

:-)

Keith Richards drank so much he is as much preserved!

"The fact that Keith Richards outlived Richard Simmons is proof that fitness is not all that is needed to survive..."

Jim Fixx growls angrily...

"The fact that Keith Richards outlived Richard Simmons"

The fact that all 4 original members of the Sex Pistols - renowned for their hard living and drug use - are still alive, while all 4 original members of their contemporaries the Ramones are dead - is also an interesting tidbit.

The fact that Keith Richards outlived Richard Simmons is proof that fitness is not all that is needed to survive... You need to be toxic, too!

Lol!

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it's pretty cool that we have the knowledge and technology to bring back an extinct species.

On the other hand, extinction is the primary method of evolution, it's natural, even if it's because of human action. Darwin had a point, even if it's rather uncomfortable to contemplate.

Ultimately, the only species you can count on to survive is cockroaches, and Keith Richards.

Ivory billed woodpecker?

If anything, they should have brought back the majestic Dodo bird. I hear they were very tasty, I always wanted to try eating one.

FF: The constellation Turdus Solitarius is named after an extinct relative of the Dodo bird.

Hehehe, Turd is the word...

I think it's a bit pathetic, but predictable, that they chose the Dire wolf over the Ivory billed woodpecker. Typical human BS attitude towrd wildlife. Nobody gives a shit about anything but "charismatic megafauna."

I heard on the radio on the local rock station's morning drive show on the way to work this morning, the de-exstinction of the dire wolf. I immediately thought Jurassic Park, too.

One of the morning show's personalities had quipped "Jurassic Park tweeted 'have you seen what happened?'" That was funny as hell when Steve Morrison said that! :-D

Which reminds me of another couple of FFs...

FF: The real star of Jurassic Park, Tyrannosauru Rex, lived during the Cretaceous period NOT the Jurassic period.

A lot of 10YO dinosaur loving kids wanted to have a word with Michael Crichton about that. Oh and..

FF2: The 7th Jurassic Park movie, "Jurassic World Rebirth" is coming out this year. The 10 YO kids bitching about the name of the 1st movie are now 42 YO kids.

Hold on to your popcorn, Jurassic Park is scheduled for de-extinction. Again.

"Colossal Biosciences has recently claimed that they have "de-extincted" the Dire Wolf and there are claims of other species having been "de-extincted"

did they never see Jurassic Park?!?

FF: The Pyrenean Ibex is the only animal to have been brought back from extinction.

FF2: The Pyrenean Ibex is the only animal to have gone extinct- twice.

OK, so Colossal Biosciences has recently claimed that they have "de-extincted" the Dire Wolf and there are claims of other species having been "de-extincted" but I'm not sure those qualify.

"It is a shame too, that 99% of people don't realize they are tailgating."

This may be a place where adaptive cruise control helps. That said, I much prefer my non-adaptive cruise control. I use my CC because I want to maintain a particular speed. With the ACC, sometimes you encounter a car where your initial delta speed is minimal, and then that car slowly slows down. Next thing you know, you're going 10 MPH slower than your set speed.

I understand the gut reaction of people yelling at other vehicles to slow down in an attempt to get those vehicles to slow down or stop, before plowing into a multi-vehicle pile-up. But, sadly, that effort is fruitless. We as a society are too fixated on getting from point A to point B at warp speed.

As a commercially licensed driver, I see all the time what rushing does on the roadways and highways. It is a shame too, that 99% of people don't realize they are tailgating.

Yup, Tues morning though. 50’ or less visibility and people flying by me in the left lane. Until they saw the pile up. Had to make my way back into the city via Slidell. Not fun.

Driving in a car, for some, is the last vestige of control and power, perceived, anyway. …not such a FF…

BT