Fun Facts

I ride a motorcycle and I'm trying to figure out the 6-7 or seven people thing. Thats sort of like the triple penetration, I'm having trouble with the geometry.

We're Asian, so we know some fun facts about Asians

You have to submit your passport type picture to apply for jobs in Asia. Obviously, attractive looking people have an advantage.

6-7 passengers can ride on a motor cycle in Asian countries and that's perfectly acceptable.

The roof of trains are considered economy class seats.

Luxury cars can be 2-3 times more expensive in Asian countries vs in US and EU.

Asians are as lewd as Americans and Europeans. They just won't admit it out loud because of the negative repercussions.

There's no minimum age for drinking alcohol beverages in many Asian countries, but surprisingly, you don't see many people getting drunk.

Couples wear their wedding rings on their right ring fingers in many Asian countries.

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

Classical composers have found interesting ways to die:

Charles-Valentin Alkan - Died after pulling an umbrella stand down on himself.

Ernest Chausson - Died instantly after hitting a brick wall riding his bicycle.

Jean-Baptiste Lully - Accidentally stuck his staff into his foot and died of gangrene (conductors used to tap the floor with a staff instead of waving batons).

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Died in an avalanche.

John Barnes Chance - Accidentally electrocuted in his back-yard.

Alexander Borodin - Died while dancing a little to heartily.

Edward Macdowell - Run over by a cab.

Maurice Ravel - Was hit by a cab and died in surgery later.

Cesar Franck - Died in a cab accident. His cab was hit by a horse drawn carriage.

Alessandro Stradella - Stabbed to death by an assassin.

Henry Purcell - His wife locked him out of the house after coming home late one night and he died from the elements.

Guillaume Lekeu - Died from eating contaminated sorbet.

Alban Berg - Died from insect-sting induced carbuncle.

Alexander Scriabn - Died from septicemia from shaving cut on his lip.

Louis Vierne - Died while playing the organ in Notre-Dame cathedral, leaving a low E sustaining throughout the cathedral.

some of those fairy tales are really kinda scary

FF: In the original story of Pinocchio that the Disney classic is based off of, he kills Jiminy Cricket by smashing him with a hammer because Jiminy tells him that he needs to get a job or go to school.

At the end, the Fox and the Cat kidnap him, tie up his hands, put a noose around his neck, and hang him from a tree until he dies, with the moral of the story being that if you don't listen/follow rules in life, it doesn't turn out well.

http ://w ww.slate.co m/articles/arts/books/2011/10/carlo_collodi_s_pinocchio_why_is_the_original_pinocchio_subjecte.html

The coding to create him does. James Earl Jones and Yoda, too.

Wow. So somewhere out there in a galaxy far far away Dearth Vader really exists.

Fun fact:

Any irrational number (a non-terminating, non-repeating number, such as pi, or the square root of any number other than the perfect squares, such as 2, 3, 5, etc) contains every numerical sequence that can exist.

Therefore, it stands to reason that contained within the digits of pi are an encoding of Britney Spears' DNA, and a JPEG image of you having sex with a giraffe.

http :// historywithatwist.wordpress. com/2013/12/20/how-santas-helpers-beat-the-nazis/

How Santa's helpers beat the Nazi's

In the stillness of night they wait, antler horns gently clacking as heads turn, unfazed, towards their master. Hot air plumes from flared nostrils, hooves dig at the packed snow beneath. They wait; ready to move on his command, ready to be sent into the icy darkness with their sleigh full of longed-for items, to be delivered into expectant hands.

You might be thinking of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and, possibly, a certain Rudolph, but me…I’m thinking of the nameless reindeer – the ones who gave their lives in the fight for freedom from Nazi domination.

What do you mean you never heard of the reindeer that went to war…?

Well, it’s a little-known fact but in 1941, during World War II, approximately 6,000 reindeer and more than 1,000 reindeer herders (mainly Nenets) from Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Komi began risking their lives to transport ammunition, food and communications for the Soviet Army.

It is estimated that 25 per cent of war supplies and munitions manufactured in North America during the war were shipped across the Arctic to America’s Soviet allies. The supply route used was under constant siege from the weather as much as the Germans.

Reindeer were the perfect beast of burden in this environment, but their use wasn’t a Soviet innovation – Finnish troops had used Sámi reindeer to transport equipment on sledges during the Winter War.

The Soviet reindeer corps worked an area from Murmansk to the Karelian front. It was an arduous and highly dangerous journey in harsh conditions and one which was constantly subject to German attack. Of the 800 herders who went to the northern front in 1941, only 600 returned. By the end of the war almost half the herders and their reindeer had perished.

http: // stephandudeck.wordpress. com/2012/02/26/first-monument-for-fighting-reindeer-during-the-world-war-ii/

The first Memorial for the reindeer herders that went to war with their reindeer in World War II was inaugurated by the governor on February 23rd in Naryan Mar. Relatives of the Nenets and Komi that fought in the reindeer transport troops in the Soviet army came up with the initiative to establish such a monument. They fought in the surroundings of Murmansk, often behind the lines of the German troops, and a lot of them were killed in action and never found. Now their children and grandchildren have a place to grieve and commemorate.

The Xerox story reminded me of the time Mr and I went to buy an air purifier and the dude tried so hard to sell us a $45 warranty on a $300 purifier, that he ended up saying, "You really should get the warranty...these things can overheat and start smoking, and you're not going to spend $45 on the warranty yet risk your whole house catching fire?"
And we said, "No. That just means we won't be buying this particular air purifier." And walked away. Dumbass.

Fun Fact:

In July, 1980 CompuServe began providing pay-per-view downloads of a few newspapers via dial-up service. An entire newspaper would take 2-6 hours to download, at a cost of $5 per hour.

Fun Fact: The first successful commercial photocopier was the Xerox Model A, which had such a tendency to overheat that a small fire extinguisher came along with it.

Ralph Nader (who apparently has been victimized by every bad consumer product since the square wheel) said one in his office caught fire 3 times.

Par for course..... Play through. FOUR!

The other 7% are responsible for the SLS pic loading software.

Public: 200 Unapproved Pictures

I think the remaining 7% were "Don't Know/No Answer".

"I think".

"A new poll indicates that 55% of people think they are of superior intelligence; 34% think they are about average, and 4% believe they are below average intelligence."

Va, that just leaves that pesky 7% to deal with. So, who are they? Better yet, how smart do they think they are?

Maybe the 7% didn't understand the question.

BT

I think I might take up hang gliding (I plan to build my own) at about age 85. Everything else on the list has already have a few chances to kill me and may still do the job. Its nice to plan for the future though. I'm assuming some of the military rockets I have fired or seen fired are liquid fueled but I'm really not sure.

I also don't have room for a rotary press so that one is out.

Sepsis sucks.

Fun Fact: Our daughter was a special case which attracted the attention of the CDC, who sent a rep to investigate.

Around 2004, we were living in Albany, NY. This happens to be the hotbed of Lyme disease - at the time it was something like 70% of all Lyme disease cases in the US happen within 200 miles of Albany.

Anyway...

She (13 or so at the time) began complaining that her knee hurt. She had done a "Jump Rope for Heart" fundraiser thing the day before, so we didn't think much of it.

The next day she was complaining of terrible pain, so Mrs. VA took her to our family doctor, and she sent her right away to an orthopedist. He took some fluid from her knee (and blood work) and sent it to the lab.

We got a call at 7 pm that night - "bring her into surgery - NOW". They did surgery on her at 1 AM. Opened her knee up and cleaned the entire mess out.

As it turns out, she had a horrendous triple infection of Lyme, staph, and strep. Her white blood cell count was off the chart- typical of that seen in terminal leukemia patients. She was hospitalized for 2 days while they pumped her full of antibiotics. Her presentation (i.e. "my knee hurts") was extraordinary - she did not display symptoms consistent with a massive infection such as fever, malaise, etc. She seemed fine, other than a sore knee. The CDC did a case study on her because this was so unusual.

This is one of those instances that I'm glad we lived in the US. In Canada, she would have died. I am sure of it. To get into a specialist takes 5 weeks, not 3 hours. If we were in Canada, we would have been bringing her into the ER in another day or two, and it would have been a fight for her life, which would have almost certainly not had such a positive outcome.

"Sepsis". Ah. And here I was feeling sorry for him. :)

A new poll indicates that 55% of people think they are of superior intelligence; 34% think they are about average, and 4% believe they are below average intelligence.

Actually, that was the least interesting one. His foot was crushed when the machine was being moved, and it became gangrenous. He died of sepsis, not directly being "attacked" by the machine.

of those devices, i'm putting "rotary printing press" down as one of my last choice of things to be killed by.

Fun Fact:

The inventors of the motorized bicycle, hang glider, parachute, rotary printing press, submarine, and liquid-fueled rocket engine were all killed by prototypes of their own inventions.