15 Things you didn't know you didn't know

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-02-25 08:09pm

Zaia wrote:
verilon wrote:The first toilet ever seen was on "Leave it to Beaver."
I'm sorry, but this one's completely untrue. I've never seen "Leave it to Beaver" and I've seen plenty of toilets!!

I think he means the first ever shown on TV.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-25 08:13pm

They just live along the river. It could be a range of some hundreds of miles

viperpilot · Post by **viperpilot** » 2003-02-25 08:17pm

Mark S wrote:My cat's breath smells like cat food.

is this why?
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irishmick79 wrote:1984 Detroit Tigers backup outfielder? A man named Rusty Kuntz.

btw, where is is this new river that flows north?

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-02-25 08:18pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Number 5mustbe a myth. How can a sound not echo, given the right circumstances?
Once again, since I live in a semi-rural area, near a very good-sized river (the only one in the USA that flows North), I can say that while the echo of a goose's honk will bounce at least twice in the narrower areas, a duck's quack you only hear once.
I've never noticed any strange echo effects in the canyons of the New River. It may just be that the quack of a duck doesnt have as much energy and thus you just cant hear a second echo. A goose is a larger bird.

Wow.. he got it in one guess! Congrats, I know several people I've teased with that and they never knew it. You're either *really* good with Geography, or you live along the river itself.

And since the river starts in North Carolina, and ends in West Virginia, yea.. I live there somewhere

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-02-25 08:22pm

I knew #2 already. However, since I didn't pay for this, I can't demand a refund.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-25 08:27pm

Good, new stuff to confound my peers at the office.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-02-25 08:49pm

LadyTevar wrote:Once again, since I live in a semi-rural area, near a very good-sized river (the only one in the USA that flows North), I can say that while the echo of a goose's honk will bounce at least twice in the narrower areas, a duck's quack you only hear once.

Ermmm... no. Hope that's a joke.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-02-25 09:00pm

The Tonle Sap river in Cambodia flows both ways.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-02-25 09:01pm

In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from an airplane.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-02-26 12:45am

Stormbringer wrote:
Zaia wrote:I'm sorry, but this one's completely untrue. I've never seen "Leave it to Beaver" and I've seen plenty of toilets!!
I think he means the first ever shown on TV.

I was kidding, hon. Hence the "

" and the "

."

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-02-26 07:37am

Zaia wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:I think he means the first ever shown on TV.
I was kidding, hon. Hence the " " and the " ."

Grr to typoes.

Cap'n Hector · Post by **Cap'n Hector** » 2003-02-26 01:32pm

It's possible to find both durian and pickle ice cream.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-26 01:38pm

Cap'n Hector wrote:It's possible to find both durian and pickle ice cream.

Now, whether you'd want to is another matter.

Pistolero · Post by **Pistolero** » 2003-02-26 04:18pm

Larz wrote:Hmmm, Coffee Jell-O... now I'm gonna want to make some. Hmm, what fruit flavor tastes good with coffee?...

You fuckers really have to try Sambuca Jell-O. You have not been fucked up until you get fucked up by eating a bunch of Sambuca Jell-O poppers.

Of course, this is just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-02-26 04:49pm

verilon wrote:The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

damn, darkstar really does have too much time on his hands!

Bartman · Post by **Bartman** » 2003-02-26 05:53pm

LadyTevar wrote:I live in a semi-rural area, near a very good-sized river (the only one in the USA that flows North)

Well lets see... After 30 seconds googleing I found that all all of these claim to be either the only or largest north-flowing river in the USA:

Cheat River, West Virginia
Kings River, Arkansas
Mad River, Vermont
Monongahela River, West Virginia
Niagara River, New York
Red River, Minnesota
St. Johns River, Florida
Shenandoah River, Virginia
Willamette River, Oregon

I'm guessing your river isn't quite as unique as you were thinking LadyTevar.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-02-26 06:20pm

verilon wrote:The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.

Yes, but "jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" is the shortest English sentence to do so.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why...

That is such an urban legend, complete with the overly-repeated 'no one knows why' tagline.

I think it can be looked up on Snopes' Urban Legend Reference Page for further info.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-27 12:51am

Close, Utsanomiko, it's The Straight Dope.

Both TSD and SNOPES are excellent resources for finding out if the random BS you get in E-mail is true or not.

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