Tell Me Something I Don't Know.

[Fencergrl]

In my younger days I gave father's day cards to my boyfriends just to scare 'em.

[Sins of the Fleche]

In my younger days I gave father's day cards to my boyfriends just to scare 'em.

One word: brilliant.

As for my contribution: it's illegal to keep an ice cream cone in your pocket in Louisville, KY.

[Fencergrl]

If caught... you deny it and just say that you're really glad to see someone.

Canada's cross country national radio station the CBC used to be part of our National railway. When radio started to become popular, the railway wanted to offer something for their passengers to listen to during their trips. So each railway station was also a repeater station for the railway's own radio broadcast.

When the government sold the railway portion of the business they kept the coast to coast broadcasting rights. That's why throughout Canada's radio history, Canadians can get CBC radio pretty much anywhere in Canada.

[foibles]

I thought this stuff about author Ambrose Bierce (Devils Dictionary) was interesting. from todays http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/


It's the birthday of satirist and short-story writer Ambrose Bierce.

He enlisted in the Union Army a week after the Civil War began and fought for four years in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. He was shot in the head during one battle and was shipped to the hospital on a flatcar surrounded by wounded and dying soldiers, an experience that added to his cynicism. After the war ended, he worked on a mapping expedition for the U.S. Army, which took him from Omaha to the West Coast. He had been promised a higher military rank if he completed the job, but the offer fell through, and so he left the military and stayed in San Francisco. At the time, San Francisco was full of outlaws, millionaires who had made their fortunes in the gold rush, sailors, gamblers, and writers. There were six newspapers for the town of 60,000, and the year before, Mark Twain had started working for one of the papers.

Bierce became a journalist there, and within a few years, he was labeled "the most irreverential person on the Pacific Coast," and "the wickedest man in San Francisco." He started writing dark short stories like "Chickamauga" (1889) and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890).

Then both his sons died within a few years — one from pneumonia and one from suicide — and his wife had an affair with another man. He published his best-known work, The Devil's Dictionary (1906), and a few years later, at age 71, he decided to travel to Mexico, where Pancho Villa was leading a revolution, and he was never heard from again. Many people claimed to have seen him in Mexico, but those rumors were never confirmed, and his body was never found.

[fencing girl rush]

Somehow Wisconsin has more bars per capita
per US census
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/...ns/011092.html

[magic_moose]

One of the greatest threats to hummingbirds is spider webs

[Fencergrl]

One of the greatest threats to hummingbirds is spider webs

And my cat Sophie... she sneaks into their nests at night.



The birth of the City of Vancouver, BC started with a lumber mill and a barrel of whiskey.

It all started when Steamboat captain Gassy Jack arrive to Stamps Landing Lumber Mill (what is now Gastown) in a canoe with his native wife, his mother-in-law and a barrel of whiskey.

He loudly announced that if anyone helped build his saloon, they would get free drinks. It was built in less than 24 hours and with a saloon and a mill, one of Canada's largest cities was born.

[Fencergrl]

The longest recreational trail in the world is the trans-Canada trail. It is 18,000 kilometres long. That's a LOT of trail mix!!

[foibles]

On Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! today they said that in the sport of Speed Walking the 2nd place winner is called the "Walker Up".

[Lady Quindecim]

David Tennant is a big fan of the band The Proclaimers

[larkascending]

A megaminx is a Rubik's dodecahedron.

[Lady Quindecim]

William Gibson pronounces the work archipelago funny.
And that says something coming from me.
(And, yeah, I had no idea that the dickens a 'megaminx' is. And now I do.)
=^_^=

[foibles]

When eatin' turkey for Thankgivin' dinner, the white meat is fast twitch muscle, the red meat is slow twitch.

[Lady Quindecim]

When eatin' turkey for Thankgivin' dinner, the white meat is fast twitch muscle, the red meat is slow twitch.

Uh... urm... It is when you are not eating it for Thanksgivin' dinner also.

[thereom4]

If you spell out every number starting with 1, you won't use the letter "a" until you reach 1,000.

[D'Art]

If you spell out every number starting with 1, you won't use the letter "a" until you reach 1,000.

Erm, one hundred and one?

[JackOfHearts]

Erm, one hundred and one?

That would be 100.1

So whole numbers?

[Empty Wallet]

That would be 100.1

So whole numbers?

Language differences:

101:

we say one hundred and one.
You say one hundred one.

Confused me when I first went to the US as a student, and I sure confused other people

"Let's call the whole thing off"

.

[thereom4]

The average person will shed 4 pounds of skin in their lifetime.

[thereom4]

Erm, one hundred and one?

Really? Ok. Why not one o' one? How about one-o-one, one hundred plus one, one hundred & one, or even one hundred + one?