Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

More Random Thoughts


Yes, I’m doing this again. Blame NaNoWriMo, which I have to go do right now. Don’t be mad. Or do. I can’t control your emotions. Yet.

So here’s more random trivia, observations and information. This time, I’m going to tell you which is which so you’re aware of what I know as fact (t) for trivia, (o) for something I’ve observed personally and (i) for what I’m pulling out of my ass and have no idea if it's true or not. Because forty percent of statistics are made up on the spot.

(o) In exercise videos consisting of a trainer and other people, the others are the ones that do all the exercising. The trainer spends a lot more time checking them or talking about it. Especially when it's a hard one.
(o) Also, the people in the videos are almost always smiling.
(i) Damn. I bought the wrong peanut bars.
(i) Actually, these are pretty good.
(t) Clowns are upset when politics in Washington are compared to a circus. As they should be.
(i) There was a study done that stated people swallow an average of three insects a year while sleeping. Am I the only one who asks who the hell wastes their time checking how many bugs someone eats? I mean really. Cancer. AIDS. Maybe you should get to work on that instead of some crap I’d rather not know about.
(t) The Simpsons has aired its Treehouse of Horror Halloween specials on Halloween only twice: during the third (1991) and eleventh seasons (1999). It could have done it this year but did not because of baseball. Or football. One of those.
(i) When Walter Cronkite died, people voted Jon Stewart the most trusted face in news. I was shocked. I thought Cronkite died years ago.
(i) No, I don’t want the autoformatting, damn it. Stop doing it.
(o) Treehouse is not in Word’s dictionary but fantabulous is.
(o) Cycle has both pronunciations of C in it, the sss and the kah. So does circle. I could go to the dictionary for more : )
(t) The world’s longest cat is forty seven and half inches long. Even with about eighteen inches being its tail, that’s pretty damn long.
(i) Threshold only has one H, but it’s not thresh-old.
(i) I can’t leave a bag of cat food down because I have a cat that will tear the bag open and eat until she pukes.
(t) You shouldn’t put tissues in the toilet because they are don’t degrade like toilet paper does. They can cause clogs.
(t) Until this year (2010), prostitution was legal in Rhode Island if it was indoors. Of course, what can you expect from the state that refused to go to the continental congress in 1780.
(t) If you ever have any trouble loading or viewing web pages, clear your cache (tools/internet options, clear history/cache; roughly the same for Firefox, Explorer and Chrome, but they may be called different things). Seriously, ninety five percent of internet problems can be solved by clearing your cache.
(i) Remember what I said about statistics?

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Thoughts At Large

Because I've been busy all day (and by busy, I mean watching movies and goofing off in general), I don't have much planned blog-wise. So here are a bunch of thoughts, observations and trivia. Enjoy!

---When on a bus where every seat has one person in it, women will choose to sit with other women before men, men will choose to sit with women before other men.
---When The Simpsons first came on, it was derided for its portrayal of the American family. Now, the Catholic church is endorsing it.
---Fifteen years ago, if anyone had Internet access on their computer, it was through a phone line.
---People who live in the Himalayas have genetically evolved to use less oxygen than normal. It has happened in a relatively short amount of time (as in 5 generations), so short that scientists can't explain how this change has happened.
---They're all chickens. A male chicken is a rooster, a female chicken is a hen.
---The song Brimful of Asha by the band Cornershop is a tribute to Indian singer Asha Bhosle, who is known for having sung in over 12,000 songs.
---There are people out there who actually like The Room.
---My uncle lives in a heavily wooded area that, for some reason, is full of old cars left there to rust.
---Tofurky, though nice for turkeys, tastes like crap. Granted, I'm a picky eater, but this is just awful.
---Star Trek was the first show to have an interracial kiss. Can you believe that was a big deal? They had to make it "forced" for the characters. But William Shatner actually fought to be the one to kiss Nichelle Nichols.
---Of course, we don't see men/men or women/women kisses much, do we?
---According to Stephen Colbert's twitter, the rally to restore sanity and/or fear attracted six billion people. I guess some of China didn't make it.
---Remember scripted shows? I miss those.
---Bloggers will pull a wide variety of facts out of their ass in order to avoid an actual post.