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Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Aikanaro, Mar 4, 2003.

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    [​IMG] Come on, I know that some of you have something completly and utterly useless you want to contribute, whether it is the exact date that the gun was invented to some obscure belief in some obscure god of some obscure century. Well don't let your useless knowledge be wasted, post it here!
     
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    It's my parakeet's birthday. :D
     
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    reepnorp Lim'n Lime Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    Another name for a whale penis is a "dork".
     
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    The only english word that is taken straight from the swedish language is "smorgasbord".
     
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    There is no sand in sandwiches.
     
  6. Shell

    Shell Awww, come and give me a big hug!

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    Some fish can give birth to live young
     
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    IRS employees' tax manuals have instructions on how to collect taxes post nuclear war. ;)
     
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    [​IMG] my bro once caught a fish with 3 eyes :alien: No joke. It was a Dab (that's the type of fish, to those that don't know).
     
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    There isn't any word for Lagom in the english language.
     
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    Ofelix The world changes, we do not, what irony!

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    A giant squid has a penis of 40 kg weight...
    Cliché is the only word of english who has "foreing caracter" é, è, ë, ê, à, ä, â ect...
    Even If I want I can't have less than 80% in a english exam.
     
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    [​IMG] A whale's (not sure which sort, the biggest one) penis is 2 metres long. I saw this on a wildlife program.
     
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    D_M:Nope, you're wrong. There are words fiancé, café and others as well.
     
  13. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    My cat's name is Mittens....my cat's breath smells like cat food. Crap, I'm turning in to Ralf Wigum. :doh:
     
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    I haven't washed my hair in four days.
     
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    That's actually useful information because now I know to stay away from you... ;)
     
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    joacqin Confused Jerk Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    There is another one idoru, 'ombudsman'.
     
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    Master of Nuhn Wear it like a crown Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I love this! My friends say I know a lot of useless things anybody wouldn't even try find interesting. :p

    The highest mountain in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) is Adam's Peak, a.k.a Pidurutalagala.

    Some Dutch words in England/America: Apartheid, Aardvarken, Kloof, ...

    A Dutch Hooker is a specific ship.

    There is no foreign word that matches the Dutch word 'Gezellig' (sort of Cousy, a nice atmosphere at a birthday-party or a diner with your family f.e, are often 'gezellig')

    The skin is a humans biggest organ.

    Lenin's real name was Oeljanov.

    Ee is old Dutch for water in the west and north of the Netherlands. So is Aa in the south and east. Edam, so, means Waterdam. Breda would be Widewater. Zierikzee (des heren Diederick's ee) Water of Lord Diederick) Gouda means Golden Water but Gouda isn't in the east, nor the south. Dilemma!

    You hear your clock ticking, but 5 seconds ago you didn't.
     
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    In those cowboy movies, you always see them riding on horses while shooting bullets up in the air. Not very smart.

    Using physics, the bullet should make a parabolic trajectory and end up landing right back onto the cowboy, thus killing him! (Assume the horse moves at constant speed in a straight line)
     
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    The scientific name for the cacao plant - whence comes chocolate - translates into "food of the gods."
     
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    The name "The Dark Project" comes from the escape mission. You read about it in a book.

    It's literally that. A plan to extinguish all the electric lights in the work. The idea being that darkness spurs the imagination. People huddled around one fire, scared of moving too far away from it, cut off from the other groups of people huddled around other fires.

    So, he was going to open a portal to the "lower planes". And let in all sorts of beasts, which would start wiping out people and scatter them. So they wouldn't have the collective resources to lighten the world.

    Also, you can block open the cathedral doors with a skull just as well as a rib cage. And if you time it just right, you can drop a zombie with an arrow in an area which you'll not be going too. Taking him out of the equation.
     
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