BS: Useless Trivia

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 05:45 PM

Since WC Fields is popular, here's another. He was not only a world class juggler but also a master lock picker and insomniac. Often, the only place he could fall asleep was in the barber's chair. Thus, it was not uncommon for some hotel barber to open up in the morning and find Bill asleep in one of his chairs.

And let's not forget the fameous occasion when he deducted $100 on his taxes for a "new subterfuge." They allowed it. Being who he was, he didn't rejoice but cursed all the years when he hadn't thought to do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: GUEST,Sidewinder
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 04:54 PM

A famous film producer was once asked at a press conference "why do you drink so much". To which he replied "to make people like you seem interesting".

WC Fields was told by his agent that he had to play golf with a certain film director in the hope that he would get a casting call for an upcoming film. Fields refused saying "if I wanted to play with a prick I'd play with my own".

Best Wishes.

Sidewinder.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Micca
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 12:35 PM

You can detect if a person is a Chemist or has studied chemistry by the way in which they pronounce these two chemical terms

UNIONISED

PERIODIC ACID

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 11:58 AM

Could you pronounce that for us, please. brucie?

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: open mike
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:47 PM

i thought that avocado (aquacate) was because the tree grows
where there is water and if you find a tree, you find water.
it means water search. so i heard.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: susu
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:14 PM

Why Alicia? Although I knew an Alicia once and she was EVIL!

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:27 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the chemical name for the Tobacco Mosaic Virus.

ACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOLEUCYL-
THREONYLSERYLPROLYLSERYLGLUTAMINYL-
PHENYLALANYLVALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYL-
SERYLSERYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLALANYL-
ASPARTYLPROLYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYL-
LEUCYLASPARAGINYLVALYLCYSTEINYL-
THREONYLSERYLSERYLLEUCYLGLYCYL-
ASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYL-
GLUTAMINYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYL-
ALANYLARGINYLTHREONYLTHREONYL-
GLUTAMINYLVALYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYL-
PHENYLALANYLSERYLGLUTAMINYLVALYL-
TRYPTOPHYLLYSYLPROLYLPHENYLALANYL-
PROLYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLTHREONYLVALYL-
ARGINYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLYCYL-
ASPARTYLVALYLTYROSYLLYSYLVALYLTYROSYL-
ARGINYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYLALANYLVALYL-
LEUCYLASPARTYLPROLYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYL-
THREONYLALANYLLEUCYLLEUCYLGLYCYL-
THREONYLPHENYLALANYLASPARTYLTHREONYL-
ARGINYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLISOLEUCYL-
ISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLVALYLGLUTAMYL-
ASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLSERYL-
PROLYLTHREONYLTHREONYLALANYLGLUTAMYL-
THREONYLLEUCYLASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYL-
ARGINYLARGINYLVALYLASPARTYLASPARTYL-
ALANYLTHREONYLVALYLALANYLISOLEUCYL-
ARGINYLSERYLALANYLASPARAGINYLISOLEUCYL-
ASPARAGINYLLEUCYLVALYLASPARAGINYL-
GLUTAMYLLEUCYLVALYLARGINYLGLYCYL-
THREONYLGLYCYLLEUCYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYL-
GLUTAMINYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYL-
PHENYLALANYLGLUTAMYLSERYLMETHIONYL-
SERYLGLYCYLLEUCYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYL-
THREONYLSERYLALANYLPROLYLALANYLSERINE

Woulda just called it Alicia if'n it had been up to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:51 PM

There are more deer in the US today than there were when Columbus landed.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: susu
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:35 PM

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It usually appears to be pink in color.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:23 PM

Very useful information: Your chances of winning the lottery are about the same whether you buy a ticket or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:17 PM

Nigel: Really?

Thank you. I kept wondering why--if the odds were one in 10068347520--all these people kept hitting all six numbers. Did I ever mention that I failed math all the way through school? I didn't have to mention that though, did I.

So that number then gets divided by 720. So the real odds are one in 13983816. Now, that makes sense.

Thank you again.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: susu
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:57 PM

Mack, I stand corrected! My friend was the one who told me that, and I like a goofball, took it at face value as she knows alot about that junk. SORRY! Susu

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: pdq
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:40 PM

If all of the world's virgins were laid end-to-end,






















Bill Clinton would have something to to with it. You can count on it!

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:05 PM

Dr Guillotine the inventor of the guillotine became one of its victims in the French Revolution.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:55 PM

susu: You are a rogue! Brahe lived before Fermat! Besides, Fermat's Next to Last Theorem was about whether the fleas on Schroedinger's cat would be alive or dead. You're confusing it with Dilbert's Expository Lemma to the Pointy Haired Rule.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: susu
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 05:27 PM

Mack, The argument with Manderup Parsbjerg was stated to be over Fermat's Next-to-Last Theorem, which speculates that 2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2. (although I do not get this myself, if I could somehow make $2 + $2 =$5 then I could make more money huh?) There is also speculation that it was over a simple matter of who was the better mathematician. Also when his body was exhumed in 1901 there was evidence of copper in the metal due to the green rim found on the opening of the skull where the nose had been.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:30 PM

jeez, Julian the Apostate too! I once observed my eldest daughter when she was younger, simultaneously practice the piano, listen to some completely different music on her walkman and read a book. I just thought she was a scatterbrain like me.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:19 PM

The Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, lost his nose in a duel over long division. He wore a silver prosthetic to replace it. If any one nows what aspect of long division they fought over, please PM me with the details.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:59 PM

Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor of Rome, could listen to a report, read another report, and write a third and fourth (ambidextrous) simultaneously. But not very fast, Im sure. One of the US presidents could do something similar but the details escape me.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:39 PM

Raymond Burr was the only North American in the US version of Godzilla.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:34 PM

Brucie:
The odds of hitting the 6/49 lottery in Canada are one in
49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44.
Try one in 49*48*47*46*45*44/(6*5*4*3*2) i.e. 49!/((43!)*(6!))
As you do not need to predict the order in which the numbers will come out. The first number out is one of 49 and you have 6 chances at it.

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: susu
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:03 PM

Sttaw, you're the genius in your family huh? Just kidding!

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:01 PM

Wood grows on trees.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: susu
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:00 PM

Ok this is trivia but it is also helpful. Dentists once instructed patients to keep their toothbrushes at least 7 feet from the comode so no airborne contaminants would get on it when flushing. Why don't they still do that? Have we evolved to the point where we have that much common sense?

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 01:54 PM

From the movie, "WC Fields and Me." Great movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 01:50 PM

Lady Astor told Winston Churchill "Mr Churchill, I were your wife I would put poison in your drink!

Winston replied "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it"!!!!
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 01:42 PM

Living in southern Califorina, W C Fields missed the rain storms of the east and mid-west. The day he died, his mistress spend the day on the roof, aiming a hose at his window while his friends came to pay their last respects.*


*He had bullied his doctor into giving him enough stimulants to keep him lucid for a day, knowing it would kill him.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 12:59 PM

"Bloom, ya bastards" W. C. Fields talking to his plants (allegedly)

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 12:25 PM

And then there was WC Fields.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:31 AM

A nurse lit a candle and Voltaire spoke his last words: "What? The flames already?"

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:17 AM

If your nose runs and your feet smell , youve got serious problems cos you're built upside down !

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:17 AM

Oscar Wilde's last words were "Either that wallpaper goes or I go."
      Goethe's last words are in dispute.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:09 AM

"Surely Mum's the word?"

Mum's the champagne.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:09 AM

The odds of hitting the 6/49 lottery in Canada are one in

49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:59 AM

Surely Mum's the word?

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:44 AM

Yes Amos, senorita is definately a word.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:37 AM

Never deterred the deer around our garden....

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:34 AM

If you eat meat and then pee around your garden, the deer will be deterred. Vegetarian pee doesn't work.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:30 AM

. . . but he went to Mars and Venus, right?

I keep getting info like this and I am in for a baaaaad day.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Flash Company
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:29 AM

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 24 Tarzan books without ever visiting Africa, (Actually, when I think about that, it's obvious!)

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:08 AM

Wow what a pear!

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:02 AM

I stand corrected, the avocado derives from the "Aztec" word "ahuacatl" meaning testicle tree. It was considered such a potent aphrodisiac that young women were kept indoors during its harvesting and the tree was not permitted to be grown on the grounds of the early missions, although I'm not certain who actually needed protection from the sight of it, the priests or the young women.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:40 AM

I think the word is Senorita, Minguulay....

A

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:32 AM

A wench is a female spanner.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:28 AM

There are four synthetics which compromise more than 98% of the face yarns used in carpet.

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: GUEST,James
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:15 AM

Goethe last words were"More Light".

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:36 AM

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Although I'm not sure that is, in actual fact, useless. It gives weight to my dislike of dentists.

I favour that way of working: form an opinion and work out the details later.

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:01 AM

If you want to swat a fly, sneak up on it from behind, because a fly takes off backwards at an angle of 60 degrees. I've tried it too, and it works! (the swatting that is, not the taking off)

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:14 AM

Brucie, Why doe the Loonie have 11 sides?







So you can get it out of a Scotsman's hand with a spanner. (Wrench.)


And only female sea-otters have scratches on their noses, because the males bite for grip when they mate. Ouch!

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:13 AM

Mike, Pernod and Pastis are liquers made from aniseed.

If an elephant stands on a grape, it would give a little whine!
Best wishes.
Mike