DID YOU KNOW ... ?

Subject: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: bbelle
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 01:51 AM

Many times in my life someone has said to me ... "Jenny, did you know ...?" and whatever it was they told me, was always a bit of information or trivia that I'm convinced I needed to know. The "did you know's" have been about everything imaginable, e.g., life, music, the universe, the mundane, and the list goes on.

The "did you know's" have gotten less and I'm afraid I'm missing out on important information, so, I will start off ...

Did you know? ... that Rick Fielding coined the phrase "Blue Clicky Thing" because he was fairly new to computers and they were popping up in posts and he didn't know what to call it. That was over two years ago and it is now the most-favored-term for the blue clicky thing.

moonchild

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: campfire
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 01:56 AM

Rick also coined the term "flunderblunking" - which is STILL one of my favorite words.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Barbara
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 03:05 AM

and it means.....?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 05:15 AM

here is something I submitted, but, it didnt catch on..

WHALE, OIL, BEEF, HOOKED

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Morticia
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 07:03 AM

did you know that if you laid all the morris dancers in the UK end to end, no-one would be a bit surprised?

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 08:27 AM

I wonder where THIS thread will end up?

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: bbelle
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 10:17 AM

Well ... it could end up silly (which wouldn't be a bad thing) ... or we could actually learn a thing or two about each other (which wouldn't be a bad thing either).

Ok ...

Did you know .... that the face on the tail of an Alaska Airlines plane is not a picture of Don Ho when he had an afro in the 70's ... it is the picture of an Eskimo.

moonchild

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 10:56 AM

Did you know...that after Peter T. and Tony Burns showed me HOW to do a "blue clicky" (yes I admit it was my phrase..just as Sandy lived to regret suggesting "BS" as a designation) it only took me two weeks to FORGET how to do it again.

Flunderblunker Fielding

However I didn't coin the words "furannablaster" or "freep" to describe huge and tiny farts.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: campfire
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 11:09 AM

Rick, some of the "gentlemen" I work with have developed a whole vocabulary to describe various forms of flatulence. However, neither "furannablaster" or "freep" are in it. Perhaps those are regional variations? ;)

campfire

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 11:14 AM

...hey moon...di ya know I have been gazing at this part of the Gulf Beach out to Dog Island every day for more years than I can remember?

St. George Island Beach

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 12:39 PM

That carrageenan is seaweed, and that it is what causes commercial pudding mixes to set up?

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Mbo
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 01:09 PM

I always thought the guy on Alaska Airlines was Peary for some reason.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 02:59 PM

Did you know that the shape of a classic champagne glass was created from a mold of Marie Antoinette's breast?

Did you know that no two snowflakes are exactly alike ? Although you'll have a hell of a time proving it.

Or that aerodynamically, the bumblebee is incapable of flight?

I need to get a life. It's 2PM on a Saturday and I am spending my time here.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Mbo
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 03:08 PM

Don't worry, Sins, you're not alone.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 03:31 PM

Did you know that "Don't Fence Me In" was really written by a man in Roundup, Montana, and sold to a song buyer working for Cole Porter (for $20). I called into Larry King's radio show once to mention this, and after he and Arlo Guthrie joked about my name, he bacame irate that I would even suggest such a thing. Well, my family knew the man who wrote it. (Do you think Cole Porter would even know what a cayuse was until someone told him?) Anyway, believe me or not, I swear it's true. My actual question was going to be whether Woody Guthrie had ever had to sell songs that are now publshed with someone else's name on them, but I got cut off before I could ask that question.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 03:37 PM

.....blueberries are red when they're green.

(I know LOTS of stuff..but that's what popped up..maybe some really interesting things later)

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 04:08 PM

Okay, Kendall, I'll bite:

What does WHALE, OIL, BEEF, HOOKED mean? Inquiring minds want to know!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 04:18 PM

Just say it quickly Dave..........with a bit of the brogue..........not the Hoosier sound........

Spaw (WellI'llBeFucked)

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 04:37 PM

WOBF!!!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 08:02 PM

did you know that lobsters are green before they are cooked? sure you did, but, did you ever see a blue one? an orange one? all phases of their coloration.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 08:37 PM

Computers are seriously detrimental to housework?

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Diva
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 08:49 PM

The liver of the polar bear is so rich in vitamin A,that if you ate it it would kill you. So if you are ever........

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Gary T
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 08:52 PM

Absolutely right, Diva. Likewise with the liver from a bearded seal.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:05 PM

did you know that for me, great sex takes a backseat to playing music! Its not sad,... its true!

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Diva
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:15 PM

Well..........if you must have "knowledge" of the Queen of the Fairies........what do you expect???????

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:17 PM

Did you know that for me playing music takes a backseat to great sex?
Mind you, maybe when I can play my banjo better I will change my mind.

BB

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:22 PM

The worm in Mescal or Tequila is loaded with mescaline and will give you a positive test for controlled substances.........(and send you boogawooga for a while if you really do eat it)

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Downeast Bob
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:26 PM

Speaking of lobster, did you know that along the Maine coast, the major part of lobsters' diets, until they are big enough to keep, is the bait they find in lobster traps? Which helps explain why they are just about the only commercial seafood species that isn't in decline.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:38 PM

did you know that they are now giving a mixture of Viagra and Ginko-Biloba to patients in nursing homes? WhY? so they can remember what the fuck they were doing..

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: sophocleese
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:49 PM

Sinsull, thanks for saying it was a "Classic" champagne glass. I get the oddest image of Marie Antoinette and goats mixed when I remember that story and see the long, thin, narrow champagne glasses.

Did you know that when you pack a car trunk, box or moving truck if you pack the biggest things first its easier to pack everything? Are you listening Allan C.? If you pack the heavy things in small boxes and the light things in big boxes you should get boxes you can lift by yourself.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 09:59 PM

And put the heavy stuff in small boxes on the bottom and over the axle. Lowers your center of balance so the vehicle does not roll so easily.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 10:53 PM

If you take apricots and stew them like prunes, they taste much more like applesauce then rhubarb does.

Spaw (thanks to George Kaufman)

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 12:54 AM

And just who the hell wants to eat rhubarb in the first place? Eh? If I want applesauce, I will eat applesauce, thank you very much.

Did you know that----you can make an "apple pie" with green tomatoes, using all the same spices,etc. but substituting green tomatoes for apples?

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: bbelle
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:06 AM

Sorcha ... send me that recipe, would you, please? I have lots of green tomatoes!

I just knew this thread would "bring out" some great information.

Did you know ... That propane is not the smartest way to heat your house or with which to cook, in the far north? It's because propane turns to liquid at 30 below.

moonchild

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:08 AM

......it takes a hell of a big dog to weigh a ton...

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:23 AM

Will do, Jenny. See PM tomorrow. And, I KNEW propane did not get a warm as natural gas.........my bill was sky high and I was still freezing.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:36 AM

Did you know that the first country to give the vote to women was New Zealand.

Thomas Hardy the novelist was so mean that if he was going out of a room for longer than 30 mins, he put the fire out to save coal. He also designed his own house with no inside toilets.

Richard the Third did not kill the princes in the tower even though history books still report that he did. It was Henry Tudor, and the truth was made public almost as soon as Elizabeth I was dead....

LTS

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:37 AM

The rounded part at the rear of a sail that constitutes the difference from an absolutely straight line is called the roach. Don't smoke it. Don't step on it either.

Spaw

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:44 AM

yesdearspawIamgoingtobednow.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:45 AM

.......and you're wasting a lot of good green tomatos too.

Spaw

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: bbelle
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:47 AM

Sorcha ... do you like fried green tomatoes? They are absolutely one of life's epicurean treats.

spaw ... surely you would agree!

moonchild

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:48 AM

The first branch of the Anglican Church to have women bishops was the Anglican Church of New Zealand.... and we in the north supposedly consider NZ a backward country......

Did you know that I have a head full of useless trivia, until someone asks me about any of it, and then it all just vanishes.... puff!

LTS

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: kendall
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 08:09 AM

Did you know that the first naval battle of the Revolution was fought in Machias Bay? my home town.

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 03:47 PM

did you know that I LOVE fried green tomatoes? And Swiss Chard? And rhubarb? And Ohio grown sweet corn? And that I make an incredible pig of myself this time of year and have the manners of one as well?

Did you know Karen retains a divorce lawyer during this period every year?

Spaw

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 03:52 PM

Kendall,

WOBH!

Apparently YOU didn't know that I have used this term at least TWICE in the last week, right here at Mudcat!

That whole thread was a riot, you should refresh it.

~S~

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: paddymac
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 04:55 PM

WOBH? Guess I missed it the first time around, Kendall. Had to say it fast before I grasped its cosmic significance. Maybe I'm wierd, but I like it.

BTW, you can also make an apple pie by substituting Ritz crackers for apples, but WHY?

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 04:57 PM

Probably if you were "puttin' on the Ritz."

Spaw

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 05:03 PM

I refreshed the thread with WOBH, kendall.

Cracked me up all over again. Ah those were the good old days. (February! LOL)

~S~

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 05:05 PM

Did you know that..........
Albert Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak.

Beethoven's music teacher once said of him, "As a composer, he is hopeless,"

When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counselled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.

F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employer would not permit him to wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense to close a sale."
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Boston Celtics Hall of Famer Bob Cousy suffered the same fate.

A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

Winston Churchill failed Grade 6 and had to repeat it because he did not complete the tests that were required for promotion.

Babe Ruth struck out a record 1,300 times.

Yet somewhere along the road of life, we end up meeting someone who sees greatness in us, expects it from us and lets us know it. It is the golden key to success.

(taken from the Toronto Star newspaper)

Subject: RE: DID YOU KNOW ... ?
From: bbelle
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 05:08 PM

"Yet somewhere along the road of life, we end up meeting someone who sees greatness in us, expects it from us and lets us know it. It is the golden key to success."

Bonnie ... Would that we all could believe in the above statement ...

moonchild