BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 04:22 AM

Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Sugar is sweet,
An so is maple surple.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: HuwG
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 04:11 AM

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.

The question of words that rhyme with "orange" came up on the BBC programme "QI", hosted by Stephen Fry, some years ago. American comedian Rick Hall insisted that it rhymes with "Dorange". That's a door hinge in Orange County.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 03:43 AM

When Billy Connolly was in Alaska, he found that the lumberjacks didn't call "Timber' and mushers didn't shout "Mush."

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 03:37 AM

Leonardo maybe didn't invent scissors. I've sure I've seen some in a museum, labelled 'Roman.' Long ago.   He might possibly have invented the modern form, pivoted, as opposed to the spring type, all in one piece. Wiki says at least 3-4000 years ago, for this 'shear' type.

The name Wendy appeared in an American census in 1828, long before the fantasy was written in 1904. Also in an English census in 1881, as a boys name. Wiki.

Dolphins attack sharks by ramming, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Smokey.
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 06:00 PM

Thanks, Spaw - that's where I got it from.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 07:09 AM

100

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 07:09 AM

Regarding the "gullible" joke..........This same thing came up on another forum I use about a month ago and this "joke" has actually been added to the definition of the word in the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster on-Line Dictionary.

I don't know if it is included in the 2010 print edition.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 05:05 AM

In the OP, number 20, the one about "rule of thumb," is bogus. It was hatched up sometime in the 1950s or 1960s by someone like Gloria Steinem or Germaine Greer.

On most adult, the distance between the end joint of the thumb and tip is almost exactly an inch, and carpenters and tailors used to use it for making rough measurements. I have big hands, so mine is more like an inch and a quarter. But knowing that, I can still use it to make approximate measurements if I don't have a ruler handy.

Burple is the color of a belch.

Did you know that ping-pong spelled backwards is gnop-gnip? (It's funnier when you say it.)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 04:58 AM

If you lay all the posts on Mudcat end to end they still wouldn't reach an agreement...

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 04:36 AM

One half of the world are trying to have fun

The other half are trying to stop them.


Source; Andy Capp, Daily Mirror circa 1975 (Reg Smythe)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 04:19 AM

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.

Hurple: (Scottish) An impediment similar to a limp.

Curple: the hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward

Burple (Proper noun, so it can be argued that this one shouldn't count)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beeliner
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 11:09 PM

LOL!!! That's the whole point. You, sir, have just been had...

Well, that occurred to me right after I posted it, reminds me of an old joke:

He: You have beautiful legs!

She (blushing): Oh, thank you!

He: Now can I pull your other one?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Smokey.
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 10:16 PM

A true gentleman wouldn't have said that, LH, yet ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 10:05 PM

LOL!!! That's the whole point. You, sir, have just been had...

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beeliner
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 09:49 PM

The word 'gullible' does not appear in any dictionary of the English language.

Do tell. I just checked three, and it's in all of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Smokey.
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 09:14 PM

The word 'gullible' does not appear in any dictionary of the English language.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beeliner
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 08:19 PM

1. Orange would normally take a feminine rhyme, so you need two syllables to rhyme.

2. Door hinge has a different vowel in the first syllable, plus the "h", so doesn't rhyme perfectly.

1. OK - see 2.

2. I pronounce or and door with exactly the same vowel, but you've got me on the 'h', unless, of course, the h is dropped as in some dialects.

Now, with regard to purple, may I submit 'burple', "the color of a belch".

Also, for those who remember the old 'Laugh-In" TV show, there was Fred Farkle's next-door neighbor, Ferd Ferple.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 08:08 PM

Orange would normally take a feminine rhyme, so you need two syllables to rhyme.

Door hinge has a different vowel in the first syllable, plus the "h", so doesn't rhyme perfectly.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beeliner
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 07:57 PM

10. SH said that several times in the Rathbone/Bruce film series, never in the original novels or stories.

13. "Orange" is pronounced OR-inj (at least that's the way I pronounce it), so technically speaking, all words ends in -inj (hinge, fringe, singe, binge) rhyme with it.

"Door hinge" rhymes perfectly, though admittedly two words.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 07:34 PM

Geez Loueeze! I didn't flippin' know ANY of this weerd stuff, eh?

Holy flip.

I am gonna mentalize it all and go arround makin' my friends and my brother Don feel like they was a buncha morons!

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 05:32 PM

Wendy's name in Peter Pan was inspired by JM Barrie hearing a couple of Scots lassies discussing their "friendy-wendy", using a fairly common way of forming a diminutive. cf bunny-wunny, pussy-wussy.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 05:16 PM


Re: "17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down"

Did they slow the film down in the camera?   

Or in the projector at the theater?

If you slow the film down in the camera (which, as a registered cynic, I rather suspect is what was actually done), the projected action on the screen will appear faster.

If you slow the developed film down in the projector (which is implied by the statement, I think) the movement on the screen will appear slower.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 11:58 AM

In January 2003, the toothbrush was selected as the number one invention Americans could not live without, beating out the automobile, computer, cell phone, and microwave oven, according to the Lemelson-MIT Invention Index.[5]

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 03:01 PM

" 1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton."

The semantics are skewed here. The significant thing is that paper can be (and traditionally was) made of cotton, or linen, or hemp, not just of wood pulp.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Kim C
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 01:41 PM

I can't stand lists like that because they are mostly rubbish; and people will believe them and keep passing the rubbish along.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 10:21 AM

Here's a common one in spiritual literature, BB. It may be a cliche by now, but it's true (for most people most of the time).

"You are not the victim of the world you see...you're the victim of the way you see the world."

(This does not, however, apply to certain extreme situations, such as: a child who is abused by an adult, for example. It does apply to most common everyday situations involving adults who chronically feel like victims of a "cruel world". As such, it's a very useful piece of advice to people who need to change their negative thinking habits and empower themselves.)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: GUEST,Pseudolus at Work
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 09:43 AM

OK, next time you're in a bank, ask them if they can change a penny. they'll probably ask you, "To what?". The coins you talk about may exist in someone's collection but they simply are not used. I think that is the point of the statement.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:56 PM

You can be invincible
If you do not engage
in any struggle
in which it does not depend on you
to be the winner.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:53 PM

When you do something
after having recognized that it is
necessary to do it,
do not fear being seen doing it,
even if the crowd must
judge it unfavorably.
If you are wrong to do it,
avoid the action itself;
if you are right, why do you fear
those who will be wrong to blame you?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:24 PM

It was an unconscious slip, but it said a lot, eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:19 PM

"in the form of a girl" Nice pun there, LH.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:08 PM

As Chongo said, wise words indeed, BB. Keep up the good quotes.

I am steadily learning to be happy by accepting things (that I can't change) as they are, rather than as I think they should be...but it ain't always easy! ;-) Still, it does get a lot easier as time goes by.

I figure it isn't the World that's there to make me happy, but that I must instead find happiness within. I sure didn't see it that way when I was younger. I thought happiness was "out there" somewhere. (usually in the form of a girl or a possession of some kind) And I went looking, and looking, and looking, and looking......

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 07:05 PM

Dave

You are correct, I was careless in proofing. I never said I could type...

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 05:39 PM

I just may be wrong*, but I think that's not "Epicetus", (whoever he may be) but Epictetus.   It certainly sounds like what Epictetus said.

Dave Oesterreich

*(A handsome admission, if I ever heard one!)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 02:21 PM

Wise words, baby, wise words. A man or chimp that lives by those words will always be happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 02:06 PM

Do not ask for what happens
to happen as you desire it;
rather desire that things should happen
as they happen,
and you will be happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 02:04 PM

more...

Do not boast of any advantage
that belongs to someone else.
If a horse said with pride,
"I am beautiful,"
this would be tolerable;
but you, when you say with pride,
"I have a beautiful horse,"
know that you are boasting
of an advantage that belongs to the horse,
What then is yours?
The use you make of your ideas.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 01:53 PM

From the manual of Little Hawk...

Sign of someone who is progressing:
he blames no one,
he praises everyone when they are praiseworthy (and all are praiseworthy at times),
he complains of no one,
he accuses no one,
he never speaks of himself
as of someone important
or who knows something, because he knows that he is no more important, relatively speaking, than anyone else.

Including you, BB! ;-)

My manual above accurately describes the people I learn from. I'm working toward that level of awareness as best I can, but I still slip into blaming people sometimes. And I still complain about people sometimes. I regard myself as no more or less important than you. What I know, I know. What you know, you know. The rest is conjecture and opinion.

Epicetus was clearly a pretty advanced fellow...I like his comments that you posted. But maybe his definition of "praise" is different (or intended in a different context) from mine. I find that praise, when deserved, greatly helps people. Try it with a child or an employee or a student, and see what happens.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 01:37 PM

"If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar"

The given figure of $1.19 is still incorrect, as the addition of a half-cent would STILL leave one unable to make change for the dollar.
Or, instead of the four pennies, use 4 three cent pieces...



3x25 = 75
4x10 = 40
4x3   = 12
1x 1/2= 1/2
      -----
      127 1/2


The problem is that the statement is worded poorly.

"the largest amount of money in coins" is what is stated.

This thread is supposed to be about strange things- thus the odd values of coins...

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 01:31 PM

If you have a $100 coin, how do you make change for a dollar? If you had a million of them, how would you make change for a dollar?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: GUEST,Pseudolus at work
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 01:27 PM

I'm 47 years old and no one has ever given me change that included half cent, two cent, three cent, twenty cent or a three dollar coin. I've never seen any one of them. Either way, 25 doesn't say how many coins but how much total money in coins which would still be $1.19 and a half cent even if the 1/2 cent is included. It is certainly not limitless.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Amos
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 01:05 PM

Oh, Little Hawk, how downright god-like!!!! :>)

(Scampers off to tree-trunk stage left....)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:31 PM

From the manual of Epicetus


Sign of someone who is progressing:
he blames no one,
he praises no one,
he complains of no one,
he accuses no one,
he never speaks of himself
as of someone important
or who knows something.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:17 PM

As far as I'm concerned, Amos, there IS no argument. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:09 PM

JohnInKansas,

ALL of the denominations I listed have been or are presently being produces by the US government as coinage. The half cent, two cent, three cent, twenty cent, three dollar (gold) and four dollar (gold) coins are not in present production- the others are. Check the FACE VALUE of the US 1/10, 1/4, 1/2 and 1 ounce gold and platinum coins.


I did NOT include the local/private issues, which would give even more possibilities. ALL the ones I have mentioned are presently legal tender in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_coinage#Historical_denominations

Of some interest should be the last paragraph on the following article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_%28U.S._coin%29

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Amos
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 10:08 AM

LH:

I demur. I am profoundly certain the the Great Mission of Spirit is, in fact, to Win the Argument.

(Any more room on that fallen tree, Chipmunk?)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:30 AM

"You can always win the argument if you're free to change the rules."


True. But does it really matter? The Universe doesn't care whether or not you win the argument. ;-) Only your own ego cares, and your ego is an ephemeral thing that passes away.

The great thing about discussing things is not winning the argument, but discovering and learning new things (or from the Spirit's point of view: remembering what you had temporarily forgotten, due to the descent into matter and duality).

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: kendall
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 08:52 AM

I also thought Jeri's comment was funny.

Little Hawk, I believe as you do, so it must be true.

And, by the way, the original name for the bumble bee was the Humble bee.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:45 AM

coldjam -

One of the comics in my newspaper today had the punchline -

"If it weren't for shallow people like you there'd be no entertainment industry."

Jeri probably looks like a little chipmunk with tongue that deep in cheek.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
From: coldjam
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:31 AM

From: Jeri - PM
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 09:30 PM

The Bruce Lee thing (#17) is right, because I just heard it on TV recenttly

Am I the only one who finds this hilarious?