Useless Trivia: Places to Drive on Left

[icvotria]

The word 'tragedy' comes from the Greek word tragoidia which means 'goat's song'. I don't know why though. The song 'Tragedy', by the Bee Gees, comes from hell.

 

[zoobyshoe]

More people are killed by jellyfish each year than by sharks.

The volume of the quotes in Ivan Seeking's posts now exceeds the volume of his posts 82.35% of the time.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The word 'Zoobyshoe' comes from the San Diegan word Zooby, which translates directly as "bigfoot"; hence "shoe of the bigfoot". However, it has been suggested that a Zooby is properly called the surviving-neanderthal/homo erectus/cro-magnon. So in the future, please refer to Zoobyshoe as surviving-neanderthal/homo erectus/cro-magnon-shoe.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Skepticism and Debunking mentor, Ivan Seeking, has posted more accurate and detailed information on the subject of farm animal genitalia than any Biology mentor at PF.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It seems that Zoobyshoe needs to learn about Rhino Love.
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=434848#post434848

Sing it Artman!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Sing it Artman!

Rhino hooker pimp.

I now believe in demonic possession.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I know I have a copy of Charles Fort's Book of the Damned around here somewhere...

 

[arildno]

The German word for nightmare, Albtraum, means "elf dream". The archaic form Albdruck means "elf pressure"; it was believed that nightmares are a result of an elf sitting on the dreamer's chest.

The Norwegian name for the nightmare, "mareritt" means the "mare's ride", i.e, it refers to a mythological creature,the "mare", who was supposed to straddle the dreamer's chest, and literally ride him into the world of "nightmares".

Thus, the English, German and Norwegian words really refers to the same basic idea, that nightmares were caused by a malevolent being which sat upon the dreamer's chest and made him suffer.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Interesting, it sounds like both ideas come from sleep paralysis.

 

[Evo]

If you take a "green leafy" branch and place it inside a bottle (like a plastic soda bottle) and seal it closed, by the end of a hot sunny day it'll produce as much as 1/3 cup of water.

 

[Danger]

If you take a "green leafy" branch and place it inside a bottle (like a plastic soda bottle) and seal it closed, by the end of a hot sunny day it'll produce as much as 1/3 cup of water.

So will a hamster.

 

[Evo]

So will a hamster.

Oh Nooooooooo.

 

[Huckleberry]

If you take a "green leafy" branch and place it inside a bottle (like a plastic soda bottle) and seal it closed, by the end of a hot sunny day it'll produce as much as 1/3 cup of water.

So will a hamster.

But which would you rather drink?

 

[Danger]

But which would you rather drink?

That's tough... I'm a carnivore, so I guess I eat the hamster and drink the plant piss. Better than the other way around.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Many dark-green leafy vegetables are an excellent source of nicotine. I think spinach is one of the best.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Many dark-green leafy vegetables are an excellent source of nicotine. I think spinach is one of the best.

I heard eggplant had the most.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I heard eggplant had the most.

That would explain the guy that I saw smoking an eggplant!

 

[Huckleberry]

In 20'000 Leagues Under the Sea Captain Nemo mentions that he gets nicotine for his cigars from the plants on the ocean floor. Any truth to this? I did a little searching but couldn't find anything useful.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

And similarly, a rather long lunch with a smoking friend can be easily equaled by a third of an ounce of eggplant.

In 20'000 Leagues Under the Sea Captain Nemo mentions that he gets nicotine for his cigars from the plants on the ocean floor. Any truth to this? I did a little searching but couldn't find anything useful.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/329/6/437
That's the quickest thing I could find.

 

[Danger]

In 20'000 Leagues Under the Sea Captain Nemo mentions that he gets nicotine for his cigars from the plants on the ocean floor.

Are you sure he wasn't smoking a blowfish?

 

[Danger]

I seem to remember from decades ago, when I was living in tomato and tobacco country, that someone was trying to introduce the nicotine gene into tomatoes so they'd be more bug-resistant. (Nicotine is the primary active ingredient in a lot of insecticides.) I don't know what became of the research.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Tomatos do have nicotine in them. Maybe they were trying to increase the amount.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Tomatos do have nicotine in them.

That would explain the guy that I saw smoking a tomato.

 

[Huckleberry]

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/329/6/437
That's the quickest thing I could find.

I didn't see anything about nicotine in seaweed in there. Oh well, just a book.

Are you sure he wasn't smoking a blowfish?

No, they save those for the people that ask for a cigareete as a last wish before they go in front of the firing squad. Saves bullets that way.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

There is considerable evidence that nicotine is present in certain human foods, especially plants from the family Solanaceae

I was thinking that the family name of vegitables that have nicotine in them might have helped. It doesn't seem that any of them grow underwater though.

 

[matthyaouw]

I heard eggplant had the most.

Yeah, but an eggplant is harder to smoke, unless you have a really large mouth.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

There are 10²⁴ sheds in a barn.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Beauty; milliHelen: 1mH = amount of beauty that will launch one ship

...FurlongsPerFortnight is the most standard of the nonstandard units of speed in physics and engineering.


...FurlongsPerFortnight: 1 furlong/fortnight = 10 Snail's Pace (note: 1 furlong = 10 chains) This is incredibly (literally, for once) close to a centimetre / minute -- 0.99785914 cm/minute
c (speed of light): 1.80 tera furlongs per fortnight
c (speed of light): 18 tera snail's paces [continued]

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhimsicalUnitsOfMeasurement

Here is a down-to-earth example of another unfamiliar set measurement parameters. Eggs are sold by the dozen, but they are actually priced by the pound. Farmers or egg sorting machines separate eggs into sizes we call small, medium, large, extra large and jumbo.

On the farm where I grew up we packed eggs into layers of 36, in an egg crate which held two stacks of 5 layers or 30 dozens. note A dozen large eggs weighs 24 oz or 1.5 lb. So the case weight is approximately 45 lbs. The vast majority of egg consumers wouldn't have a notion of what you were talking about if you were to say that eggs had just gone up by $1.50 per crate or $0.033 per pound, when the price per dozen had increased from $1.20 to $1.25. Of course they also would have no reason to care! For more on eggs check here, or try the British Egg Information Service. Note that the British have only recently adopted the same egg size standard as we use in the U.S.

[continued with other weird units of measure]

http://www.jardine-engineering.us.vu/written/furlong1.html

 

[zoobyshoe]

Bulgaria produces more computer viruses annually than any other country in the world.