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Posted: June 16, 2007 10:18 am
by CaptainP
Gilligan's Island was located at 10 degrees longitude and 140 degrees latitude

Posted: June 16, 2007 10:22 am
by CaptainP
The US Senate Restaurant was required by law to serve the same meal every day...Yankee Bean soup.

Posted: June 17, 2007 12:13 am
by CaptainP
During WWII, German sub U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet

Posted: June 17, 2007 12:30 am
by CaptainP
If your Doctor tests you for Scarlett Fever, he is giving you a "Dick Test"

Posted: June 17, 2007 8:14 am
by CaptainP
There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of a chess game on each side of the board

Posted: June 17, 2007 8:20 am
by CaptainP
No word in the English language rhymes with month

Posted: June 17, 2007 10:24 am
by drunkpirate66
CaptainP wrote:No word in the English language rhymes with month
P is wicked smaaaht! :)

Posted: June 17, 2007 6:46 pm
by horseyparrot
CaptainP wrote:There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of a chess game on each side of the board
No wonder it frustrated the cr*p outta me! my dear husband was teaching me, and I kept asking him questions every move. Too many to choose from! :P

Posted: June 18, 2007 7:17 am
by CaptainP
Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt.

Posted: June 18, 2007 12:58 pm
by Bubbaphan
CaptainP wrote:Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt.
So if your shaker gets lost...what, lick your eyeballs? :lol: :pirate:

Posted: June 18, 2007 1:05 pm
by Bubbaphan
LaTda! wrote:
CaptainP wrote:The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
I NEED to see a video of this :lol: :lol:
Will this do?

Image

Posted: July 4, 2007 9:19 am
by CaptainP
Bubbaphan wrote:
CaptainP wrote:Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt.
So if your shaker gets lost...what, lick your eyeballs? :lol: :pirate:
My tongue is long, but not THAT long...




I can only get halfway up my nose

Posted: July 4, 2007 12:15 pm
by jonesbeach10
CaptainP wrote:Gilligan's Island was located at 10 degrees longitude and 140 degrees latitude
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Latitude measures North-South from the Equator and only goes to 90 degrees and Longitude measures East-West from the Prime Meridian and goes up to 180 degrees.

What you have would put it somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and it would be really really really cold, as opposed to somewhere in the South Pacific if it's switched. :lol:

Posted: July 4, 2007 12:45 pm
by pojo
Check this out in Hoot..... Along with JB,
Delaney played a Soccer Player
Carl Hiaasen was Muckle's Assistant (he was the author of the Book)

Posted: July 4, 2007 1:11 pm
by chippewa
Timothy Matlock wrote the Declaration of Independence.


...wrote, as in put the pen to the paper. :D

Posted: July 4, 2007 1:19 pm
by bravedave
CaptainP wrote:No word in the English language rhymes with month
I see your unit of time and raise you three colors: purple, silver, and orange.

Posted: July 5, 2007 10:14 am
by pair8head
bravedave wrote:
CaptainP wrote:No word in the English language rhymes with month
I see your unit of time and raise you three colors: purple, silver, and orange.

Roses are Red
Violets are Purple
Sugar is sweet
and so is mayple Surple.

Roger Miller

Posted: July 5, 2007 10:46 am
by bravedave
Spamwas introduced on this date in 1937.
So grab a spork and sing along...
The Vikings wrote:Spam spam spam spam.
Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam.
Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Spam spam spam spam!

Posted: July 5, 2007 10:51 am
by CaptainP
3 of the first 5 US Presidents died on the 4th of July

Thomas Jefferson AND John Adams in 1826
James Monroe in 1831


None have died on this date since

Posted: July 6, 2007 11:54 am
by bravedave
John Wise made the first airmail delivery in the United States in 1859 via balloon. He was also responsible for a number of othere "firsts":

His rifle shot at Confederate troops from his balloon on 25 July 1861 is credited as the first airborne hostile shot in military history.

He was the first to observe the jet stream, noting there was a "great river of air which always blows from west to east".

In 1838 he developed a balloon that if ruptured or deflated when aloft would collapse to form a parachute (the bottom half would fold upwards into the top half to form the classic parachute shape) which would allow the occupants of the basket to descend without injury or loss of life. Although the idea was not original, Wise was the first to build working version and the first to demonstrate its use.


On 28 September 1879, aged 71, he disappeared with a passenger on a trip in high winds from East St. Louis, Illinois over Lake Michigan. No trace of Wise, the passenger or the balloon have ever been found. ("Somewhere... over the rainbow...")