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Any random information you are just itching to tell someone? Well here is the place to post it!
Here are some of my random information:
The flashlight was called the flashlight because when they first invented it, it would flash a beam of light for only a few seconds.
A Xenophobe, is someone who is scared of foreighners or strangers.
When Natalia Tena walked in to try out for the part of Nymphadora Tonks, she tripped over a chair. (Isn't that so ironic?!)
In Chicago, putting ketchup on hotdogs is "against the law".
The Cubs haven't won a world series since 1908!
submitted by Hannah P., age 13, GA.
(August 13, 2009 - 3:59 pm)
(August 13, 2009 - 3:59 pm)
In 1897, a drug and dye firm called Bayer began development of a drug which would, in 1899, become Aspirin. The great delay between the early development and its public released was due to a "more promising" medicine, which was marketed under the name Heroin as a non-addictive cough suppressant and morphine substitute.
Funny how these things work out, isn't it?
(August 13, 2009 - 4:48 pm)
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(August 14, 2009 - 10:08 am)
Wow, interesting...
(August 14, 2009 - 5:33 pm)
At the open auditions for Luna Lovegood, over 1,500 girls came.
Splashing water is an awesome thing to photograph.
(August 15, 2009 - 7:42 am)
Michael Dorn, the actor who plays Worf in Star Trek, has been in more Star Trek episodes and movies than anyone else with 175 TNG episodes, 101 DS9 episodes, and five movies. Between TNG and DS9, he missed a total of 7 episodes. His natural speaking voice deepened considerably over the years he spent playing Worf.
George MacDonald wrote The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie. One of the funniest lines of all literature comes from the latter, in which said princess says, "Please, King Papa, can I not have my white pony?"
There are my random bits for the day. Oh, and a poem - I don't know who wrote it. Titled Ketchup. "If you do not shake the bottle / None'll come, and then a lot'll."
-EH
(August 15, 2009 - 10:29 am)
George MacDonald was not literature. :P *fondly remembers Dad giving full permission to tear up PatG as soon as I finished it*
The word "oxymoron" is actually an oxymoron itself- the word "oxy" comes from a Greek word meaning "sharp" and "moron" is "dull" in Greek.
(August 15, 2009 - 2:43 pm)
Hey! maybe that's why people say "You moron!" Although, if you think about it, they're really jut saying, "You dull!" which doesn't make any sense...
(August 16, 2009 - 11:53 am)
Root words. The meaning shouldn't be taken literally. "Moron" is dull in Greek... actually I think it may be "moro" or "moros" or something to that tone... but anyhow, in English it would be "a dull person." Yes?
(August 16, 2009 - 12:56 pm)
I guess I liked MacDonald better than you did, although he still itsn't all that good.
(August 16, 2009 - 6:07 pm)
Some of the characters in The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls (by Elise Primavera) are giant talking potatoes! Read it!
(August 16, 2009 - 8:00 pm)
*Gets out handy Latin-English, English-Latin dictionary. Flips to Ms in the Latin section, is looking, keeps looking* Aha! here it is! "Moro" second definition is to be foolish, or to be a fool.
(August 17, 2009 - 4:31 pm)
I LOVE THAT BOOK!!
(August 17, 2009 - 6:21 pm)
You mean the Latin/English dictionary or the horrid Macdonald one?
(August 18, 2009 - 3:14 pm)
She was replying to me, so I think she was talking about tSOotGSG.
(August 19, 2009 - 11:31 am)
This information is very random. Once I saw a tree that looked like a dancing chicken.
(August 21, 2009 - 5:25 pm)