Useless Facts

I'm genuinely flabbergasted.

Richard Donner (director of the Lethal Weapon films) also directed the original The Omen.

 

This is an incredible turn of events.

 

Damn, that sounds fun. Somehow I've never watched him high, although my sis and I were huge Pee-Wee Herman fans.

My sister does the best maniacal Pee-Wee Herman laugh ever.

It certainly is. I may need to sit down...

 

Careful, Homer. I'm not sure you want Pee Wee dominating anything.

 



Also, There Can Be Only One, and her name is Kristy.

 

Thank you.

 

My brain starts singing the beatles when I see @paperbackwriter on wf! I seem to have a song for almost every occasion. Does anyone else have an endless jukebox in their head, triggered by their smarta**e subconscious?

 

Everything the commander says here is pretty useless to us earthlings, but man is it cool.

 

When I get depressed I sometimes sing their song "Misery"
'the world is treating me baaaaaad...miiizerryyyy'

 

It's just turned 02:00 where I am.

Do I win this thread?

 

It's easier to exit the solar system entirely than to fly into the sun.

 

In creative and artistic pursuits, there is a lot of superstition. The 27 club, the curse of the 9th. Either way, it points to those involved in creativity are probably superstitious.

But let’s tlk about authors.

There is a debate whether characters like homer and Shakespeare truly existed or whether simply editors, publishers or Edison’s of their time (stealing other people’s work.) or if they were actual authors.

Faulkner was a high school drop out, alcoholic and failed postal worker.

Lewis Carroll once stayed up all night to compose the anagram “wild agitator means well’ from the former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone

Dostoyevsky was once sentenced to death by firing squad.

J.R.R. Tolkien was rather odd in some ways. Chasing you neighbours down the street whilst carrying and axe and dressed in as an Anglo-Saxon odd.

 

I recall reading an argument somewhere that Homer wasn't the author of the Illiad, but rather another blind Greek poet also named Homer.

That was about where I tapped out.

 

Also and most importantly: I am very bored at the moment. Just thought I would share this highly crucial factoid that I am sure everyone is just dying to know.

 

Sleep and me just don't get along. Might need some counseling.

 

who? sleep or you?

 

Sleep an I. Couples counseling. Should work, just need to drag the old gal along for the ride.

 

Melatonin works wonders... Along with long, boring fantasy novels

 

Poemnerdy, you have the best ideas right now. Time to whip out that freaking singing-scenery novel and pass out. Could also use this thousand plus page commitment to knock me out.

 

George W Bush was the 43rd president of the US, his brother, Jeb Bush was the 43rd governor of Florida. They were both in office at the same time.

Where’s Rod Serling when we need him?

 

Anything divisible by 9 adds up to nine.
Examples:
99: 9 + 9 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9, 11 x 9 = 99
999: 9 + 9 + 9 = 27, 2 + 7 = 9, 111 x 9 = 999
234: 2+3+4 = 9, 26 x 9 = 234
72: 2 + 7 = 9, 8 x 9 = 72
1116: 1 + 1 + 1 + 6 = 9, 124 x 9 = 1116
37,062: ?

 

1 is the loneliest number.