Useless Facts

Had forgotten about this one till Minstreal jogged my memory. Alexander Graham Bell hated hello. The stranded greeting used to be ahoy, and he got very very upset at people trying to change it to hello. He thought the only proper way to answer the phone was ahoy.

 

Now for more Smithers/Burns Gay Fan-Fic.

 

The push-button telephone, the lava lamp, and Cap'n Crunch cereal were all introduced in the US in the same year (1963).

 

Anthony Gale was the fourth commandant of the United States Marine Corps and the only one ever to be fired from the position. He was court-martialed for (among other things) being drunk and disorderly, and openly visiting a Washington D.C. brothel.

The Marine Corps does not possess an image of the former commandant, nor is it known exactly where he was laid to rest.

 

Since I mentioned RC Cola elsewhere, figured i`d go into there amazing origin story. Claud A. Hacter owned a grocery store, where he bought a huge amount of coca cola syrup. When his wholesaler refused to give him a discount he swore to never use coca cola again and started making his own soda in the stores basement.

Spite....a soda born of spite. They also where the first company to use cans and to do a diet drink.

 

"You're all... Pigs!" - Willow

 

Constitutionally, one doesn't need to be a member of the House of Representatives in order to be its Speaker.

 

Lets all just put Cave Troll in.

 

"...and now you losers will be pelted with tomatoes untill things start getting done..."

 

See he`s all about results.

 

This is the best idea I think I've ever heard.

Pelotics?

Which is of course. why you suggested him in the first place.

 

Suppose this viable hybrid pig-human embryo actually survives, is born and grows to anything past infancy. Would eating bacon be cannibalism?

 

It`s award show season....yeah that ones pretty useless.

 

Since I used a Wizard of OZ clip today, Judy Garland would always claim that the munchkins from the film would always look up her skirt...because that`s lovely.

 

Mister Peanut's real name is Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe.

 

Today's the day saint Valentine' was beheaded..... mabye should give head shape candy instead of hearts

 

Well it is useless, but why would you do this to your beloved pup?
https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/glitter-balls/?utm_source=glp-home&utm_medium=paid-affiliate&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=glitter-balls&utm_term=718073&fbclid=IwAR23gNWM0DqBaAG-TeE-Ld7X4jIwOW1sx2YTwoJqv2TfTTsAdP0LV1ZTFLM

 

It's not always easy to find bottled water in Finland.

That is because we drink tap water.

We drink it because it is usually much better than bottled water.

And it is almost free.

Acording to Finnish standards that expensive bottle water is a bit like shit that flows in drains and sewer system. We flush our toilets with much better water than Evian or...

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/tap_water_tops_bottled_water_in_quality_tests/5823225

This might be a bit hard to understand to some people from other countries.

 

The Matrix was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, Larry and Andy. Both transitioned to being women, Lana and Lilly, in the years following.

 

Yup. I missed when the first one transitioned and was under the impression they had an equally talented sister.

 

The bare breasts that bounce across the screen in the 1980 film Airplane (Flying High in some markets) belong to one Ms. Kitten Natividad.

Spoiler: SFW?

 

Well, you know what they say:

 

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

From: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

 

I read that as Tawny Kitaen, and when I looked at the image, thought, "Jesus, the years have not been kind to her."