Useless Facts

And the reason why he brought a bear in the first place? He wasn't allowed a dog. I bet the uni rule-makers regretted being that specific.

 

Either that, or he wasn't allowed a girlfriend, and he had certain needs as a male.

(Just kidding! But, since it's Lord Byron we're talking about, maybe not.)

 

It's Lord Byron, it could have been trouble concerning his boyfriend and his girlfriend, and her boyfriend. At the same time!

 

You can make the phrase: Real Fun out of the word Funeral.

 

I shit you not, you can drink lava, but only once!

 

And then another 1,300,000 after those burn to ashes.

 

But ... where is the Sun when the Earths occupy its space? Isn't the point that 1,300,000 Earths are the same size as the Sun? Surely the Sun wouldn't be there, and if it was it would presumably be changed forever by those 1,300,000 Earths, right?

 

Dirtier?

 

How do you know the Sun isn't really dirty right now? With its gravity, it must attract tons of space dirt, and I bet it hasn't been properly dusted in billions of years.

 

Yeah. Like under the shelving where I work. (Don't tell management. They'll want me to clean that, too. In the same amount of hours they're giving me now.)

 

I'm currently brushing up on Byron since I am about to teach my Romanticism unit to my seniors, and I'm floored by how ridiculous the guy is. If there is any man who shatters the illusion "old" British writers are stodgy, conservative fuddy-dudditys it is this guy. I knew he was a well known philanderer, but when I found out he was essentially exiled from England for sleeping with too many people's wives...

I think that might get my students attention.

 

It always works for my students!

 

@Lemex and @Trev_Star: If you guys want writer with bizarre lives to teach, why not Hunter S. Thompson? He was a loon and a half!

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, because of the film, was basically required reading if you wanted to be in our gang of undergrad friends at university. I loved that book! Don't know too much about the man himself though, I will check him out.

 

Here's a little known fact: Warships have red coloured lights on the inside because it was deemed appropriate to the copious amounts of illicit sex going on.

 

I take it the red light was to either mask the sex/make it more romantic?

 

Must ... not ... make ... sea-man ... joke ....

 

...*ahem*
"Oh honey, I just flopped onto here to see how you were doing."
"Oh babe, twisting these knobs and pulling those levers all day make me tired. But I do it for my country, I guess."
"Love me like you love your country, baby."
"Oh baby..."

... Don't read the above gap between 'oh baby' and Lemex's post.

Fun fact! I can be very crude sometimes!

 

Here's another little known fact. The Russians had constructed their own moon lander in the sixties. It was incredibly rudimentary and so cramped it required the two cosmonauts to adopt the 69 position for the entire journey.

 

Did @Chinspinner just put an end to this thread? With 666 likes, he might have!

 

Did you know that Maynard James Keenan can be seen on posters in the original Fallout game?

If you know what both of those things are - fell blessed you are as sad as I am!

 

I will be attempting to parse this sentence for the rest of my life.

 

Did you know that the English words 'King' and 'Ring' have the same root, a word in old German/Anglo Saxon? It's from a word that means basically 'Ring Giver'.

 

I think Mr. Thompson failed the "Britishness" entry qualification by being born in Kentucky.

 

Are you sure it's not a spoonerism for King River?