Useless Facts

... Middle name Loda?

 

Back when I was living in the barracks there was one Marine who would get drunk and poop in the...

Nevermind. Suffice to say it was horrifying.

 

Red’s Giant Hamburg in Missouri opened what is generally considered to be the first true drive-thru restaurant in 1947.

 

Not Dick and ???? McDonald of McDonald's fame? I thought they came up with the assembly line approach to fast food and then Ray Kroc showed up, fell in love with the concept and turned it into the biggest thing in fast food ever.....


Anyways, I thought there was a scene in the documentary of the whole thing about car hops bringing food to the consumer and also the cars driving around the perimeter of the restaurant to place their orders and then pick them up....maybe it came later. I'm old and forgetful.

 

The phrase "War, war never changes" that's so famously attributed to the Fallout franchise, actually, predates the entire series as a whole. No one really knows who coined it first. Some say it was Ulysses S. Grant. Others say it was from a book published in 1914 titled A Day's Work As A Soldier from The World's Work: Second War Manual: The Conduct of the War.

But given modern pop culture, I think it's safe to say the phrase is now tagged to the Fallout series as read by Ron Pearlman (and Brian T. Delaney, the voice actor for the male Sole Survivor from Fallout 4.)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292351/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-war-never-changes

 

Chrysler had the answer in the 60's : TV-8 Tank.
Yeah nothing says 'modern warfare' like an atomic
powered tank, that fired nuke rounds (90mm), and had
video cams for driving and remote controlling the
.50 cal on top. Also it was considered amphibious
having a water jet at the rear of the vehicle.

Though the hull looks neat, the
overall design is kinda not good.

 

Since this video is technically nothing but useless facts, I thought i'd post this here for the first five minutes, even though it could also go in one of the more literary threads/boards.
Zombie Nouns!

It's one of the funniest literary lectures, and the funniest Royal Institute lecture i've watched.

 

I'm drinking tea.

 

I've always wanted to have a gigantic thermometer on tracks. My dreams have finally come true!

 

Circular hierarchy for gathering spilled birdseed from the backyard lawn: rabbit chases off mourning dove, squirrel chases off rabbit, chipmunk chases off squirrel, mourning dove chases off chipmunk, rabbit chases off dove.

File this under: Too Much Time on My Hands

 

Only male turkeys make the "gobble gobble" sound.

 

The dove surprises me some. Looks so meek. But when they raise the wings, fluff the feathers, and charge they cane look pretty menacing. At least to a chipmunk.

 

The one that surprises me is the chipmunk chasing off a squirrel! That's like a chijauja chasing off a German Shepherd!

Bear in mind, that dove's ancestor may well have been a T-Rex!! Also, beaks and talons are pretty fierce weapons.

 

The chipmunk can get under the squirrel and bite its ball-balls!

 

Mosquitos are actually a kind of fly.

https://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/exhibits/solving-puzzle/Skeeter_Farm_Discovery_Files.pdf

 

The Atomic Era when we thought it would be a good idea to shove a nuclear reactor into pretty much anything no matter how insanely dangerous that would actually be.

 

Maybe none of them had ball-balls.

 

I think the birdseed was fermented and they were all stoned

But then that's East Coast wildlife, all the spunk civilized out of them.

 

Seriously, when there's ample food and room they tolerate each other. But when things get tight, the squabbles start. Sort of like people who post here, I think.

 

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