Useless Facts

I'm pretty sure it is.

 

If you search for "tapeworm weight loss" you'll get a number of images like this one:

 

Any one else notice the big "NO DANGER" sign in the top left?

 

Stories of doomed love (e.g., Romeo+Juliet, Tristan+Isolde, Samson+Delilah) always invoke images of anger as much as sadness...

 

In 1951, William S Burroughs accidentally killed his common law wife in a drunken game of 'William Tell' in Mexico City. They had been together about six years; Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsburg introduced them.

 

There are still people stupid enough to try this around today...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/16/tapeworm-weight-loss-scam/2666005/

 

Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan, 1651) decribed life as short, brutish, and nasty. He died at 91 years of age.

 

Maybe he made up for his long life by being especially nasty and brutish. Some guys do that.

 

And then there's Preserved Fish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_Fish

 

Name a child like that and people have no choice but to assume it was an unplanned pregnancy.

 

Hurricane Nate is probs gonna be a Cat. 2 when it comes up.

 

The modern notion of Utopia is actually partially derived from a mistranslation. The book Utopia by Thomas Moore dealt with a fictiojnal island that is presented as a better comparison to the Europe of the time in an instructive way for Moore to criticize contemporary issues. But the name despite the belief it translates to "goodplace" actually translates to "noplace" emphasising the fictional element more than the ideal part. This appears to have contributed to people adopting the term to describe over-ideal visions such as the book appears to deal with(it's interestjngly debatable whether the writer actually does think Utopia is ideal or if he's trying to use it as critical satire)

 

During the siege of Dien Bien Phu, the local Vietnamese had little or no contact with English speakers, which enabled the French officers to use it as a code language on the radio.

 

Franz Kafka visited nudist camps, but was too bashful to drop trou. People at the camps just called him 'the guy in swim trunks'.

 

Tom Cruise's full given name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.

 

That's just like, his Thetan name, man....

 

Franz Kafka wanted all of his works burned unread.

I do my best to honor his wishes, whenever I can.

 

I just really want a pet gopher named Mapother.

 

Hobbes described the natural state of mankind (the state pertaining before a central government is formed) as a "warre of every man against every man". In the book he outlines the 'incommodites' of such a war:

"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."


Presumably he put his longevity down to the commodity of living in a state with a central government.

 

The Japanese word ‘tsundoku’ means ‘buying a load of books and then not getting round to reading them’. In English, we just call that 'me'.

 

Apparently I like being called "sir." I did not know this about myself until tonight.

 

Better start agitating for a knighthood, then. Knights are all sirry and stuff.

 

My life goals include being just like Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III, Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard. He's a penguin.

 

Eloquently put as always my good chum.

 

My bleach claims to not contain phosphorous.