Nice Little Facts

[George Drooly]

All the planets in the solar system would fit between Earth and the moon.

How many can fit between Richard Hoagland's ears?

[jazmunda]

How many can fit between Richard Hoagland's ears?

19.5

[jazmunda]

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents - Europe and Asia.

[Tarbaby]

Yep, I think most of them end up in spider webs in my back yard.     

except for fireflies, they can burn their way through spiderwebs. I think. I'm pretty sure. But I have heard that butterflies elude spiderwebs because they are too slippery.
(MV: okay, I'll stop. I'll stop.)

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

except for fireflies, they can burn their way through spiderwebs.

The light emitted by fireflies contains no UV or IR wavelengths, so it isn't going to "burn" (i.e. heat up) anything.

It seems like common sense that if heat from the light, or the body of the firefly could start a forest fire, it would burn up the firefly first when it is applied.

[Tarbaby]

Okay, fine, it would also make commonsense any person of ordinary intelligence would know I've been kidding about fireflies. But, what about the butterflies? Have you a scientific theory for them?

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Okay, fine, it would also make commonsense any person of ordinary intelligence would know I've been kidding about fireflies. But, what about the butterflies? Have you a scientific theory for them?

A butterfly flapping its wings in China will cause the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.

[Tarbaby]

Yes, that's why people who are wielding flamethrowers always die in a horrible fire. Wait… They don't.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

Yes, that's why people who are wielding flamethrowers always die in a horrible fire. Wait… They don't.

It always seems to aggravate you intensely whenever I reply to one of your posts.  In the interests of forum harmony, I won't critique your analogy, but will just say that if you think about it, and maybe study the process of how and where a firefly produces light, you'll understand why this analogy is unconvincing.  You can PM me for details if you want.

All of this presumes that you weren't kidding with this post, too.  If you were, then you got me again, you rascal.

[onan]

Thug fireflies place lit cigarettes in a book of matches, then close the book. It happens all the time...

[jazmunda]

Thug fireflies place lit cigarettes in a book of matches, then close the book. It happens all the time...

Would that make them "firebugs"?

[jazmunda]

In 1996, a Swedish couple tried to name their son “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116.” They would have pronounced it “Albin.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law_in_Sweden

[Tarbaby]

When I was a kid we used to go out in the woods after dark and catch fireflies. We put them in a jar and played with them. So I knew from experience that fireflies contained no heat element. And are harmless. But I guess not everyone knows that. Like kids from the city.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

I wish we had fireflies.  They always sounded so cool.. or hot.. or something.

[zeebo]

The word "facetiously" has all the vowels in the right order.  I think there may be a couple others but I'm not really motivated to find them.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

According to the American Journal of Sports Medicine, pole vaulting is the sport with the highest death rate per participant.

i would consider each one an unrecorded record. 

[jazmunda]

The word "facetiously" has all the vowels in the right order.  I think there may be a couple others but I'm not really motivated to find them.

absteinous
abstemious
abstemiously
abstenious
abstentious
accession country
adecticous
adventitious
adventitiously
aerious
anemious
annelidous
arenicolous
arsenious
avenious
battle it out
caesious
cavernicolous
facetious
facetiously
fracedinous
hareiously

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category_talk:English_words_that_use_all_vowels_in_alphabetical_order

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

battle it out

This one is the best on so many levels

[jazmunda]

This one is the best on so many levels

I don't know why they snuck that "one word" in there.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

I don't know why they snuck that "one word" in there.

Being as you are an expert in having things "snuck" into unexpected places, I yield to you sir

[zeebo]

arenicolous
cavernicolous
hareiously

Damn I should have known - I use these ones multiple times a day!

[jazmunda]

Damn I should have known - I use these ones multiple times a day!

I would love it if George even attempted to pronounce one of these successfully.

[Yorkshire pud]

Hear about the bloke frozen to absolute zero? He's OK now.

[jazmunda]

Laughing when tickled is actually your body emitting a panic response.

[George Drooly]

So is punching the tickler

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

So is punching the tickler

Rimshot Facepalm

[zeebo]

Dune, the world's best-selling sci-fi novel of all-time, was submitted to and rejected by twenty different publishers.  It was finally published by Chilton Books, which is better known for publishing auto repair manuals.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

Dune, the world's best-selling sci-fi novel of all-time, was submitted to and rejected by twenty different publishers.  It was finally published by Chilton Books, which is better known for publishing auto repair manuals.

cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton_Company#Fiction_publishing jump to fiction published.

[pate]

Sometimes people mistake the beer Old Milwaukee for the (alleged) beer Milwaukee's Best (or is it Beast?)

[zeebo]

James Joyce's entire novel Ulysses takes place over the course of a single day:  June 16, 1904.  But why did he pick that day?  It was the day of his first date with his future wife, Nora.