Nice Little Facts

[MV/Liberace!]

i've fixed my hatfield/mccoy "fact".

a replacement fact:

Texan astronauts can vote from space.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

Who are these Hatfields?

They run the concession stands and wipe their asses with $100 bills.

[The General]

Texan astronauts can vote from space.

Damn straight!

[zeebo]

1835 was the only time in U.S. history the country was debt-free, after Pres. Andrew Jackson paid it off in full.  It only lasted one year.

[aldousburbank]

Texan astronauts can vote from space.

That's not quite as cool as Chicagoans voting from the grave, but pretty neato nonetheless.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

Among the very few words a contemporary American would share with a 10th century Anglo-saxon from England are "tits" and "fart."

The classics never die, do they?

[pyewacket]

The average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop 

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

The average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop 

"Just heard from a somewhat ticked-off Emmett Glass, the OSU research associate that the Wall Street Journal reporter said was the source of the claim that a mattress will double its weight due to dust mites: Emmett writes:

I never quoted that statistic. I told [the reporter] that Internet web sites have statistics that try to strike fear in the consumer, thus promoting their products. I gave her a few off the top of my head (two million mites in an average mattress, mattress doubling in weight, etc.) that I read over the years. She asked me if any of these statistics have any scientific merit and I told her that none of them are in the literature. To the layman that is NO! In fact I asked the Wall Street Journal writer to call an expert on mattresses at the internal sleep products association. She did and was told that the statistic on mattresses doubling in weight was far from the truth. The journalist choose to include it in the story anyway. She liked the statistic because it made her story more interesting."

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

"Just heard from a somewhat ticked-off Emmett Glass, the OSU research associate that the Wall Street Journal reporter said was the source of the claim that a mattress will double its weight due to dust mites: Emmett writes:

I never quoted that statistic. I told [the reporter] that Internet web sites have statistics that try to strike fear in the consumer, thus promoting their products. I gave her a few off the top of my head (two million mites in an average mattress, mattress doubling in weight, etc.) that I read over the years. She asked me if any of these statistics have any scientific merit and I told her that none of them are in the literature. To the layman that is NO! In fact I asked the Wall Street Journal writer to call an expert on mattresses at the internal sleep products association. She did and was told that the statistic on mattresses doubling in weight was far from the truth. The journalist choose to include it in the story anyway. She liked the statistic because it made her story more interesting."

Thanks for clearing that up, because I mite have believed that story.

[pyewacket]

"Just heard from a somewhat ticked-off Emmett Glass, the OSU research associate that the Wall Street Journal reporter said was the source of the claim that a mattress will double its weight due to dust mites: Emmett writes:

I never quoted that statistic. I told [the reporter] that Internet web sites have statistics that try to strike fear in the consumer, thus promoting their products. I gave her a few off the top of my head (two million mites in an average mattress, mattress doubling in weight, etc.) that I read over the years. She asked me if any of these statistics have any scientific merit and I told her that none of them are in the literature. To the layman that is NO! In fact I asked the Wall Street Journal writer to call an expert on mattresses at the internal sleep products association. She did and was told that the statistic on mattresses doubling in weight was far from the truth. The journalist choose to include it in the story anyway. She liked the statistic because it made her story more interesting."

Dear DPS,

I stand corrected on my previous post regarding mattress weight doubling. My apologies. 

Sincerely,

Pyewacket, CEO/CFO of the Mite-T Fine Mattress Company

[b_dubb]

Your mattress will fill up with dead skin though.  I don't know about doubling in weight.  My mattress weighs about 200 lb.  It's a king size Tempurpedic.  Super comfortable but a serious bitch to move.

[Yorkshire pud]

James Cagney never said 'You dirty rat' in a film.


Nor did dust mites.

[PB the Deplorable]

Among the very few words a contemporary American would share with a 10th century Anglo-saxon from England are "tits" and "fart."...

Oh come on, Yorkie has a larger vocabulary than that

[Yorkshire pud]

Oh come on, Yorkie has a larger vocabulary than that

Indeed he does. Sadly too many Americans haven't advanced from the 10 century. So we have to come down to their level to have any meangful discourse. It works after a fashion as long as we speak slowly and repeat sentences that they stumble over. Too many years of American TV is my theory.

Oh come on. I'm yanking your chain. It isn't just TV to blame.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Indeed he does.

Bollox!

[wr250]

Indeed he does. Sadly too many Americans haven't advanced from the 10 century. So we have to come down to their level to have any meangful discourse. It works after a fashion as long as we speak slowly and repeat sentences that they stumble over. Too many years of American TV is my theory.

ah want muy art behll . not that george noory feller , but art behll . an ah want to send tha cusaders to take back isreal from them thar filthy heathens.

Oh come on. I'm yanking your chain. It isn't just TV to blame.

thas right blames us here country folks.

[Yorkshire pud]

Bollox!

The invoice for all the things my coffee sprayed (and came down my nose) is in the post to you. Seriously.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

The invoice for all the things my coffee sprayed (and came down my nose) is in the post to you. Seriously.

Then my work here is done.   

[zeebo]

...I stand corrected on my previous post regarding mattress weight doubling. My apologies. 

This mite make you feel better.  I don't know the actual statistic, but I know a significant portion of the "dust" in one's house is actually dead skin.

[Yorkshire pud]

This mite make you feel better.  I don't know the actual statistic, but I know a significant portion of the "dust" in one's house is actually dead skin.

Only 75% though.

[wr250]

trols in England face  up to 2 years in jail :

Internet trolls face four times longer in jail, Chris Grayling pledges

Internet trolls who spread “venom” on social media could be jailed for up to two years, the justice secretary Chris Grayling has said as he announced plans to quadruple the maximum prison sentence.

Grayling, who spoke of a “baying cybermob”, said the changes will allow magistrates to pass on the most serious cases to crown courts.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/19/justice-secretary-chris-grayling-pledges-stiffer-sentences-for-internet-trolls

umm yea, good luck with that. lots of trolls are not citizens of the UK , and at least 1 aussie likes to troll Art  Bell.

[Yorkshire pud]

trols in England face  up to 2 years in jail :

Internet trolls face four times longer in jail, Chris Grayling pledges

Internet trolls who spread “venom” on social media could be jailed for up to two years, the justice secretary Chris Grayling has said as he announced plans to quadruple the maximum prison sentence.

Grayling, who spoke of a “baying cybermob”, said the changes will allow magistrates to pass on the most serious cases to crown courts.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/19/justice-secretary-chris-grayling-pledges-stiffer-sentences-for-internet-trolls

umm yea, good luck with that. lots of trolls are not citizens of the UK , and at least 1 aussie likes to troll Art  Bell.

Yeah, but he's a politician. Politicians love to be seen to be doing something, but when political expediency and reality steps in, it's whole different ball game. What will happen is only UK based trolls will be investigated/prosecuted/convicted/stoned/drowned/beaten to a pulp/dropped down abandon mine shafts.

Not that long ago Cameron had a fanciful idea about getting rid of porn on the net (yes even horse porn). Overlooking that 99% of it originates from outside the UK. Oddly, he hasn't mentioned it again.

[wr250]

Yeah, but he's a politician. Politicians love to be seen to be doing something, but when political expediency and reality steps in, it's whole different ball game. What will happen is only UK based trolls will be investigated/prosecuted/convicted/stoned/drowned/beaten to a pulp/dropped down abandon mine shafts.

Not that long ago Cameron had a fanciful idea about getting rid of porn on the net (yes even horse porn). Overlooking that 99% of it originates from outside the UK. Oddly, he hasn't mentioned it again.

jaz probably sent some of his midget horse porn to Cameron , who liked it and dropped the subject.

[FightTheFuture]

Texan astronauts can vote from space.

And, ironically, space cadets can vote from Texas.

[MV/Liberace!]

Marie Curie's notebooks were so radioactive that a library couldn't display them in the 1990s.

[MV/Liberace!]

And, ironically, space cadets can vote from Texas.

heh heh

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Marie Curie's notebooks were so radioactive that a library couldn't display them in the 1990s.

Well, you can see why, really.

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[DigitalPigSnuggler]

The most common English vulgarity for sex is the word fuck.

Prior to 1500, the most common vulgarity for penovaginal copulation was to swive.

[PB the Deplorable]

The most common English vulgarity for sex is the word fuck.

Prior to 1500, the most common vulgarity for penovaginal copulation was to swive.

Yeah, that had to go

"Swive you!" just didn't make the cut

[MV/Liberace!]

Wayne Watson ate so much popcorn he got a life threatening disease called "popcorn lung" from a chemical in the butter flavoring.