Nice Little Facts

[jazmunda]

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars.  He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

[zeebo]

Speaking of Star Wars, last year it was dubbed in Navajo, in an effort to help preserve the language.

[jazmunda]

Speaking of Star Wars, last year it was dubbed in Navajo, in an effort to help preserve the language.

If they want to preserve the language then they should dubb porn.

[b_dubb]

No they shouldn't. Those people have suffered enough.

[George Drooly]

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars.  He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

http://youtu.be/_8hA4RQK-tA


http://youtu.be/NIJ6Ymv0MtY

[zeebo]

If they want to preserve the language then they should dubb porn.

Or maybe Carnivora commercials, they seem to stick around forever.

[missing transmission]

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.

I had a date like that once.... and she even paid for the hotel room.... good times...

Despite this Ulysses is still a dreadful book

And for a nice little fact/video combo... Robert "Addicted to Love" Palmer once recorded an electro track with lyrics in Urdu


Robert Palmer - The Silver Gun ââ,,¢Â«HQââ,,¢Â«

[zeebo]

...Despite this Ulysses is still a dreadful book ...

I know how you feel but I've actually finally come around to it with the help of a good podcast I found.  And I've actually made it about midway through Chapter 3 which has got me feeling slightly optimistic I might finish it one day.

Btw, while I'm at it, another NLF about Joyce.  The physics term "quark" came from a line in Finnegans Wake.

[Kelt]

http://youtu.be/_8hA4RQK-tA


http://youtu.be/NIJ6Ymv0MtY

Darth Vader with a Bristol accent would be frikken hilarious, though.

Regional Vader.

We carn't read, and we carn't wroite, but we can droive a tractor.
We are Bristol City fans, and Luke we are yor faather.

[jazmunda]

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

http://www.omgfacts.com/Business/The-cigarette-lighter-was-invented-befor/20006

[jazmunda]

Talk about performance anxiety.

In France in the 1500s women could charge their husbands with impotence. He would have to become erect and prove that he could ejaculate in a courtroom. If he failed he could demand a trial by congress and attempt to have sex with his wife in front of experts.

I shit you not.

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article08220701.aspx

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Talk about performance anxiety.

In France in the 1500s women could charge their husbands with impotence. He would have to become erect and prove that he could ejaculate in a courtroom. If he failed he could demand a trial by congress and attempt to have sex with his wife in front of experts.

I shit you not.

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article08220701.aspx

Ejaculating in a courtroom is at the top of my bucket list.   

And I wonder how a person got to be one of those "experts" back then.  Sounds like nice work if you can get it!

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

Number of people killed by sharks annually - 10

Number of people killed by fresh water snails annually - 10,000

Number of people killed by mosquitos annually - 725,000

[zeebo]

Donald Duck's middle name is "Fauntleroy"

[pate]

The black walnut tree attacks other plants with a vengeance...

[zeebo]

If a pizza has thickness a and radius z, then its volume is:  pi  z  z  a

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Stanley Kubrick fancied one of the two girls Malcom McDowell has sex with in Clockwork Orange and he thought McDowell was too energetic with that one particular actress. Kubrick then took out his frustration on McDowell in the Ludovico technique scene. 

[WildCard]

Indries Shah wrote a book called, "The Book of the Book". It was 16 pages long. The physical book is 200 pages.

To get a copyright, his publisher had to submit a copy to the British Museum. The British Museum returned it with a note saying, "this is not a book at all".

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http://ishk.net/sufis/LearningFromStories-Part1.mp3 - 9:00 - 15:00

[missing transmission]

 Idries Shah's book on Sufism is well worth a read, regardlesss of your political/religious perspective

[WildCard]

Idries Shah's book on Sufism is well worth a read, regardlesss of your political/religious perspective

He's criticized for not mentiong "God" or Islam. That's exactly what I like. If I have to believe something, then I'm not interested.

edit: To be fair to people who think Sufism isn't possible without being a Muslim, the Japanese didn't think westerners could get Zen.
Then they found out there was good money in being a Zen master.

[missing transmission]

He's criticized for not mentiong "God" or Islam. That's exactly what I like. If I have to believe something, then I'm not interested.

edit: To be fair to people who think Sufism isn't possible without being a Muslim, the Japanese didn't think westerners could get Zen.
Then they found out there was good money in being a Zen master.

Even if the rest of the book is too dense then I'd recommend the highly allegorical story "The Islanders"

[zeebo]

There are more possible permutations of a standard 52-card deck than there have been seconds since the Big Bang.

[PChirp]

This is an ACTUAL Golden Book volume...how I missed this valuable info during childhood, I don't know.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

There are more possible permutations of a standard 52-card deck than there have been seconds since the Big Bang.

Um, let's see..
52! = 10^67
13.8(10^9) * 365 * 24 * 3600 = 10^17

Yep, checks out.

[zeebo]

Um, let's see..
52! = 10^67
13.8(10^9) * 365 * 24 * 3600 = 10^17

Yep, checks out.

Nice!  That's awesome.  And looks like it's not even close.   

[b_dubb]

Zeebo were you referring to a recent encounter with Mrs. Squirrel?

[zeebo]

Zeebo were you referring to a recent encounter with Mrs. Squirrel?

Ms. Squirrel actually .... and yeah, the calculations are, um, indeterminate.   :

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Nice!  That's awesome.  And looks like it's not even close.   

I hope I did that right.  I'm not very good at statistics, but I made sure to check if the internet agreed with me first

[pate]

Get all excited and hump another in front of judges?  Sounds like early porn...

[MV/Liberace!]

There are more possible permutations of a standard 52-card deck than there have been seconds since the Big Bang.

1x2x3x4x5... etc. through 52 to get the number.