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[KillerGodMan]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

Fact: Zeke is INSANE.

What rock have YOU been under?

We're ALL insane

Fact: You aren't legally sane unless you have a certificate of discharge from an asylum

Fact: There actually IS a word that rhymes with orange: door-hinge

Fact: Tomatoes, Eggplants, Squash and Pumpkins are classified as 'nightshade'

[MaverickZer0]

Fact: You can hang yourself from a ceiling fan, it's just really, really hard.

Fact: No, the Hokey-Pokey isn't what it's all about.

Fact: According to most DnD generators, 'sliver' rhymes with 'silver'.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Really? I always thought it was the Beatles. (Or the Quarrymen if you want to be picky.)

No, they definitely aren't gneiss at all. Unlike gneiss, which is gneiss, even though it was either completely igneous or a bit sedimentary beforehand.

Another gneiss fact: The oldest known crustal rocks in the world is the Acasta gneiss outcrop in Canada's Northwest Territories which is in the region of four billion years old.

[Burt]

Fact: England has the most well used suicide spot in the world, even overtaking the Golden Gate Bridge - Beachy Head, in Eastbourne on the south coast.
Nice to know we win at something.

Incidentally, that area is said to be haunted, with a ghostly force said to 'make people jump'.
Creepy!
I'd leave that out of the tourist brochure!

[Chancellor Valium]

Fact: The British Crown is the last monarchy in either Europe or the world to be both anointed and crowned (Can't remember which...I'm leaning towards Europe, but I'm not sure...).

Fact: The Gospel According to St. Mark was originally written entirely in the Historic Present.

[e of pi]

Fact: The entirety of BattleStar Galactica will cost, on iTunes, 71 dollars and change.
Fact: I am now $71 and change poorer.

[richardson]

Fact: I only tricked you guys into thinking I was 99 years old.
I'm actually- well, better not say it either...

[PointyHairedJedi]

It was a fib? Oh, I'm so disappointed now.

Fact:"Poo in the hole" isn't a phrase that you really want to hear under any circumstances. :shock:

[PointyHairedJedi]

Fact: It's been announced that the browser built into the Wii will be... Opera. So that's another item to add to my list of Reasons Why Opera Is Really Cool (bringing it to a grand total of... well, four, but I only started yesterday).

[Burt]

I'm not really sure why, but I've become quite addicted to 'Wikkipedia', and so have found out the most amazing things, about stuff I shouldn't really care about....which brings me to:

Fact: A banana is classed as a 'Herb', due to the lack of wood in the plant and that it dies soon after picking.

Fact: (I think this will be understood by people most in Britain) You know those little flowerly things that you can pick and blow? And people call them 'Fairy's' and make wish's? Well they are infact Dandelions! Just older! This is something that shocked me and my family.
I've missed so much in my life.

[mark726]

We have those over here too, I assure you. You're supposed to make a wish before you blow them...spreading dandelions EVERYWHERE.

Fact: It takes, on average, 6 million years for a photon from the center of the sun to make it to the surface...and then only 8 minutes to get to the Earth when it finally gets out.

[Hejira]

Sounds like it's like waiting to ride the Miscellaneous Big Slide at a Miscellaneous Water Park.

"Damn, big line. Okay, I'll wait wait wait wait GAWD it's hot here, I'm getting sunburnt, what, is Homer Simpson stuck in the pipe or something? Come on come on come on we're almost half way there tick tock tick tock tick tock I could have been on so many other rides by now waiting waiting waiting growing a melanoma MY TURN! WHEEEEEEEEE *splash* That was great!"

[Burt]

Good god, that sounds like most of the times I've been to a Theme Park. You want to start gnawing off your arm - just to have something to do.
I swear Madonna was at a Theme park when she wrote her last(ish) song 'Hung up'.
"Time goes by, so slowly, slowly....time goes by, so slowly, slowly......."

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by mark726

Fact: It takes, on average, 6 million years for a photon from the center of the sun to make it to the surface...and then only 8 minutes to get to the Earth when it finally gets out.

The Sun, like most stars, isn't even slightly signposted, so the poor photons have no idea which way is'out'. It's one of the main reasons why the Sun ranks so low as a tourist destination, though the horribly fatal radiation levels probably have something to with that too.

[mark726]

Fact: It's illegal to sell anything that has the Seal of the President of the United States on it.

Which, given the goings on in Washington, is actually pretty ironic.

[Chancellor Valium]

Fact: Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction series ever.

Fact: Peter Sellers plays three different roles in the film Dr. Strangelove.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

Fact: Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction series ever.

TV series, certainly. The Perry Rhodan literary series has been published non-stop since 1961 - as of the end of 2005 there are over 2300 installments - and there are several spin-offs to boot. Not bad going at all, really.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

TV series, certainly. The Perry Rhodan literary series has been published non-stop since 1961 - as of the end of 2005 there are over 2300 installments - and there are several spin-offs to boot. Not bad going at all, really.

multi-format series, actually. I count 1989-2005 publications as canon. Otherwise it's not, and we open the debate over whether the Twilight Zone ran for longer...

[PointyHairedJedi]

If you want to argue the toss, there have been Perry Rhodan comics so it could be said to be multi-format too. :P

Seriously, you consider the books to be canon? That concept hardly even applies to the series, let alone the novels. And then you've got to consider the webcasts as being canon (REG and all), and that means you've got to consider the Big Finish audios to be canon as well! It's really just easier for everyone if you don't use that word in the first place - causes waay more problems that it could possibly resolve.

[Burt]

The sky at night, is the longest running TV show, with the same host:
One Sir Patrick Moore.
And I've met him.
And he's nice.