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[Halcohol]

we were gonna watch that one too, but she couldn't find her copy.

i'll add it to my list of movies to see

I suppose I'm not really one to talk. I've never seen The Godfather.

 

[ComicChick]

I suppose I'm not really one to talk. I've never seen The Godfather.

that's the other one i couldnt think of. i haven't seen that one either.

or scarface

 

[Halcohol]

that's the other one i couldnt think of. i haven't seen that one either.

or scarface

Me neither.

I feel kinda like I'm betraying all of my druggie friends by having never seen Scarface. But I figure I've seen Requiem for a Dream and Fear & Loathing, so I'm all set.

 

[ComicChick]

Me neither.

I feel kinda like I'm betraying all of my druggie friends by having never seen Scarface. But I figure I've seen Requiem for a Dream and Fear & Loathing, so I'm all set.

to be honest i've never really cared to see them.

it's like a prerequisite if you wanna be "gangster" lol at least that's what one guy said on cribs

but i could care less

 

[Crooklyn]

I suppose I'm not really one to talk. I've never seen The Godfather.

My god...

I suppose I shouldn't be talking either, I only got to see the whole trilogy for the first time last year. But that was on my own accord. I vowed as a young child to only watch it when I'm old enough to understand everything.

 

[Halcohol]

to be honest i've never really cared to see them.

it's like a prerequisite if you wanna be "gangster" lol at least that's what one guy said on cribs

but i could care less

LOL well I try not to make decisions based from what I hear on Cribs

Although I do wanna be a rock superstar... and live large... a big house... five cars...

 

[ComicChick]

LOL well I try not to make decisions based from what I hear on Cribs

Although I do wanna be a rock superstar... and live large... a big house... five cars...

lol i agree.

mtv is not where one should look for the meaning of life, that's for sure.

i hate the majority of their shows. tiara girls, laguna beach, my sweet 16 ugh hate em

more music. less whiny spoiled brats

 

[Halcohol]

lol i agree.

mtv is not where one should look for the meaning of life, that's for sure.

i hate the majority of their shows. tiara girls, laguna beach, my sweet 16 ugh hate em

more music. less whiny spoiled brats

URGH if I see My Sweet 16 one more time I'm going to throw something through my TV screen.

How can you POSSIBLY be that self-involved and selfish? HONESTLY. It's a birthday party! These kids spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

 

[ComicChick]

URGH if I see My Sweet 16 one more time I'm going to throw something through my TV screen.

How can you POSSIBLY be that self-involved and selfish? HONESTLY. It's a birthday party! These kids spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

they make me sick they way they act and how they just throw money around like that. i can't stand to watch them.

that's a waste of tv time. and it makes young ppl think that's how they should be. ugh.

well its 6am and i'm gonna go to bed before i get too into this convo.

night all

 

[Halcohol]

^G'night

 

[heypapajinx]

A roach can live up to nine days without its head.

that... is horrifying.

Hobbits are gay.

is this reeeeally a fact?

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

so THAT'S what makes bacon taste so damned good!

The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

were they done by Governator Arnold?

A snail can sleep for three years.

do you think their mothers yell at them, "you need to get out of bed and go look for a job!"

The population of Texas is 21 million, not including the 16 million cattle housed across the Lone Star State.

beef... it's what's for dinner.

thank you for this list. rather interesting things here.t:

 

[Halcohol]

This thread makes me laugh. I hope it continues.

Did you know...

In 80 years of observation, no one has ever observed an ostrich hiding its head in the sand.

 

[Mr. Credible]

i dont know what it means, but i learned it in orchestra in middle school. it's spelled the same forwards and backwards. apparently, napoleon bonaparte said it

this was somewhere between 1996-1998 so i probably don't have it memorized verbatim.

that's funny , i took orchestra in middle school, too (i played the viola)

oh, and as far as not seeing lord of the rings, star wars, james bond, etc.... you're not missing much. although it is kind of funny that you've not seen any of those films, considering you're a comic fan.

 

[heypapajinx]

This thread makes me laugh. I hope it continues.

Did you know...

In 80 years of observation, no one has ever observed an ostrich hiding its head in the sand.

what!?!?
so we've been being lied for the better part of a century!!?!?

 

[Halcohol]

what!?!?
so we've been being lied for the better part of a century!!?!?

Apparently so. Damn biologists and their lies.

DID YOU KNOW...

The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years?
Panama hats are made in Ecuador?
Chinese gooseberries are from New Zealand?
1 in every 10 people on the planet lives on an island?
Saying "God bless you" when someone sneezed was mandatory by law at one point in history?

 

[heypapajinx]

Apparently so. Damn biologists and their lies.

seriously.
now i can't even trust the whole "chlorophyll" scandal.

 

[Halcohol]

seriously.
now i can't even trust the whole "chlorophyll" scandal.

Only terrorists have chlorophyll.

 

[heypapajinx]

Only terrorists have chlorophyll.

atomic chlorophyll

 

[Halcohol]

atomic chlorophyll

did you pack these bags yourself, miss?

 

[heypapajinx]

did you pack these bags yourself, miss?

why no mam.
that kind man asked to assist meh.

 

[Halcohol]

Lol

 

[ComicChick]

that's funny , i took orchestra in middle school, too (i played the viola)

oh, and as far as not seeing lord of the rings, star wars, james bond, etc.... you're not missing much. although it is kind of funny that you've not seen any of those films, considering you're a comic fan.

i go see every comic movie when they come out to make up for it though.

i never really equated LotR and HP and Bond with comics til i came to the hype and saw the following they have. i generally stick with x-world, and the comic movies.

 

[Tyrinus]

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

This isn't true.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

*Disclaimer, I can't verify any of these, and clearly some are jokes.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.

According to legend, there's a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.

The first porn movie was the 1908 Fench film al'Ecu d'or oula bonne auberge.

People who are lying to you tend to look up and to their left.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of
it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year" in 1938 was Adolf Hitler.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year

A roach can live up to nine days without its head.

In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts

'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth

Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.

Hobbits are gay.

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.

Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.

In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.

Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.

Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.

Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.

Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.

Babies are born without knee caps.

If you were to roll a lung from a human body out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.

If you put a T-Bone steak in a bowl of Coca - Cola Syrup, it will dissolve in 2 to 3 days

During a lunar eclipse, one can view the curved shape of the Earth's shadow, which is naked eye groundbased evidence that the Earth is indeed round.

Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies", and this is where the book's title comes from.

The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.

Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.

Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.

C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world. Today there are almost a billion TV sets in the world

The first TV commercial was a 20-second ad for a Bulova clock, broadcasted by WNBT, New York during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941.Bulova paid $9 for that first TV spot. Bulova also was the first watch in space.

In the Return of the Jedi special edition during the new Coruscant footage at the end of the film a stormtrooper can be seen being carried over the crowds.

The longest film ever released was "****" by Andy Warhol, which lasted 24 hours{and people thought King Kong was too long}. It proved, not surprisingly (except perhaps to its creator) an utter failure. It was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as 'The Loves of Ondine.'

In 1952, CBS made computer history by being the first to use a computer, the UNIVAC I, to forecast the U.S. presidential election.

 

[Abaddon]

interesting