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Post by ant-mac on Dec 18, 2023 9:12:10 GMT
When Sweden is playing Denmark, it is SWE-DEN. The remaining letters, not used, are DEN-MARK.
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Post by ant-mac on Dec 18, 2023 9:30:52 GMT
When you say "forward" or "back", your lips move in those directions.
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Post by Catman on Dec 18, 2023 12:04:14 GMT
Iowa in the only US state with just vowels in its postal code (IA).
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Post by Catman on Dec 19, 2023 0:02:11 GMT
Akira Ifukube came up with Godzilla's roars by rubbing a coarse, resin-coated leather glove up and down the strings of a contrabass (double bass), and reverberated the recorded sound.
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Post by uncreative (I/Me) on Dec 20, 2023 17:37:46 GMT
During a drought in 1915 a rain dancer was hired by the city of San Diego to fill up their dams. He asked for $10,000 and said there would be no fee if it didn't work.
They had record flooding that winter. So much that it actually broke one of the dams. The city refused to pay him.
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Post by gwyn on Dec 20, 2023 17:44:48 GMT
During a drought in 1915 a rain dancer was hired by the city of San Diego to fill up their dams. He asked for $10,000 and said there would be no fee if it didn't work. They had record flooding that winter. So much that it actually broke one of the dams. The city refused to pay him. Do you think they should've paid him? |
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Post by gwyn on Dec 20, 2023 17:47:26 GMT
People say "spitting image" believing that's the expression when it's really "spit and image" meaning one takes after someone else in both substance and appearance.
It's truly amazing how many people think a child looks like their parent while expectorating.
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Post by uncreative (I/Me) on Dec 20, 2023 17:47:38 GMT
During a drought in 1915 a rain dancer was hired by the city of San Diego to fill up their dams. He asked for $10,000 and said there would be no fee if it didn't work. They had record flooding that winter. So much that it actually broke one of the dams. The city refused to pay him. Do you think they should've paid him? A deal is a deal. If they're dumb enough to hire an obvious conman they should have paid up when his stupid promise over delivered. |
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Post by gwyn on Dec 20, 2023 17:51:19 GMT
Do you think they should've paid him? A deal is a deal. If they're dumb enough to hire an obvious conman they should have paid up when his stupid promise over delivered. I agree from that perspective, but if the deal really was as you posted it owing him is iffy since you can't fill a damn that's been broken. |
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Post by uncreative (I/Me) on Dec 20, 2023 17:57:09 GMT
A deal is a deal. If they're dumb enough to hire an obvious conman they should have paid up when his stupid promise over delivered. I agree from that perspective, but if the deal really was as you posted it owing him is iffy since you can't fill a damn that's been broken. Well it got filled. And then overfilled. And then collapsed from the flooding. I would have doubled down and asked for $20,000 to keep the rain away while they did repairs. |
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Post by gwyn on Dec 20, 2023 18:06:50 GMT
I agree from that perspective, but if the deal really was as you posted it owing him is iffy since you can't fill a damn that's been broken. Well it got filled. And then overfilled. And then collapsed from the flooding. I would have doubled down and asked for $20,000 to keep the rain away while they did repairs. Your state has a storied foundation of con artists; I believe psychics are all your fault. And remember that fool's gold you tried to sell, back in the day? One o' youse. Californians are legion. |
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Post by amyghost on Dec 20, 2023 18:17:07 GMT
Those are quite nifty. The prognathous jaw they all sport is a little alarming, but they're pretty cool nonetheless. |
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Post by amyghost on Dec 20, 2023 18:19:45 GMT
In 1845, a bridge collapsed in Great Yarmouth, killing 79 people who were watching a clown swim in a tub being pulled by geese. I'm torn as to whether to LOL at this or no. |
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 2, 2024 1:13:09 GMT
The first ever criminal use of a getaway car was by the notorious Bonnot gang in Paris on December 21, 1911. The gang robbed the Société Générale Bank in broad daylight and then fled in a limousine, which they had stolen a week earlier. They were dubbed les bandits en auto by the police and the ongoing story of their murders and robberies made the front covers of newspapers for weeks. www.connexionfrance.com/article/Mag/French-Facts/The-first-ever-getaway-car-was-French |
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 17, 2024 1:40:40 GMT
Silly goes all the way back to Old English, when silly meant happy or blessed. This positive term quickly changed. Silly became a synonym for innocent or harmless, and then became an adjective for something or someone worthy of sympathy.
So when you tell someone to stop being silly you're actually telling them to stop being happy or blessed.
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