dropping a few sheets of toilet paper in the toilet before taking a shit prevents splashing and reduces plop noises

6/13/2011 8:02:48 PM

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"Barack Obama is black African American "

White American Mom + African Daddy. A true African American

6/13/2011 8:03:05 PM

So he WAS born in Kenya!

6/13/2011 8:30:41 PM

Kenya please shut up?

6/13/2011 8:32:13 PM

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"it took me well over 20 years to realize that Joe Cocker is British"

He is?

Until last year I never knew that asparagus spears are actually basically little tiny trees. I always thought it was a stem of some sort with undeveloped buds at the end of it. Not really--it's the initial shoot that turns into a small, shrubby tree if you don't harvest it.

6/16/2011 8:41:58 AM

I didn't quite just learn it, but had never really thought about the fact that there were manual SUVs before. Obviously there would be, but I don't think I'd ever ridden in one or thought about the fact they existed. Yesterday I rode in two.

6/16/2011 9:56:14 AM

^would it blow you mind to know that once upon a time ALL cars had manual transmissions?

6/16/2011 10:03:02 AM

3 ply toilet paper still rips just as easy if you wipe too vigorously.

6/16/2011 10:08:33 AM

^^ I mean, I know. Like I said, it wasn't that I had my mind blown by this revelation. I just realized it was something that had never crossed my mind.

6/16/2011 10:49:34 AM

expectorating
1. Cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs.
2. Spit out (phlegm) in this way.

The things you learn from Disney's Beauty and the Beast

6/16/2011 2:12:21 PM

^Is this commonly known?

6/16/2011 2:13:09 PM

The stuff around babies still in the womb is "amniotic fluid" not abniotic fluid. Who knew?

6/16/2011 2:46:10 PM

so much for "commonly" known facts.

this isn't the random shit thread...

6/16/2011 2:51:11 PM

Which facts are you saying aren't commonly known?

6/16/2011 2:52:29 PM

The last two. Not yours

6/16/2011 2:53:14 PM

I would say those are commonly known though.

6/16/2011 2:54:25 PM

i've never heard of the term expectorating and i've never heard anyone call amniotic fluid abniotic fluid.

guess I'm an exception, not the norm

6/16/2011 2:56:12 PM

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"The stuff around babies still in the womb is "amniotic fluid" not abniotic fluid. Who knew?"

I did.

6/16/2011 2:56:24 PM

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"i've never heard anyone call amniotic fluid abniotic fluid."

Right. The fact was that it's actually "amniotic"

[Edited on June 16, 2011 at 2:57 PM. Reason : and cough syrup = expectorant ]

6/16/2011 2:57:13 PM

exactly. i've never heard anyone accidentally call it something else, and apparently neither has the guy that posted before you.

6/16/2011 2:58:20 PM

Reread what he posted. He thought it was called abniotic. His fact was that it is really amniotic, which he did not know.

6/16/2011 3:00:38 PM

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"the phrase is "for all intents and purposes.""

Dammit. I always thought that it was "Four; all in tents and porpoises."

6/16/2011 3:02:17 PM

^Me too

6/16/2011 3:02:55 PM

>.<

6/16/2011 3:02:55 PM

Quote :

"expectorating 1. Cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs. 2. Spit out (phlegm) in this way. The things you learn from Disney's Beauty and the Beast"

I learned it from a limerick when I was first learning poems... (3rd grade?)

There once was a man from Wheeling,
Who had an expectorant feeling.
But a sign on the door,
Said, "Don't spit on the floor."
So he looked up and spat on the ceiling.

6/16/2011 3:09:11 PM

Ever noticed on bottles of robitussin DM it says "cough suppressant and expectorant?" That's what caused me to learn expectorate, I think.

6/16/2011 3:26:17 PM

Abniotic fluid sounds like something that would give your baby abs. A ripped baby would be pretty creepy though.

6/16/2011 3:46:35 PM

I'm a red-head, and I have 2 kids that are red-heads and I had never heard of the term ginger being used to describe us until about a year ago.

6/22/2011 12:28:04 PM

Can blame Southpark for that.

6/22/2011 12:28:54 PM

Cellar spiders = daddy long legs (I always thought you just called harvestmen daddy long legs)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_spider


I don't feel so bad about seeing a few of these guys in my house now.. especially after seeing they eat a ton of bugs I hate, including their own kind

8/4/2011 12:20:01 AM

The word drown actually implies that you died. I thought you could drown and be saved but that's a near-drowning.

8/4/2011 12:24:01 AM

Eggplant is a fucking berry

I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

10/11/2011 1:06:25 PM

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"I'm a red-head, and I have 2 kids that are red-heads"

my biggest fear in life.

10/11/2011 1:48:05 PM

Quote :

"A ripped baby would be pretty creepy though."

10/11/2011 1:50:31 PM

^^my greatest hope in life.

[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM. Reason : ]

10/11/2011 1:50:36 PM

fine we'll trade then

10/11/2011 1:51:23 PM

Quote :

"AstralAdvent All American 9999 Posts user info edit post Eggplants are berries OK - Ola Kala COP - Constable on Patrol I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message. [Edited on June 1, 2011 at 2:30 PM. Reason : ^oh jk its 1 and 99] 6/1/2011 2:27:33 PM"

Quote :

"Krallum Strollin 297 Posts user info edit post Eggplant is a fucking berry I'm Krallum and i approved this message. 10/11/2011 1:06:25 PM"

bobo

10/11/2011 1:59:01 PM

the bug that makes that really long ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sound in the warm weather is the cicada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms

10/12/2011 3:04:37 PM

10/12/2011 3:07:02 PM

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"daddy long legs"

I always called them grand daddy long legs...

10/12/2011 3:17:11 PM

^I've always heard both. And always thought the names were plain stupid. Just call them spiders and kill them with fire

[Edited on October 12, 2011 at 3:20 PM. Reason : t]

10/12/2011 3:19:53 PM

I think it was in this thread where I mentioned the whole epitome vs apitomy problem I used to have...

well yesterday on NPR I heard a guy (caller on Talk of the Nation, I think) say "epitome"

10/12/2011 3:27:39 PM

Quote :

"Cellar spiders = daddy long legs (I always thought you just called harvestmen daddy long legs) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_spider"

I clicked on that link, and that spider is definitely different than the spider I refer to as Daddy Longlegs. The one I'm thinking of as a much rounder body, and nothing on it looks like a skull. The search continues!

10/12/2011 3:46:18 PM

Ahah, what I consider a daddy longlegs is the Opiliones spider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvestman

[Edited on October 12, 2011 at 3:55 PM. Reason : not a spider apparently!]

Quote :

"An urban legend claims that the harvestman is the most venomous animal in the world, but possesses fangs too short or a mouth too round and small to bite a human and therefore is not dangerous (the same myth applies to Pholcus phalangioides and the cranefly, which are both also called a 'daddy longlegs').[4] This is untrue on several counts. None of the known species of harvestmen has venom glands; their chelicerae are not hollowed fangs but grasping claws that are typically very small and definitely not strong enough to break human skin. This myth is so pervasive that it was debunked by two popular television shows, MythBusters and Bill Nye The Science Guy."

[Edited on October 12, 2011 at 4:03 PM. Reason : lol, I totally believed this as a child]

10/12/2011 3:53:01 PM

^Those are what I call the daddy longlegs. I also used to believe the "most venomous" myth, but as the myth indicates they cannot actually bite you, I was quite content to play with them if I found one. Though I always felt kind of bad if one of the legs fell off, and usually let it go on its (non) spidery way at that point.

10/12/2011 4:19:16 PM

ive never heard a cranefly be called a daddy long legs

makes me wonder what kinds of misunderstandings i may have had during conversations in the past

10/12/2011 4:24:26 PM

I hear people say "flush out" when they mean flesh out

10/12/2011 4:26:29 PM

Roly Polies and Pillbugs are the same thing.

10/12/2011 4:28:31 PM

What I thought were bumblebees are actually carpenter bees.


Damn you, dad, for teaching me incorrect names for shit!

10/12/2011 4:43:42 PM

^The two are damn hard to tell apart though.

10/12/2011 4:55:06 PM