Random Factoids, v. 2007.2

“Shirt” and “skirt” both derive from the same word. If that’s not sufficiently random, you’re certain to find something suitable on this thread. Continued from v. 2007.1.

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126 Responses to Random Factoids, v. 2007.2

  1. Alice says:

    I need random factoids. Hmm. My mind is blank. (Hey, it worked!)

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  2. Beavo the Great says:

    Fergie’s real name is Stacy Ferguson

    Will. I. Am’s real name is William Adams (surprise, surprise)

    Wierd Al’s real name is Alfred Yankovic (duh)

    Ciara’s real name is Ciara Harris

    Nicole Shertzinger’s real name is too long to spell here

    Gwen Stefani’s real name is Gwen Stefani

    Ludacris’s real name is Christopher Bridges

    Sean Paul’s real name is Sean Henriquez

    Akon’s real name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam

    Rihanna’s real name is Robyn Fenty

    Nelly Furtado’s real name is Nelly Furtado

    Justin Timberlake’s real name is Justin Timberlake

    I just named my twelve favorite artists (will. i am. from Black Eyed Peas and Nicole from PCD). Is that random enough?

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  3. biblioRose says:

    The original title for the beatle’s song “yesterday” was scrambled eggs. The first line went, “scrambled eggs, oh my dear you have such lovely legs.”

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  4. Beavo the Great says:

    The origional name for the Ford Thuderbird was the Beaver

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  5. E2MB says:

    Since frogs don’t notice minor temperature changes, you could freeze a frog or roast it to death without causing it any discomfort, provided you did it slowly enough.

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  6. Fortune Cell says:

    The Van Zyl’s golden mole has no eyes. More accurately, the eyes are under the skin. The ears, as well.
    Also, it is critically endangered.

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  7. Lioness says:

    The first song of Fall Out Boy’s first album is called Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Woudn’t Get Sued.

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  8. 'Dotty-kay says:

    6: Are you new?

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  9. E2MB says:

    8 – I don’t know. She’s not on the who’s here page, but not on the Newcomers thread either.

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  10. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Ah, but she is on “Who’s Here.” She first posted under the name Julia.

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  11. E2MB says:

    That’s whats so annoying about the who’s here page. If you don’t know their first blogname, it’s practically impossible to find them.

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  12. E2MB says:

    If that sounded rude, sorry.

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  13. Alice says:

    11- Too true.

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  14. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (11, 13) Really? Doesn’t your browser let you search on a page? Safari for Macintosh has a handy “Find” command under the edit menu, and I’m sure that’s true of the PC browsers I use at the office. The keyboard command is usually either control-F (or command-F) or the F2 key.

    Go to “Who’s Here” and try it. You might be pleasantly surprised.

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  15. Purple Panda says:

    I use the control-F so much! I use Safari, and it’s probably my favorite tool on the entire program. I also like the tabbed browsing and the “bookmarks bar,” but the Find tool is really useful.

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  16. cellogirl26 says:

    The black part at the end of the cello bow is called the frog.
    There are hundreds of kinds of cheese.
    The Beatles were stoned at most of their movie filmings (well, I think you could have guessed that one). Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… I think that’s all for now.

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  17. Beavo the Great says:

    7-I really hate that all the really good Alternative groups have huge song names that are impossible if not rediculous to memorize. (This Ain’t a Scene, it’s an Arms Race; I Write Sins, Not Tragidies) and they also have huge names (Panic! At the Disco)

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  18. emmatheduck says:

    None of this is random. I hate how people call things random when they aren’t. The human mind is incapable of true randomness.

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  19. speller73 says:

    I can be random sometimes.

    Hmm… the longest word in the English language (well, Webster’s third) is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

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  20. Der Wachtelschlag says:

    2-Akon’s father is also a noted jazz pianist. I met him once.
    17-As opposed
    18-How pessimistic. How about “Arbitrary Factoids”?

    Denmark is now Europe’s top producer of Greek feta.

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  21. E2MB says:

    14 – I just recently discovered the wondors of ctrl+f and have not yet tried it on the who’s here page. *heads off* Thanks for the tip!

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  22. Fortune Cell says:

    I’m not that new, but I go on on spurts, which makes it appear that way, sometimes. Yeah, I haven’t been on in several months.

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  23. E2MB says:

    19 – What does that word mean?

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  24. E2MB says:

    Wow! Ctrl+F makes it so easy! I will never have any problems again! :D *is happy* :D

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  25. Rebecca Lasley (Administrator) says:

    (23) Check out previous discussions of the word here and here.

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  26. E2MB says:

    There have been 120,932 posts on MuseBlog as of 3:44 PM 16 June 2007 MuseBlog time.

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  27. Koko du Pelle says:

    18-What do you mean? Okay, here goes…
    There have been 120,932 posts on MuseBlog as of 3:44 PM 16 June 2007 MuseBlog time. There are now more. That means that the blog, like living creatures, grows. Tus means(if your logic is wierd)that the blog is a living creature. That means that it needs food, unless it is a plant. It is not a plant, so it must need food. The only thing it reguarly gets are posts, so it must feed on posts. However, only WordPress eats posts, so WordPress is the living creature. It powers the blog, so the blog is a puppet. However, it grows, so… Okay, that wasn’t random, or a factoid, so… Ummmm… Darn. Can’t think of a random factoid. Darn. My mind is blank. Hmmmmmmmmm…

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  28. Koko du Pelle says:

    I am sorry for popo. Must…see… if you must wait 15 seconds to…post…

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  29. Koko du Pelle says:

    It’s true! “Sorry, you can post a new comment only once every 15 seconds. Patience, worthy MuseBlogger!” The Pushcart War took place in the future. Rellay!

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  30. E2MB says:

    18 – It’s random if it’s unexpected. gorilla 5 spoon chuck outer year wikipedia hi lathargic. That was all random because you didn’t expect it. :oops: You didn’t exasfdpect that smhoew2iley or this random garble either, fkln42k5jndid you?

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  31. Alice says:

    29- I love the Pushcart War! But it took place in the fifties or something.

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  32. Lizzie says:

    31- I love that book! I thought like the 60s? Somewhere around there… I haven’t read it in forever.. I should re-read.

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  33. Alice says:

    32- Yeah. So should I. In fact, I’ll go put it on hold right now.

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  34. E2MB says:

    Perfect numbers are numbers that, when all their divisors are added up, equal the number. Examples: 1+2+3=6. 1+2+4+7+14=28. How many can you find?

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  35. Lioness says:

    19. Actually, I explained the longest word in Random Factoids 2007.1. You can check. It actually has over 1,000 letters.

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  36. Fortune Cell says:

    The okapi is most clostly related to the giraffe

    Someone is legally considered a dwarf if they are 4′ 11″ or shorter

    The smallest proportioned dwarves are primordial dwarves

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  37. Birmingham has more canals than Venice.

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  38. Marmalade was originally chewy, like toffee.

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  39. Koko du Pelle says:

    31-It took place in the 1990s. The fifties must have been when it was written. My dad said when it was written, it took place far in the future. Half a century, I guess. But it did take place in the nineties.

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  40. Rebecca Lasley (Administrator) says:

    (31, 32, 39) According to Wikipedia, the 1964 book was originally set in 1976, but the date was moved up to 1986 and then to 1998 in later editions to keep the events in the future.

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  41. SuperSaiyajin424 says:

    19 – incidentally, that was also one of my alter egos on a previous alter ego thread.

    23 – pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a potentially fatal disease caused by inhaling silicone dust from volcanic ash. i think. not sure.

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  42. E2MB says:

    40 – Sounds like The Kid who Became President by Dan Gutman. Origionally set in 2000, it is now set in 2008 so it’s still about the future.

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  43. Beavo the Great says:

    20-Really? Awesome!!!!

    19-Arbitary is more like it. Did I even pronounce that right? Alice?

    Here’s something random! There is a big dispute between oldie leets and newbie leets wether + or 7 is T.

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  44. Alice says:

    43- Arbitrary? Or pronounce?

    Why not both?

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  45. Cinnamon Moon/ Miriam/ Soulsinger says:

    Here is something random-

    While Penguin blog pencil jelly pad camera lovely pencil-sharpener how frog for it’s mother.

    All real words.

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  46. curious and questioning says:

    34- Aren’t those the only two under a hundred? I remember reading about them somewhere.

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  47. E2MB says:

    46 – Yes, 6 and 28 are the only perfect numbers under 100. :guilty grin: In fact, perfect numbers are extremely rare. The next perfect number is 496, then 8128.

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  48. Der Wachtelschlag says:

    Johnny Weissmuller has played Tarzan in film more than any other actor.

    Dum Dum Airport is in Calcutta.

    Giraffes are the animals with the highest blood pressure.

    The largest kidney stone on record weighed 1.36 kg.

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  49. Beavo the Great says:

    44- lol :lol:

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  50. E2MB says:

    48 – o_O thatza big kidney stone

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  51. violindino says:

    There are 18 ways to play “b” on the violin. I think.

    The most common question tour guides of civil war battlefiels get is “Did the soldiers have to fight around all these memorials?”

    Micropachycephalosaurus has the longest name of any dinosaur and yet it was only 20 centimeters (or maybe 20 inches) long.

    I considered having the blog name “Gingersnap” instead of “violindino”

    There’s a city in Alaska called “Unalaska”

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  52. The Skipper Nancy says:

    (3) Are you sure that’s true? Because I just read an interview with Paul McCartney that said he woke up with the words and tune to “yesterday” fresh in his head.

    But if we’re onto Beatles factoids, the original name for “Eleanor Rigby” was “Miss Daisy Hawkins”

    (17) Panic!At the Disco? “Really good”? *raised eyebrows*

    The makers of Vegemite tried changing its name to Parwill for a while in response to their chief competetor, Marmite. (“Marmite but Parwill”).

    51 is the number most commonly mistaken for being prime.

    ‘toodles’ (as a form of saying goodbye) comes from the French ” à tout à l’heure”, roughly translated as”see you later”.

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  53. Rebecca Lasley (Administrator) says:

    (3, 52) According to Wikipedia, the tune came to McCartney in a dream, and “Scrambled Eggs” was his working title until he came up with “yesterday.”

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  54. Urinalives says:

    your golden birthday is the year when the date of your birthday is the sme number as your age (eg. your turn 11 on november 11th) Its even better when like in the example its in the same numbered month but the luciest of all is when well let me show you an example 11-11-11 or november 11th 2011

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  55. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (54) Does your name refer to Urania, or to something else? Just curious.

    (53) Songwriters often fill their tunes with nonsense lyrics until they write the real ones. I’ve heard that when the Gershwins were writing “I Got Rhythm,” the placeholder lyrics started out “Roly-poly / Eating solely / Ravioli…”

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  56. Vendaval says:

    51- I think that a whole chain of islands along with a tribe of people in Alaska are called Unalaska.
    -The country code for Wales is 44.
    -The aardvark isn’t related to the anteater, it’s closer to the manatee and the tenrec.

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  57. The Skipper Nancy says:

    (53) Aha. I see.

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  58. Chickadee94 says:

    -The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
    -The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
    -In Australia, there are twice as many kangaroos as there are people.
    -Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than normal.
    – Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
    -The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
    -The average person eats 8 spiders at night in their lifetime.
    -Stewardesses is the longest word typed only with the left hand.
    -Right-handed people live on average 9 years longer than left-handed people.
    -The names of all the continents end with the same letter as the one they start with.
    -A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.
    -The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
    -Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
    -The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9.
    -If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died of natural causes. If it has one front leg in the air, the person died from wounds received in battle. If it has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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  59. Donaldo the supercoolio awesome nerd says:

    According to legend, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was created by translating his name to Latin, spelling it backwards, and translating it back to English…or something like that.

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  60. Sobriquet says:

    58- At least 3 of those facts are untrue. The spider one, the worlds youngest parents, and the statue bit.

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  61. E2MB says:

    60 – I’ll say. The parents one is several years too old!

    -The world’s youngest mother was 5. Her mother, at first, thought she was possesed with demons before she found out it was a baby in there. The baby survived.
    -The world’s youngest mother of twins was 7. Both babies died at birth.

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  62. Alice says:

    61- Waaaay too young. That’s creepy. 5 and 7 year olds should have kids.

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  63. Urinalives says:

    (55) yes my name does refer to the mighty muse Urania (I guess I
    spelled it wrong I not the worlds best speller)

    there are more than a quarter million entries and 1,664 pages in the Websters Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language

    factoid- an insegnifigant or trivial fact

    (61 62) that is to creepy. kids that young shouldn’t have babies.

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  64. E2MB says:

    62 – Did you mean “shouldn’t”?

    There are 1,843,715 articles in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  65. Alice says:

    63- I am, if not the world’s best speller, the most particular about spelling (at least on the blog). :twisted: Therefore, I shall correct your spelling, along with everyone else’s. It’s insignificant.

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  66. E2MB says:

    Does a duck say, “quackquackquack” or “whackwhackwhack”?

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  67. Alice says:

    64- Yeah. Or maybe I meant, “They should never have kids.”

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  68. Zyviva says:

    58- If the horse has all four legs in the air, the person died of magical causes.

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  69. Alice says:

    68- Wow! All I have to do is make a list of people who are active, and suddenly everyone who wasn’t on the list comes back!

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  70. Zyviva says:

    68- Amazing, isn’t it?

    There are only two laws that have proved to be pretty consistant:
    1. Murphey’s Law
    2. The List Law- (the moment you finish a list, things are bound to change)

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  71. Alice says:

    70- Yeah, I’ve found that Law to be pretty accurate.

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  72. SuperSayajin424 says:

    = The Declaration of Independance was written on hemp paper.
    = 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
    = There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
    = Celery has negative calories because it takes more calories to eat it than it actually has.
    = The Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

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  73. Alice says:

    Scotsmen and their descendants make up half the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

    Unless it was more.

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  74. E2MB says:

    =The Guinness World Records book is the mostly widely published copyrighted book.
    =The Bible is the most widely published uncopyrighted book.

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  75. Sobriquet says:

    72- No, it was written on parchment, i.e. dried animal skin.

    The Incas all had the same blood type, O positive.

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  76. Vendaval says:

    Are we sure about the duck’s quack not echoing? I thought mythbusters did something on it, but I’m not sure.
    -Potatoes came from Peru, where there’s a blue species.
    -Yak’s milk is pink

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  77. Zyviva says:

    75- the final, formal copy was written on parhchment, but that didn’t happen until august.

    only one person actually signed the declaration on july 4th.

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  78. Lioness says:

    76. I’m not familiar with that episode of Mythbusters, but maybe you’re right. I got that fact in an email sent to me.

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  79. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    I’m skeptical about anything I get by e-mail, and I almost never repeat it until I’ve checked it thoroughly.

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  80. Lizzie says:

    72 -the celery fact is false

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  81. Vendaval says:

    A ducks’ quack will “decay” as it travels, so it’ll be quieter when it comes back. The horse statue one is false too. Snopes.
    -The population of the town of Bedrock in the Flinstones is 2,500

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  82. zyviva says:

    the first soccer game was played with skulls.

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  83. Beavo the Great says:

    The first volleyball game was played with the previous losers’ heads.

    74-Really? It’s kind of sad that everyone needs to know what other people do really really something.

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  84. Red-tailed HAWK says:

    61-I don’t wanna know why they were having kids at that age! *RUNS AWAY FAST SCREAMING WITH ARMS OVER HEAD*

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  85. Alice says:

    I can hypnotize snakes.

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  86. Red-tailed HAWK says:

    85- :shock:

    I can hypnotize myself!!! :)

    Actually, I just sort of doze off…But whatever! :D

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  87. Alice says:

    Hmm. I can hypnotize snakes, I have a strange scar shaped like a lightning bolt on my forehead…

    Actually, I think anyone could hypnotize snakes.

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  88. E2MB says:

    84 – I heard the fathers got arrested.

    87 – You’re starting to freak us out now. Well, actually, you’re not, but that is sort of weird.

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  89. Alice says:

    88- I love freaking people out. It’s so much fun. And it is kind of weird. I’d never actually thought about it that way before, so it was kind of surprising.

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  90. canon in D says:

    I can hypnotize baby bunnies. You just lay them on their back (it works better when you are holding them in your hands) and stroke their head. I also find that it works better with babies because you can actually get them on their back, and older rabbits squirm too much.

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  91. Alice says:

    90- Aww. I’ve done that.

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  92. biblioRose says:

    87- Really? About the scar?

    61- No it wasn’t. That was just the youngest mother. The father was never known but I’m guessing it wasn’t a kid. I read about that story. The baby ( a boy) thought that she was his sister until he was ten when they told him the truth.

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  93. Alice says:

    92- Really. I was idiotic enough to try some strange stunt with concrete, and my plastic and glass necklace shattered between my forehead and the concrete. I was about six. Or maybe five.

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  94. Koko du Pelle says:

    87-Do you wear glasses?

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  95. Alice says:

    94- No. And my hair is long and flat and brown.

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  96. E2MB says:

    Did you know……..
    · An alligator’s jaws, when biting, can apply up to 1,000 pounds of pressure per square inch?
    · The bible never says there are three wise men, it only says there are three gifts?
    · 21 states have names that end with the letter ‘a’?
    · If Christopher Columbus, when he landed in the new world, immediately began borrowing money at the rate of $10,000 a minute, by today he would not even come close to borrowing the equivalent of the U.S. national debt?
    · “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”?
    · Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors?
    · Peanuts are legumes?
    · Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable?
    · There are only four words in English that end in “dous”, which are tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous?
    · The sentence “In order to exceed you must proceed to succeed” contains the only three words in the English language that end in “ceed”?
    · The phrase “Blowzy frumps had quit vexing Jack” contains every letter of the alphabet?
    · Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur?
    · If you have the average bed, there are 6,000,000 dust mites living on it?
    · “Bible” means “the book”?
    · In 1932, Nigeria Falls froze over?
    · If people are asked to drink either a cup of spring water or a cup of city tap water, they will mostly choose spring water, even though scientists have noticed there are sometimes germs in natural water?
    · A human can float better in quicksand than in water?
    · Less than 5% of people can lick their elbows?
    · And more than 90% of people will try to do it after reading that?
    · There are more bacteria on your body then there are people on earth?
    · Leonardo da Vinci drew the first design for the bicycle?
    · If a human being kept being alive for 600 years, its face would gradually change to look like a Neanderthal?
    · In the book 20,000 leagues under the sea author Jules Verne gave such an accurate description of the not-yet-invented periscope, that when it was invented, the inventor could not obtain a patent?
    · Pumpkins are fruits?
    · And so are green beans, snap peas, cucumbers, zucchinis, bell peppers, acorn squashes, and butternut squashes?
    · The last word in the English dictionary is “zyzzyva”, which is the genus of a cockroach?
    · “Strengths” is the only 9-letter word in the English language to contain only one vowel?
    · And that queue is the only 5-letter word in the English language to contain only one consonant?

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  97. Alice says:

    96- The only ones I knew before reading that were

    · Peanuts are legumes
    · “Bible” means “the book”
    · Pumpkins are fruits
    And so are green beans, snap peas, cucumbers, zucchinis, bell peppers, acorn squashes, and butternut squashes

    On the last two, those are obvious. A fruit is anything that has a seed (or many seeds) inside it. A vegetable is either leafy or a root. (I think.)

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  98. Vixen of the Ruby Eyes :idea: says:

    I can’t lick my elbows! My life is now worthless… *strains with tongue hanging out.*

    I can lick my chin. can you?

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  99. E2MB says:

    Did you know…..

    · A study showed that Encyclopedia Britannica has an average of over two incorrect facts per article?
    · The paragraph “Named undemoninationally rebel, I rile beryl? La, no, I tan. I’m, O Ned, nude, man,” can be spelled the same forwards or backwards?
    · And that a word, sentence, phrase, or paragraph that can be spelled forwards or backwards is called a palindrome?
    · And that the name for a person who is addicted to palindromes is “ciloholic”, a word that is also a palindrome?
    · Antarctica wasn’t discovered until 1812?
    · The first moon landing was only 66 years after the first flight by the Wright Brothers?
    · Wyoming, the least populous state, was the first state to give women the right to vote?
    · Most nocturnal animals can’t see red very well?
    · A flute is considered a woodwind instrument?

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  100. Red-tailed HAWK says:

    99-I didn’t know some of those!

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  101. Alice says:

    I only knew this one:

    · That a word, sentence, phrase, or paragraph that can be spelled forwards or backwards is called a palindrome

    But I know other palindromes. “Madam, I’m Adam,” is a famous one. Here’s one: “A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!”

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  102. Beavo the Online Stalker says:

    No lemon, no melon

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  103. E2MB says:

    I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad, am I?

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  104. Alice says:

    Betty Crocker is entirely fictional.

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  105. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    But her cakes are real.

    My favorite palindrome is one I saw in Boy’s Life magazine ‘way back in the Pleistocene epoch: See, slave, I demonstrate yet arts no medieval sees. I liked it because it was melodramatic and contained not a single palindromic word. I thought that was classy.

    Can’t you imagine Voldemort saying something like that?

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  106. agagabagabag says:

    105- Sees is a palindromic word.
    Trivia: What is the only precious stone that is admired for it’s flaws?

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  107. Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon says:

    106. Turquois?

    Wolves and swans mate for life.

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  108. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (106) You’re right! “Sees” is a palindrome on its own. But it doesn’t function as a stand-alone palindrome in the sentence, because going in one direction the second “s” turns into the first “s” in “slave.” Classy.

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  109. rabbity24 says:

    pika are cute

    I know that’s not a factoid but an opinion but it was sufficiently random right?

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  110. Alice says:

    106- Emerald.

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  111. Midnight Fiddler says:

    another palindrome is, “go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.”
    My middle name, Aviva, is also a palindrome. It means springtime in hebrew.
    In coloial times, boys and girls were dressed exactly alike untill the age of about 7.

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  112. E2MB says:

    106 – The pearl?

    111 – That SO should be Garfield’s catchfrase.

    Palindromes……..

    No devil lived on.
    If I had a hi-fi…
    Amy, must I jujitsu my ma?

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  113. agagabagabag says:

    None of you are right.
    111- l’ve heard that. There’s a Weird al song called “Bob” that consists only of palindromes, and that’s in it.

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  114. Alice says:

    The only precious stone admired for it’s flaws . . . Opal?

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  115. E2MB says:

    Sentence made up entirely of palindromic words.

    Lil’ Bob sees a boob.

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  116. agagabagabag says:

    114- Nope.

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  117. Alice says:

    Hitler was a vegetarian.

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  118. E2MB says:

    116 – What is it then?

    117 – What the!?!?

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  119. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (106, 110) Emerald is correct. The precious flaws (cracks and ingrown crystals) are called jardin, pronounced the French way. I wrote about them in the October 1997 issue of Muse.

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  120. Alice says:

    119- Which is how I knew. :smug:

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  121. Alice says:

    Chinese fortune cookies were an American invention. In China they were advertised as ‘Genuine American Fortune Cookies.”

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  122. Red-tailed HAWK says:

    Maybe I said this before, but bird legs go in the same “direction” as ours, they are not backwards…

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  123. agagabagabag says:

    118- Jade.

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  124. Jadestone says:

    119- Out of curiosity, how would you pronounce that? I’m not taking french, but I find myself liking that word. Didn’t get that issue, sadly.

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  125. agagabagabag says:

    119-
    Hey! It was my question! And just because l didn’t know about emerald doesn’t mean jade isn’t!

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  126. Unintended Pun says:

    The real name of Fall Out Boy’s song Our Lawer made us Change the Name of This Song….. was My name is David Ruffin and These are the Temptations.

    There was a Monty Python skit about marshmallows playing tennis and Englishmen turning Scottish, in which a man was name Harold Potter. My dad thinks that’s where JK Rowling got Harry Potter, since Monty Python is British.

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