Fun Stuff...Off Topic(O/T)

[skiracer]

Notice Niel Young on guitar in the back.... Pretty cool clip.

Here's a good one of Neil solo, very talented dude.... wonder if he still has cattle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1rAB0yDeU&mode

One of the best albums of all time. Two of my favorites in Marakeesh Express and Lady of the Lake. I believe it was their first album as Crosby, Stills, and Nash. You can definitely see the carry over from Buffalo Springfield in their music and lyrics.

[peanuts]

So You Think You Know Everything?

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

..............There , now you know everything!

[Lyehopper]

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

See that lady dressed in Purple?.... Why she's as sweet as Maple Surple!

[Lyehopper]

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

1865.... That was a pretty screwed up year.... Who knows what happened on April 9th of that same year? WITHOUT Googling for the answer.

[IIC]

1865.... That was a pretty screwed up year.... Who knows what happened on April 9th of that same year? WITHOUT Googling for the answer.

Don't know...but does anyone know what happened on April 9, 1953???

BTW...Peanuts...try http://salary.com


Later...IIC

[Rob]

Who knows what happened on April 9th of that same year [1865]? WITHOUT Googling for the answer.

Okay, without googling for the answer, I'll take a guess that that was the day Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant at Appomattox, VA. (My great-great grandfather, Cpt. Miles, was on his way from (I think) Saltville to Richmond when he heard the news.)

And for Doug's question, my guess is that April 9, 1953 was the day of his birth. (Coincidentally, I have a brother who was also born in 1953, and his name also happens to be Doug.)

[IIC]

Okay, without googling for the answer, I'll take a guess that that was the day Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant at Appomattox, VA. (My great-great grandfather, Cpt. Miles, was on his way from (I think) Saltville to Richmond when he heard the news.)

And for Doug's question, my guess is that April 9, 1953 was the day of his birth. (Coincidentally, I have a brother who was also born in 1953, and his name also happens to be Doug.)

OK Rob...now what time was I born???...Doug

[Rob]

OK Rob...now what time was I born???

3:15 a.m. Pacific Time

[Lyehopper]

Okay, without googling for the answer, I'll take a guess that that was the day Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant at Appomattox, VA.

You are correct my historically astute friend!

Lil' Lye and me drove East to Appomattox County to look at a used 6410 DE tractor yesterday evening that an elderly farmer there is selling (nice machine too btw).... and as I drove through the beautiful Appomattox County Countryside it reminded me of that faithful day.... In a strange twist of fate.... Five days later (on April 14th 1865) Lincoln was shot in the head by JW Booth. Like I said, It was one screwed up year.

[IIC]

3:15 a.m. Pacific Time

Nope...8:45am Pacific Time...But that's OK...At least you had me pegged for an am Aries...Big difference between am and pm Aries.

BTW...What makes you think I was born in a Pacific Time Zone anyway?...For a 30 point bonus...What city was I born in???...Doug(IIC)

[Rob]

BTW...What makes you think I was born in a Pacific Time Zone anyway?...For a 30 point bonus...What city was I born in???

San Francisco, which I know is in the Pacific time zone, because I lived in San Jose, about 40 miles away, from '62 to '73.

[Rob]

. . . as I drove through the beautiful Appomattox County Countryside . . .

Yeah, there is a lot of pretty farmland over in that part of the state. The only drawback is it's a little too far away from the mountains.

I never knew how much I took the mountains for granted until I moved to Minnesota, with not a mountain in sight. It really got to me.

[Lyehopper]

Yeah, there is a lot of pretty farmland over in that part of the state. The only drawback is it's a little too far away from the mountains.

I never knew how much I took the mountains for granted until I moved to Minnesota, with not a mountain in sight. It really got to me.

It's not so far east that it's flat though.... Some nice rolling land and sprawling farms in Appomattox (beef country). I understand land values there are way up too....

I'm with ya though Rob, I do love these mountains. My Daddy's farm is in Columbus County NC.... Flat as a flitter but the soil is black as the night.... grows one heck of a Soy Bean crop.

[IIC]

San Francisco, which I know is in the Pacific time zone, because I lived in San Jose, about 40 miles away, from '62 to '73.

No Fair...You must've read my biography...LOL...Doug(IIC)

[Rob]

No Fair . . . LOL

Ahhhh, I see. It's no fair if I know the answer, eh?