Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Of every eight peple how have ever been born five of them are alive right now.

I have a greater than a 50/50 chance of survival? Cool

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Wake \Wake\, v. t.
1. To rouse from sleep; to awake.

The angel . . . came again and waked me. --Zech. iv.

2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall
waken all this company." --Chaucer.

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.
--Milton.

Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his
island realm. --J. R. Green.

3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to
reanimate; to revive.

To second life
Waked in the renovation of the just. --Milton.

4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.


Wake \Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wakedor Woke (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Waking.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka,
OS. wak?n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh?n, Icel. vaka, Sw.
vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr.
v[=a]jay to rouse, to impel. ????. Cf. Vigil, Wait, v.
i., Watch, v. i.]
[1913 Webster]

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33 and she would stand seven feet, two inches tall

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/Barbie13715096.jpg

 

[nctoddmc]

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

My employer wants to issue barcodes to be tattooed on their employees...

 

[CCaprice]

Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne:

The English translation is “old long ago,” “times gone by” or “days gone by”. People in the U.S., U.K. and English-speaking Canada use it to signify the start of a new year. But here are some other ways it's used:

-- in Taiwan and Hong Kong, it’s used as a graduation and a funeral song
-- in Japan, many stores play it to usher customers out when it’s closing time
-- in Korea, the lyrics of the national anthem were sung to this tune until the current anthem music was written
-- in the Maldives, this was the tune of national anthem prior to 1972
-- in Portugal, this song (lyrics slightly changed) is used by boy scouts to mark a farewell
-- the University of Virginia’s fight song, “The Good Old Song” carries this tune.
--in the Philippines, it is well known and sung at celebrations like graduations, New Year and Christmas Day.
--in Thailand, it is used sung after sports.

While the Scottish took the song with them as they emigrated throughout the world, its association with New Year’s Eve is most commonly attributed to band leader Guy Lombardo who used it on radio and later TV New Year’s Eve shows since 1929. However, newspaper accounts dating back as early as 1896 describe party goers on both sides of the Atlantic singing it to usher in the new year.

 

[fire_breeze]

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

Why he would walk into a radar tube with a chocolate bar in his pocket is an entirely different question!

 

[nctoddmc]

A single television channel can hold the entire bandwidth of all FM stations on your radio dial. The FCC reserved the airwave channel 1 for these frequencies for a time, then reserved a section in the middle of the current frequency table (88 - 108 MHz) for those stations. The original lower bandwidth was taken over by other uses, and the frequencies, and the table, were never renumbered.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Thomas Selfridge has the dubious distinction of being the first person killed in the crash of a powered fixed-wing aircraft in1908. The pilot was Orville Wright who survived with several broken bones.

 

[nctoddmc]

Thomas Selfridge has the dubious distinction of being the first person killed in the crash of a powered fixed-wing aircraft in1908. The pilot was Orville Wright who survived with several broken bones.

I heard one time when we went to Kitty Hawk, that Selfridge was with the Department of War in some capacity, not sure what. Wonder if that is true?

 

[fire_breeze]

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain!

 

[Stryderthorongil]

Seeing an ambulance is very unlucky unless you pinch your nose or hold your breath until you see a black or a brown dog.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I heard one time when we went to Kitty Hawk, that Selfridge was with the Department of War in some capacity, not sure what. Wonder if that is true?

Yeah. Army Lt. I think. The details are in Wikopedia, but I had heard previously that Orville was the pilot in the first fatal powered air crash. Ironic to be sure.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petroleum.

 

[Sienna]

The oldest sex manuals in the world can be traced to China, more than two and a half thousand years before the birth of Christ. Huang-Ti (2697-2598 B.C.), the legendary Yellow Emperor, has been regarded as the originator of the traditional sex practices and beliefs. The ancient "Handbooks of Sex," composed nearly five thousand years ago, anticipate anything produced in the West by well over two thousand years.

 

[Sienna]

Stuck inside!!!

Medical men have been called upon to extract a wide variety of objects from the vagina and urethra following masturbation or accident. Usually the woman knew that the object was inside her and requested medical assistance. Sometimes however a foreign body can lodge in the vagina, after an accident of some sort, and the woman can be totally unaware of its presence. A remarkable instance of this sort occurred when a woman fell downstairs (D. W. T. Roberts' "Clinical Surgery", Vol. 15). A broken-off handle of a broom entered the vagina through the buttock. This was not noticed by her or by the casualty officer who treated her. The broom handle remained undetected in the woman's vagina for three months. Eventually the vaginal discharge made her visit her own practitioner, whereupon the offending object was detected and removed.

 

[Sienna]

According to Ellis and Sargarin, one outstanding reason why a woman becomes a nymphomaniac in our society is through "an overwhelming need to be loved, a hunger that generally seems to be greater in women, than in men." Thus - in her efforts to seek out affection, security, and acceptance - she comes to have many sexual experiences that she might otherwise not welcome. There is a clear sense in which this is a patriarchal interpretation of female sexuality. Not all male writers are ready to come to the conclusion that a fair number of women can simply enjoy sex and see it as worth experiencing for its own sake.

Oh wow! I must be unloved

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.

 

[Sienna]

Spunky

Human sperm were first discovered by a student of Antonij van Leeuwenhoek in 1677 in the city of Delft. The name of the student is not known for certain: he is variously written up as Ludwig Hamm, van Hamm or von Hammen. According to some writers he is a Dutchman, to others a German. One day he brought to the acknowledged master of microscopy, Leeuwenhoek, a bottle containing semen and pointed out that small animals could be seen moving about in the ejaculate. Van Leeuwenhoek went on to study the seminal emissions from a wide range of sick and healthy men; in the semen of them all the odd creatures could be detected. He described his findings to the Royal Society in London:

"I have seen so excessively great a quantity of living animalcules that I am much astonished by it. I can say without exaggeration that in a bit of matter no longer than a grain of sand more than fifty thousand animalcules were present, whose shape I can compare with nought better than with our river eel. These animalcules move about with uncommon vigour and in some places clustered so thickly together that they formed a single dark mass. After a short time they separated. In fine, these animals astonished my eye more than aught I had seen before."

Of course at the end of the seventeenth century there was still a mystery as to what sperm actually were. Some thought them to be parasites in the seminal fluid - and saliva and urine and other bodily secretions were quickly examined in the search for more sperm. Others thought them coagulating agents.

A student of Leeowenhoek is credited with the first discovery of sperm. Right up to the end of 17th c., male spermatozoa was surrounded by mystery. Right, as it was understood by Uartsoeher (1655 1725).



Most of us know that semen has the remarkable ability to help start babies. But this is only one of the powers attributed to the mysterious substance. One idea is that semen has a "magnetic" effect those who retain their semen i.e. refrain from sexual activity, are able to draw both men and women to themselves. It has often been assumed that semen has mystical or religious powers. Thus a subsect of the Gnostics mixed the fluid with the sacramental draught in their religious ceremonies. And in the so-called Black Mass, semen has served as holy water. Aleister Crowley reckoned that art, literature and philosophy were all the outcome of sexual power, and that the whole of human psychology was a radiating miasma from the seminal stream: he is reported as saying that "Mind is a disease of semen."

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The word 'denim' comes from 'de Nimes', Nimes being the town in France where the fabric was originally produced.

 

[Sienna]

Historically women have been seen as sexually rampant, as vamp and temptress or as sexually dead (the proper state for "moral" wives). One index of sexual awareness and interest is the degree of masturbation in an individual (though of course masturbation may be infrequent or non-existent in highly sexed individuals when an adequacy of other outlets exists). Masturbation is said to be so widespread among both married and unmarried Muslim females throughout Africa and the East that "it is commonly regarded by the menfolk as customary and matter-of-fact" (A. Edwards & R. E. L. Masters, "The Cradle of Erotica"). "Rubbing" or "pounding" is considered a natural manifestation of feminine nature - for "women's passion is ten times greater than man's." In this spirit it has been suggested that since it takes ten men to satisfy one women, it is only normal that a woman faithful to one man should masturbate from time to time to satisfy sexual needs. (French troops marching off to war were said to provide their wives with dildos to reduce the chances of adultery in their absence.)

 

[Sienna]

Orgasm, stressing the body in various ways, has been known to produce some dire consequences. Kinsey again - "At orgasm some individuals may remain unconscious for a matter of seconds or even for some minutes". Kinsey also notes more than a dozen authorities - from Roubaud (1876) to Brown and Kempton (1950) - who recorded "loss of sensory capacity or even of consciousness during extreme emotion or sexual arousal". And orgasm has been known to accompany a variety of forms of damage to the body including lesions and ruptures of various organs. Death has also occurred from time to time!

 

[Sienna]

For some purposes it may be desirable to maintain an erection for a long time. It is clear that periods of up to an hour are not uncommon, and that if the penis is in the vagina for this time then maintaining an erection is not difficult for some individuals. Kinsey noted that the length of time over which the erection can be maintained under "continuous erotic arousal" drops from an average of nearly an hour in the late teens and early twenties to seven minutes in men in their late sixties. It is pointed out that under prolonged stimulation "many a teen-age male will maintain a continuous erection for several hours..."

Mmmmmm...

 

[fire_breeze]

In a lifetime the average person will spend 20,160 minutes (14 days) kissing

 

[fire_breeze]

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.


Who knew?

 

[fire_breeze]

It's illegal to slurp soup in New Jersey.