Muffie's Minutes of Mindless Trivia

[KillerMuffin]

Feel free to add your own!

In 1792 Thomas Jefferson got all pissy at his Federalist buddies and did a total Susan Lucci by calling them all elitists and starting the Democratic-Republican party.

We call them the "Democrats" now.

 

[mbb308]

talk about turgid!!!

Mindless Trivia??? Ooo, ooo, ooo, I can do this. Without cheating (whatever that is).

Certain Democratic websites promote The Last Elected President as the most successful of Century #20. Reasons they cite are unparalleled economic growth and development, peace, housing increases, the rising stock market, recovery after a corrupt administration, restoration of confidence, and so on. If you added the largest and most encompassing weapons treaty to date to that list, you would be describing the administration of . . . Calvin Coolidge. Whereas Clinton was known for his 100-hour workweeks, Coolidge proved it wasn't necessary, sleeping 11 hours per day (I've always hoped it was w/ the missus, and that they weren't sleeping). Yesterday (4 July), Silent Cal would have turned 130.

Muffie, you're a genius. I could post crap forever on something like this. Others?

 

[mbb308]

trivia for saturday

*Ted Williams died yesterday. His career would have been staggering except for the times in which he played (it was plenty impressive enough). Williams lost 5 years from baseball while serving his country in the USMC in both WWII and Korea.

*Most of the politically aware noted, with emotions ranging from apathy to disgust, the "anomalies" of the election of 2000. Most cite that the winner didn't. But, if you check the dictionary, a "majority" would be a vote total in excess of 50%, and no candidate polled a true 50% of the popular vote. Further research shows that neither did:
1) Clinton - either time
2) Reagan in 1980
3) Woodrow Wilson - either time
4) Nixon in 1968
5) Lincoln in 1860
Interestingly, Grover Cleveland did in 1888, but lost the Electoral College to Benjamin Harrison because of the voting splits. Cleveland did win in 1884 and 1892, the only split presidency.

This is because of third party candidacies. The most successful third party candidate was former president T. Roosevelt in 1912, who caused Wilson to defeat incumbent William Howard Taft, who was later appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

 

[mbb308]

bump

Makes the search easier tomorrow. Little help, Muffin, please.

 

[mbb308]

Did you know . . .

It was the Scots who discovered that syphilis is transmitted sexually. The disease is named after a shepherd in a poem.

 

[mbb308]

war trivia

The United States military was the only military in WWII to issue to all units a semi-automatic rifle - the M1 rifle, as standard equipment. The Germans and Russians both had good semi-auto rifles, but they were made in small numbers and issued to elite units only.

 

[alltherage]

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day in the same year. The day was July 4th, and Adams last words were Jefferson survives, which was true but only briefly.

 

[mbb308]

Kick ass!!!!!

Cool!!! More posts. I'll wrack my brain. There's garbage everywhere in it.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Man O' War's stride at a gallop measured 35 feet.

 

[alltherage]

Dizzy Gilespies cheeks fully expanded held enough air to fully inflate peg leg jone's artificial foot.

 

[MissTaken]

Beethoveen was deaf.

 

[alltherage]

Napoleon had a poison concocted in order to avoid capture in the event he should loose militarily. When the inevitable happened he tried to kill himself with the poison but because it had laid about unused for so long it only managed to make him sick. He surrendered and was sent to elba.

similarly my ex husbands equipment would lay idol for long peroids and when he tried to activate it I often was made sick. He in turn was sent into exile.

 

[KillerMuffin]

In 2001, for the first time in recorded history the Arctic Ocean did not freeze completely over.

 

[mbb308]

What with the discussion of global warming, we are actually coming due for another ice age.

 

[mbb308]

Killer!!!

Today is the birthday of Orenthall James Simpson - he is 55.

And free....

 

[venda]

Video killed the radio star. 1st video ever played on MTV.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Actually, according to my environmental geography professor, there's a camp in paleoclimatology that firmly believes that we are just now exiting an ice age, the paleozoic, I think it's called. They have arrived at this conclusion with regards to anti-glaciation among other things that I'm not aware of.

 

[Aeryes]

During the Second World War, the alliance took serious casualties because the entire Brittish army sat down and drank their 5 o'clock tea.

 

[Aeryes]

The horse of Alexander the great was named Bukefal.
BTW That was actually one of the questions in my history exam.

 

[enjoyingitall]

In 1941 Americans paid an income tax for the first time. Only 1 percent of Americans were rich enough to have to pay it. The average bill that year was $41

those were the days..

 

[Ukin]

During the Second World War, the alliance took serious casualties because the entire Brittish army sat down and drank their 5 o'clock tea.

We only did that because the Americans were firing guns and airstrikes...we thought it best to sit down..lest they mistook us for the enemy

Anyway...tea is taken at 4...not 5..and the cucumber is NOT peeled to make the sandwiches

 

[KillerMuffin]

Combat Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was only added to the DSM IV (shrink book) in 1987, even "combat fatigue" has been documented since documentation began.

 

[mbb308]

WWII fighter aircraft

The P-51 Mustang, arguably the best fighter aircraft of WWII, went from the drawing board to full production in less than 4 months.

 

[mbb308]

More military trivia

Even tho' the US military has used a semi-auto or select fire weapon since 1938 for its standard issue arm, The weapon of choice for its snipers has almost exclusively been a bolt action rifle. Most of these are based on the Mauser 98 design - as in 1898.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I suppose.

 

[artful]

Literotica Trivia

Although they think it not such a trivial event:

Artful and Artful's Dream are scheduled for a skin to skin meet, on or about August 9 th, 2002.