Total Trivia

[CCaprice]

sometimes too many.......http://bestsmileys.com/geek/1.gif

hmmmm....who's that supposed to be?

 

[koalabear]

hmmmm....who's that supposed to be?

geek smilie geek.......

 

[CCaprice]

geek smilie geek.......

some other geek, I hope

 

[koalabear]

some other geek, I hope

lmao.....rephrase.......it's a geek, smilie geek..........

 

[CCaprice]

lmao.....rephrase.......it's a geek, smilie geek..........

Phew! Thanks for clarifying

 

[_Misty_]

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag. (Somebody mistook Old Glory for a
Maple Leaf!)

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A blonde 46 seconds

My apologies, both pieces of mythical trivia were from the same source which I will refrain from using again. The following exciting bit should withstand the most rigorous scrutiny

The tallest building in Albuquerque is the 22-story Albuquerque Plaza Office Tower, which rises 531 feet (107 m) and was completed in 1990.[1] It also stands as the tallest building in the state of New Mexico.

 

[CCaprice]

My apologies, both pieces of mythical trivia were from the same source which I will refrain from using again. The following exciting bit should withstand the most rigorous scrutiny

The tallest building in Albuquerque is the 22-story Albuquerque Plaza Office Tower, which rises 531 feet (107 m) and was completed in 1990.[1] It also stands as the tallest building in the state of New Mexico.

Excellent! I'll definitely visit if I'm ever in town.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Illegal aliens.......

Or a sabotaged condom

 

[MSH2]

Or a sabotaged condom

There's a little old lady in the quality control department of the condom factory that gets a quota from the state department. Every day she has to make a certain percentage of holes so the population doesnt do into decline

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Obviously someone needs to be appointed trivia police! See 'yall!

Was that the treads first casualty?
Human politics, god bless pride and prejudice

 

[_Misty_]

Was that the treads first casualty?
Human politics, god bless pride and prejudice

Nah, my bad

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There's a little old lady in the quality control department of the condom factory that gets a quota from the state department. Every day she has to make a certain percentage of holes so the population doesnt do into decline

I can picture her testing them out, purely for Quality Control

 

[MSH2]

I can picture her testing them out, purely for Quality Control

interesting thought as a job, isnt it? Imagine turning up at a party and having to tell people that your job is quality control tester at a condom factory

 

[_Misty_]

Condoms can hold as much as 12 litres of water or 3 bags of potatoes before bursting.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Condoms can hold as much as 12 litres of water or 3 bags of potatoes before bursting.

OMG! Filled with 12 litres of a certain fluid would be interesting when it bursts over your face...

did I say that?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

My personal interest is evolution, I have a degree in Biology and I was riveted to this subject while at university. Permit me to share some of the fascinating trivia...

Echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins etc.) look nothing like backboned animals do they? Yet they evolved into the first fish and are the ancestors of all the backboned creatures on the planet.
The reason why, their 'sperm' fish shaped, searching for an egg, decided one day to carry on swimming, good for him !

 

[haha_on_me]

Jerry Lewis' real name is Joseph Levitch, and he met up with Dean Martin in 1946. Dean was previously a boxer that went by the name of Kid Crocett.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

When polarised light is shone through a solution of glucose it bends to the right (dextro-rotatory) and is the reason why glucose is also called dextrose. The effect is caused by the structure of the molecule. Every single living organism, without exception, utilises dextrose.
Yet, within a laboratory the production of glucose will create both the dextro-rotatory and laevo-rotarory (bends polarised light to the left) molecules. This must have also happened within the chemical soup that created life on our planet. Whatever that first proto-organism was, it used dextrose, there may have been others that used the laevo version but they failed.
Not one single cell anywhere in the world can digest the laevo-rotatory glucose, it would simply pass straight through our bodies with no effect.

Interestingly, every single amino acid is laevo-rotatory

 

[haha_on_me]

I had my very first Heart Stress Test yesterday, and I must say that prior to the test, I was pretty nervous. I really didn't know what to expect. Would I die on the treadmill of a heart attack? Will the nuclear die burn? What?

So, here's what happens.

I got there at 730AM, registered and as an outpatient. Waited in the waiting room for maybe five minutes before the Nuclear Medicine Tech came and got me. He explained what was going to happen and what to expect phyically. He put an IV needle in my arm and injected a nuclear dye call Thallium. I didn't feel a thing.........and I really thought I would. I had all these notions of it burning in my veins. He sent me to go sit in the lobby for about 20 minutes and let the Thallium attach itself to my heart. During this time, I could feel it attaching to my heart and I felt a lot of presure. Not a pain, just a pressure. I got hot flashes, but nothing major. After the 20 minute wait, he came and got me. I laid on a table with my arms above my head while the camera took several photos of my heart at where the nuclear dye was resting. This process took about a half hour. After the initial set of photos were taken, I was taken to the therapy room so I could show them my athletic dexterity by walking on a treadmill. I was wired for the EKG and then walked the treadmill. For my age, I was expected to gradually get my heartrate to 148 beats per second. Once I reached that goal, Thallium was again injected in the IV that was in my arm. Again, no pain. After I cooled down a few minutes from walking on the treadmill, I was taken back in for another round of photos. Same situation, arms above the head for about 30 minutes.

I'm waiting to hear the results from my doctor.

All in all, it wasn't bad at all. Nothing like I expected. So, if you're nervous about this sort of test, don't be. If you think you may have clogged arteries or a heart condition, by all means, have this test done, it's 95% accurate.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

I had my very first Heart Stress Test yesterday, and I must say that prior to the test, I was pretty nervous. I really didn't know what to expect. Would I die on the treadmill of a heart attack? Will the nuclear die burn? What?

Thanks haha_on_me, a fascinating tale

 

[haha_on_me]

Thanks haha_on_me, a fascinating tale

You're welcome.

I just thought that it would have been nice to have known before hand, and I wouldn't have worried so much about the procedure. Mind you, I still would have worried, just not as much. hahaha

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

You're welcome.

I just thought that it would have been nice to have known before hand, and I wouldn't have worried so much about the procedure. Mind you, I still would have worried, just not as much. hahaha

My brother recently went through a similar situation that ended with a part of his bowel being removed.
It's a simple formula isn't it?
Let them do the tests or suffer the consequences.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Saturday Songs

Almost Saturday Night (Fogerty) , John Fogerty : 1975
Almost Saturday Night (Fogerty) , Karla Devito : 1981
Another Saturday Night (Cooke) , Sam Cooke : 1963
Another Saturday Night (Cooke) , Cat Stevens : 1974
Dancing On A Saturday Night , Barry Blue : 1973
Drive In Saturday , David Bowie : 1973
Every Nite's A Saturday Night With You, Drifters : 1976
Hootenanny Saturday Night , The Brothers Four : 1963
I Love Saturday , Erasure : 1994
Juke Box Saturday Night , Nino & The Ebb Tides : 1961
Lonely Saturday Night , Don French : 1959
On A Saturday , Keith West : 1968
One More Saturday Night , Grateful Dead : 1972
Same Old Saturday Night , Frank Sinatra : 1955
Saturday , Joey Negro : 2000
Saturday , East 57th Street : 1997
Saturday , Omar : 1994
Saturday Dance , The Shadows : 1959
Saturday Evening , Ronnie Laws : 1992
Saturday Gig, Mott The Hoople : 1974
Saturday In The Park (Lamm) , Chicago : 1972
Saturday Jump ("Saturday Club" radio theme) , Humphrey Littleton : 1957
Saturday Love , Cherrelle & Alexander O'Neil : 1986
Saturday Morning Confusion , Bobby Russell : 1971
Saturday Night , John Waite : 1984
Saturday Night (Bickerton/Waddington) , Frank Sinatra : 1945
Saturday Night , The New Christy Minstrels : 1963
Saturday Night , Svenne & Lotta : 1976
Saturday Night , Bay City Rollers : 1976
Saturday Night , Earth Wind & Fire : 1977
Saturday Night , Herman Brood : 1979
Saturday Night , Ten Years After : 1989
Saturday Night , Whigfield : 1994
Saturday Night , Sqezzer : 1997
Saturday Night At The Movies (Mann/Weill) , The Drifters : 1964
Saturday Night At The Movies (Mann/Weill) , Robson & Jerome : 1996
Saturday Night Shootout , Pirates : 1978
Saturday Night Special , Lynyrd Skynyrd : 1975
Saturday Night Sunday Morning , Thelma Houston : 1979
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (John/Taupin) , Elton John : 1973
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (John/Taupin) , The Who : 1991
Saturday Sun , Nick Drake : 1969
Saturday's Child (David Gates) , The Monkees : 1966
Take You On A Saturday (Peterik/Sullivan) , Survivors : 1991
10:15 Saturday Night , The Cure : 1979

 

[haha_on_me]

Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) - Elton John 1973

 

[haha_on_me]

I'm retarded, I just now noticed that you already had that one listed.