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Showing posts with label fun link. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun link. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Busting some old myths...

The web paged linked HERE spikes some old myths that die hard.  Gun fights in the old west?  Bra burning in the 1960's?  Maybe not so much.  6 stories debunked.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Intersting Things

What's the most interesting thing you know?

According to posters on Reddit.com, here are a couple of responses. I wouldn't vouch for any of these - no supporting sources are given - but this looks sort of fun. And some responses are of a nature that makes them most suitable for an adult audience. Just sayin'.

A person's arm span is roughly the same as their height.

'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.' is a valid sentence in the English language.

Before the year 1800 carrots were purple.

And HERE's a link to the site.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

If you're a movie buff, this is rather interesting

Scriptwriting isn’t easy. Some people spend months trying to perfect a specific scene, trying to write that perfect line that sticks in the mind of those who hear it. Then these guys come along and do it off the top of their heads.



How it played out:

Every great movie has one line or moment that will forever be associated with that film. In Taxi Driver, that line is “You talkin’ to me?” It actually became referenced in pop culture so often it was declared by the American Film Institute to be the tenth greatest movie quote of all time. It wasn’t even in the script. De Niro was just supposed to spend a moment looking menacingly at his reflection in the mirror. Instead he spent a full minute threatening it out loud.

I first saw this on Bits and Pieces, but there are several more HERE