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#1 Wombats' poops are squarish/cubic. :D
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#1 Wombats' poops are squarish/cubic. :D
True is! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat#Ecology_and_behaviour) :o
#2 Author of Murphy's Law was USAF engineer.
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#1 Wombats' poops are squarish/cubic. :D
This really leads right into that discussion on square pegs and round holes, or at least a plumber would agree...
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Come on Wombat, you have to include a random fact in your post here!
#4 Calico/Tortoise cats are almost always female. A VERY tiny percent of them are male, and a tiny percent of these males are ...fertile.
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#1 Wombats' poops are squarish/cubic. :D
I smell a Minecraft mod!
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I smell a Minecraft mod!
All puns included..? :D
For every one human there are over 1.6 million ants. That's right, were heavily outnumbered folks
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The portion of the Human Genome indicating Denisovan heritage is entirely Mitochondrial, indicating two things: Sometimes,we just like'em big, is that a sin? ;D And their homeboys were just too square, reminiscent of the OP.
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Random fact: I kill threads with far too much ease. Don't just let me have that much power, it goes to my head. ;D
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Another random fact: Non-dairy creamer is flammable. Quite flammable.
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Another random fact: Non-dairy creamer is flammable. Quite flammable.
"Inflamable means Flamable!? What a country!"
Some say the Mighty ACHOO doesn't understand the concept of stairs.
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Strange Stair Fact: For buildings with five floors or less, it’s nearly always quicker to take the stairs. Studies show office workers save up to 15 minutes a day by taking the stairs.
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#3 - Random fact #3 was skipped
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#5 - There are more parts in a Honda Goldwing than in a Honda Civic
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Random useless fact: 50% of the DNA of bananas and humans is identical.
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Studies show that over 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments every year.
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The worlds fastest elevators are in the Sears tower (now Willis tower) in Chicago. 10 floors a second going up, 20 floors a second going down. I know, as I timed it in both directions once.
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Manhole covers are round because it is the only shape that will not fall into it's self.
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There were 150 episodes of Webster
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If one holds an egg in a certain position in the palm of their hand, the egg will be physically impossible to break because the forces exerted on the egg will be evenly spread.
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Only 10% of the American war effort was allocated to defeating Japan
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"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Is a grammatically correct sentence. Paraphrased it means "Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo."
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Weird Fact: From the Devonian to the Carboniferous period, there were mushrooms the size of today's trees spread over much of the world.
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6 out 5 people are bad with fractions.
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The ratio of the lenth of a river from it's source to the ocean and the total length of it's bed is equal to roughly to 3.14 or Pi.
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If you stand at a busy bar with a friendly smile and folded money in your offered hand, all good bartenders ask you your drinks first. Just because you're obviously the most serious one present.
Random fact: Irony is God's way of telling you you're not all that smart.
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Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
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Random fact, I just posted.
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Prince changed his name to a symbol to break his record contract
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More people speak English in China than the United States.
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Prince changed his name to a symbol to break his record contract
Wait, is that true!?!
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Yes it is true.
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Prince, formerly known as the Artist, formerly known as the Artist formerly known as Prince, formerly known as Prince. Which is really his real name. Really. ;)
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One is not allowed to use numbers for letters, unless one is is called Prince.
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It wasn't a number. It was a mix of the symbols for male and female mixed with the alchemy symbol for soapstone.
Basically it was all mixed up in what appears to be a gender confused way.
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There is more housing in China than there are people
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I once played lead guitar in a band called Yardy Mallardy's Chinese All-Star Ragtime Band. Yardy Mallardy for short.
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Viagra dissolved in water can make cut flowers stand up straight for up to a week beyond their natural lifespan.
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The CIA has a twitter page. But have no fear, they're already following you. [wildandcrazy]
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The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.
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Carmex makes great lip balm, but may the celestial gaurdians have mercy upon you if you manage to get even one part per trillion in your mouth. [blank]
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Prince, formerly known as the Artist, formerly known as the Artist formerly known as Prince, formerly known as Prince. Which is really his real name. Really. ;)
Prince Rogers Nelson
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At the start of WWII the US compiled a list of it's best Generals which numbered 18 ranked in order.
Number 18 on list?
Dwight D Eisenhower
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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100M individual users hit Youtube everyday
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Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
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More Condoms were used during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy than any other day in history. They were used to keep the gun barrels dry incase it got wet from the seawater.
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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
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Fun Fact: You will look at this and go "WOW!"
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Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
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To have white skin around your eyes after a spray tan, you have to ask the spraying professionals to leave it as it is.
This little factoid is key in acting, sales, and democratic processes.
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Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50
:o
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Some Canadian police departments give out "positive tickets" to thank people for doing good.
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The number of teenagers killed each day in the US from traffic accidents is greater than 100
Most are related to lack of experience.
That number is almost equally to a Boeing 737, if one of those went down every day don't you think we would do something about it?
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If you get a tattoo from an amateur artist, expect to need professional help.
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Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
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The first product to include a bar code was a packet of Wrigley's Gum.
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Summer in Detroit happened on a Wednesday last year...
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I heard this was true...
In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
But : Cherophobia is the fear of fun! O:-)
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In New York, penalty for jumping off of a skyscraper, is Death.
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In Singapore there is a fine for pissing in the elevator.
Was this really an issue?
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@ Mopar...
Was a Coca-Cola involved in this joke?
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In Singapore there is a fine for pissing in the elevator.
Was this really an issue?
If there is a law, there was an issue.
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@ Mopar...
Was a Coca-Cola involved in this joke?
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which joke is that?
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PM sent...
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luckily any brain cells involved in that joke have been sacked
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Vodka isn't just for breakfast anymore.
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Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because most Muppeteers are right-handed, so they operate the head with their favoured hand.)
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Sometimes, a cigar is a lot more than just a cigar.
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Sometimes, a cigar is a lot more than just a cigar.
and sometimes it is a stand in for a lot less
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Sigmund Freud the famous psychoanalysis, who saw sex in everything, is famous for saying “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”—Freud was an avid cigar smoker. He was also infatuated with his penis… You figure that one out!
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Sigmund Freud also had the hots for his mom but lived in denial of this, insisting instead that everyone else was in love with their mothers. ::) His best friend can be quoted as saying "Ouchee, what a great comeback, Sigy..."
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Suicide is the only crime you can for sure get away with (in this life anyway), if you are successful at it.
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The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name — gnurr.
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Toejam is not for making PB&J sandwiches.
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There are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.
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The shin is a part of the body used as a tool for finding objects in the dark.
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Summer in North America largely consists of people complaining that it's too hot when it's hot, and people (usually the same ones) complaining it's "not really summer" if it's not hot.
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There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.
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You can take a piece of somebody's heart, sure. But have no romantic delusions about it; you are still a murderer.
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The total combined weight of all of the ants in the world is greater than the total combined weight of all the humans in the world. (Don't ask how they determined that. I saw it on PBS). It takes an average of 100,000 ants to weigh one pound.
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Time sure feels linear to me.
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The total combined weight of all of the ants in the world is greater than the total combined weight of all the humans in the world. (Don't ask how they determined that. I saw it on PBS). It takes an average of 100,000 ants to weigh one pound.
That's gonna take a lot of ant spray
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If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969 make it illegal for U. S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
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We're screwed if aliens have current knowledge of the status and disposition of the human race.
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There is a company that has sold over 30k of alien abduction insurance policies.
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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
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The Daddy Longlegs spider is highly venomous, but it's fangs cannot puncture your skin
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Although dragonflies have legs they cannot walk.
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We are not going to have to wait until the mid 2500s to see a 'mech brawl.
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Even if I had personal access to Star League era medical technology, I most likely won't live to be sent to Tau Ceti amongst the hundreds of Terran Alliance political prisoners initially sent to do the hard labor of building the colony.
Game on!
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Fire is an entirely overused metaphor across many arts, yet without it, our stories and poems and paintings and graphics and games would be very cold.
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My birth year:
Topic: Random Facts (Read 1974 times)
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I'm old. :worktroll:
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It's a fact: truetanker is two years older than me.
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and 10 years younger than me but I'm young [wildandcrazy]
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101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die at some point during the movie.
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TSA Agents arrested for stealing: 400
Terrorists caught by TSA: 0
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Trying is the first step towards failure.
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Southwest has only one aircraft type - the Boeing 737
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The word in German for 'Nipple' is literally translated to "Breastwart." :o
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And the literal translation for speed bump from spanish is "dead policeman". No, I'm not making that up. I am bilingual and it's true. look it up if you don't believe me.
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And the literal translation for speed bump from spanish is "dead policeman". No, I'm not making that up. I am bilingual and it's true. look it up if you don't believe me.
I get : banda de frenado for speed bump. Using Google translate. Rough " Band from Braking ".
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In England a speed bump is called a Sleeping Policeman.
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The Chicago Cubs have not won a World Series in 108 years, when Geronimo and Mark Twain were still alive and Saint Mother Teresa was yet to be born.
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I get : banda de frenado for speed bump. Using Google translate. Rough " Band from Braking ".
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Policia Muerta = "dead policeman" (but is used for speed bump).
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The Chicago Cubs have not won a World Series in 108 years, when Geronimo and Mark Twain were still alive and Saint Mother Teresa was yet to be born.
There is a 108 stiches on a baseball, and its been a 108 years for the Cubs.
That is my most useless fact for the World Series that I learned.
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the distance from the pitching rubber to home plate is 60' 6"
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People who are left handed, often have a higher chance statistically of completing a test on time, than people with no hands.
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Dodge built 11995 Hellcat Challengers for 2016
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Dodge built 11995 Hellcat Challengers for 2016
Average price per car is $26,995 each... times the above number produced = average Assault Mech, new freshly minted. ( 64,761,005 ) < Assuming $5US exchange rate. ( > 323,805,025 < )
Air fresheners sold separately.
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The drummer of ZZ Top has a mustache and is named Frank Beard
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Handshakes were originally meant to make sure that the person you were meeting wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon. The hand clasp proved that your hand was empty and shaking was meant to dislodge any weapons hiding up the sleeve.
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The Salute came from soldiers raising the face mask of their helmets
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Tanks (armored fighting vehicle types) are called such because the British were trying to conceal they were working on a new prototype weapon during WW I. They were afraid German spies would get wind of these things being built under some kind of coverings so they released information that the government was building a new kind of "tank" for water storage and such. The name stuck.
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During WWII the US Third Armored Division suffered a 570% loss in tanks.
Showing how inadequate the Sherman was in combat
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In Singapore there is a fine for pissing in the elevator.
I really want the fine to be getting a urine-smelling elevator dropped on you... JUST SAYING.
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I really want the fine to be getting a urine-smelling elevator dropped on you... JUST SAYING.
There's an ap for that
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A urination app?
How did we ever do it in the old days with no apps!?!
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Just by opening your fly and letting it fly baby!
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Flying is overrated.
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Flying is overrated.
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So are life and death
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Life is overrated. Death is underrated.
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Yesterday was Mother's Day.
Happy 110th Birthday....
True fact!
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Yesterday was Mother's Day.
Happy 110th Birthday....
True fact!
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And there will be another one next year around this time.
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Life is overrated. Death is underrated.
Death is but a door time is but a window. i'll be back with another fact.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist...
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Death is but a door time is but a window. i'll be back with another fact.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist...
and the guillotine by a Doctor
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and the guillotine by a Doctor
Death by cheese press was invented by the Clang-a-Techs.
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Death by cheese press was invented by the Clang-a-Techs.
By cheese grader would be better
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Trouble is not a friend, but problems can be opportunities.
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Never lend friends money