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[Righteous]

The word "bunghole," a favorite insult of Beavis from the Beavis and Butthead TV series, actually refers to an opening in the side of a barrel used for pouring in or drawing out liquids.

[El Nino]

Kleptophilia: arousal from stealing
knismolagnia: gratification from the act of tickling.
Hirsutism: Excessive hairyness
Lithophilia: arousal from stones
Lygophylia: arousal from darkness
Ligyrophiles: are turned on by loud noises
laparohysterosalpingo-oophorectomy: Removal of uterus and adnexa (tubes and ovaries) through an abdominal incision.

[mooooooooooopo]

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words
ostranocophobia - Fear of shellfish

[SampMan87]

aibohphobia - fear of palendromes (notice it is a palendrome)
acrophobia - fear of heights
arachnaphobia - a really good movie

In winter for the northern hemisphere, the earth is actually 8 million miles closer to the sun than in the summer.

space has mass

light has momentum (it may not have mass, or exert force, but a strong enough beam can actually knock something over)

the United States National Debt is currently enouth that you could stack fresh $1 bills from the ground all the way to the moon, then back, then to the moon again.

sound travels faster through a brick wall than it does through the air

the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to arrive on earth

with the world population breaking 7 billion, someone making the claim "you're one in a million" implies that there are 6,999 people in the world that are exactly like you.

a cow can walk upstairs, but lacks the physical ability to walk back down.

the ONLY reason chocolate is lethal to dogs is because of the caffiene content that accelerates their heartrate. Too much caffiene is lethal to human for the same reason.

Illinois is the only state with active toll roads that accept pennies. Illinois is the "Land of Lincoln", and Lincoln happens to be the president featured on the penny.

Dolphins are the only other animal that take part in intercourse for the pleasure like humans.

You can use Coca-Cola to clean toilet bowls and leaking battery acid off of batteries.

It can also be used for cleaning the film off the windshield that looks a thin layer of water but doesn't come off with the wipers. If coke disolves all this, do you really wanna drink it?

[El Nino]

Horehound: A plant that produces a a bitter juice that used to be used in cough medicines
Iantronudia: Getting off on exposing themselves to doctors etc.
Melolagniacs: People that experience arousal from music
Mysophiles: a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.

[Quoth(The Raven)]

aibohphobia - fear of palendromes (notice it is a palendrome)

Imagine having a fear you can't say the name of...

[Black-Wings]

chocolate syrup?? strange, why not the traditional (and probably cheaper) ketchup?

the french use the same word for peach and fishing...."do you want to go peaching?" "nah, i got some fish trees to plant"

hehe

The same word also means "sin" or "to sin" ...

So lets see now:

"Do you wanna go and peach?" .... "Nah ... I going to pick some sins" ... "what are you fishing for?" ... "The cardinal peach!"

... you started it ...

/Je mange mon mon pie de peche pendant que je peche, quelle peche!

wooo.. just reading back a bit... try putting that into free translation.com:
I eat my my magpie of peche while I peche, which peche!

hehe

Anyway, peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball... that would be REALLY hard to count...

[Xkitsurabamix]

The skin on the back of your elbow is called your 'Weenus'

[arachnidoc17]

Michael Jackson has copyrights to the Happy Birthday song.

[El Nino]

Hazel O Connors' album "Breaking glass" was executively produced by Dodi Fayad

[Righteous]

In the movie [i]Fight Club/[i], the name of Edward Norton's character, however he is referred to as Narrator in the credits and "Jack" in the game.

[Righteous]

*BUMP*

While making Clerks, Kevin Smith was not a smoker, however his character Silent Bob was. After making the movie, Kevin was smoking between one and a half to two packs a day.

[Moosh]

The Kiwi bird technically has the shortest beak of any bird because a beak is measured form the tip to the nostrils and a Kiwiw's nostrils are at the tip of it's beak

[Righteous]

The "Clerks" logo is made up of commonly seen logos. "C" comes from a Cosmopolitain. "L" comes from Life. "E" comes from Rolling Stone. "R" comes from Ruffles potato chips. "K" comes from Clark candy bars and "S" comes from Goobers candies.

[Righteous]

For the "In the Flesh," "Run Like Hell" and "Waiting for the Worms" scenes in Pink Floyd: The Wall, the director casted real skinheads, which was a bad idea because they really roughed up the black folks they were terrorizing.

[elphaba2]

The tsunami altered the position of the North and South poles, which caused each day to be 2.5 milliseconds shorter. Magnetic declination is now 15 degrees in my city.

edit: more useless information:

The day on which the forums had their largest amount of people on was Oct. 2, which has three interesting facets to it:

~Ghandi's birthday
~the day after I joined here
~my birthday

[El Nino]

Marylin Mansons music has been featured on the following soundtracks

Celebrity Deathmatch ..'Astonishing panorama of endtimes'
Spawn ........................'Long hard road out of hell'
Lost Highway ...............'Apple of sodom'
Detroit rock city............'Highway to hell'(AC/DC cover)
Dead man on campus....'Golden years'(David Bowie cover)
Private parts.................'The suck for your solution'
Suicide is beautiful.........'Dreams of amputation'; 'Blender' & 'Kill house'

[Righteous]

Having grown up around percussion all his life, Sully Erna of Godmack asked for a drumset for his fourth birthday. His parents bought him a crappy Sesame Street drumset with a bass, a snare, a tom, each having paper heads, and a crappy cymble. Upon seeing this, Sully bashed in each drum and threw the kit out the window, demanding a real drumset.

[Quoth(The Raven)]

Elephants have never been seen to jump, and animal experts beleive they can't, due to the construction of their legs...

[Quoth(The Raven)]

Pilgrims never wore that strange hat with the Buckle. That was a fashion fad that occurred well after the times of the pilgrims. Illustrators much later on, wanted to imply an "Old timey" feel, and dredged up an out of date fashion to do so, forever sealing the notion that the pilgrims wore styles that hadn't even been invented, at the time! They also didn't wear black, exclusively. Men of the time often wore very brightly colored clothing, as well as Black and grey...

Source: Do Elephants Jump
Written by: David Feldman

[Righteous]

While filming Clerks, writer/director Kevin Smith slept one hour per night for 21 days.

The majority of the cast of Clerks was friends with either Kevin Smith or Brian O'Halloran (who played Dante)

Jeff Anderson, who played Randal, met Lisa Spoonaur, who played Caitlin, on the set of Clerks. They later married and even later divorced.

Speaking of Lisa Spoonaur, she bears a striking resemblence to my friend Amber.

[Greeneyes]

Marylin Mansons music has been featured on the following soundtracks

Celebrity Deathmatch ..'Astonishing panorama of endtimes'
Spawn ........................'Long hard road out of hell'
Lost Highway ...............'Apple of sodom'
Detroit rock city............'Highway to hell'(AC/DC cover)
Dead man on campus....'Golden years'(David Bowie cover)
Private parts.................'The suck for your solution'
Suicide is beautiful.........'Dreams of amputation'; 'Blender' & 'Kill house'

Don't forget Rock is Dead as the soundtrack to The Matrix.

[Usurper MrTeapot]

Welshman/Scotsman Debate

I just found out (yes I know its an odd time of the night to be researching this but whatever) the proper laws.

Chester - A Welsh person may be shot with a bow and arrow as long as the event occurs after midnight within the city walls.

Hereford - You can shoot a Welshman all day long with a bow and arrow as long as it is on a Sunday and within the Cathedral Close.

York - Upon sight of a Scotsman, it is perfectly legal to shoot him with a bow and arrow. except on a Sunday.
- Any Scotsman caught farting on a Sunday can be shot with a bow and arrow.

So anywhere other than these cities you cannot shoot Scottish or Welsh dudes.

[El Nino]

People have been searching for a word that rhymes with orangey for a long time. I know it'll be difficult to put into a poem but there's a scottish whiskey distillery called Glenmorangie.

[Greeneyes]

If one were to create a hydrogen bomb out of all the heavy water in the oceans, the pressure at the centre of the explosion would be so great as to create a black hole.