Useless trivia, part two.........

[canopener]

damn them left handed screwdrivers!

I dunno if the 2,500 is statistically significant (in some form or another), but I couldn't help but thinking that a lot of stuff is at least put together for righties. I'm a lefty and I have the darndest time tooling around with everyday tools like screwdrivers and wrenches and stuff. Out in the open, I have no problem, but if I'm messing in close quarters (i.e. computer, engines, bass) simple jobs take forever for me. The idea hit me when it took me forever to take some plastic moldings off of my fiancee's Cruiser to put in a fresh air filter for the cab. Then again, maybe I'm just awkward...

 

[DaftCat]

Various PC keyboard trivia...

` is a backtick
\ is a backslash
| is a pipe
~ is a tilde
^ is a caret
& is an ampersand
{ and } are called braces

SysRq: the SysRq key which shares the same key as the PrtScn key. Unless programmed by a particular application, the SysRq key does nothing in most operating systems, including DOS, Windows, and OS/2. The SysRq key has different "hooks" into the system BIOS from the other keys on the keyboard. IBM evidently included this key to facilitate task switching in future operating systems or interrupting all tasks and returning control to the keyboard.

DCat,

 

[visa]

whoever said bruce lee was fast is actually mistaken-

bruce lee wasn't any faster then than modern martial artists and boxers are now. they had to slow things down because of the frame rate of those 50s and 60s cameras. if you moved your finger quickly from left to right, it'd appear as a blur.

 

[chips]

no YOUR mistaken buddy!


just kidding. thats probably the case, but you cant say the man was slow. coz he'd kick your ass

 

[Mark Wilson]

bittyyyyyyyy.......


at the old pizza shop across the road from my house had an "aussie pizza". it was egg, cheese,bacon or ham, onion and i think that was it.

Most pizzas do not have egg on them. that statistic is stupid

And there is a word that rhymes with purple. NURPLE.

and if a bears skin is black, and its fur is clear, why are they white?... shouldnt they be black?

The average lifespan of an eyelash is about 150 days

I don't think that NURPLE is exactly a word. Just a word made up.

-Mark

 

[paniak17]

Dated 7/13 2004

Mike N's thread 1/15/2004



I respectfully rest my case.

Are you making fun of me or thanking me?.......

 

[fourstringdrums]

Are you making fun of me or thanking me?.......

He's just pointing out that even though you made a thread like this already, this thread was started in 2004 and has just started up again recently.

 

[embellisher]

What happened to 'Useless trivia, part one.........'?

 

[Mike N]

What happened to 'Useless trivia, part one.........'?

Right here, Jeff.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110188&highlight=trivia

 

[syciprider]

# is an "octhorpe".

According to to the blue and red signs there, H1, H2 and H3 in Hawaii are interstates.

For some inexplicable reason, Kamikaze pilots wore flight helmets

 

[ladros2]

For some inexplicable reason, Kamikaze pilots wore flight helmets

In case they get hit on thier way to their target, which they frequently did, so they might survive long enough to hit it. Or so I'd assume anyway...

 

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

Don´t know if it this has been answered here, didn´t read the four pages of this thread, but two "facts" here struck me just plain odd.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

No they have a 2-week to 2-month lifespan.
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Uhm, considering how important the kneecap is for your leg to function, I would say no. So I googled it:

Newborns do have kneecaps. Kneecaps form about the fourth month of fetal life.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/861940964.An.r.html