useless facts of pointless information

[lost-in-nj]

or something like that...

got any?? heres mine

my sons name is

July August September October November
or as we call him

JASON

lost

yeah a little bored!!!

[madinmaryland]

1. Anything in GD:Primaries!

[MrCoffee]

2. The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire...

discuss.

[Deep13]

8. Well, the "holy" part was that it was Christian...

...as opposed to the pre-Constantinian empire. Every Emperor since the fall of the western Roman Empire has fancied himself the successor of Augustus and the head of the new western empire. Charlemagne whose Frankish empire actually included the city of Rome started the whole HRE thing. After its dissolution, various contenders fought for the title of Emperor of the Romans (apparently forgetting that the office was already occupied in Constantinople). The word Kaiser, the title of the H.R. Emperors, means "Caesar" in German. Likewise, "Czar" or "Tsar" means "Caesar" in Russian.

In those days, Germany was more of a geographic expression than a nation. The numerous small kingdoms there were a kind of empire under the unifying guidance of the emperor and the western (later Catholic) church. If one asked the typical medieval western European person on the street what his or her nationality was, the most likely answer was "Roman."

[pokerfan]

3. The common carp lives up to 25 years in the wild,

and up to 40 years in captivity. The durable fish can survive in waters up to 90 degrees F, and can even withstand freezing for short periods.

[madinmaryland]

4. Power sum alien nearend crosstalk graph -->

:hi:

[TZ]

7. Ya know

You are just begging me to repost that life cycle chart from yesterday. In the mood to toss your cookies again TO?:P

[madinmaryland]

9. BOSSHOG already did that to me...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7491674&mesg_id=7491871

:puke:

[redqueen]

5. Sex is overrated.

[mainegreen]

6. You can create a fanctypants object in javascript like so:

object=function() {
private=true;
return {
public:true,
method:function(){}
}
} ();

But the last (); is highly ugly looking.
Makes people cringe.

I mean come ON! function(){} ();????

MADNESS!

:P

[Parche]

10. Golf Oscar Romeo November

:rofl: :rofl:


:hi:


found gorn

[Deep13]

11. The internal combustion engine performs four distinct operations: ...

-intake, where fuel and air is added to the firing cylinder on the downstroke;

-compression, valves seal the cylinder and the air and fuel vapor are squeezed by the up-stroke;

-ignition, the spark plug detonates the mixture and the expoding gas forces the piston back down;

-exhaust, the exhaust value opens and the upstroke expells the burnt vapor.

[KitchenWitch]

12. I remember the first phone number of the house I spent most of my youth in.

[trackfan]

14. My sister still has it.

It had been abandoned for about a year, but when she moved back into town, it was still available, so the family still has a number we've had since 1958.

[av8rdave]

13. WD-40 was originally intended as a water dispersant (hence the name) for the space program

[redqueen]

15. Ooh neat!