Thar Shaddin

Who doesn't love that song? Woo woo!

C'mon, folks, let's have a hodown, let's go into it, let's get stupid!

Here, I'll start us off: did you know that there's a wasp that can make zombie cockroaches? No, seriously. It stings the cockroach, right? And its venom actually ALTERS THE NUEROGICAL CHEMICALS in a cockroach's body. Basically, it takes away the cockroach's limited free will (such as: RUN AWAY). Then it leads the cockroach into a hole, buries it, and lays an egg INSIDE ITS FREAKING EXOSKELETON. The cockroach follows like a freakin' puppy and just sits there while this happens, probably thinking happy thoughts.

Then the egg hatches and the larvae eats the cockroach's innards, forms a coccoon inside of the exoskeleton, and eventually bursts out of the cockroach as a brand new horrifying wasp!

The best part is that the cockroach is actually alive this whole time, assumedly until one too many "organs" gets eaten. You get the gyst.

Your turn!

water is one of the only (if not the only) chemicals that expands when it's cooled, which is why ice floats. Everything else gets more dense when it's cold, like air. It's also the only thing that's wet. At least, as far as I know.

Lol, I can't think of anything, but that's interesting.

Sometimes you can keep multiple siamese fighting fish together if you never move them from the tank they were raised in. (you might only get minor fin nipping as they set up territories)

Of course raising the little boogers is a pain! ( I still have 2 females from the ones I bred back in my Junior summer of college)

Female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite. And it's the female that does that creepy "singing".

A single cockroach can live for a month on a piece of food the size of this full stop.

Ants have two stomachs - one tiny one for the colony and one even tinier one for themselves. They'll feed other ants from the colony stomach by locking mandibles and effectively puking into their mouths.

Top five fastest swimming fish in the world (According to this packet of cigarette papers):
1.Sailfish (69 MPH)
2. Striped Marlin (50 MPH)
3. Wahoo (Peto, Jack makeral) (48 MPH)
4. Southern Bluefin Tuna (47 MPH)
5. Yellowtin Tuna (46 MPH)



I AM THE FONT OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE!!

Jenica Sabiny wrote: Then the egg hatches and the larvae eats the cockroach's innards, forms a coccoon inside of the exoskeleton, and eventually bursts out of the cockroach as a brand new horrifying wasp!

The best part is that the cockroach is actually alive this whole time, assumedly until one too many "organs" gets eaten. You get the gyst.

Your turn!

How very "Alien" sounding...

Wonder where they got the idea....

Tolkein... well, he was in a place where he probably had knowledge of the Oxford Rugby Club.

Frug, do you not count oils as liquids?

Iodine has no liquid phase - just solid and gas. It sublimes from solid to gas at a little below 21 oC - room temp (ithink)

Somebody stop me - I could do this all night...

Frug, do you not count oils as liquids?

I would. I'm no physicist but I don't see why not. Why?

No liquid phase? that's an odd one. Guess there's exceptions to everything.

I recall reading somewhere that water actually has several phases that alternate between liquid and solid. If it's cooled enough, it becomes a syrupy liquid again and has different properties based on how cold it is. Why that would happen or if it's true, I haven't the foggiest.

The reason you twirl your finger around your temple to indicate that someone is "crazy" is actually a simulation of how early lobotomies were done. They would cut a hole in the side of the skull near the temple and give the brain a light "spritzing" of alcohol to kill neurons in the frontal lobe. Often they applied this alcohol with a q-tip in a circular motion.

They later developed a "less invasive" method whereby you push a device, called a leukotome, into the brain via the eye socket, pushing the eye aside, to reach the brain. The leukotome has a little wire that gets unfurled once it's in place, and you basically twirl the wire around to sever the neurons in the frontal lobe.

A pair of enthusiastic psychologists who thought lobotomies were absolutely wonderful for curing the crazies went on a road trip around America and performed hundreds of these operations with their little lobotomy kits.

Apologies, Frug. I meant to say "Do you not consider oils as being wet?"

The phrase "to pass with flying colours" comes from the British Navy, who would announce victory by hoisting the English flag to the top mast and passing by other ships.

The reason the letter "X" is used to signify a "kiss" on a letter stems from the pagan runic alphabet, from the character Gebo, meaning gift, who's symbol was the X.

The word "Americanism" is an americanism.

"Ladies First" is a reference to the Norse goddess Freya and her Valkyries - who picked out souls before Odin did. So yes it is chivalrous, it does NOT imply that women are in any way lesser.

Considering we actually have a goddess of girl power that should be no surprise.

Oil isn't so much wet as just oily..

Did you know the really, really cool thing about cats?

Ok. Take one cat. Let it sit somewhere, and face it. When you have her attention, slowly bring your face till your noses are touching.

That feeling you're now experiencing is called PAIN!!

Stainless steel is not steel. It's a group of alloys combined to gether to give enhanced strength, whatnot. You can't drill it, weld it or cut it with normal equipment because it's too hard. But there's ZERO iron present in the compound, so it ain't actually steel.

And an urgent message to all of you with bluetooth enabled phones:

I was on the train the other day and I decided to scan for bluetooth users. I got twenty-seven within the bluetooth range. I would have been more than capable of taking full advantage of this fact with my PDA, using a technique known as "phone jacking" - whereby I take control of your phone and use it to call a premium rate number I've set up to pay me lots of money at your expense.

So please, keep your bluetooth off if you're not using it. Those twenty-seven people were lucky I'n not more vindictive.

Xyon_of_Calhoun wrote:Did you know the really, really cool thing about cats?

Ok. Take one cat. Let it sit somewhere, and face it. When you have her attention, slowly bring your face till your noses are touching.

That feeling you're now experiencing is called PAIN!!

I have, in fact, touched noses with my cat, Kuma. Even more amazing, I have done it safely.

Someone will read into this I know it is something Kuma and I have done, same as petting her or letting the cat sit on your lap. My cat is comfortable brushing heads or faces against me.

[qoute="Xyon_of_Calhoun"]So please, keep your bluetooth off if you're not using it. Those twenty-seven people were lucky I'n not more vindictive.[/b][/quote]

|No being vindictive is my job. Which is a good reason to let anything said about the cat slide.