The weird facts thread

[Guest]

Re: Re: Weird place names

Fucking, Austria

Thanks, Liar. And I see it's pronounced in Yorkshire

Perdita

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Proportionally, the pig is the most well-hung mammal in the world.

 

[oggbashan]

Weird Laws

Every adult male in England must practise with the longbow on Sunday afternoons or be fined.

Every London Taxi must carry a bale of hay for the horse. (What horse?)

Many seaside towns have not repealed their byelaws so from my local resort:

a. Every bather must wear a 'University' swimming costume with the first three inches of arms and legs covered.

b. Women can swim from the men's beach. Men cannot swim from the women's beach.

c. Nude swimming is allowed up to 7am on the men's beach only.

d. Cycling is banned in the park Monday to Saturday (They didn't ban it on Sunday because NO ONE would cycle on a Sunday).

Og

 

[SlickTony]

Don't forget the Louisiana towns of Cutoff and Dry Prong.

 

[CharleyH]

Re: Weird place names

Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
ETC

If you lived in Canada, you would not be surprised that the town of DILDO is in NFLD. LOL - have you ever met a Newfie? They probably invented them.

Pseudo real fact, bacause it's just a memory in my mind and I can't verify: Doctors used to masturbate wives to cure them of their frigidity.

Also, I have actually seen an antique dildo. It was made of wood - yikes - sliv . . shivers! Thank god for synthetics!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I've heard that the word with the most different meanings in the dictionary is run.

Checkmate comes from the Persian "Shah ma'at" which means, "The king is dead."

There are only two English word with three consecuative double letters: bookkeeping and bookkeeper.


---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

Wombats mate for life, but with any number of other wombats.

 

[shereads]

The word "swallow" had two entirely unrelated meanings to birdwatching enthusiasts and porn writers.

 

[CharleyH]

Wombats mate for life, but with any number of other wombats.

HILARIOUS!!!!!

 

[Guest]

Wombats mate for life, but with any number of other wombats.

Gotta love those wombats!

The more I hear about them, the more I worship the dudes.

Lou

 

[Liar]

The word "swallow" had two entirely unrelated meanings to birdwatching enthusiasts and porn writers.

And so does, of course, also "tit".

And "boobie".

#L

 

[SlickTony]

Pseudo real fact, bacause it's just a memory in my mind and I can't verify: Doctors used to masturbate wives to cure them of their frigidity.

It wasn't frigidity they were suffering from. This was during a tie when women were very bad off, sexually speaking; they were being shamed out of masturbating as little girls to the point when some of them were being forced to undergo clitoridectomies; you had respected physicians claiming that the it was a "vile aspersion" to suggest that women felt any kind of passion except for maternal passion. Not surprisingly many women suffered the kind of depression and other neuroses you would expect to find in people who were not only n.g.a. but not even allowed to acknowledge it was a lack they had a right to complain of. When it was discovered that a nice big orgasm helped with all that, the doctors had lines of female patients out the door of their offices and going around the corner. The first vibrators were developed by the doctors because the task of manually bringing female patients off was taking up a serious amount of their time, and this before the HMOs were there to tell them how to allocate it.

Hooray for the History Channel!

Oh, and dildos have been made of all kinds of substances--leather, ivory, jade, glass, you name it. Not to mention the time-honored use of the carrot and the cucumber.

 

[shereads]

It wasn't frigidity they were suffering from. This was during a tie when women were very bad off, sexually speaking; they were being shamed out of masturbating as little girls to the point when some of them were being forced to undergo clitoridectomies; you had respected physicians claiming that the it was a "vile aspersion" to suggest that women felt any kind of passion except for maternal passion. Not surprisingly many women suffered the kind of depression and other neuroses you would expect to find in people who were not only n.g.a. but not even allowed to acknowledge it was a lack they had a right to complain of. When it was discovered that a nice big orgasm helped with all that, the doctors had lines of female patients out the door of their offices and going around the corner. The first vibrators were developed by the doctors because the task of manually bringing female patients off was taking up a serious amount of their time, and this before the HMOs were there to tell them how to allocate it.

Hooray for the History Channel!

Oh, and dildos have been made of all kinds of substances--leather, ivory, jade, glass, you name it. Not to mention the time-honored use of the carrot and the cucumber.

Uh-oh. Is it time once again to post the link of which we first learned from Dr. Mabeuse? I think it is, yes. For those who want to see some seriously scary equipment, here is the Antique Vibrator Museum:

http://www.goodvibes.com/cgi-bin/sgdynamo.exe?HTNAME=museum/index.html

The term for the mental disease that vibrators were intended to cure was "Female Hysteria."

I wonder if the popularity of treating Female Hysteria by inducing orgasm coincides with an increase in applications for medical school? Any stats on that?

 

[shereads]

Oh, and dildos have been made of all kinds of substances--leather, ivory, jade, glass, you name it. Not to mention the time-honored use of the carrot and the cucumber.

And yet - oddly enough - one of the most memorable phrases I've heard for facing an impossible task is:

"This is like fucking yourself with a cream cheese dildo."

 

[shereads]

The ancient Romans used powdered mouse brains as tooth polish.

 

[Mysteryjj]

The ancient Romans used powdered mouse brains as tooth polish.

I still do

 

[shereads]

I still do

A back-to-basics approach. I have to ask, why mouse and not vole brains, or rat brains? In fact, why brains?

 

[Mysteryjj]

A back-to-basics approach. I have to ask, why mouse and not vole brains, or rat brains? In fact, why brains?

I'm not fussy, any brains will do, as long as they're clean, which rules out human brains

 

[kellycummings]

I've never heard that one Pierce. I spent 6 years in aviation and the first thing we were taught was the theory of lift on the design of the wing. I never knew that anyone disputed the theory.

It's possible that the people who disagree about how an airplane wing works might also be the same people who say the moon landing was a fake.

 

[Mysteryjj]

It's possible that the people who disagree about how an airplane wing works might also be the same people who say the moon landing was a fake.

Was the moon landing real then? How do we know either way for sure. Most of you techies and a few of us interested onlookers agree the way a wing produces lift, but then we can test that therory, because we can be there when it's tested. (ex RAF female).

 

[kellycummings]

Ok I've lifted this straight form one of my husbands posts on a completely different bulletinnboard...I am sure he won't mind*L*


The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Not to nitpick but the match was invented in the sixth century by the chinese and showed up in europe around 1530.
The first cigarette lighter was invented in 1827 by John Walker.
It was called the "friction match". I know nobody really cares. Sorry for nitpicking.

As for the electric chair, there are several people who claim to have invented it but the first one actually used on a person was invented by Thomas Edison. He also got into a huge rivaly with another man who had a version one. Each tried to get the states to use their respective chairs. One used DC and one used AC. I don't remember who's was which.
The other guy may have been a dentist. I seem to remember hearing something about a dentist doing something in that area.

 

[Mysteryjj]

Not to nitpick but the match was invented in the sixth century by the chinese and showed up in europe around 1530.
The first cigarette lighter was invented in 1827 by John Walker.
It was called the "friction match". I know nobody really cares. Sorry for nitpicking.

As for the electric chair, there are several people who claim to have invented it but the first one actually used on a person was invented by Thomas Edison. He also got into a huge rivaly with another man who had a version one. Each tried to get the states to use their respective chairs. One used DC and one used AC. I don't remember who's was which.
The other guy may have been a dentist. I seem to remember hearing something about a dentist doing something in that area.

Huh! Always thought there was something odd about our Dentist.

 

[shereads]

Was the moon landing real then? How do we know either way for sure. Most of you techies and a few of us interested onlookers agree the way a wing produces lift, but then we can test that therory, because we can be there when it's tested. (ex RAF female).

The Mars set is an update of the moon one.

 

[shereads]

I'm not fussy, any brains will do, as long as they're clean, which rules out human brains

I beg to differ. My brain was pristine until I began reading dirty stories at Literotica. Is it my fault I succombed to a corrupting influence?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Not to nitpick but the match was invented in the sixth century by the chinese and showed up in europe around 1530.
The first cigarette lighter was invented in 1827 by John Walker.
It was called the "friction match". I know nobody really cares. Sorry for nitpicking.

As for the electric chair, there are several people who claim to have invented it but the first one actually used on a person was invented by Thomas Edison. He also got into a huge rivaly with another man who had a version one. Each tried to get the states to use their respective chairs. One used DC and one used AC. I don't remember who's was which.
The other guy may have been a dentist. I seem to remember hearing something about a dentist doing something in that area.

Actually, the other man was Westinghouse. Edison invented DC which will not harm you, while Westinghouse invented AC. Edison went around eletrocuting animals to show how dangerous Ac was when he and Westinghouse were competing to see which type would become the standard.

It so happened that the State of NY was looking for a more humane way to do away with people and asked if it would work on a man. Edison said yes.

I am not sure whom invented the chair, but Edison invented electrocution as a means of exceuting people, inadvertantly. He also lost out to Westinghouse and Ac became the standard.

-Colly