Total Trivia

[desideratum]

Ever heard of the Irish balanced diet?
Roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes and chips

*muttering* lucky bastards! how do they stay so sexily Irish?

and nothing to do with carbs..... although daus above me made me think about...

The infamous orgasm scene in the movie "When Harry Met Sally" -- the original script just wanted Harry & Sally to talk about women faking an orgasm. Meg Ryan suggested that Sally actually fake an orgasm at the table. Rob Reiner, the director, loved the idea and put it into the script.

 

[fire_breeze]

Female orgasm is a powerfull painkiller (because of the release of endorfines), so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.

And what about migraines?

 

[daus42]

And what about migraines?

Multiple orgasms seems the only answer.

 

[fire_breeze]

Multiple orgasms seems the only answer.

So THAT'S what I did wrong last night

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

*muttering* lucky bastards! how do they stay so sexily Irish?

and nothing to do with carbs..... although daus above me made me think about...

The infamous orgasm scene in the movie "When Harry Met Sally" -- the original script just wanted Harry & Sally to talk about women faking an orgasm. Meg Ryan suggested that Sally actually fake an orgasm at the table. Rob Reiner, the director, loved the idea and put it into the script.

A classic scene that will live forever in annals of cinematic history

When the human body is at rest the brain consumes 20% of its total energy production.

 

[daus42]

A classic scene that will live forever in annals of cinematic history

When the human body is at rest the brain consumes 20% of its total energy production.

I wonder if you dream in color do you use more energy?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

I wonder if you dream in color do you use more energy?

Only in wet dreams

 

[smotherman]

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

 

[smotherman]

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

 

[smotherman]

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

 

[daus42]

Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever.

Dumbest dog: 1) afghan 2) all my neighbors dogs

 

[fire_breeze]

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

 

[Weaseldiesel]

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

Waht? lol

 

[fire_breeze]

Waht? lol

I just write them. I have yet to verify this particular trivia

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

The ancient greeks had a term they used for when a ship would sail into the shore with their cargo by waiting for the tides to just start coming in. In those days without modern port facilities, they simply threw a line around a protruding rock and used wooden planks to bring their goods to shore.

If they didn't use ships, the meats and vegetables would spoil on the long treks using horses and carts. The same would happen if the ship missed the incoming tides. They'd have to wait for the next tide to come ashore.

The tem they used was, "Ob Portu." As with many greek words and terms, it has been used since and changed in spelling and meaning. Today we know "Ob Portu" as, "Opportunity."

 

[daus42]

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

Does that have anything to do with the toilets in the southern hemisphere going counter clock wise? Not sure if thats true as well.

 

[fire_breeze]

Does that have anything to do with the toilets in the southern hemisphere going counter clock wise? Not sure if thats true as well.

Apparently that is true - an Aussie friend of mine confirmed it.

 

[daus42]

Apparently that is true - an Aussie friend of mine confirmed it.

Back to the blades....wouldn't the slant inward or outward determine how they turn?

 

[fire_breeze]

Back to the blades....wouldn't the slant inward or outward determine how they turn?

Meh, no clue. I'm not an engineer. I'm just a professional geek

 

[daus42]

- Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80

- Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Toni Tramel, 31, of Owensboro, Kentucky, was arrested for public intoxication.

But as she was changing into an inmate's uniform at the jail, she is alleged to have sprayed breast milk into the face of a female deputy who was supervising her.

The officer had to undergo decontamination due to the potential bio-hazard.

Tramel now faces a felony charge of third degree assault on a police officer, with a bond set at $10,000.

 

[Eleana]

all words ending in -tion are the same in English and French.

 

[fire_breeze]

Modern English defines a billion as one thousand million (1,000,000,000). Many other languages define a billion to be one million million (1,000,000,000,000).

 

[fire_breeze]

The modern bikini was invented by a French designer in 1946. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of US nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device. Between 1946 and 1958, twenty three nuclear devices were detonated at Bikini Atoll. One detonation on March 1, 1954, codenamed Castle Bravo, was the first test of a practical hydrogen bomb. The largest nuclear explosion ever set off by the United States, it was much more powerful than predicted and created widespread radioactive contamination.

Gives a new meaning to the word 'bombshell', doesn't it?

 

[daus42]

The modern bikini was invented by a French designer in 1946. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of US nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device. Between 1946 and 1958, twenty three nuclear devices were detonated at Bikini Atoll. One detonation on March 1, 1954, codenamed Castle Bravo, was the first test of a practical hydrogen bomb. The largest nuclear explosion ever set off by the United States, it was much more powerful than predicted and created widespread radioactive contamination.

Gives a new meaning to the word 'bombshell', doesn't it?

As a kid I loved Annette Funicello......and it wasn't her acting abilities.

http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/33/3364/WTA8F00Z/bikini-beach.jpg