After I saw Cloverfield in theatres, I heard a girl ask if that really happened when the creds started rollin.
Yeah! I dislike that question, we didn't evolve FROM modern monkeys and apes, we share common ancestors.Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:Uh, what? I'm from the US and I know where Melbourne is.
OT:"If we evolved from monkeys, then WHY ARE THERE STILL MONKEYS?"
Aww she could just be like me and have a really hard time paying attention and only remember the key words like "Incident" and "Anne Boleyn"Betancore said:A girl in my history class asked me, after half an hour of talking about this very incident, "So, is Anne Boleyn dead yet?" We had just spent the entire class discussing that. And even if she hadn't been beheaded, she'd bloody well be dead by 2008. Maybe it's because I'm really into Tudor history, but I seriously wanted to throttle her.
That was a pretty pretentious comment.wfpdk said:"where lighters made before matches?"
my reply was "to quote dave chappelle; 'you have smoked yourself retarded.'"
Lol I only knew that because I remember reading it a while back. It's a reasonable assumption to make, that lighters came first, but there seems to be no definitive answer. Ho hum.wfpdk said:hhmmm... I did not know that. I feel like quite the fool, now. I would say that maybe she wasn't as dumb as I thought, but she also got her arm stuck in a fence because she wouldn't let go of her binder, and in context of that particular conversation, she was talking specifically about Bic lighters, because her's was taken away in class, which started the conversation. but either way, I suppose I should do my research before I post.SnipErlite said:May I quote Wikipedia?wfpdk said:"where lighters made before matches?"
my reply was "to quote dave chappelle; 'you have smoked yourself retarded.'"
"One of the first lighters was invented by a German Chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823"
"The first "friction match" was invented by English chemist John Walker in 1826"
Although different sources give different dates for either, that's not such a stupid question.