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*Nods in agreement*Direwolf750 said:
Let me also say that...
STOP! You have violated the law! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit.
OT: These are all palindromes:
Do geese see God?
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Murder for a jar of red rum.
Some men interpret nine memos.
Never odd or even.
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Murder for a jar of red rum.
Some men interpret nine memos.
Never odd or even.
The universe smells of steak.
Space is beige, not black.
There is a word that rhymes with orange, sporange. Sporange is defined as a botanical term for part of a fern plant.
There is also a word that rhymes with silver as well, chilver. Chilver is defined as a ewe-lamb.
Space is beige, not black.
There is a word that rhymes with orange, sporange. Sporange is defined as a botanical term for part of a fern plant.
There is also a word that rhymes with silver as well, chilver. Chilver is defined as a ewe-lamb.
They also did a number of other things, like setting up a love-hotel chain. Weird...EBHughsThe1st said:
If you cheat a bit you can make orange work with hinge, door hinge works even better if we allow two words.okok715 said:
Napoleon was actually of average height.
Gavrilo Princip's first attempt at killing Franz Ferdinand failed. He sat down for a sandwich afterwards when Franz Ferdinands parade approached and gave him his second chance.
Hitler originally wanted to be a painter, but was rejected by the art school in Vienna.
Nope, people say this because, in the olden days, it was believed that sneezing was your soul trying to escape. Blessing you was a way of making the soul remain in the person, thus saving them from damnation.okok715 said:
Napoleon originally dreamed of joining the British Royal Navy but was sent to learn in France, dooming him to be delivered to his inevitable exile by the same force.
Apollo 1: Manned 'plugs-out' test of Saturn V launch vehicle on launch pad. Fire caused the deaths of all three astronauts aboard. Resulted in system redesign of a large portion of Vehicle and Command Module.
Apollo 2: Testing of SIVB stage of Saturn V.
Apollo 3: Testing of SIB stage and Internal automatic guidance systems.
Apollo 4: Testing of the SIIB and SIIIB stages as well as unmanned Reentry tests and scenarios.
Apollo 5: Unmanned test of the Lunar Module.
Apollo 6: Lunar injection trajectory test, successfully simulated an orbit that would take the Service Module to the moon, direct abort test and reentry scenario also successful.
Apollo 7: Manned testing of service and command module systems in Earth orbit.
Apollo 8: Initially planned to be further testing similar to 7, accelerated schedule re-designated the mission to be a circum-lunar flight. Man orbits the moon for the first time, December 24th, 1968.
Apollo 9: Manned earth-orbit testing of the Lunar Lander.
Apollo 10: Procedure testing of Lunar landing including deployment and docking of Lunar module, no landing.
Apollo 11: First manned landing on the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 2.6 hours
Apollo 12: Launch suffered near-abort problem due to Saturn V being struck by lightning twice. Second manned lander on the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 7.8 hours
Apollo 13: Mission aborted during lunar-transit due to oxygen system explosion. Astronauts currently hold Human altitude record.
Apollo 14: Third manned landing on the moon. Malfunctioning computer led to ad-hoc repogramming of Lander computer system while it was descending to the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 9.3 hours
Apollo 15: Fourth manned landing on the moon, first usage of the Moon Rover. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 18.5 hours
Apollo 16: Fifth manned landing on the moon, Astronauts Young and Mattingly return largest rock from moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 20.2 hours
Apollo 17: Sixth and thussofar most recent landing on the moon. One of the astronauts takes the famous "Blue Marble" photograph. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 22.0 hours
Apollo 18: Repurposed as Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Apollo 19: Repurposed as Skylab 1.
Apollo 20: Cancelled due to Budgetary reasons under the Johnson Administration.
Apollo 2: Testing of SIVB stage of Saturn V.
Apollo 3: Testing of SIB stage and Internal automatic guidance systems.
Apollo 4: Testing of the SIIB and SIIIB stages as well as unmanned Reentry tests and scenarios.
Apollo 5: Unmanned test of the Lunar Module.
Apollo 6: Lunar injection trajectory test, successfully simulated an orbit that would take the Service Module to the moon, direct abort test and reentry scenario also successful.
Apollo 7: Manned testing of service and command module systems in Earth orbit.
Apollo 8: Initially planned to be further testing similar to 7, accelerated schedule re-designated the mission to be a circum-lunar flight. Man orbits the moon for the first time, December 24th, 1968.
Apollo 9: Manned earth-orbit testing of the Lunar Lander.
Apollo 10: Procedure testing of Lunar landing including deployment and docking of Lunar module, no landing.
Apollo 11: First manned landing on the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 2.6 hours
Apollo 12: Launch suffered near-abort problem due to Saturn V being struck by lightning twice. Second manned lander on the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 7.8 hours
Apollo 13: Mission aborted during lunar-transit due to oxygen system explosion. Astronauts currently hold Human altitude record.
Apollo 14: Third manned landing on the moon. Malfunctioning computer led to ad-hoc repogramming of Lander computer system while it was descending to the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 9.3 hours
Apollo 15: Fourth manned landing on the moon, first usage of the Moon Rover. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 18.5 hours
Apollo 16: Fifth manned landing on the moon, Astronauts Young and Mattingly return largest rock from moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 20.2 hours
Apollo 17: Sixth and thussofar most recent landing on the moon. One of the astronauts takes the famous "Blue Marble" photograph. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 22.0 hours
Apollo 18: Repurposed as Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Apollo 19: Repurposed as Skylab 1.
Apollo 20: Cancelled due to Budgetary reasons under the Johnson Administration.
55 and 201 are the same.okok715 said:
as for facts? i really can't think of any other than what was already posted
How about I put this here and walk away:
http://www.youtube.com/show/qi
Anything that I type here would just be coming from Stephen Fry anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/show/qi
Anything that I type here would just be coming from Stephen Fry anyway.
okok715 said:
21. Human beings are the only animals with the ability to have sex facing each other. Creighton Smith (a primatologist) disagrees with this and he sent us proof click here Thanks Creighton !
61. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. Gabriel Gabriel challenges this. She says, the flag on the Canadian 2 dollar bill isn't the American flag, its the union jack.....check it out with a good magnifying glass and you'll see.
There are other bits like that too, and repetitions. So unless you write the article this was copy-and-pasted from, no, you don't win
Um... Time to contribute...
Everest is the mountain that comes the highest above sea level in the world, but Mauna Kea is the actual tallest mountain. A good portion of its height is below sea level i.e. underwater
A dog was killed in egipt when a piece of mars (the planet not the bar) fell on it.
Elephant's and humans are the only animals known to recognise and be scared by their own bones.
The well known hole in the ozone layer may be releasing greenhouse gasses (Theory)
If sea levels rise too high all of Ireland and most of england will become an achepalango... (Lukily I can swim)
Elephant's and humans are the only animals known to recognise and be scared by their own bones.
The well known hole in the ozone layer may be releasing greenhouse gasses (Theory)
If sea levels rise too high all of Ireland and most of england will become an achepalango... (Lukily I can swim)
