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ghouck

#150
July 30, 2011, 01:12:23 AM
Quote from: Raffine on July 28, 2011, 12:42:59 PM
The red-tailed black shark, a very popular freshwater aquarium fish, is extinct in the wild.



For some reason those are sold as "Rainbow Sharks", I never understood why though.
Raw bacon is GREAT! It's like regular bacon, only faster, and it doesn't burn the roof of your mouth!

Happiness is green text in the "Stuff To Watch For" section.

James James: The man so nice, they named him twice.

"Aw man, this thong is chafing my balls" -Lloyd Kaufman in Poultrygeist.

"There's always time for lubricant" -Orlando Jones in Evolution

Psycho Circus

#151
July 30, 2011, 07:24:11 AM
The word acrobatics is Greek for 'walking on tiptoe'.

Leah

#152
August 03, 2011, 07:46:27 AM
According to Top Gear (U.K.), Communism has never made a good car, from the Soviet Union to East Germany.
yeah no.

Hammock Rider

#153
August 03, 2011, 08:50:19 AM
The sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti feeds on detritus from the elephant ear sponge.

Sea Cucumber



Elephant Ear Sponge

Jumping Kings and Making Haste Ain't my Cup of Meat

Psycho Circus

#154
August 03, 2011, 11:49:46 AM
An Adamite is someone who, for religious reasons, goes around in public with no clothes on.

Psycho Circus

#155
August 07, 2011, 09:06:11 AM
It is illegal in American Samoa to beg with the aid of a public address system.

indianasmith

#156
August 07, 2011, 03:02:23 PM
A cat with motion sickness can throw up five times its own body weight!!!


Oh . . .  and putting cats in the dryer will give them motion sickness! :buggedout:
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

Leah

#157
August 08, 2011, 09:49:59 AM Last Edit: August 08, 2011, 09:52:07 AM by El Toro Loco
The Seawise Giant was the longest ship ever made. If you put the Empire state Building on its side to compare it to the ship, the ship is longer than the building.  :buggedout:
                                                                                                                                                                           The Pentagon, 431 m
RMS Queen Mary 2, 345 m
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 342 m
Hindenburg, 245 m
Yamato, 263 m
Empire State Building, 443 m
Knock Nevis, ex Seawise Giant, 458 m
yeah no.

Hammock Rider

#158
August 08, 2011, 10:55:10 AM
The black sea cucumber releases special chemicals into the water to warn potential predators that it may taste bad.

  I don't think I'd need special chemicals to tell me that.

Jumping Kings and Making Haste Ain't my Cup of Meat

Psycho Circus

#159
August 08, 2011, 01:33:47 PM
Eddie Izzard was born in Aden, now known as Yemen.

The Burgomaster

#160
August 08, 2011, 02:27:45 PM
Quote from: Circus Circus on August 03, 2011, 11:49:46 AM
An Adamite is someone who, for religious reasons, goes around in public with no clothes on.


I don't do it for religious reasons, but people often point at me and say, "Oh, God!  Oh, Jesus!"

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

Psycho Circus

#161
August 09, 2011, 02:51:40 PM
The word 'adolescent' comes from one of two Latin verbs spelt adoleo. One means 'to make bigger' and the other means 'to emit a smell'.

Hammock Rider

#162
August 10, 2011, 09:48:20 AM
Wild sea cucumbers are caught by divers in Alaska and these wild Alaskan sea cucumbers have higher nutritional value and are larger than farmed Chinese sea cucumbers.

 YUUUMMM!!!!
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Leah

#164
August 10, 2011, 10:03:45 AM
The McLaren MP4-12C is the only new best handling super car not developed for the Nurburing, instead it was developed at the Top Gear Test Track.
yeah no.
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