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Post by Hermione on Feb 17, 2007 0:52:10 GMT -5
All new-borns are given a shot of vitamin K so that noone will worry about the rare case when there's a deficiency (vit k helps blood to clot) and the newborn essentially bleeds to death from the birth process.
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Post by Irishman on Feb 17, 2007 11:14:46 GMT -5
Ewww. hermione! I coulda stood ta not learn that. Useless info indeed!
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Post by Hermione on Feb 18, 2007 21:11:34 GMT -5
Well, lol, it's true. At least in USA hospitals.
There's an old wagon trail by the Smith River Falls that you can go to camp at with the remnants of an absolutely amazing log bridge. I mean, SERIOUS bridge. It was built fairly recently, 1920's, for the logging industry. And it's truly something else! Three HUGE trees underneath spanning it, on a platform of equally huge logs places so precisely it's ridiculous, and then some majorly massive timpers across the three that span the river. It's amazing.
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Post by Cynder on Feb 22, 2007 18:01:11 GMT -5
It snows in Albuquerque! (okay... so maybe that isn't technically useless... but at least it should qualify as random  ) |
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Post by Hermione on Feb 23, 2007 3:38:58 GMT -5
Sure, why not? Lol. (Hm, you're where Edward of LKH fame resides? Hm.)
'ted' as a farming word never really transfered to M.E. or O.E. but it's very prevalent in M.H.G. and O.H.G. and the eventual descendent of it is still present in H.G. today.
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Post by Irishman on Feb 23, 2007 11:05:00 GMT -5
Um, um, er, ......what??!?
Terraforming is an offshoot of the words Terra- meaning Earth. and Farming- Duh, meaning to farm. So Terraforming>Earth Forms.....Ok, so not like noone has heard it, but c;mon, how likely is it that someone will actually terraform another planet in the near future?
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Post by Hermione on Feb 23, 2007 17:36:11 GMT -5
M.E. = Middle English
O.E. = Old English
M.H.G. = Middle High German
O.H.G. = Old High German
H.G. = High German.
Although from what I understand it came from a Norse word originally.
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Post by Irishman on Feb 25, 2007 8:26:18 GMT -5
If'n I canna create me own useless knowledge.....('cause Hermione researches everything! LOL) I actually gonna have ta start comin' up wit' Real information....altho' how tha' could be Useless is beyond me...
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Post by Hermione on Feb 25, 2007 15:04:43 GMT -5
Lol, it can't; perhaps we should rename the thread, 'Little Known Fact of Little Known Use'?
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Post by Irishman on Mar 3, 2007 11:12:07 GMT -5
Start another thread?  What 're you crazy? We'd ne'er get anythin' done....and tha' can be a good thing! I can view this thread, assist a customer and read a novel, all at the same time! Multi-tasking, been doin' it me whole life, an NOW they invent a word fer it. |
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Post by Hermione on Mar 3, 2007 15:20:43 GMT -5
No, no, no...
I just meant to rename it!
Surely that's possible?
They used to call it 'talent' -lol, personally, I like the older term! Hee hee!
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Post by magicmuffin on Mar 3, 2007 22:00:47 GMT -5
Alas, I've no useless knowledge to impart...wait, that was useless, wasn't it?
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Post by Hermione on Mar 5, 2007 0:11:24 GMT -5
MM!
Hi-hi-hi-hi-hi!
SOoooo good to see you!
Can you stay long?
(Isaac Newton had three different dates that he predicted the world would end on: 1867, 2060, and 2370)
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Post by magicmuffin on Mar 6, 2007 1:15:43 GMT -5
Just a few days but soon I'll have a computer...within the next month or so...  |
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Post by Hermione on Mar 7, 2007 18:15:25 GMT -5
Yay!
(useless knowledge: graphite in pencils will break up if you drop the pencils)
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Post by magicmuffin on Mar 7, 2007 22:46:36 GMT -5
The dog and the turkey were the only two domesticated animals in ancient Mexico.
...uh..."Sit, turkey...now roll over!"
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Post by Hermione on Mar 8, 2007 1:22:09 GMT -5
little known limerick made in honour of the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos (the o should have an umlaut) (and it was NOT made by me! It's several decades old!):
Whether the circle is round
Is a question both deep and profound
In a paper by Erdos
Written in Kurdish
An answer is sure to be found
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Post by magicmuffin on Mar 8, 2007 17:30:49 GMT -5
useless limerick?:
there once were two cats of kilkenny
each one thought there was one cat too many
so they fought and they fit
and they scratched and they bit
until excepting their nails and the tips of their tails
instead of two cats there werent any!
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Post by Irishman on Mar 9, 2007 14:25:58 GMT -5
As I was going to Saint Ives,
I passed a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack held seven Cats
How many were going to St Ives?
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Post by magicmuffin on Mar 9, 2007 17:31:59 GMT -5
One!!!!!
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