Twenty Useless Facts

[mtmynd]

20 Useless Facts (for those that like useless facts)

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .

10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

13. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

If you disagree with any of these, I didn't make the list.

[stilltrucking]

another useless fact

Vietnam was our longest war not Afghanistan
Twenty five years.

[mtmynd]

#22 - This is the oldest revived post on Studio 8 to get a reply - 1037 days from the initial post to today's first reply.

[stilltrucking]

I thought it was a pretty good post and it deserved a reply. I hate to see a zero next to any of your posts. Speaking of Zero's what ever happened to Zero Hero from litkicks?

You remember headburner? He had a post on litkicks called "Eating Ghosts"
I would send Levi another twenty bucks just to read that one again.

Useless fact #
23: But you probably already knew this.

At the end of world war two we sold the Vietnamese people out to the French. FDR promised Ho that we would back their bid for independence. We were very grateful to the Viet Minh for aiding downed American pilots during the war. But when de Gaulle threatened to back out of NATO if the French did not get their colonies in Indo China back Truman caved in. We even armed Jap P.O.W.'s to fight the Viet Minh.

It was my war, I mean my generations war but uncle Sam would not take me. I was certified 4F just because I went to bed every night with a shot gun tucked up under my chin. I felt guilty for a long time about being unfit for military service that others had to go in my stead. I felt guilty until a veteran from the siege of Corregidor told me to consider myself lucky for not having to go to war. He was the first veteran I met who called Macarthur "dug out Doug" Yes I am one of the blessed who had not seen it and yet believe. I think I heard my uncle call Macarthur that too.

[stilltrucking]

#24

It is official
Juarez is the murder capital of the world.
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another zero reply post of yours I am thinking about kicking up.
http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtop ... er+capital

[mtmynd]

Regarding that link, this one is on MSNBC this morning -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34593203/ns/us_news-life/

Thx for keeping the thread alive, amigo...

[stilltrucking]

Cecil I called you a bad old man once. I meant it as high praise. The baddest old men I can think of right now is Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jimmy Carter.

#25 Old Jimmy liked to pose as a man of the people, always carried his own luggage. Would not let the secrete service agents do it for him. But he carried empty suitcases. His real luggage was being carried off camera.

I thought it was a pretty good thread, I could not figure why it had no replies in over a year?

Well let me call you sweetheart as my teamster brothers used to say.

Steve Plonk mentioned something about his adversaries on the internet.

Diego Rivera in the movie Frida said he would rather have an intelligent enemy than a stupid friend.

and somebody also said but I forget who
"amigos come and go but enemies accumulate"

That bit about the cat falling twenty stories or seven stories I got to check that one out.

How I used to envy you compadre, I think I still do.

I deleted a long ramble about "markets" and how it all got started from your "clueless stream" I will get back to that some time
I can not think anyone here whose threads I enjoy hijacking more than yours.

a man who can forget about words.
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El Paso the second safest city in the USA after Honolulu. Strange story. i wonder why it has stayed across the river. Article said because they know there will be a crack down by US forces. I guess that explains it.

[mtmynd]

Well, JT, depending on who one is talking to, some may feel strongly that I'm bad old man, with no praise intended. Fortunately, I think those folks are not plentiful considering how few people I really know... quite a few acquaintances but few friends. It take some time to cultivate acquaintances to friendships, but worth every moment to those that have them. But you know that.

I made another apple pie yesterday, this time using three different apples plus a cup of raisins tossed in like last time. Already down to half the pie and that's just SooZen and me... had our first slice for breakfast this morn and I like it and she likes it - that makes 100% of the people eating it liking it.

One of my gifts I received from son #1 was a CD - Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs. This is Vol. 8 of his Bootleg Series, 13 unreleased songs from 1989 thru 2006. Big title, big sound... one of the finest Dylan albums these ears have heard in many a moon. I've listened to it three times already and if I let it, his words still may draw a tear outta these cataract eyes of mine.

If I had to measure the worth of my writings using replies, I would have stopped writing years ago. It was like yesterday, JT, when I was turned on to Litkicks by my #1, Noah. I went there and checked it out briefly. The one evening for reasons no longer remembered, I went back and found the boards, Action Poetry in particular. I was so impressed by many writers I read there that I was thrilled. I went back and read over these folks shoulders, building up courage to put up a reply and maybe, just maybe, post a poem of my own as an initial post. Maybe a week, maybe a bit more went by, all that time spent reading, reading, getting to know some of the writers. Finally one night, more than likely stoned, I did it! I put out my first reply. Then either that night or the next, I gathered up the nerve to post a poem. Nobody replied just then... for some reason I think maybe a day later or so, judih, replied. Wow! That stoked me up. I was outta the gate and runnin'... no stoppin' this pony then. I don't think I've stopped more than week since then, writing, writing, writing... It was on Litkicks where my first Sunday Stream was written. By that time I was ready to try my hand at writing S-o-C, using these mind games I played with for years in my head. Anyhoo... enough for now.

Thanx for your kind and sometimes provocative words, amigo... if they weren't a joy or interesting for me to read, I wouldn't talk at you... wouldn't waste your time with my b.s....

Watch out for that bottle of rum... distilled molasses should be consumed in moderation for diabetics. But you know that, Dragon-man, more than most.

[stilltrucking]

#26

that got dam banner is driving me crazy. I got to have a doughnut.

I pour my own drinks. Half inch of Kentucky whiskey for me yesterday. Just what the doctor ordered. I got a half of a half pint of vodka in my fridge that has been in there for three or four months, maybe longer. Made dinner for my sister an brother in law yesterday turned out well. I got one tomato off my tomato plant. I had glass of eggnog that gave me heartburn. Smoked a half a joint and had a good time.

Litkicks
I just don't understand why he trashed the archives. Steve Plonk says he is trying to restore them. Which makes me wonder why does he have to restore them? I mean there would be no reason to restore them if he had not trashed them. Not that he owed us anything. Or was it a catastrophic failure of his servers, something out of his control?

They were here for a while but no more.
http://www.asheresque.com/BoardArchive/index.html
I am sure he had his reasons.

[Steve Plonk]

Howdy, howdy, it is Steve again. Saw this topic and had to respond. One of my brothers is approximately ten months and
three weeks younger than me. Yes, I do have some antagonists
who make life interesting on this blog. I also have protagonists...

More useless facts:
I really like the Daily Banners, too...I also like the fact, that, even though I am a Vietnam Era veteran, I did not go to the 'Nam. It had to do with a little reaction I had with a certain drug. Expletive deleted...

There were government experiments at the time and it was illegal. Thank the Lord I came out intact. Another thing that Dylan warned about was never to mix texas medicine with anything because "it will strangle up your mind." I took Dylan's advice...Never mix alcohol with psychedelics...

[Steve Plonk]

Oh, I'll be interested to see Litkicks boards in archives, if it happens.
Like I've said before, lots of thought and fun went into them. Litkicks Action Poetry is still going live and strong, except now it is almost Random Poetry clicking time. That is when you click on the random poetry flashwork and it gives you a new poem from the previous year. Asher has said he is going to revamp the site again with "Drupal". Hope it works okay. That way people may post on top of each other easier.

Another useless fact: I don't like to mix caffeine with alcohol except in rum toddy's. Dark "Bacardi Rum" used to be my favorite alcoholic poison and I also loved it in pina coladas and margaritas. I no longer drink because of health problems. However, I still love that great "cup of joe".
Different strokes for different folks, as the expression goes...G-D bless and have a happy new year!

[stilltrucking]

#27Levi Asher loves hate mail. (so he says)
I have never emailed him anything
Does that make me a sadist?

I wonder if those archives have a monetary value?
I always liked his business model because he said he did not have one.

useless facts about me numbers 28 through 30

I did not go to Vietnam even though I tried to enlist in 1964. Yes I wanted to do my patriotic chore.
But they would not take me just because I was sleeping with a shotgun tucked up under my chin.

On November of 22 1963 after JFK was murdered my fan hit the shit and I dam near come close to killing my mother, her throat in my hands the look on her face the blood in her carotid the scene comes rushing back to me.

ten years after that we tripped together me eating moldy rye sandwiches she clueless with a glass tea and a niece piece of schmaltz herring.

We talked to four am and we were friends again thank to lsd.
I never had a bad trip

most of the times I tripped by myself
It was just me and Nietzsche. Nietzsche is a hard read when you are tripping cause the words keep morphing into black worms that crawl across the pages, sometimes they would take the shape of the Hebrew alphabet.

I never sent litkicks any hate mail. I only got hate mail from them. I hit on a woman there. Sorry bastard that I am. So I have learned from them. I won't say who it was but I am sorry. I sent her an email five years ago to tell her that and I have never emailed her again. I have never emailed any woman from litkicks except one. She was a friend to me I will never forget her kindness when I needed a friend.

I have a baby sister who is twelve years younger to me. She is probably the only reason I have not used that shot gun. I can't leave I am a prisoner of love.

I count Cecil as one of my most worthy advisaries, jimboloco is another, and clay January too. I don't need no stinking friends on the internet but I will take all the sisters I can get.

Why did he trash the archives? I would ask him if I could but I don't want to know that bad.

YOu know there might be some typos in this but ever since my application to the Litkicks writer's work shop was rejected I don't give a shit anymore.
Levi says I got to give my readers a good ride. Well maybe in another life time I will get to care more about that.
I wanted professional help with my writing they wrote me and told me I needed help from a professional mental care specialist.

Who can argure with that
fact number 32 My oldest brother is a physician he will be 80 years old next year. He rides a 150 mile an hour motor cycle to work. But he no longer races it on the track anymore. His concession to old age I suppose.

# 33 I have a pretty weird sense of humor

[Steve Plonk]

It's all good in the neighborhood,
It's all good in the neighborhood,
I just met a few more internet neighbors.
In real time while I'm still feeling fine,
Like a traveling digital road sign...
I work the net and the network's me...
I got a million of 'em.
Funny facts...
Stay on the good foot, 'cause its always worked for me.
Go easy with a slow hand and make lively plans...
We all have our issues and our faults
Life is a learning experience...
Speaking of which: I wrote a two-part copyrighted
Novel called EXPERIENCE FOR SALE: Parts One & Two..,
See it under my pen name facsimile in the Library of Congress,
"Cause that's probably the only place it'll get published.

[still.trucking]

#34
When I first started posting to litkicks I used to sit on the crapper writing imaginary reviews for the NY Times book section on the great American hyper-text-trash-novel I was going to write. I even had a blurb for the dust cover about my four hundred or so jobs I have had. One of them as a research chemist in organo-metalic polymers.

#35
I have a registered patent with the US patent office for the aqueous polymerization of acrylonitrile in a Peroxodisulfate-thiourea redox system. It wasn't all peaches and cream we blew the back out of the lab in one experiment. I say I hold the patent, it is a co-patent with my boss. Technically I was a chemist, non degreed but actualy a glorified lab technician. He did the thinking I did the experiments. He was one of the smartest people I have ever know. A double phd one from the university of Lucknow, one from the university at Edinburgh Scotland. He went on to another job and I went back to college. Later he wrote to me and asked me to join him in Michigan where he became head of research for another chemical company. The night I tried to kill my mother I ran away from home at the tender age of 22 and joined him. It was the best thing. Moving away from everyone I knew. I stopped sleeping with that imaginary shotgun under my chin.

#37
I have twelve years of college, eleven of them as a sophomore. I just could not decide on a major.

#38
I have some eye twisting and mangled sentences. in what I have written. Ask me if I care. Yes in the beginning was the word and then came syntax. Whatever that is.

#39
Congratulations on your novel. I have been buying every book I can find that was published by a member of the studio eight community. Let me know if you decide to publish it and I will buy it.

[Steve Plonk]

I don't know if I have overreached my own 20 Useless Facts...I really enjoyed chewing the fat with you, still.trucking. Anyhow, I have some
time to burn while I am doing the laundry and have really been hooked
by your interesting stories. Your patent seems valuable...Have many folks availed themselves of its utility?

I've just made chump change from all the pieces I have gotten published
in mostly small college, local, and regional publications. There surely is
a market out there. I am building a dock, hoping ships will come in...

I've gotten short stories, columns, and poetry published and, so far, the
furthest my novel made it was Jackie Kennedy's desk at Doubleday. Her office wrote me a nice rejection letter during the same time that MOONWALKING ,by Michael Jackson, was accepted. So I had some really stiff competition. Too bad that Jackie O is dead these many years, because I'm getting ready to send it out again. I also intend to query "Weird Tales". I've sent squibs everywhere but there. Time for the
weird to go shopping. Thank goodness for blogs because they let you get your ya-yas out in blogosphere.