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DrizzleMan
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17 Oct 2005, 6:32 pm

The six eyed crab spider occurs both in Africa and South America because it was around when the continents were still joined.

I'm an arachnophobe 8O


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17 Oct 2005, 6:49 pm

The only one that comes to mind is that Spam (the canned stuff) actually IS organic.

I have some other gems in my head somewhere.


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17 Oct 2005, 7:05 pm

If you 'convert' the phrase 'Cute Purple Dinosaur' to latin (ie. replace U with V), extract the letters of the Roman numerals and add them up... the result is 666.

Cute Purple Dinosaur
Cvte Pvrple Dinosavr 'Latin-ised'
C V V L D I V Extract Roman numerals

100 + 5 + 5+ 50 + 500 + 1 + 5 'Convert Roman to alphanumeric'

= 666

Thus, this proves that Barney, the cute purple dinosaur, is Satan! :twisted:

PS. if there are any really young ones here who like Barney, I'll just say now that it is a joke and not true in any way...


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18 Oct 2005, 8:22 am

MovieMogul wrote:
If you 'convert' the phrase 'Cute Purple Dinosaur' to latin (ie. replace U with V), extract the letters of the Roman numerals and add them up... the result is 666.

Cute Purple Dinosaur
Cvte Pvrple Dinosavr 'Latin-ised'
C V V L D I V Extract Roman numerals

100 + 5 + 5+ 50 + 500 + 1 + 5 'Convert Roman to alphanumeric'

= 666

Thus, this proves that Barney, the cute purple dinosaur, is Satan! :twisted:

PS. if there are any really young ones here who like Barney, I'll just say now that it is a joke and not true in any way...


That's insanely great.



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18 Oct 2005, 10:32 am

It can take 8.9 seconds to bleed a body dry given adequate vacuum pressure.

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