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20 Oct 2006, 3:03 pm

The newest member right now is MarijuanaMan.

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20 Oct 2006, 3:14 pm

Today, I overslept and I didn't go to college

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20 Oct 2006, 3:17 pm

A Swedish inventor invented the first automatic gas pump around 1920. It was fed with coins. However no oil company bought the invention, since it would have made gas station people unemployed.

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20 Oct 2006, 3:17 pm

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Today, I overslept and I didn't go to college

Today I tried to oversleep because there was no school, but I woke up when I felt a sharp pain in my neck.

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20 Oct 2006, 3:18 pm

Litigious wrote:

The Swedish verb "veta"="know" is the same ethymologically as the hindu verb "veda"="know".

Swedish and Hindi have the same root language, called Proto-Indo-European.

The only European language not in this family is Basque.

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20 Oct 2006, 4:37 pm

Van Gogh liked to always use the color yellow in his paintings.

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20 Oct 2006, 4:42 pm

The Studebaker Automobile company started out making covered wagons.

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20 Oct 2006, 4:46 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Van Gogh liked to always use the color yellow in his paintings.

I hate yellow.

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20 Oct 2006, 7:24 pm

A French grocer invented the grocery trolley. However, customers ignored them and continued to use hand baskets instead. He hired actors to use the trolleys and make comments praising them. The rest is history.

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20 Oct 2006, 7:27 pm

John Delorean, who invented the Delorean Automobile, worked at General Motors in the sixties, and was the executive who wrote the offical order to stop production of the Corvair.

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20 Oct 2006, 8:10 pm

Ernie Kovacs, the comedian, died driving a Corvair station wagon in the rain. There were no witnesses, so it is unknown how he lost control.

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20 Oct 2006, 8:17 pm

Ernie Kovacs once guest-starred on the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.

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20 Oct 2006, 8:31 pm

My chest hair almost forms an equilateral triangle.

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20 Oct 2006, 8:48 pm

I have a scar on my left forearm which is a little over two thirds of the length of my forearm. If it was about 1.3 inches to the left, I would have bled to death. But Garlic didn't want me to die, so I hardly bled at all, and felt almost no pain.

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20 Oct 2006, 8:49 pm

One-Winged-Angel wrote:

I have a scar on my left forearm which is a little over two thirds of the length of my forearm. If it was about 1.3 inches to the left, I would have bled to death. But I hardly bled at all, and felt almost no pain.

Those 1.3 inches changed the course of history.

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20 Oct 2006, 8:56 pm

werbert wrote:

One-Winged-Angel wrote:

Those 1.3 inches changed the course of history.

At least WP history. There are very few NTs who would have missed me. I had exactly three friends at the time. Now I have about five friends.

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