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Hmm, "velcro" comes from French "velours croché", "hooked velvet". "To remain" or "to stay" in Latin is "manēre", so it would be "venī, vidī, mānsī".

Quite probably - but my version's better because it's funny.

There are many theories as to where the name of the Oreo cookie originated from, most people believe it comes from the Greek root for 'appetizing' as in orexin or orexigenic (appetite stimulating) or anorexic (loss of appetite). Other theories suggest that the name Oreo is a derivation from the French word 'Or', meaning 'Gold' (as early Oreo packaging was gold coloured) or that it derived from the Greek word 'Oros', meaning mountain or hill (as the early incarnation of the Oreo cookie was mound shaped) or even the Greek word 'Oreo' meaning beautiful or nice. (Which seems quite likely to me).

Other theories are that the 're' from 'cream' was 'sandwhiched' between the two 'Os' from the word 'cookie' (similar to the physical design of the buiscuit), or that the the name of the cookie was just chosen as it seemed like a nice, melodic combination of sounds.

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THINGS I LIKE
Parasaurolophus, Plesiosaurs, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Music, Tuna, Chocolate milk, Oreos, Blue things

Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.

Marriages between first and second cousins account for over 10% of marriages worldwide.

busy busy buzzy Bees

Bees can recognise human faces. Given that many humans struggle with this once they have turned 40, it seems utterly remarkable in a creature whose brain is the size of a pinhead. Yet bees who are rewarded with nectar when shown some photos of faces, and not rewarded when shown others, quickly learn to tell the difference. Not that we should read too much into this. Bees don't "think" in a meaningful way. The "faces" in the experiment were clearly functioning as rather odd-looking flowers, not as people they wanted to get to know socially.

nobody has anything interesting to share? fudo thinks not. there are many very intelligent people here who surely know many interesting things, methinks they must need better incentive before they share them.
thanks though to those who have


QI Fact of the Day
When George Gershwin first performed Rhapsody in Blue at the Aeolian hall on 42nd Street, New York, both Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff were in the audience.


QI Quote of the Day
"Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo."
GEORGES BIDAULT (1899-1983) Resistance leader & Prime Minister of France

velcro fits the phrase almost perfectly.. is fun

but dunbots likes his words immensely, so i don't really blame him.
it's all good

from the Telegraph's QI column..

"I have been 40 years in the discovery that the queen of all colours is black."
Auguste Renoir

What is black?
We see black when no visible light reaches the eye. It is the colour of objects or pigments that absorb all frequencies of light and reflect least. The blackest man-made material was created in 2008 by a team from Rice University in Houston. Using a "forest" of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (cylindrical carbon molecules less than 1/50,000 of the width of a human hair), their super-black sheet reflects only 0.045 per cent of any light directed at it --- ideal for solar panels and for harvesting the tiny amounts of heat present in space.

Apart from humans, orangutans have the longest childhoods in the animal kingdom. They stay with their mothers for up to 9 years. Females sometimes stay with their mothers into their teens.

Young chimpanzees have been seen using sticks and stones as "dolls", and pretending to groom them and lying with them in their nests at night.