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16 Feb 2006, 5:00 pm

2/16/06


Did you know?

the real definition of the word 'fa***t' is a bundle of sticks

also 'fag' is british slang for a ciggarette.



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16 Feb 2006, 5:13 pm

So how did it come to mean homosexual??



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16 Feb 2006, 5:59 pm

aylissa wrote:
So how did it come to mean homosexual??


This explains it well:

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mfaggot.html



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23 Feb 2006, 2:06 pm

Where is my random factoid?

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24 Feb 2006, 7:40 pm

Theres a city with a law against frowning.



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24 Feb 2006, 8:18 pm

1983 TV mini series V had an estimated audience of 80 million people in the United States.



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09 Mar 2006, 7:51 am

If you take two empty ice trays and fill one with boiling hot water and the other with cold water, the tray filled with boiling hot water yields ice cubes faster than the cold water tray.



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20 Mar 2006, 7:41 am

jman wrote:
2/16/06


Did you know?

the real definition of the word 'fa***t' is a bundle of sticks

also 'fag' is british slang for a ciggarette.

I have also seen a recipe for fa***ts. A long time ago. I think it was a desert.