Trivia for Squiggle #52
Welcome to the latest issue of Trivia for Squiggle! Sorry the TFS posts haven't been coming out on a set day like they used to...I'm working on that...hopefully the flow of things will get back to 'normal' by next week...
And just because I don't think this thought merits it's own post, here goes: Tom & Katie named their baby Suri, which is pronounced the same as the word "surrey." A surrey is a four-wheeled horse-drawn pleasure carriage having two or four seats (also a four-wheeled family 'bike' that can fit up to four adults & two children). I could make a really dirty comment about that right now, but I'll leave it up to the sick minds of my readers to 'fill in the blanks'...geez, yet another opportunity for a dirty thought...yeah, I haven't grown up yet...
1276. There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
1277. 3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work.
(Scott’s note: so that makes me an ‘extreme commuter’??? I drive a total of 44 miles round trip to work every day and due to fabulous L.A. traffic, it takes me about two hours round trip...it sucks balls, but hardly seems ‘extreme’...as long as there's good music on, I guess...)
1278. Oslo, Norway is the world's most expensive city. A gallon on gas costs almost $5, and it costs $1.32 to use the public restrooms.
1279. In 1965, auditions were held for the "Monkees" TV show. Some of the people who responded (but were not hired) were Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson, Paul Williams and Charles Manson.
1280. Kevin Spacey's older brother is a professional Rod Stewart impersonator.
1281. The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.
1282. Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.
(Scott’s note: EGAD! WHY?!?!?!?)
1283. Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games.
1284. Hostess Twinkies were originally filled with banana filling. The filling was changed during World War II when the United States experienced a banana shortage.
1285. A deployed air bag adds as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a vehicle. That's enough for insurance companies to often declare the car "totaled".
1286. One out of five people in the world (1.1 billion people) live on less than $1 per day.
1287. The New Yorker magazine now has more subscribers in California than New York.
1288. 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
1289. Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched a hole in the center of each candy.
1290. There are 150,000,000 cell phones in use in the United States, more than one per every two human beings in the country.
1291. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
1292. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
1293. In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C.
1294. There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
1295. Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.
1296. A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
1297. Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
1298. In a nod to astronauts, Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
1299. Eleven top executives of the Direct Marketing Association (the telemarketers' group that is trying to kill the federal "Do Not Call" list) have registered for the list themselves.
1300. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
Prince John: Such an unusual name, "Latrine." How did your family come by it?
Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.
Prince John: You mean you changed it TO "Latrine"?
Latrine: Yeah. Used to be "Shithouse."
Prince John: It's a good change. That's a good change!
The previous post's quote was from "Interview With a Vampire"
Lestat = Tom Cruise
And just because I don't think this thought merits it's own post, here goes: Tom & Katie named their baby Suri, which is pronounced the same as the word "surrey." A surrey is a four-wheeled horse-drawn pleasure carriage having two or four seats (also a four-wheeled family 'bike' that can fit up to four adults & two children). I could make a really dirty comment about that right now, but I'll leave it up to the sick minds of my readers to 'fill in the blanks'...geez, yet another opportunity for a dirty thought...yeah, I haven't grown up yet...
1276. There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
1277. 3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work.
(Scott’s note: so that makes me an ‘extreme commuter’??? I drive a total of 44 miles round trip to work every day and due to fabulous L.A. traffic, it takes me about two hours round trip...it sucks balls, but hardly seems ‘extreme’...as long as there's good music on, I guess...)
1278. Oslo, Norway is the world's most expensive city. A gallon on gas costs almost $5, and it costs $1.32 to use the public restrooms.
1279. In 1965, auditions were held for the "Monkees" TV show. Some of the people who responded (but were not hired) were Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson, Paul Williams and Charles Manson.
1280. Kevin Spacey's older brother is a professional Rod Stewart impersonator.
1281. The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.
1282. Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.
(Scott’s note: EGAD! WHY?!?!?!?)
1283. Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games.
1284. Hostess Twinkies were originally filled with banana filling. The filling was changed during World War II when the United States experienced a banana shortage.
1285. A deployed air bag adds as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a vehicle. That's enough for insurance companies to often declare the car "totaled".
1286. One out of five people in the world (1.1 billion people) live on less than $1 per day.
1287. The New Yorker magazine now has more subscribers in California than New York.
1288. 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
1289. Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched a hole in the center of each candy.
1290. There are 150,000,000 cell phones in use in the United States, more than one per every two human beings in the country.
1291. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
1292. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
1293. In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C.
1294. There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
1295. Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.
1296. A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
1297. Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
1298. In a nod to astronauts, Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
1299. Eleven top executives of the Direct Marketing Association (the telemarketers' group that is trying to kill the federal "Do Not Call" list) have registered for the list themselves.
1300. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
Prince John: Such an unusual name, "Latrine." How did your family come by it?
Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.
Prince John: You mean you changed it TO "Latrine"?
Latrine: Yeah. Used to be "Shithouse."
Prince John: It's a good change. That's a good change!
The previous post's quote was from "Interview With a Vampire"
Lestat = Tom Cruise
posted by Scott at 5:07 PM
2 Comments:
1283: I'd heard about this. When the Nintendo Entertainment System came out, some surgeons were hooking the system up to monitors in empty hospital rooms. To a degree, it simulated having to watch the monitor as opposed to the tools in the hands and gave them practice manipulating objects while staring at a screen. I always thought that was cool.
1285: This makes sense. The airbag has to rip through the steering wheel covering (which is plastic and rubber,) so the entire steering wheel has to be replaced. Considering how sophisticated steering wheels are these days, with airbag deployment systems, cruise control, environmental controls, and other such things conveniently placed for the driver, I'm not surprised such a replacement is so expensive.
HDD: Scott may accuse us of having dirty minds, but he never said he was "pure" or anything. Trust me: he's worse and he knows it.
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