I never knew that!

Platapus · 02-22-17, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

^ I would like to see the wrench with which this nut was screwed home

In the US, it is the Pentagon that does the screwing.

Jimbuna · 02-23-17, 08:20 AM

The boomslang snake’s venom causes you to bleed from all holes of your body.

Platapus · 02-23-17, 08:30 AM

The beeping heard during communications during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions is called a Quindar Tone.

It was developed by the Quindar Electronics company (hence the name) and was used to trigger remote transmitters around the world to transmit after the first tone and to stop transmitting after the second tone.

That is why conversations made by mission control started and ended with the Quindar Tone (if you listen carefully you can hear the different tone) but conversations made by the astronauts, did not have the tones. Why, well the astronauts only had a local transmitter -- the spacecraft!

fireftr18 · 02-23-17, 03:57 PM

John Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson Sub-machine Gun, lived was born and lived in Newport, Kentucky. Newport is in Northern Kentucky, the part I grew up in and lived most my life.

http://www.thompsonhousenewport.com/index.php/history

Jimbuna · 02-24-17, 06:56 AM

By law, a pregnant woman can pee anywhere she wants to in Britain, even if she chooses, in a police officer’s helmets.

Jimbuna · 02-26-17, 07:58 AM

The butterflies you get in your stomach when you see someone you like is actually a stress response caused by adrenaline.

Schroeder · 02-26-17, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

By law, a pregnant woman can pee anywhere she wants to in Britain, even if she chooses, in a police officer’s helmets.

Now we know why you retired from the force...

Jimbuna · 02-26-17, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Now we know why you retired from the force...

That was a bit of a 'stinker'

Platapus · 02-26-17, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

By law, a pregnant woman can pee anywhere she wants to in Britain, even if she chooses, in a police officer’s helmets.

Wow, in the US things are a lot different. Here you have to go to "special clubs" and pay a lot to get that to happen.

uh, A friend of mine must have read about it on the Internets Tubes.

Jimbuna · 02-27-17, 10:41 AM

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Platapus · 02-27-17, 04:44 PM

The very first scanning of a UPC code was on a pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum. In the summer of 1974 a UPC code was scanned for the first time at a grocery market in Ohio. At Marsh supermarket, a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum slid down the conveyer belt to mark the first ever grocery item to be scanned.

02-23-17, 08:20 AM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,300 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The boomslang snake’s venom causes you to bleed from all holes of your body. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-23-17, 08:30 AM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,427 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	The beeping heard during communications during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions is called a Quindar Tone. It was developed by the Quindar Electronics company (hence the name) and was used to trigger remote transmitters around the world to transmit after the first tone and to stop transmitting after the second tone. That is why conversations made by mission control started and ended with the Quindar Tone (if you listen carefully you can hear the different tone) but conversations made by the astronauts, did not have the tones. Why, well the astronauts only had a local transmitter -- the spacecraft! __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right. Last edited by Platapus; 02-23-17 at 06:22 PM.

02-23-17, 03:57 PM	#4
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	John Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson Sub-machine Gun, lived was born and lived in Newport, Kentucky. Newport is in Northern Kentucky, the part I grew up in and lived most my life. http://www.thompsonhousenewport.com/index.php/history __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

02-24-17, 06:56 AM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,300 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	By law, a pregnant woman can pee anywhere she wants to in Britain, even if she chooses, in a police officer’s helmets. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-26-17, 07:58 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,300 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The butterflies you get in your stomach when you see someone you like is actually a stress response caused by adrenaline. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-27-17, 10:41 AM	#10
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,300 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-27-17, 04:44 PM	#11
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,427 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	The very first scanning of a UPC code was on a pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum. In the summer of 1974 a UPC code was scanned for the first time at a grocery market in Ohio. At Marsh supermarket, a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum slid down the conveyer belt to mark the first ever grocery item to be scanned. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.