I never knew that!

[Tango589]

The copper plate that makes the Statue of Liberty is only the thickness of a chocolate Easter egg.

[Jimbuna]

William Faulkner refused a dinner invitation from JFK's White House. "Why that’s a hundred miles away," he said. "That’s a long way to go just to eat."

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Von Due

Someone did a study of, and wrote a paper on, bull****.

Bovine Scatology!

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Bovine Scatology!

I really had no idea that was a subject of research and reading a bit of that paper had me giggling over the technical tone one will find in a research paper like that, from strict definitions and examples/counterexamples, complete with a long list in the reference section. Could almost imagine Graham Chapman reading that in one of his sketches.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Von Due

I really had no idea that was a subject of research and reading .

Nuthin' so eloquent here! I was quoting ****(fourstar) GEN Norman Schwarzkopf's famous use of the term!

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf -- conqueror of the Iraqis, near-gainsayer of the president and outspoken scourge of anything he regards as "bovine scatology" -- showed yesterday he knew also when to shut up!

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Something a great many SubSim members seem to not know: If you change the User Title (that label under your User Name) to something different, the original avatar will go away, leaving only your custom avatar.

Excuse pause for related issue: if I happen to have Subsim open in two or more windows simultaneously, looking at different forums in each, what would another user see under "Current Activity" on my User Profile page?

[Schroeder]

^I would guess the last forum that you've activated. You can't do it simultaneously after all.

[Eichhörnchen]

Yeah, that makes sense I guess. By simultaneously, I meant viewing two different parts of the Subsim forum on each window, like GT's on one and Special Projects on the other. But, like you say, it's probably the most recent.

[Jimbuna]

I see them all.

[Jimbuna]

In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I see them all.

Ever the 'eye of providence' BBY!
“Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”YIPES!

[Mr Quatro]

Quaker Oats issued 19 million official looking deeds through the company. Each deed entitled the holder to one square inch of Alaska in every box.

Quaker Oats bought 19.11 acres of land in the Yukon Territory of Canada for the price of $1000 USD and printed up 21 million deeds for one square inch of land. On advice of counsel, Quaker Oats set up and transferred the land to the Great Klondike Big Inch Land Company to make the company the registered owner and manager of the deeds.

Starting on January 1955, 93 newspapers across the United States ran advertisements that read "Get a real deed to one square inch of land in the Yukon gold rush country" and, "You'll actually own one square inch of Yukon land".The promotion was tied to the Sergeant Preston of the Yukon radio show which Quaker Oats was sponsoring at the time.

Obtaining Deeds

The promotion instructed people to mail a form along with a box top from either Quaker Puffed Wheat, Quaker Puffed Rice or Muffets Shredded Wheat to the Quaker Oats company. In turn, a 5 by 8 inch deed to one square inch of land in the Klondike was sent back. In February 1955, Quaker Oats was blocked from trading the deed for a box top by the Ohio Securities Division until it received a state license for the "sale" of foreign land. To get around the injunction, the company stopped the trade-in offer and instead put one of the deeds in each box of cereal produced.

Since none of the deeds were actually registered, the documents were never legally binding and owners of these deeds were never actual owners of any land. The deed excluded mineral rights on the property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondi...Land_Promotion

[Jimbuna]

The only number whose letters are in alphabetical order is 40 (f-o-r-t-y).

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

AW JEEZE

"If you are given an infraction by a moderator, take this as a warning to back off."
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/faq....vb_faq#faq_ban

To quote Jimbuna, "If you wash your dirty laundry in public, you will be hung out to dry - in public."

[Jimbuna]

Male students at Brigham Young University need a doctor's note to grow a beard.