Andrea BB's 1,000 posts commemorative thread

[Colleens_Husband]

Andrea, belated thanks and kudos for being a pillar of our community. Andrea has demonstrated her commitment to the HER2 community by making over 1,000 posts. Congratulations! And they aren't like most of my posts which go something like this:

Sturdy -----> Studly

No sir! She uses complete sentences with vowels and prepositions and everything else.

Anyways, when I think of Andrea two things come to mind. Yes, eyebrows and the name Spike. I was going to add shipwrecks but I know she isn't into that, so I will once again show my incredible restraint and not even mention it.

This thread is like the junk drawer in the kitchen where you throw almost everything when you don't know where else to put it.

If you have a truly useless fact roaming around in your head, and you have no use for it, place it here and maybe someday, someone will have a use for it.


My useless fact:

It is better to clean your emeralds in cold water rather than lukewarm water.
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Let's see what other useless facts, let's hear from you.

Big Love to Andrea,

Spike

[Colleens_Husband]

Another useless fact:


Priorities.

A hockey player first wore a jockstrap in a game in 1874.

A hockey player first wore a helmet in a game in 1974.

[Colleens_Husband]

Another useless fact.

The word 'stone' is unique in the English language in the way it is used in plural.

A single stone is a 'stone'.

Two to five are called 'stones'.

More than five are called 'stone'.

You never know when that fact could save your life, until that time arrives, it's off to the junk drawer.

[PinkGirl]

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

[Vi Schorpp]

If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.

[Colleens_Husband]

Sharks don't like magnets. That may explain why they are rarely seen around my refrigerator.
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[Colleens_Husband]

The last words of General John Sedgwick, a Union Commander during the Civil War:

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist........."

Apparently, they could.



Oscar Wilde's last words:

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

Oscar went. No word on the wallpaper.
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[PinkGirl]

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

[PinkGirl]

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

[Colleens_Husband]

On April 4th, 1964, The Beatles held the top five spots on the Billboard singles chart. That was the first and only time that happened.

A question to all of you, what were the five songs?

[harrie]

This is a funny commemorative thread for Andi. Quite the opposite of her with all her words of wisdom~!

Ok....let me think of one....

a tomato is really a fruit
(I just made that one up. Not sure if it is true, but I think it is...)

[Gerri]

In 1995 over 10 million people voted to add blue M & Ms to the mix.

[PinkGirl]

I Want to Hold Your Hand. Can't Buy Me Love. Twist and Shout. She Loves You. Please Please Me.

[PinkGirl]

You're right Harrie ... but I don't think Spike had that in mind ... Spike????

Actually, since AndiBB is a writer, this info may come in handy .... if
she ever needs some "fillers" ... which I doubt because Andi doesn't ever
run out of words ... I'm just saying ....

[PinkGirl]

There is a place in Maryland called Monkey's Eyebrow

[Bill]

AndiBB! You go, girl!!!! I've been chomping at the bit to play this game. Here goes- If you ask someone to perform a math problem unexpectedly, in their head, they always look up. (I think up and to the left). If you hit them with another problem, and tell them to look down as they do the "mental math", they can't do it. With most people, that is.

[PinkGirl]

a broken clock tells the correct time twice a day

[Colleens_Husband]

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes and yet our government still doesn't have a Donkey Regulatory Commission. What are they using all those tax dolars for?

[PinkGirl]

The Mona Lisa once had eyebrows as well as eyelashes, but due to repeated restoration projects, they are no longer visible.

[Vi Schorpp]

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top

[Vi Schorpp]

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.

[PinkGirl]

You can dye your eyebrows orange with Clearsil.

[Colleens_Husband]

If you bite wintergreen lifesavers in a dark closet, you can see sparks coming off your teeth.

[Bill]

I'm not very good at this game. I wanna play, but I feel like I don't know any useless facts. Even the useless facts that y'all (oh, that's right, I can't say "y'all" anymore because I am now a New Englander and must say, "all of you" instead as per Chrisy) post seem useful and cool to me. Hey! I know! Maybe if I just post something boring about myself it would be a useless fact. Lemme try- I like to camp and kayak in the rain because I usually have the whole place to myself. Mmmmm, I don't know....I got the boring part right. I'll be back with something....

[chrisy]

Bill, how many times do I have to tell you....it's "YOU GUYS"

But did you know, that in board sports such as skateboarding, surfing or snowboarding that GOOFY FOOTED means you like to ride with your right foot forward? If you ride with your left foot in front, you are REGULAR FOOTED...

[PinkGirl]

Red is the most commonly coloured vehicle involved in accidents each year.

[harrie]

Hmmmm...I think I am in a catagory like WB. I think the best I can do is put something boring and trivial about myself.

I don't enjoy swimming for exercise all that much because I sink.

[Sheila]

Pink
Maybe thats why red vehicles are the most common color of car "pulled over" by the cops....see, they cause all the accidents!

[PinkGirl]

Andrea Doria had a gross register tonnage of 29,100

[Colleens_Husband]

Ummmm. I'm telling. Pink Girl is being naughty. And they call me Spike.......

Did you know that S.O.S. isn't an abbreviation for 'Save Our Ship' or anything else. It was chosen as an international distress signal because it is easy to learn in Morse Code and it is easy to send in difficult circumstances.

[PinkGirl]

There are more than 3 million shipwrecks on the ocean floor

[notamrnpsn]

Lee did you not know that SOS stands for S**t on the shingle. My old seadog hubbie used to say that.

[PinkGirl]

I bet ships, just before they become ship wrecks, send out an SOS signal.

[PinkGirl]

At any one time, around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

[Rich66]

My current socks don't technically match. (top that for uselessness)

[chrisy]

I sometimes wear different earrings in each ear (on purpose). And nobody ever has said anything.

[hutchibk]

WD 40 is named simply from the scientist notes.... water displacer 40th try.

[PinkGirl]

You know Chrisy, I was thinking ......... maybe you do things that are
MORE weird than that ... so that's why no one says anything ... cause
they actually think you're having a good day?????? Eh?

[Bill]

If you are backpacking with your girl-friend in the mountains and you both bath nude in a small pool at the base of an icy waterfall, when you stick your head under the waterfall to rinse your hair off and that ice water hits the nape of your neck, you cannot take a breath, no matter how many times you try, over and over again, and when you take pictures of your girl-friend bathing in that icy pool she will steal them when she dumps you.

[StephN]

Right on, Pinkie! I know about the RED car and accidents! I had a 1980 red Honda Accord. I must have been hit 5 different times in that car. Always the other guy/gal who hit me!

I told my insurance agent (who was my DAD) that I was going to paint a bull's eye on it and then see if people would avoid me.

Dad said that white cars were least involved in accidents, so my next one was WHITE. Only had a couple small fender benders in that one. And no injuries.

[chrisy]

Ha Ha Pinkgirl,

Hmmm. I don't think I do anything all THAT weird, I mean like bathing nude in icy pools of water or anything like that...at least there is no photographic evidence of such a thing...

But did you know that if you are floating in water and are very thin, you will sink (this is probably Harriecanary's problem). If, however, you have a lot of "personal insulation", you will float!

[PinkGirl]

Chrisy, I know nothing about being thin.

[Rich66]

I hear WD41 is in phase I trials. Looks promising.

[hutchibk]

LOL Bill and Rich...

oh and: cats don't like haircuts.

[Colleens_Husband]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

And while we are on the subject of cruelty, who decided the word 'lisp' had to have an 's' in it?

[hutchibk]

I never knew it had an 's' in it, I thought it had a 'th' in it. :)

[StephN]

Did you know there is a thing called DICKIPEDIA - A Wicki for Dickheads?
People of all political and belief stripes are included for the dumb things they do/have done. I hope no one is offended by this, but I think it is a pretty good idea. Public figures need to mind their p's and q's!

[PinkGirl]

Mind your p's and q's ..... is this the trivia thread???

That means mind your pints and quarts.

[Colleens_Husband]

The 'Y' in signs reading "Ye Olde Shoppe" is properly pronounced "th". The 'th' sound doesn't exist in Latin so when the Romans occupied Britain the used the rune for 'thorn' to represent the 'th' sound. The rune closely resembled a lower case 'y'.

If you pronounce it 'Ye old', I don't think anyone would take notice.
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[Colleens_Husband]

Rich said: "I hear WD41 is in phase I trials. Looks promising."

I'm not using WD41! I won't drink 8-Up. I won't clean my refrigerator with Formula 410! What is so wrong with traditional values?

[PinkGirl]

what does rune for thorn mean????

[Colleens_Husband]

The Gaelic language didn't originally have an alphabet. They used pictographs, which were similar to hieroglyphs, to represent words. The rune or pictograph for a thorn looked like the letter 'y'.

[hutchibk]

I am an old-school girl myself, Lee, though I might drink V9, depending on what the 9th veggie is. But I will never drink my Dr. Pepper at 11, 3 and 5. No way, no how. No two muskateers bars for me, and never will I put Phillips 67 gas in my car.

BTW, the Snickers bar was named after the Mars family's favorite horse.

[Colleens_Husband]

The alleged last words of Warren G. Harding were:

"How do the bull seals control their extensive harems?"

Warren G. Harding was without a doubt the worst American president by any objective standard. He was probably poisoned to death by his wife while in office after having yet another affair brought to light. Nobody bothered to investigate his death, they were all just happy that he was gone.

Warren G. Harding allegedly had three testicles. I'm just saying......

[SoCalGal]

Hi Andi - sorry I didn't sooner salute your thousand posts with a useless fact. I hope that's the rule, I can't remember any longer. If not, I'll post again. Haha.
Useless fact:
I am going to wash my car tomorrow.
xxoo
Flow

[harrie]

Air quality where I live.
We don't have smog, we hardly have fog, but on occasion we get a lot of vog.

[Colleens_Husband]

Harrie:

Vog? What is vog? Is that volcano fog?


Yesterday at 12:34 and 56 seconds the date was 12:34:56 7/8/09. Amazing! Yet somehow useless.

[chrisy]

Spray cheese, once thought of as a vaguely neon colored cheese food kind of thing you could shoot your eye out with...now comes in cream cheese flavor. Which means that although you can still shoot your eye out, at least it won't be neon orange.

[Colleens_Husband]

Thank you Chrisy for your brilliant post! That might be the best post ever! My eyes are misting up.

[Terri B]

Michael Jacksons high-water pants with the white socks and loafer look was actually inspired by Gene Kelley whom (who?) he was a big fan of.

[hutchibk]

Iceland drinks more coca-cola per capita than any other country.

[StephN]

Before you grill anything of the fauna classification:

Meat should be blotted dry with paper towels before it meets the heat. Otherwise it's boiling, steaming and braising -- not grilling.

[harrie]

VOG is smog derived from an active volcano, sulfur dioxide gas and other pollutants. On a bad day it looks like a horribly smoggy day.

[StephN]

ANTS NEVER SLEEP!

(Now there's a kernal of wisdom! We have ants on another thread, too ...)

[Bill]

There are more boat-owners per capita in Arizona than any other state in the US. (was true a few years back, at least)

[Colleens_Husband]

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, also wrote a children's book called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

[vickie h]

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

[sassy]

Can I take about 50 pounds of mine off now?

[vickie h]

Yes! We should be able to speed this up, don't you think? Let's take 60 off and let the other 50 lbs take it's time slowly.....

[StephN]

Do you think I should be vacuuming and changing the sheets more often??

[Colleens_Husband]

If you add up the numbers one through one hundred consecutively (1+2+3+4+5......) the total is 5050.

[Colleens_Husband]

In the game of Tiddlywinks, the larger disk used to launch the 'winks' (smaller disks) into the air is called a 'squidger'.

[hutchibk]

Tiddlywinks is a great curse word, squidger is even better.

[Colleens_Husband]

Brenda:

I was thinking the same thing! By the way, you owe me a new keyboard. I was drinking tea when I read your last post.

Lee

[Andrea Barnett Budin]

Thank YOU GUYS (Spike et al) for my commemorative thingy. Wise and wordy aside, I can easily relate to the junk drawer in the kitchen where you put everything you don't know what else to do with but can't toss away. So this thread is apt. Kind of.

Why didn't anyone mention this to me? (Pinkie, I have e'd you and you me daily for yrs, so I guess I'm aghast that such an important thread was not brought to my attention. I'm just saying! I was just passing by... And was drawn here by some mysterious force.

Well, here's my contribution -- THE WONDERS OF WD 40:
... protects silver from tarnishing
...keeps flies off cows
...removes lipstick (crayons and tomato) stains
...loosens stubborn zippers
... untangles jewelry chains
... keeps scissors working smoothly
... removes bug guts from your car
... keeps bathroom mirror from fogging
... placed on body joints can relieve arthritis
... attracts fish, spray on live bait or lures
... takes the sting out of fire ant bites

The basic ingredient is FISH OIL...

And -- yesterday was my 15th cancerversary. 7/24/09 will be 1 year that I am off Vitamin H (Herceptin) after 10 yrs!!!!!!!!!!
http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/clip_art/gstres/celebrte/celeb-confetti I'm just saying. Plan on sticking around, working my way up to my 2,000th post...

[chrisy]

ABB

Do you think WD-40 might actually be the magic bullet, wonder cure????? I mean, it even has fish oil.

I'm just saying...

[juanita]

alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

[hutchibk]

Lee - send me your address, I have a store room full of reconditioned keyboards from all the times I have squidgered on them when reading the internet.

Chrisy/AndiBB - We need to ask RB about WD40, might need to rename it WD4her2dy.

[harrie]

Bill, not to question your information: There are more boat-owners per capita in Arizona than any other state in the US. (was true a few years back, at least)

but I would guess Alaska would have more boat owners per capita.

[juanita]

horses, camels and reindeer have all been used to deliver the us mail.

[juanita]

on average americans eat 18 acres of pizza each day.

[sassy]

I love pizza, but I don't think I can eat 18 acres in one day!......maybe two days.....

[Colleens_Husband]

Chimpanzees prefer cooked food. So do I. Draw your own conclusions.

[juanita]

think that's americans as a whole.

crocodiles can't stick their tongues out.

[juanita]

"happy birthday" is the most often played song in the world

[vickie h]

Only female mosquitoes bite people, and female humans get bitten by mosquitoes more than men do because they are attracted to estrogen.

[Rich66]

When drawing your own conclusions, always use a pencil.

[juanita]

a skunk can't spray if his feet are off the ground.
(i'm not testing this)

[juanita]

in indiana it's illegal to ride public transportation for 30 minutes after eating garlic.

[Colleens_Husband]

Turtles can breath through their butts. Further comment was suspended due to the good taste police.

[juanita]

a lead pencil is good for about 50,000 words

[juanita]

right handed people live on average 9 years longer than left handed people do

[StephN]

GLAMPING is the new camping.
Luxury/glam-orous camping. I just heard about it from one of our local wineries offering this activity. Anyone want to go?

Equipped with all the comforts of home, each tent includes a queen-size bed, electricity, hot and cold running water, air conditioning, a large wood deck and individual barbecues. Guests can enjoy a beautiful view of the vineyard and Columbia River along with a peaceful place to sleep. In addition to wine tasting and vineyard tours, glampers can also participate in a range of activities including fishing, bike riding, horseback riding, kayaking, hiking and wildlife watching.

[Bill]

(Steph, I always thought I was "glamping" by trading in my back-pack for a canoe. Little did I know....)

[sassy]

I'm still working on that 18 acres of pizza.

Didn't make it in two days either.

Just got thru the front nine.