Andrea BB's 1,000 posts commemorative thread
 

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

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.

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.

Totally useless!
 

Sharks don't like magnets. That may explain why they are rarely seen around my refrigerator.
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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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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

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?

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...)

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

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.

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?

Raisin in Champagne
 

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

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

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....

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...

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.

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

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.

Sos
 

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

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

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

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

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.

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.