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| Author: | Kevin DuBrow [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:04 am ] |
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sb_enail.com wrote: In Kentucky, it is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow.
The sad thing is that is true. It is illegal to fish in Kentucky with a bow and arrow. It's also illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:14 am ] |
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Kevin DuBrow wrote: sb_enail.com wrote: In Kentucky, it is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow. The sad thing is that is true. It is illegal to fish in Kentucky with a bow and arrow. It's also illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket. Actually, it IS legal. http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us/pdf/fishboat05.pdf?lid=1102&NavPath=C101C203 Page 14. Right in the middle of the page. *revokes Kevin's redneck status* YOINK! 
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| Author: | sb_enail.com [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:42 am ] |
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StrongRad wrote: Actually, it IS legal.
http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us/pdf/fishboat05.pdf?lid=1102&NavPath=C101C203 Page 14. Right in the middle of the page. *revokes Kevin's redneck status* YOINK! BAH! Linking to a PDF? Isn't that kinda like pushing someone into a minefield? 
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:07 am ] |
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how so? |
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| Author: | sb_enail.com [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:16 am ] |
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StrongRad wrote: how so?
I dunno, I've always considered PDFs the land mines of the internet, 'cause by the time you've stepped on one, it's already too late, and they take forever to download. |
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| Author: | Ju Ju Master [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:23 am ] |
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sb_enail.com wrote: StrongRad wrote: how so? I dunno, I've always considered PDFs the land mines of the internet, 'cause by the time you've stepped on one, it's already too late, and they take forever to download. Well put. I have this online textbook thing, and all of the images are PDFs. When i try to close them, it locks up and takes so long to unlock. |
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| Author: | ed 'lim' smilde [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:26 am ] |
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sb_enail.com wrote: StrongRad wrote: how so? I dunno, I've always considered PDFs the land mines of the internet, 'cause by the time you've stepped on one, it's already too late, and they take forever to download. Part of that is due to it loading so many unneccessary extensions. Maybe this link will help. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:44 am ] |
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Ok, for the PDF-a-phobics out there... The people that wrote the 2006 Kentucky Sport Fishing Guide wrote: BOW FISHING (301 KAR 1:090) Rough fish may be taken year-round by bow and arrow with line attached, but paddlefish may not be taken at night. Sport fish may not be taken with a bow and arrow. Catfish have a daily limit of 5 (paddlefish are not catfish.) No bow and arrow may be used within 700 yards below Kentucky Dam or within 200 yards of any other dam in the state. Bow fishing is prohibited on the list of streams in the “Kentucky Trout Waters” section of this guide. Bow fishing is also prohibited on the three rivers listed under the “Gigging and Snagging” section of this guide. Persons using a bow and arrow for fishing must have the appropriate fishing license and may take rough fish from bank or boat. There is no limit on other rough fish.
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| Author: | ramrod [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:38 am ] |
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What had to happen to cause a law like that in Kentucky? I mean...weird. |
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| Author: | Jello B. [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:03 am ] |
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The Abominable Redhead wrote: -When you sneeze, your heart stops for a split second.
This has been proven wrong. |
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| Author: | sb_enail.com [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:40 am ] |
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Jello B. wrote: The Abominable Redhead wrote: -When you sneeze, your heart stops for a split second. This has been proven wrong. Thank you for destroying the last beautiful delusion of my childhood... 
*runs off crying* *runs back* Snakes don't have eyelids! *runs off again* |
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| Author: | Alberto [ Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:18 am ] |
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This is sorta related, I could not find a better place to put it, http://www.youtube.com/w/Experiments-in-the-Revival-of-Organisms-%281940%29?v=jwSK9Srh_ao&search=ussr%20animation Intriguing, but creepy. |
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| Author: | The Zephyr Song [ Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:18 am ] |
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- In California, it is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale. - In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e’s), Indivisibility (six i’s), and nonannouncement (six n’s). - Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter e. - If Barbie (the doll) were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would also be around seven feet tall. - There are more than a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half of those caused cancer in rats. - Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed by using products made for right handed people. |
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| Author: | Dark Grapefruit [ Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:05 pm ] |
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Acekirby wrote: The Noid wrote: It is physically impossibble to lick the tip of our elbow. That's...all.... Ah! I have a response fact to that. Upon reading the above fact, 70% of people will attempt to lick their elbow. Aha! I have a response to that! Susan can lick his elbow and will do so anytime someone mentions this "fact" to him. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:13 pm ] |
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The Zephyr Song wrote: - In California, it is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale. That's because most whaling is done from a boat, which is, in fact, a moving vehicle. Of course, whaling is illegal now. I think.The Zephyr Song wrote: - If Barbie (the doll) were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would also be around seven feet tall. Lech!The Zephyr Song wrote: - Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed by using products made for right handed people.
It's the right handed man's way of keeping us lefties down. |
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| Author: | Hi Guys [ Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:18 pm ] |
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Only female mosquitos suck blood. It's for teh eggs. |
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| Author: | sb_enail.com [ Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:12 am ] |
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Twinkies orginally contained banana filling, but due to a banana shortage during WWII, it was replaced with vanilla cream. Isn't that awesome? |
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| Author: | Helmut [ Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:35 am ] |
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Forest Park, here in St. Louis, is bigger than NYC's Central Park. And Forest Park is more bee-ooo-tee-full. And we have streams. Unless NYCC does too. In which case I missed that part of it. Oh well. |
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| Author: | The Zephyr Song [ Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:58 pm ] |
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- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. - The shortest war in history was fought by Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. - Shakespeare invented the words "assasination", "bump", and "eyeball." - The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. - If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, continuously, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Not really worth it, is it? - Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. - The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. - The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's like a human jumping the length of a football field. - The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates the mating process by ripping the male's head off. Kind of a sour deal, huh? And I've seen at least two postings of the "coke was originally green" fact and only one rebuttal. The fact is that if there was no caramel coloring in it, Coca-Cola would be green. It was never 'originally' green - it's brown because when it was first produced, the dark color hid anything that happened to fall into the batch while it was being made - from rocks and bits of ceiling to large insects. |
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| Author: | PianoManGidley [ Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:01 am ] |
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The Zephyr Song wrote: There are more than a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half of those caused cancer in rats.
Those cancer tests are unfair. Remember the big scare back in the mid 90s when people said that the red dye in red M&Ms caused cancer when tested on rats? Well, it turns out that the amount of that red dye they were injecting the rats with was so great that a person would have to eat 1,000 red M&Ms a day, every day, for over 100 years to get the same effect. That person would have died of much more than red dye cancer before then. So, yeah--I don't trust these sorts of "facts," because they're all misleading and don't give you all the information. Oh, and 72% of all statistics are made up. |
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| Author: | Teh Ch8t [ Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:48 am ] |
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The Abominable Redhead wrote: Acekirby wrote: The Noid wrote: It is physically impossibble to lick the tip of our elbow. That's...all.... Ah! I have a response fact to that. Upon reading the above fact, 70% of people will attempt to lick their elbow. I thought it was 73%. But whatever. Ace knows best.  Not true, I've seen my friend lick his elbow, it's disproved... again!
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| Author: | Teh Ch8t [ Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:53 am ] |
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One fact, Dogs die facing east, or they try to face east when they die Two Fact? It's illegal to meet an alien with out a police officer with you in Pennsylvania I think it was... maybe some other state Fact three: It was once illegal to have a dog as a pet in iceland Fact Four: Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark |
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| Author: | SwissCakeRolls [ Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:30 am ] |
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Uh. They Might Be Giants were the first band to realease a full length internet-only album. Long Tall Weekend. In 1998. They were also the first indie group to have a music video get into the regular rotation on MTV with Don't Let's Start. You are more likely to die falling out of bed than by being hit by lightening. The person who has been hit by lightening the most times and survived was some park ranger,. Seven times. But then I htink he got hit again and died. Not sure. The biggest snowflake was bigger than a frying pan. Um. Ronald Reagan... liked... jellybeans? Ok. Not really a good one. Um. Someone made a picture of him out of jellybeans. like a big one. And gave it to him. Ok. I'm done. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:08 pm ] |
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Here's one I learned yesterday... The space shuttle doesn't actually leave the earth's atmosphere. It does, in the sense of the atmosphere as it concerns me, but there is still an atmospheric pressure (a VERY small one) on the outside of the ship. It's well below anything that could even be considered a "thin" atmosphere, but yea. There is still an atmosphere. When you define atmosphere as a density greater than the density of "outer space" the earth's atmosphere extends to something like 100,000 km.. The shuttle, at it's highest point (when it docks with ISS) is about 350 km. 350 km <<100,00km |
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| Author: | Acekirby [ Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:34 pm ] |
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Dark Grapefruit wrote: Acekirby wrote: The Noid wrote: It is physically impossibble to lick the tip of our elbow. Ah! I have a response fact to that.That's...all.... Upon reading the above fact, 70% of people will attempt to lick their elbow. Susan can lick his elbow and will do so anytime someone mentions this "fact" to him. Yeah, I've seen it done too. The Abominable Redhead wrote: I thought it was 73%. But whatever. Ace knows best.
I do! Yeah, I think it was 73% or some odd number. I rounded.
And now...more factoids! -35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually . -An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. -Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand. -Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them. -The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high. -The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas. -The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items. -Apples are 25% air. I love that last one. 
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| Author: | Jitka [ Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:11 pm ] |
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The passenger pigeon was once the most common bird in the world, but was hunted to extinction by 1896. The last one was shot by a 14 year old boy in Ohio. |
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| Author: | Ju Ju Master [ Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:20 pm ] |
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It's illegal to whale in Utah. In UTAH. |
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| Author: | InterruptorJones [ Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:23 pm ] |
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JohnTheTinyCowboy wrote: The last one was shot by a 14 year old boy in Ohio.
No, the last one died in the Cincinnati Zoo 14 years later. It was the last wild one that the boy shot. |
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| Author: | sb_enail.com [ Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:20 pm ] |
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The Zephyr Song wrote: - The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates the mating process by ripping the male's head off. Kind of a sour deal, huh?
REBUTTAL'D! According to this source, male praying mantes (that's the correct plural form) can copulate with their heads intact. In the wild, sexual cannibalism is fairly rare, and even in captivity, it only occurs 10-30% of the time. J.R.R. Tolkien originally wanted his epic masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings" to be published as a single, massive volume with 6 parts. However, the original publisher, Allen and Unwin, devided the book into three parts to keep costs down. The release of each book was delayed due to the inclusion of maps, indices, and in the case of the Return of the King, appendices. Tolkien dislike the title of the last book because he felt it gave away too much of the story. He proposed "The War of the Ring" as an alternate title, but the publisher refused to change it. |
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| Author: | iamtheparty [ Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:38 am ] |
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The yellow Power Ranger, Trini, was born a man. True story but no-one ever believes me. He/she also died a few years ago sadly. |
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