Post a useless fact

[midlifeaspie]

Counting in weeks is how the obstetrician does it

[Queen Victoria]

PA didn't believe in the lunar month calendar until we counted the lunar months.  He was born exactly 10 lunar months after his parents were married.

My parents were married early October, 1948, and I was born late August, 1949, almost 2 weeks overdue.  I weighed 5 lbs.    When Mom took me to some doctor when I was a child, he told her I was premature because of some feature I had.  I suspect that she lost a baby and became pregnant almost immediately.  But 60+ years later nothing can be proved one way or the other.

['andersom']

Since always.  40 weeks / 4 weeks per month = 10 (lunar) months. (One still isn't technically pregnant during those first two weeks)

['andersom']

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To bring it back to the useless facts. 

[lutra]

The Polar bear has transparent hairs and a black skin underneath its 'white' fur.

[Lestat]

And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.

[lutra]

^
Ah, bugger.. I just fancied some polar bear's liver. You know.. with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Nah.

Dunno.. what you say probably goes for the liver, of Polar bear/eating it, but doubt (a bit) it would harm someone that much when s/he would eat a part of the flesh of its, say, upper leg. (Um, properly prepared that is.. but also, of course, not promoting such a thing/we, mankind, already doomed the poor creature to go extinct, in the quite near future, as it is, I'm afraid)

[Lestat]

I meant eating the liver.

Although trichinosis might be a risk eating undercooked polar bear.

[Parts]

My father went to school with Bob Crane from Hogan's Heroes.  He didn't know him though

[bodie]

My singing voice is so bad i was asked to mime during the school christmas carol concert.

I did.

I mimed "shit"  and  "fuck"  all through O come all ye faithfull 

[Lestat]

Lol, I remember that myself. Changing the words to the nauseating, mindless fairytale garbage I was pushed to sing in school.


As if teaching kids about how good it was for some preacher man to be backstabbed, and subsequently subjected to a showtrial, made to carry the instrument of his own torture/execution to the place of execution, and thence nailed to a piece of wood and left to die is appropriate in the first place.

Maybe if they were to do it with our politicians yes, but not as a rule. Such things are, IMO, a little distasteful.


Although I suppose at least it aint catholicism, teaching the wee ones to eat human flesh, and drink the blood of martyrs

["couldbecousin"]

And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.

  Sled dogs apparently also have toxic livers.  I read about it in an account of an ill-fated polar expedition
  I will look it up later and post a link.  I can't do it right now, too busy.   

[P7PSP]

And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.

  Sled dogs apparently also have toxic livers.  I read about it in an account of an ill-fated polar expedition
  I will look it up later and post a link.  I can't do it right now, too busy.   

The Scott expedition. Scott was 

["couldbecousin"]

And enough vitamin A in its liver to poison anybody eating it.

  Sled dogs apparently also have toxic livers.  I read about it in an account of an ill-fated polar expedition
  I will look it up later and post a link.  I can't do it right now, too busy.   

The Scott expedition. Scott was 

       Here is a link about another one, specifically mentioning dogs' livers as
                     probable sources of toxicity due to high levels of Vitamin A:

 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Mertz#Legacy

["couldbecousin"]

  It's 2:32 a.m. and I am still awake.