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[El]

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th.

The title says it all. Okay, let me start:

Did you know that you can save up to 15 gallons of water each day if you simply piss in the sink? I'll be back with more household tips soon!

I can't begin to describe how glad I am that you've pegged that fact as "useless."

[El]

dolphins have sprung loaded penii.

And dolphins are too nice to other bipedial animals for their own good. Hence why they're a delicacy in some eastern Asian regions.

Oh yeah...



Ecco -- a Sega video game where you play the role of a dolphin who makes any violent sea-creature's body to explode with its high-pitched wails.

I really need to play that game to at least partial completion.

[The_P]

i can do that, in real life, so if you're going to be horrible to dolphins, prepare to be exploded.

besides which, you numpty - since when are dolphins bipedal? 

But I didn't say fellow, my good fellow!

[DirtDawg]

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th.

The title says it all. Okay, let me start:

Did you know that you can save up to 15 gallons of water each day if you simply piss in the sink? I'll be back with more household tips soon!

I can't begin to describe how glad I am that you've pegged that fact as "useless."

I+You

[ozymandias]

I have the biggest volcano books, pictures, magazines and related earth science collection in Maine.

[Lucifer]

how do you know?

[Zelda]

Jeremiah Checkik , director of B&J wanted the movie to take place in the Pacific Northwest. He picked Spokane because it has trains going through there all the time. Lots of them.

[ozymandias]

how do you know?

I asked a state geologist and a lady who's a vulcanologist in Alaska who's from the town I live in.  (and visits periodically)

[DirtDawg]

I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

[Lucifer]

I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   

[The_P]

I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   

Even the ones that want to kill you?

[Lucifer]

I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   

Even the ones that want to kill you?

especially those.  best to keep on their good side, i find.

[Zelda]

During the filming of B&J, Ferguson's Cafe was closed for two weeks because they were filming several scenes there and they closed off the whole street and had traffic go the other way. Explains why you don't see any cars driving by or people walking by except for one person.

[DirtDawg]

I have discovered the hornet's nest responsible for stealing most of my spiders. This is war.

yay!  go DD!  i love spiders.   

There will be a few more argiopes grow to breeding age in my garden after today.


It was the relatively small kind of hornets (one inch long) which burrow into the ground to make nests, carry their captured, paralyzed prey into the burrow and lay their eggs on them so the maggots can feed (on MY spiders!!), as they grow. I had to dig about a foot and a half deep to find the center (and I only got stung once), but I got them all ... well, all the larvae and tending workers, anyway, and I put my beloved spiders out of their respective miseries. No poisons, either! Manual extermination, with a little help from the curious robins. I waited too long, though, since we were already overrun by night pests when I noticed the absence of spiders.

[duncvis]

Yay for people who know their holistic pest control.

My useless fact: Yorkshire Water's accounts department is as much use as a chocolate teapot.