Random possibly useful fact

[lutra]

Out of the 36 combinations one can throw with two (common/standard) dices in one go there's a 1 in 6 chance one will throw 7 (the two dices added up). Throwing 12 (or 2 for that matter) has only a 1 in 36 chance. Um, could be helpful when one plays a board game.

[Queen Victoria]

Out of the 36 combinations one can throw with two (common/standard) dices in one go there's a 1 in 6 chance one will throw 7 (the two dices added up). Throwing 12 (or 2 for that matter) has only a 1 in 36 chance. Um, could be helpful when one plays a board game.

Damn it.  I have to slow my reading speed down.  I read an "up" after "throw".  Stopped dead in my tracks and wondered how it is possible to throw up 36 different ways.   

['andersom']

Well, if one can shit all colours of the rainbow, why wouldn't throwing up not offer similar creative options?

["couldbecousin"]

Well, if one can shit all colours of the rainbow, why wouldn't throwing up not offer similar creative options?

  Here at Intensity²    we have colorful puke smilies!   

[TheoK]

Wine is a very old Latin loanword in English, which is obvious from the fact that it has the w sound, that disappeared from spoken Latin about after 500 AD by upper class speakers and probably one or two centuries before among simple folk.

[conlang returns]

Wine is a very old Latin loanword in English, which is obvious from the fact that it has the w sound, that disappeared from spoken Latin about after 500 AD by upper class speakers and probably one or two centuries before among simple folk.

I have a book about the development of Latin into Spanish, and one of the ways it dates the development of j<ʒ/dʒ was by looking at misspellings in graffiti; i would sometimes be replaced by z or s.  I don't know if there is a similar method for dating the change from w<v. 

[TheoK]

I don't know that either, but it is interesting.

Latin ovum=egg is neuter. Italian uovo=egg is masculine but has a feminine plural, uova.

[Trigger 11]

I am dumber for reading this thread.

[odeon]

Then avoid the PWA thread at all costs.

[TheoK]

Chlorates and perchlorates burn at the hottest temperature along the whole length of the flame in a ratio 83:17 with shellac. Barium chlorate often contains one molecule of crystal water, 5.5% by weight, so to get the optimal ratio you should first heat the barium chlorate carefully in an oven at 120^oC to get rid of the crystal water. Then you mix with shellac and moist it with alcohol. The composition makes the most beautiful green Bengal illumination that you have ever seen.

[sg1008]

King Leopold II of Belgium killed ten million Congolese.

[Queen Victoria]

This is what the rear end of a boar looks like.  Just in case you were wondering.



Just don't ask how I found it.  Just, please, no.

[odeon]

This is what the rear end of a boar looks like.  Just in case you were wondering.



Just don't ask how I found it.  Just, please, no.

How did you find it?

[conlang returns]

Chlorates and perchlorates burn at the hottest temperature along the whole length of the flame in a ratio 83:17 with shellac. Barium chlorate often contains one molecule of crystal water, 5.5% by weight, so to get the optimal ratio you should first heat the barium chlorate carefully in an oven at 120^oC to get rid of the crystal water. Then you mix with shellac and moist it with alcohol. The composition makes the most beautiful green Bengal illumination that you have ever seen.

That sounds awesome.

[Semicolon]

This is what the rear end of a boar looks like.  Just in case you were wondering.



Just don't ask how I found it.  Just, please, no.

How did you find it?

Perhaps QV called for semen availability.