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genderdysmorphia wrote:

PonyoPenguin wrote:

On November 22, 1987, a mysterious man wearing a Max Headroom mask hacked into WGN-TV for 30 seconds before technicians could get him off. There was no audio and all that was seen was the man shaking back and forth, possibly laughing.

WTTW-TV (Chicago's PBS) was later hacked that night during an episode of Doctor Who, in which the man sang theme song tunes, showed his...rear end, and made bizarre comments for a minute and a half before he himself cut off his own signal.

The man has never been caught to this day. The video of both incidents is on YouTube, however there is some language and a guy's...rear end for a couple seconds.

it's okay you can say butt

werdna123 wrote:

did you know:

eskimos don't actually have hundreds of words for snow, they just connect words like german. for example yellowsnow isn't really another word for snow, it's all just a myth.

i heard that the hundreds words for snow was an exaggeration; but they do have more than us. it's like we have words for different types of rain like spitting, thunderstorm, pouring

soupoftomato wrote:

Sellout wrote:

Trying to colonise a whole other planet when we've still got better things to do on this one is silly to me. I doubt humans will ever need to practically live on Mars and it just seems like something that'll end up being a stupid novelty luxury

This just feels like such a
narrow worldview to me

What's wrong with progress for the sake of progress?

right now? we're in the biggest recession since the great depression
we have more things to do than to waste our time trying to get to mars

(We are talking about America, right?)
I'd like to counter-argue that (word?)

If we were in the biggest recession since the Great Depression, we'd have a lot more starving and people in complete poverty. I'm pretty sure that's not the case, and the Stock Markets aren't as abysmal as they were in 1929.

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genderdysmorphia wrote:

(talking worldwide)
im not saying we are as bad as the great depression
im saying this is the worst after (at least, that's the simplest word i can contribute as meaning since) the great depression

Ok, I see.

George Washington was the only president to be elected by a unanimous vote.

jji7skyline wrote:

So the opposing guy didn't even vote for himself? 

Um, I don't think there was an opposing guy. He was the first person to be established as a president, after fighting against the British.

...

What has Social Studies class done to me?

so is octopi and octopodes

Did you know:

The word, "gullible" originates from a latin (or possible greek - i forget) word, "gullaus" which refers to a metal often mistaken for silver. This came to mean what it does now because people would be gullible to believe the metal was actual silver. At least that's what they thought. Shakespeare coined the expression "gullible" first, but he made a mistake, the metal gullaus was actually a brownish metal, not the one mistaken for silver. The actual one mistaken for silver was then called "estuposum".
So really gullible doesn't mean anything in a sense.

werdna123 wrote:

Did you know:

The word, "gullible" originates from a latin (or possible greek - i forget) word, "gullaus" which refers to a metal often mistaken for silver. This came to mean what it does now because people would be gullible to believe the metal was actual silver. At least that's what they thought. Shakespeare coined the expression "gullible" first, but he made a mistake, the metal gullaus was actually a brownish metal, not the one mistaken for silver. The actual one mistaken for silver was then called "estuposum".
So really gullible doesn't mean anything in a sense.

words

werdna123 wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

werdna123 wrote:

Did you know:

The word, "gullible" originates from a latin (or possible greek - i forget) word, "gullaus" which refers to a metal often mistaken for silver. This came to mean what it does now because people would be gullible to believe the metal was actual silver. At least that's what they thought. Shakespeare coined the expression "gullible" first, but he made a mistake, the metal gullaus was actually a brownish metal, not the one mistaken for silver. The actual one mistaken for silver was then called "estuposum".
So really gullible doesn't mean anything in a sense.

you're funny

omg wot?

U CAN'T HANDEL THE TRUHT

It's sad, some people can't.

Every U.S. President with a beard has been a Republican Abe Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, and Benjamin Harrison. I got that from Leland Gregory's book, Stupid American History

Harry S. Truman's middle name was the letter S. I got that from some magazine.

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Sellout wrote:

7734f wrote:

Harry S. Truman's middle name was the letter S. I got that from some magazine.

That isn't a terribly uncommon thing I guess, I've a friend whose middle name is just Q. I don't think his parents meant it to symbolise or stand for anything, it's just a Q

And then there are people who have four middle names....

The word "Kangaroo" means "I don't know."

7734f wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

genderdysmorphia wrote:

right now? we're in the biggest recession since the great depression
we have more things to do than to waste our time trying to get to mars

Dang forgot about the economic situation being the only thing of interest in the world.

THANK you someone who UNDERSTANDS!

Hehe, I sorta overreacted.

you clearly don't understand, nor does soup

genderdysmorphia wrote:

werdna123 wrote:

Did you know:

The word, "gullible" originates from a latin (or possible greek - i forget) word, "gullaus" which refers to a metal often mistaken for silver. This came to mean what it does now because people would be gullible to believe the metal was actual silver. At least that's what they thought. Shakespeare coined the expression "gullible" first, but he made a mistake, the metal gullaus was actually a brownish metal, not the one mistaken for silver. The actual one mistaken for silver was then called "estuposum".
So really gullible doesn't mean anything in a sense.

words

this is something I would say

mythbusteranimator wrote:

Finding Nemo is about finding no name

Nemo is a very "under the sea" name though 

soupoftomato wrote:

genderdysmorphia wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

This just feels like such a
narrow worldview to me

What's wrong with progress for the sake of progress?

right now? we're in the biggest recession since the great depression
we have more things to do than to waste our time trying to get to mars

Dang forgot about the economic situation being the only thing of interest in the world.

wow
that's not what i said at all

werdna123 wrote:

calebxy wrote:

Water isn't colourless. It's ever so slightly blue.

i haven't researched it, but I thought it's because the sky reflects onto the sea.

That's what most people assume, but it is actually blue (at least, according to my QI book of General Ignorance), just really really really slightly.