Did you know?

[Nedhasabigego]

that i like random facts.




the only word in the english language that has two consecutive u's is vacuum.

[boogie down mikel]

facetious is the shortest word in the english language with all 5 vowels in order

[Gatorgod]

Did you know that Benjamin Franklin is the only founding father to sign all four documents that helped create the United States?

The Treaty of Alliance with France
The Treaty with Great Britain
The Bill of Rights
The Constitution

[mr. broom]

the only word in the english language that has two consecutive u's is vacuum.
Continuum. You fail.

Who else wants some? Roll up, roll up.

[billi vanilli]

mr. broom is the king of a small country in africa.

http://lindsayism.com/uploaded_images/The_More_You_Know_4-749146.jpg

[Curtis]

They made a comic book of me called Bouncing Boy in the 1960's as illustrated in the above sig.

[Nedhasabigego]

i also liked being proved wrong.

elvis presley and his mom both died at the age of 42.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

Did you know? Every intentional attempt at humor ever made by Curtis has failed miserably?

Continuum.
and individuum

[pat]

http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_simpf_10.jpg

[kuumuus]

Paul Newman's half Jewish, Goldie Hawn's half too
Put them together, what a fine lookin' Jew

[Spartan]

the only identical flags of soverign states are the flags of Monaco and Indonesia

red
white
2:3

[boogie down mikel]

They made a comic book of me called Bouncing Boy in the 1960's as illustrated in the above sig.

must not have bounced very high then did ya?

[kupomog]

that i like random facts.




the only word in the english language that has two consecutive u's is vacuum.

Asshole. Where the fuck have you been? WHERE??

:(

[Run CMB]

No soccer player has ever won FIFA's Player of the Year Award while with an English Club.

[Edit]: I'd like to add that it's medically proven that if one were to have a 12 inch or longer penis, he could not manage an erection because he would pass out.

[Gabbo]

the only word to contain three consecutive double letter's is bookkeeper

[Talking Pie]

The human head weighs 8 pounds.
Bees and dogs smell fear.
My next door neighbor has 3 rabbits.

[Green_Peaness]

Nothing rhymes with month

[Gabbo]

or gagne

[boltonwanderer63]

a survey showed that 12% of americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife

[SideshowTim]

Nothing rhymes with month
or orange.

unless you are the flaming lips in which case 'store' does.

[George]

WRONG. doorhinge rhymes with orange. you lose.

[SideshowTim]

WRONG. doorhinge rhymes with orange. you lose.
technically no. doorhinge isn't a word. it's door hinge.

[George]

if you wanna get all technical on my ass, you might as well do it right. the guy said "Nothing rhymes with month", you implied that "[Nothing rhymes with] orange". I said, something DOES rhyme with orange, and that something is "doorhinge/door-hinge/door hinge". Nowhere in that conversation did the fact that the something which rhymes with it must be a proper word.

zing.

[SideshowTim]

if you wanna get all technical on my ass, you might as well do it right. the guy said "Nothing rhymes with month", you implied that "[Nothing rhymes with] orange". I said, something DOES rhyme with orange, and that something is "doorhinge/door-hinge/door hinge". Nowhere in that conversation did the fact that the something which rhymes with it must be a proper word.

zing.
okay. no word rhymes with orange. doorhinge is not a word.

[Kuje]

http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.benham/aber/blorenge.htm

[George]

you're right about it being a word, i'm right because...i forget.

another interesting fact, a donkey can see all its 4 legs at any time.

[Greased Scotsman]

'Uncopyrightable' is one of two equal-length words that are the longest words in the English language not to repeat any letter.

The shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels is Sequoia.

The number forty is the only number in the English language that has all its letters in alphabetical order.

Five thousand is the only number in the English language to contain one of each vowel.

There DOES exist a word which rhymes with silver - chilver, which means a ewe-lamb.

The longest word in the English language is a component of DNA that has a name over 1900 letters long.

The author Barbara Cartland invented the aeroplane-towed glider and was buried under a tree that had been planted by Queen Elizabeth I.

There are two words which rhyme with purple in the English language - hurple, which means to limp, and curple, which is a part of a horse's bridle.





QI, you are a godsend.

[Talking Pie]

Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas.
Albert Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein.
David Bowie's real name is Davy Jones.

[Kuje]

QI, you are a godsend.

:) right on.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

if you wanna get all technical on my ass, you might as well do it right. the guy said "Nothing rhymes with month", you implied that "[Nothing rhymes with] orange". I said, something DOES rhyme with orange, and that something is "doorhinge/door-hinge/door hinge". Nowhere in that conversation did the fact that the something which rhymes with it must be a proper word.
that's REALLY dumb, even for you, because i could say "valonth" rhymes with month. it's a moot point entirely. plus, it's at least PARTIALLY relative to pronunciation, since i know a number of people (roommate included) who pronounce orange as "orAnge" rather than "orINGE", which is perfectly suitable as a regional term.
Five thousand is the only number in the English language to contain one of each vowel.

five thousand one, five thousand two, five thousand three...

[pat]

five thousand one, five thousand two, five thousand three...
...eight thousand, nine thousand...

[box elder]

i think he meant ONLY one of each vowel. but 8000 and 9000 still work for that.

[H Thompson]

QI, you are a godsend.

Yep, I'd like to add that the Earth has 5 (I think) moons. Not 2 as was stated in series 1.

[bluemoose]

nymphfly is the longest word in the english language that uses y as its only vowel.

[Nedhasabigego]

the white house has 32 bathrooms

[SSBOB]

More Monopoly money is printed per year than real money.

KACHING

... that was tacky

[George]

the white house has 32 bathrooms
fancy ass motherfuckers.

[Semaj]

God spells dog backwards. (duh)

Also, orange (pronounced as "oh-range") rhymes with arrange. :p

Five thousand is the only number in the English language to contain one of each vowel.

Five thousand twenty.

Why does everybody hate 'Y'? :(

[Willmak5389]

The center of a super massive black hole is the size of a spec of dust. But, that spec of dust weighs 3 million times more than our sun. There was also an expired super nova that weighed one billion pounds per teaspoon.

We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean.

There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.

You have enough micro-organisms in your mouth to equal a cockroach.

Grenoble, France- A man has been eating 2 pounds of metal and glass a day. Some of the things include: A Cassna airplane, a computer, a TV, a bike, and a coffin.

Austrailia- A man was diagnosed with lead poisoning after he ate three feet of electrical cable a day. He said, "It had a sweet and pleasant taste, especially near the center."

A sneeze leaves your mouth a 100 miles per hour.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. And the first one was built partly by a prison inmate. He later died in it for murder.

Tennessee used to be called Franklin.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

If ribbon worms can't find any food, they will eat themselves.

The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

"Pants" used to be considered a bad word in England.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Reindeer enjoy eating bananas.

The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.

A blue whales tounge weighs more than an elephant.

Di Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona Lisa's lips.

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Ted Turner owns 5 percent of New Mexico.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the Key of "F".

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

Toto was paid $125 a week during the filming of the Wizard of Oz.

The Sears Tower in Chicago has its own zip code.

People can come up with statistics to prove anything, Forty percent of all people know that.

[StrideR]

Jack Bauer's calendar goes from March 31 to April 2. No one fools Jack Bauer.

[Dr Zaius]

An adult male gorilla can bench press roughly 4,000lbs.

Sly Stallone originally wanted his friend Jackie Chan for the Wesley Snipes role in Demolition Man :LOL:

Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males. Pity about the driving.

There is a hill in Norway (at least I think it was Norway, I was too amazed by this to remember) where if you park your car it will roll upwards.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

Why does everybody hate 'Y'? :(
even though it is in the case YOU posted it in, it isn't always, which is why it gets neglected.

Females learn to talk earlier
and then never shut up :rimshot: Pity about the driving.
young females get better insurance rates because they are BETTER drivers. you're not funny.

[Dr Zaius]

Do you like follow me around or something?

[Mr. Sparkle]

the only state with one syllable is Maine

The temperature where Celcius and Farenheit are the same is -40 degrees

Stewardesses is the longest english word you can spell only using your left hand in conventional typing

Hitler often had women shit on him during intercourse
edit-i meant to say in sexual activities. no idea why i said intercourse.

Nebuchadnezzar is the largest type of champagne bottle

The only word with three dotted letters in a row is hijinks, and other forms of that word

[My Little Needle]

correction: the only two words that contain every vowel in alphabetical order are facetious and abstemious (abstemiously if you're a douche who likes the letter y)

[Dead Nigga Storage]

Did you know: The word "unsinkable" was never actually used in any contemporary advertisements for the Titanic?
Hitler often had women shit on him during intercoursehow the hell could something like that POSSIBLY be substantiated?

[kupomog]

There is a hill in Norway (at least I think it was Norway, I was too amazed by this to remember) where if you park your car it will roll upwards.

I've heard of gravity hills like that all over the world. We even have one here. It's an optical illusion caused by the landscape.

[Ignignot]

race car is a palendrome

[Willmak5389]

Thanks, so is noon
And the following:
http://www.palindromelist.com/longest.htm

[Dead Nigga Storage]

thanks, so is: http://www.norvig.com/pal2txt.html

both of you shut up

[Malachy]

The digits of a product of nine and any real number will always add up to nine.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

thank you, third grade math teacher.

[Spartan]

Tennessee used to be called Franklin.

No it didn't.

Five North Carolina counties that are now in extreme NW Tennessee once formed their own nation for four years, despite never officially being admitted by the Union.

it collapsed, became part of the southwest territory and was formed as part of tennessee (5 of 95 counties) in 1796

[mr. broom]

The digits of a product of nine and any real number will always add up to nine.
No, the product of nine and any real number will always add up to a multiple of nine.

453*9 = 4077, 4+0+7+7 = 18 = 9*2

65.2*9=586.8, 5+8+6+8 = 27 = 9*3

[Malachy]

, which will then add up to nine.

[box elder]

968596854715489685789689*9 = 8717371692439407172107201
8+7+[1]+7+3+7+[1]+6+9+2+4+3+9+4+7+[1]+7+2+[1]+7+2+[1]=99
99 is divisible by 9 but:
9+9 do not = 9.


(when i originally posted this, there were a bunch of jackass/horse/whatever smilies inserted)

+1

[Spartan]

plusone. you can thank me

[mr. broom]

, which will then add up to nine.
That still makes you wrong. You're saying that any real number times nine equals a number whose digits add up to nine. This isn't true. Any real number times nine equals a number whose digits add up to a multiple of nine, whose digits may add up to nine. In a significantly long number, the digits may add up to a number whose digits will add up to nine, but that isn't what you said. It is a neat bit of recursion, though--in ridiculously long numbers, it could just keep repeating.

[Homer Jay]

Did you know that Tony Orlando hails from Greece?

[Willmak5389]

That still makes you wrong. You're saying that any real number times nine equals a number whose digits add up to nine. This isn't true. Any real number times nine equals a number whose digits add up to a multiple of nine, whose digits may add up to nine. In a significantly long number, the digits may add up to a number whose digits will add up to nine, but that isn't what you said. It is a neat bit of recursion, though--in ridiculously long numbers, it could just keep repeating.
What he is trying to say is that the digits of 9 multiplied by a counting number (1,2,3,4,5...) will add up to a number divisible by nine, when you add those digits together that will be divisible by nine, etc. etc. until a one digit number is summed up. At this point, the number will always be nine.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

we know what he was TRYING to say, they're telling him what he DID say was wrong.

[Willmak5389]

Whatever!
Back to the thread:
THE PARACHUTE WAS INVENTED BY DI VINCI IN 1515
THAT WAS THE BEST ICE CREAM SODA I EVER TASTED....DYING WORDS OF LOU COSTELLO..MARCH 3, 1959
EULE GIBBONS DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES
IF YOU DRINK A GLASS OF JUICE EVERY MORNING FOR 36,500 DAYS YOU'LL LIVE TO BE 100 YEARS OLD
THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD...THOSE WHO CAN COUNT, AND THOSE WHO CAN'T
THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD...THOSE WHO CAN COUNT, AND THOSE WHO CAN'T
A FINE IS A TAX FOR DOING WRONG...A TAX IS A FINE FOR DOING RIGHT
THE HOKEY POKEY REALLY IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

[Dead Nigga Storage]

A FINE IS A TAX FOR DOING WRONG...A TAX IS A FINE FOR DOING RIGHT
you really are pathetic.

and it's nice to see that you can read bumper stickers.

[gravymaster]

Whatever!
Back to the thread:
THE PARACHUTE WAS INVENTED BY DI VINCI IN 1515
THAT WAS THE BEST ICE CREAM SODA I EVER TASTED....DYING WORDS OF LOU COSTELLO..MARCH 3, 1959
EULE GIBBONS DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES
IF YOU DRINK A GLASS OF JUICE EVERY MORNING FOR 36,500 DAYS YOU'LL LIVE TO BE 100 YEARS OLD
THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD...THOSE WHO CAN COUNT, AND THOSE WHO CAN'T
THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD...THOSE WHO CAN COUNT, AND THOSE WHO CAN'T
A FINE IS A TAX FOR DOING WRONG...A TAX IS A FINE FOR DOING RIGHT
THE HOKEY POKEY REALLY IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT
Please don't post in caps like this. If you are copy and pasting from another site, fine, but convert it over to normal text.

[StrideR]

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

[billi vanilli]

believe me, he knows that. be quiet.

edit: oh. hahahaha, i thought i was posting on the bottom of page 2.

[brody]

Strenghs is the longest word with only one vowel.

[box elder]

fun fact:

Strenghs is not a word.

[Curtis]

Pearl Jam was originally going to be called Mookie Blaylock after the NBA player but due to the threat of them being sued changed it to Pearl Jam. There debut album ten is called that in honor to Mookie whos jersey number is 10.

Stone Temple Pilots was originally called Shirley Temples Pussy but changed there name due to pressure from there record label.

[Spartan]

and the STP part about richard petty's longtime sponsor of his 43 dodge

[Curtis]

huh?

[box elder]

hey Curtis, check out this site:

http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm

[Dead Nigga Storage]

how can you NOT get fucking english by now? you've been speaking it for 18 years... (select the right/write answer!) their/they're/there isn't an excuse.

as for the "did you know" part...speaking of STP, did you know that scott weiland sucks dick? yeah, he does.


Stone Temple Pilots was originally called Shirley Temples Pussy but changed there name due to pressure from there record label.no, they were originally called "Mighty Joe Young".

[bluemoose]

http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm

I got 100%! :)

[spiritofstlouis]

The Western Lowland Gorilla's official name is gorilla gorilla gorilla

There are more arab christians than arab muslims in the US

[Semaj]

The Manx is the only domestic cat without a tail.

The Bassett Hound is the only domestic dog that can't bark.

[mr. broom]

The Bassett Hound is the only domestic dog that can't bark.
Who e-mailed you this winner? You are so stupid it actually pisses me off, and that never happens to me.

And that is not a rhetorical question. You will tell me where you found this information.

[SideshowTim]

About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.

[billi vanilli]

NOT FOR LONG, MOTHERFUCKER!

[Semaj]

You will tell me where you found this information.

I was misinformed, okay? Good God!

The barkless dog is the basenji (http://www.voyuz.net/basenji-faq.html#barkless).

[skittlebrau]

Strike two. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bobtail)

[Simpsons Forever!]

A bolt of lighning strikes at 1,000 miles a second and is 5.5 times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

[mr. broom]

Strike two. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bobtail)
To be fair, he said "without a tail," which the bobtail still has, though not very much.

It's weird to see a Manx walk. They waddle because their balance is so different.

[Adamm R)))]

Here's a fun fact about the NHC's favourite band: Foo Fighters (courtesy of Never Mind the Buzzcocks)

Their backstage demands are that all pictures of nude people on the premesis are covered up, four pairs of tube socks and boxers are there for them and that they will only share a room with Supergrass, Oasis or Led Zepplin.

*Predicting next post*
Here's a fun fact about Foo Fighters: they suck (or something along those lines).

[Simpsons Forever!]

If Queen Elizabeth II survives to her 82nd birthday, she will become the oldest ever British monarch. Incidentally, on Friday, she will become only the third British monarch to reach their 80's, the others being George III and Victoria.

[Greased Scotsman]

If Queen Elizabeth II survives to her 82nd birthday, she will become the oldest ever British monarch. Incidentally, on Friday, she will become only the third British monarch to reach their 80's, the others being George III and Victoria.However, she still has to live for another 10 years before she'll beat the record for length of reign (Victoria, 64 years).

And cool points to Adam R for mentioning Never Mind The Buzzcocks (FUNNIEST. SHOW. EVER.)

[Nebuchanezzar]

Scientists looked at the DNA from mitochondria of some living people in Europe, and worked out that for Europe, there were six Eves.

[Mazzi_rules]

ok i got one for you. What the longest word in the english langage?(sorry if that spelt wrong. i cant spell....)

[Nebuchanezzar]

From what a friend used to tell me; disestablishmentarianism, although I hear it's not a part of the English language anymore...supposedly.

[box elder]

well, antidisestablishmentarianism is longer than disestablishmentarianism.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

plus that's just some reference people like to make so they sound like they know what they're saying...but besides that, how the fuck would it not be a part of the english language anymore? that doesn't really...happen. it might become archaic or whatever, but it doesn't really just go away.

oh, and there are words about 20 times longer. i won't bother looking it up, but the longest word in the language is a term for some sort of lung disease. antidisestablishmentarianism, if you'd like to know, is the idea of being against breaking the legal establishments between the church of england and the government.

[lolpenis_taco]

It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Weird how that is the second time today I've been asked to spell the longest word in the English language.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

2 entries found for pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Main Entry: pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o· sis
Pronunciation: 'n(y)ü-m&-(")nO-"&l-tr&-"mI-kr&-'skäp-ik-'sil-i-(")kO-väl-'kA-nO-"kO-nE-'O-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o· ses /-"sEz/
: a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust

what do you know? i actually remembered what it is...kinda.

[bluemoose]

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Methionylalanylthreonyl...leucine
Only place where I could find it all spelt out. :)
There's some other one that's about twice as long as this also.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

i think the reason that the word whisman posted is regarded as the longest word is because there is a definitive end and beginning to the word, and it cannot just be pereptually added on to like methi...blah blah blah. it's a fixed-length word with a definition that is non-changing.

[Willmak5389]

There are a lot of chemical terms that have, like, 1000 letters. Pneumono... is the longest one thats not directly related to chem.

[bluemoose]

You're right, the methi... one doesn't really count. It's really just so long because the people who named it wanted it to be long. Plus they all have other names. The one I posted is Enaptin, and the other one that's twice as long is Titin.

[Gatorgod]

Buddy Ebsen *Jed Clampett* was originally cast to play the Tin-man in the Wizard of Oz??

[mr. broom]

"What is the longest word in the language" is like "how many words are in the language"--it's not really feasible to measure. Science is always making new terms that are absurdly long, and for every 99-letter one you can think of, there are probably ten 103-letter words published only in some obscure medical journal you will never read.

[penny]

Buddy Ebsen *Jed Clampett* was originally cast to play the Tin-man in the Wizard of Oz??
Yeah...he was allergic to the face make-up

[Gay4Moleman]

Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.

[bluemoose]

Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.
HOLY SHIT!

Anyways, a lot of people already know this, but when you see a statue with a guy on a horse, two legs in the air means he died in battle, one leg in the air means he died from wounds relating to battle, and all legs on the ground means that he died from natural causes.

EDIT: damn, only sometimes true.

[Wasteland]

^That only applies to cetain battlefields. Not all of them do the same thing.

[bluemoose]

crap. well, then some statues have the above applied to them.

well, that makes that fact totally useless.

[Wasteland]

The castle used in the movie Highlander was one of the castles used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[mr. broom]

crap. well, then some statues have the above applied to them.

well, that makes that fact totally useless.
Afraid so (http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm). That one smelled like Snopes material from way off. An ounce of fact-checking is worth a pound of not-being-embarrassed.

[Wasteland]

Man, I used to visit that page all the time when I was a teenager. I was obsessed with urban legends for a short time.

[JonHillier]

Here's something similar to the statue poses, but this one is true.

On medieval tombs, if there is a lion at the feet of the effigie it means that they died in battle, whereas a dog (or dogs) under their feet means they died peacefully.

[Toli]

Wasn't there one of these threads a while back that eventually became stupid and got closed?

[Adamm R)))]

And cool points to Adam R for mentioning Never Mind The Buzzcocks (FUNNIEST. SHOW. EVER.)
In fact, I feel the need to mention it again. This week I learnt that Scissor Sisters got their name from a lesbian sex act (of the same name) in which two people...sort of, well engage their legs into each others. Sorta like this o+< >+o and going forwards. Kinda hard to explain with the lack of hand motions.

[mr. broom]

No, it comes across full well.

[Gatorgod]

Rabbits cant Vomit :barf:

[mr. broom]

Neither can most rodents, or (for the most part) horses.

[gangman]

did you know.......blonde people are losers! and now my dinner......

[Gatorgod]

-All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20 :confused:

[Spartan]

not even close.

[Gatorgod]

Not Close? ...uh, :uhh: ..Try this on fer size
-Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year

[bluemoose]

Doesn't fit:

http://www.wisegeek.com/is-there-a-link-between-car-color-and-accidents.htm

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7429/1455

[mr. broom]

This thread should be renamed "things someone told me one time that I assumed were true."

[bluemoose]

You're right, it should (although I shouldn't be talking, as I'm guilty of it myself :-$ ).

[Greased Scotsman]

2 entries found for pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Main Entry: pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o· sis
Pronunciation: 'n(y)ü-m&-(")nO-"&l-tr&-"mI-kr&-'skäp-ik-'sil-i-(")kO-väl-'kA-nO-"kO-nE-'O-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o· ses /-"sEz/
: a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust

what do you know? i actually remembered what it is...kinda.May I direct your attention to this Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis) page, exposing the word as nothing more than a hoax.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

may i direct your attention to the fact that you are justifying your findings through wikipedia?

the article itself says that there is nothing conclusive about the hoax, and so what if the word was originally coined in 1936? every word started somewhere, so i don't see how you can draw a line somewhere and say "words after this date don't count". if it were a mere hoax and nothing more, wouldn't it's 70 years in dictionaries with a scientific definition be challenged by at least ONE scientist or linguist?

[bluemoose]

Although I do agree with most of your post, the Wikipedia part is a little unjustified, as there is a citation of sources in the exernal links section:

http://www.wordways.com/biggest.htm

There they say essentialy the same thing as Wikipedia did.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

yeah, i know they cited a source, but what are they linking too? just another random site in the world wide web. i don't see anything concrete from that website either to justify saying that it's not a word.

[do what donny dont does]

Contrary to what you may have heard, baby's are not brought by storks(I know it's shocking, but stick with me on this). Baby's are actually made by a man ejaculating inside a women's vagina! :hump: :hump:

[zippy]

Contrary to what you may have heard, baby's are not brought by storks(I know it's shocking, but stick with me on this). Baby's are actually made by a man ejaculating inside a women's vagina! :hump: :hump:


How...umm....enlightening?

[bluemoose]

yeah, i know they cited a source, but what are they linking too? just another random site in the world wide web. i don't see anything concrete from that website either to justify saying that it's not a word.
That's true. I guess I should rephrase.

People shouldn't get on Wikipedia just for being Wikipedia. I know that it has had some faulty information, but it's just as accurate as a lot of stuff, and is at least accurate enough to just look up something quickly. I know it's not the Encyclopedia Britannica; I would never use it if I was doing some serious research. And you're right, that was just some site on the web, so you don't know if it is telling the truth. But it still proves the article right:

The source could have been an outright lie, and the article would still be true, because all it says is that the source (whatever it was called) believes that this word is a hoax. Well, actually, there is one part of the article that is wrong, as it says that it has been proven to be a hoax, which isn't neccesarily true. I'll edit this myself, to say that "some people believe that this word is a hoax" or some such.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

i use wikipedia more than anyone on this message board, but when GS posts an article to refute my earlier post by saying that the word has been exposed as a hoax, and then links to wikipedia, then i think it should be questioned.

[bluemoose]

I agree with you, because the article doesn't prove it to be a hoax; at most it proves that some people think it's a hoax.

[mr. broom]

You are both missing the bigger point, which is my point. Trying to find the longest word in the English language, which is constantly acquiring new medical terms, is a meaningless gesture, much like trying to state the number of words in English (or any language) as if it were something concrete.

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/l/longestword.html points out this difficulty pretty well. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the p-word as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word." For you non word-mavens, "factitious" means "made up."

The only actual fact here is that it is the longest word to be found in an English dictionary to date.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

that's pretty much what i meant to be saying, actually. earlier (i believe in this thread), i stated the same thing about people being able to add on to medical words and the such and that you really can't find ONE single word that is the longest. i wouldn't ever try to argue for there being a specific "longest word", but as the longest word in the dictionary, it deserves notation for at LEAST that much.

[bluemoose]

And I agreed with you back then when you said that indefinitely long medical words don't count.

And I also agree that there can't be a "longest" word, because people will always be arguing about what should be counted and what shouldn't.

[mr. broom]

For example : great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. It's a legitimate English word, and you could just keep on adding "greats." There, I think we've put the issue firmly to bed now.

[Gay4Moleman]

Nick Nolte was originally cast to play Han Solo. Remember when this thread was about random facts?

[bluemoose]

considered

[Gay4Moleman]

^Not a random fact at all, jerkwad. Lenny Bruce's real name was Leonard Alfred Schneider, but changed it because it was thought to sound "too Jewish".

[bluemoose]

i was just telling you that nick nolte was considered for the role of han solo, not cast.

[vinceq]

little known fact: mario and luigi are NOT licensed plumbers but Yoshi is a certified electrician

[Gatorgod]

Did ya know....The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire.

[bluemoose]

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

[Semaj]

Mars' bigger moon, Phobos, will be gone a long time from now.

Because the moon travels so quickly around the planet, it gets sucked inward at least 2 centimeters a year. Within another 40 million years, Phobos will collide with Mars.

[garret]

Did you know... 47.3 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[bluemoose]

"Oh, people can make up statistics to prove anything, Gorak. Forfty percent of all people know that"

[Ryan]

Everytime i see this thread, it reminds me of a sideshow bob geature in one of the simpsons holiday books. In the corner is a "Fun Fact", which has Bob saying "I don't care for fun facts"

[bluemoose]

Kidney prices in US $$$ as of 2003:

Iraq (Live donor)- $1,000
The Philippines (Live donor) - $2,000
Turkey (Live donor) - $2,700
Brazil (Live Donor) - $6,000
Pakistan (Live donor) - $14,000
Ukraine (Live donor) - $19,000
Bosnia-Herzegovina (Live donor) - $68,000
On eBay (Don't know if it was a live or dead donor) - It got to $100,000 before it was stopped

Source: mental_floss magazine.

[lolpenis_taco]

I read that yesterday in said magazine, oddly enough.

[bluemoose]

It's a good magazine. Anyway, here's another fact: Sylvester Stallone once starred in a porn movie.

Sources: Snopes (http://snopes.com/movies/actors/stallone.htm), IMDb (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0065904/combined)

I have decided to start listing my source(s), so that no-one can disprove my facts. Haha!

[Gatorgod]

-An Italian deck of cards has no queens

[mr. broom]

Yes, they do.

[Mr. Floyd]

In some states, It is illegal for monkeys to smoke cigarettes.

[bluemoose]

Yes, they do.
No, they don't:

To this day, packs of Italian playing-cards do not have queens
(http://i-p-c-s.org/history.html - second secion (enigmatic origins))

each suit contains an ace (or one), numbers two through seven, and three face cards.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards#Italian)

[mr. broom]

Figures I would be obviously wrong at least once in a thread which is more or less here for me to tell people they are obviously wrong. :dance: