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It's a convoluted thing you can look up on the internet. We all know that the opposite of a camel is a camel made of antimatter.

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it also must be a violet color, since regular camels are yellowish tan.

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If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it, did a tree fall?

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If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it trees don't exist and never will.

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yep, i went for the pretentious name instead of just "purple"

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If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it, did a tree fall?

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If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it trees don't exist and never will.

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The origins of the word 'alphabet', come from the fact that it was created as a result of the first wager ever recorded in human history. A man was bet (at odds of 7 to 1) that he could not name all of the currently existing letters in ten seconds first try. The man had subtly prompted that this bet be made, and had prepared ahead of time by composing and memorizing a song containing allthe letters of the current alphabet. He then sang the song in only 6.4 seconds, and won the bet.NOTE: The above has occasionally been disputed by 'historians'.- 55555

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It helped, of course, that the man's name was Ogg and he happened to be using the Neanderthal alphabet, consisting of the letters thud, whack, and bang.

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The above 'fact' is actually disputed by scientists. :PThe average human consumes about 2 picograms of Radium a day.Marie Curie used to keep Radium in a drawer near her bed because she liked the glow it gave off.Marie Curie died from leukemia caused by keeping Radium by her bedside.Her husband, Pierre, did not die from radiation poisoning. Instead, he got in a street accident, crushing his skull.William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded by Francis Bacon in 1589, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts. (Portal 2 reference!)The Space Core from Portal 2 was based off of an Oregon aquarium commercial which involved a wide-eyed goldfish repeating that he wanted to go to the aquarium.

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Speaking of Portal, GLaDOS is designed to look like a woman tied up and hung upside down.

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No it isn't, it's an anticamel. Anticamels are the precise opposite of camels. Also, due to the anticamelical nature of antimatter, their humps are inverted, so they really do store water in them.

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No, a soap dish is that little thing you hold soap in. An anticamel is exactly what it says on the tin.

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But a soap dish is more perpendicular to a camel than a true opposite. An anticamel would, by definition, be both made of antimatter and the direct opposite of a camel.

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No, because opposites are inherently dictated by the things they are the opposite of - hence the relation between opposites. A soap dish is, as you yourself stated, a completely irrelevant thing, bearing no resemblance to either a camel or an anticamel. To be a perfect opposite, there must be a direct relation between the two, though that relation must be due more to antithesis than similarity. An anticamel is inherently antithetical to a camel, therefore it is the perfect opposite of a camel. A soap dish is completely unrelated to a camel, and is therefore a perpendicular opposite of a camel, but many perpendicular opposites exist, while each thing can only have one perfect counter-thing.

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Wow. Never seen so many arguments about the opposite of a camel.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.You can't kill yourself by holding your breathThere is a city called Rome on every continent.It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

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Octopi have a hole in their brains because the throat passes through there. Wouldn't that give you a headache...

Not really. While the brain can tell the rest of the body its feeling pain, it has no nerve endings so cannot feel pain itself. If you had a convenient hole in your head I could poke my finger into your brain and wiggle it about, and you wouldn't feel a thing.Oh, and its octopodes, because it comes from the Greek rather than Latin :P
That was a joke. But anyways, if it swallows something too fast, the lump would cause a bit of discomfort.The opposite of a camel is totally a soap dish. It's not alive, it's found in moist places, and it has no hump. Edited by Chaos Makuta: Dralcax

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The opposite of a camel is totally a soap dish. It's not alive, it's found in moist places, and it has no hump.

The same can be said for many things. Antimatter-based lemacs are the true opposites of camels.Besides, camels can be in moist places - they just have a knack for dealing with dry places.

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CHTrilogy, that's false. Source In fact, quite a few "backronyms" are examples of false etymologies--that's possibly the most common type, in my experience.~ BioGio

 

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The Greek goddess Aphrodite was born from Uranus's body falling into the sea and making sea foam.

Well, not his entire body...

Golf was also very popular along higher class females in the 1890s-1900s.

Popular with high class females earier than that too. Mary Queen of Scots was supposed to have enjoyed a round or two while Elizabeth I had her imprisoned

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-On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. -In 1976, the 10 billionth gallon of "Coca-Cola" syrup was produced.-The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.-Only humans sleep on their backs.-The English word “girl” was initially used to describe a young person of either sex. It was not until the beginning of the sixteenth century that the term was used specifically to describe a female child.-Every member of President Teddy Roosevelt’s family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady.

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-Every member of President Teddy Roosevelt’s family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady.

Considering that Teddy himself had a pet badger, things like this really just don't surprise me about that family anymore.

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"Wow! van Gogh cut off his ear for the woman he loved"No he didn't!! He severed his ear in a stroke of madness when Gaugin told him he'd abandoned their collaboration and was about to leave Paris.And speaking of van Gogh... he never committed suicide after all. A kid shot him on accident!

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Here's some:-China banned the novel Alice In Wonderland in 1931 because it put animals at the level of humans, which was considered demeaning.-Bulls in fact only see colours as shades of gray; in bullfighting, they charge at the movement of a red cape, and not at its colour.-The term "escalator" was once trademarked by the Otis Elevator Company.-William Lyon Mackenzie King was the only Prime Minister of Canada to serve three non-consecutive periods of time in Parliament, for a total of six terms.-Patricia A. Welsh, the person who voiced E.T.'s famous lines, was forbidden to say them even in conversation.I have one of my Uncle John's Bathroom Readersright here with me; I can go on for hours. http://www.bzpower.com/board/public/style_emoticons/default/tounge2.gif

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And speaking of van Gogh... he never committed suicide after all. A kid shot him on accident!

Incorrect. He shot himself in the chest and died of an infection in the wound.

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