BBCCD Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 [*]The opposite of a camel is a soap dish.what? Quote This topic so far If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it, did a tree fall? Vs. If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it trees don't exist and never will.
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
BBCCD Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 it also must be a violet color, since regular camels are yellowish tan. Quote This topic so far If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it, did a tree fall? Vs. If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it trees don't exist and never will.
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 Right. a purple - sorry, violet - camel made of antimatter. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
BBCCD Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 yep, i went for the pretentious name instead of just "purple" Quote This topic so far If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it, did a tree fall? Vs. If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it trees don't exist and never will.
55555 Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) 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 Edited December 13, 2011 by 55555 Quote Fives' Kanohi Shop BuildLikeABoss.Com
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
BZCoolness Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 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. Quote *Insert some sort of banner or photograph here*
BBCCD Posted December 14, 2011 Posted December 14, 2011 Speaking of Portal, GLaDOS is designed to look like a woman tied up and hung upside down. Quote This topic so far If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it, did a tree fall? Vs. If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it trees don't exist and never will.
CHTrilogy Posted December 14, 2011 Posted December 14, 2011 Jeff Wayne's song Forever Autumn was previously used to advertise Lego.(Incidentally that version of it is available in The War of the Worlds Collector's Edition! I'll have to buy a copy when I have the cash.) Quote ~ CHTrilogy
Mr. Fluffy Posted December 15, 2011 Posted December 15, 2011 Metroid Prime antagonist Ridley was named after Ridley Scott, the director of Alien. Quote "By me... Count Bleck! The chosen executor of the Dark Prognosticus... is Count Bleck! The fine fellow prophesied to come to this dimension... is also Count Bleck!"
ObfuscatedCubeEntity Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Right. a purple - sorry, violet - camel made of antimatter.But a camel made of antimatter is still a camel. Quote
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 No, a soap dish is that little thing you hold soap in. An anticamel is exactly what it says on the tin. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
ObfuscatedCubeEntity Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 An anticamel wouldn't be made of antimatter, because it would have to behave like a camel, therefore, it must be a soap dish.And now for a few odd facts.There are stars that are cool enough to touchScientists have successfully created antiheliumI have no other useless facts at the moment Quote
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
ObfuscatedCubeEntity Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Yes, but the definition of an anticamel, as you have provided, would be dictated by the definition of a camel. A soap dish has absolutely nothing to do with a camel, therefore, a soap dish is an anticamel. Quote
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
ObfuscatedCubeEntity Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Could an anticamel be both a camel made of antimatter, and a soap dish? Quote
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Nope. The soap dish is perpendicular, the anticamel is directly opposite. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
BBCCD Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 also it would be called a lemac Quote This topic so far If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it, did a tree fall? Vs. If a tree falls in a forest and we're too far away to hear it trees don't exist and never will.
Simulacrum Posted December 25, 2011 Posted December 25, 2011 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. Quote
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted December 25, 2011 Posted December 25, 2011 Really? Please, show me a map of Rome, Antarctica. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
Pinkie Pie Posted December 25, 2011 Posted December 25, 2011 Ivan Pavlov, famous for classical conditioning, was actually studying digestion at the time. The dogs he was using were salivating, and it messed with his experiments on digestion. Quote
tent163phantoka Posted January 3, 2012 Author Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Fanta Debuted in Germany in 1941 and was originally only sold in Europe.Fanta has several different flavours all over the world, including Melon and cream soda.Fanta comes from the German word Fantasie, meaning to imagine. Edited January 4, 2012 by tent163phantoka Quote My Library!
Dralcax Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) 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 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 January 3, 2012 by Chaos Makuta: Dralcax Quote
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
CHTrilogy Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 Andy Fox has been known to hate golf. But then who can blame her? Originally the word "GOLF" was an acronym for: Gentlemen Only; Ladies Forbidden. Which of course is not the case today. Quote ~ CHTrilogy
Biohistorian Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 The Greek goddess Aphrodite was born from Uranus's body falling into the sea and making sea foam. Quote
BioGio Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 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 Quote dig "You're a scientist? The proposal you make violates parsimony; it introduces extra unknowns without proof for them. One might as well say unicorns power it."
Pinkie Pie Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 Golf was also very popular along higher class females in the 1890s-1900s. Quote
Wyrd Bid Ful Araed Posted January 7, 2012 Posted January 7, 2012 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 Quote
tent163phantoka Posted January 23, 2012 Author Posted January 23, 2012 In Arizona, It's illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. Quote My Library!
Serpent of Fire Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 (edited) -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. Edited January 23, 2012 by Serpent of Fire Quote I was there when Bionicle started in 2001. The next ten years were a great run. Sadly, all things must come to an end. But I will stop by and check in from time to time.
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 -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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
CHTrilogy Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 "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! Quote ~ CHTrilogy
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 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 Quote http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sprxtrerme/BANNERS/thornax.swf If you're severely addicted to copying and pasting things into your signature, copy and paste this into your signature. Then call rehab.
HeavyMetalSunshineSister Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 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. Quote We will remember - Skies may fade and stars may wane; we won't forget And your light shines bright - yes so much brighter shine on We will remember - Until the skies will fall we won't forget We will remember We all shall follow doom
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