Amazing Fact of the Day

[Ineluke]

Originally posted by eL_Qadsawi
tygerwilde try life insurance .. it might pay better ... and your paintings .. If you die I\'ll by one myself ... to burn offcourse

Um is english your second language?

Any way I have sold a few pieces of art they make good money. Especially when you know the art terms and can convince some rich a-hole that this is your greatest work...

BTW I have absolutly no artistic talent. I just have loads of BS talent.

[smoak]

fact - the american government has sold stuff on e-bay and did not do well on it
twent-three trucks-value$448,000 sold at $0.17
intell supercomputers(one of the 100 fastest computers in the world-value $89,000 sold at- $31,000 (was then bought back for $89,000)

[josephoenix]

Fun fact: here\'s how not to attempt to extort money from a company... [Note: taken from slashdot]

\"The Register reports: Myron Tereshchuk, 42, of Maryland, pleaded guilty to \"attempted extortion affecting commerce\" for sending threatening messages to a competing patent firm, including a demand for $17 million in exchange for not revealing sensitive information. He was clever in hiding his tracks, the messages came from two different homes and a dentist\'s office, all of which turned out to be running unsecured WAPs. He also avoided a web bug sent by the firm, and managed to penetrate the company\'s computer system. But he made a few mistakes. First of all he was already a prime suspect due to \"past altercations between Tereshchuk and the company\". But \"the clearest sign came when he issued the $17m extortion demand, and instructed the company to \'make the check payable to Myron Tereshchuk.\'\"\"

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/27/1343221.shtml?tid=133&tid=186

josePhoenix

[TheTaintedSoul]

Originally posted by DepthBlade
Didn\'t he flee Europe during World War 2 because he was jewish? What would have happened if WW2 never happened I wonder?

Thats correct, and as a pacifist he felt a great dillema about his role in the development of the A-bomb. But the germans might have very well made one.

I don\'t know what the third world war will be fought with but the fourth world war will be fought with sticks and rocks.
Is one of his statements, but he made many more cool ones like.

?Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater.?

\"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.\"

My wife doesn\'t understand me.

As you can see he is one of the people i admire, to be so brilliant yet down to earth has got to earn respect.

[RussianVodka]

FACT 1: Bistro

The word \"Bistro\" which is comonly used to describe something like a French fast food restaurant ( i use that for lack of a better explanation) actualy originated from the Russian word \"Bistriy\" ( ```6-b|-c-t-p-b|-|/|``` This is how it would looks if these forums suported cyrillics)  which means \"fast\".  

After the Napolionic wars,  the Russian troops were ocupying France, and spending a lot of their time in bars. But because the soldiers (especialy the cossacs) were not happy with the speed at which their alchohol was served, they would yell the word \"Bistro\" (``6-b|-c-t-p-o``), which is the \"not so nice\" way of saying faster, or hurry.

The French did not know that, and assumed that \"Bistro\" is a Russian word for tavern, bar, or alchohol.

[RussianVodka]

Fact 2: The Reds

In America, people commonly reffer to communists as \"reds\". Calling all communists \"Red\" would be very inacurate, and very stupid of you.

What many foriegners do not know is that the communists did not want to \"delete\" the history of Russia and other Slavic countries, but bring them back to their state (socialy) before the Tsars and before Christianity, and propell them forward technologicaly.

Now that i\'ve told you this, lets get back to the \"Reds\". The reason that the communists picked the color red as their main collor was because it was the color of the ancient Slavs, and has a lot of meaning in ancient (and even modern) Russian culture. Infact the modern Russian word for beuty, \"krasivi\", originated from the old Russian word for red, \"krasniy\".  But many names and expressions using the word \"krasniy\" did not change. So the name \"Red Square\" ( Krasnaya Ploshad) actualy means \"Beutifull Square\", term \"Krasna Devitsa\" (Red girl) actualy means Beutiful girl, and the term \"Krasna Rechivi\" (Red speachfulness) actualy means Linguistic.

And now remember, the next time you call a Russian a \"red\", you are not ofending them, but just calling them beutiful.

[arckle]

another fact...
The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and the right side controls the left

[eggplantboy]

One more warning label:

I saw this on the sliding door of a minivan: \"Do not close when head in doorway.\"

I swear...

[Cyl]

Why did the ammount of necro-postings go up so extremely?

[Nero da 2nd]

Originally posted by seperot
you can still shoot a bow with just your index finger

 Hardly...you try shooting a bow that requires 200 pounds of pressure to draw back with only your index finger, while balancing an arrow at the same exact time. If you cut off the index, you could still use middle and ring, pinky they would laugh, thumb, well, they could still remotely shoot, ring, they still have their middle an index finger. Middle, the index and thumb wouldn\'t work so well, the thumb isn\'t angle right, pinky\'s too weak, and middle and ring are too spaced apart.