AMAZING FACT #318 - Workers at Matsushita Electric Company in Japan beat dummies of their foremen with bamboo sticks to let off steam. The company has enjoyed 30 percent growth for 25 consecutive years.
AMAZING FACT #317 - In the late 1830s, Boston newspapers were filled with abbreviations, and any phrase was liable to be shortened. The fad went so far as to produce abbreviations for intentional misspellings. Such popular expressions as "N.G." (for "no go") and "A.R." (for "all right") gave way to "K.G." (for "know go") and "O.W." (for "oll wright"). The abbreviation "O.K." stood for "oll korrect," a deliberate misspelling of "all correct." Several of these abbreviated misspellings became popular for a time, but only "O.K." was able to win a lasting place in the language.
AMAZING FACT #316 - KFC is just one brand owned by Yum! Brands, Inc. Yum! Brands also owns A&W All-American Food Restaurants, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, and is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system units with nearly 32,500 in more than 100 countries and territories.
AMAZING FACT #315 - Congratulations Uncle Beer and (my new) Aunt Denyse!
AMAZING FACT #314 - "Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" - Sai Baba
AMAZING FACT #313 - The word "QWERTY" came into written use in the late 1920s. When typewriters first came out in the mid-1800s, the keys were in alphabetic order. Because there are lots of commonly used letters next to each other when keys are placed alphabetically, the machines would often jam. The QWERTY mixed up the keys to slow down typists so their typewriters wouldn't jam as much. You may be wondering where we got the word "QWERTY." Just look down at the first six letters on a typical keyboard and you will have your answer.
AMAZING FACT #312 - As a great fish swims between the banks of a river as it likes, so does the shining Self move between the states of dreaming and waking.
AMAZING FACT #311 - Friday, a virus purporting to show images of Osama bin Laden's suicide has popped up on the Internet, designed to entice recipients to open a file that unleashes malicious software code, security experts say.
AMAZING FACT #310 - ALT+4+7=/
AMAZING FACT #309 - Boogie Booger Nuggets
AMAZING FACT #308 - desert seacrh for techno allah
AMAZING FACT #306 - Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas
AMAZING FACT #305 - No trace: When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. - Shunryu Suzuki
AMAZING FACT #304 - James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise, will be born in Riverside, Iowa on March 21, 2233
AMAZING FACT #302 -Most pockets believe that buzzard over recognize cowboy near dahlia.
AMAZING FACT #301 - In a back-and-forth battle, the Patriots win their 15th straight—and most important—game, 32-29 over the Panthers..
AMAZING FACT #300 - The literal translation for kung-fu is leisure time.
AMAZING FACT #299 - Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
AMAZING FACT #298 - We All Go Boing
AMAZING FACT #296 - The world contains a mixture of truth and untruth, sugar and sand. Be like an ant and take the sugar.
AMAZING FACT #294 - Luigi Bored? Uh-Huh.
I saw this coming about a week ago.
AMAZING FACT #293 - All in all, if the Badgers can (1) Stay healthy, (2) establish a solid running game and (3) continue to open it up through the air, they will have one of the more efficient and possibly dominant offenses in the Big 10.
AMAZING FACT #292 All I want for Christmas is a Sir John A. MacDonald action figure!
AMAZING FACT #291 - Bring a phone.
AMAZING FACT #289 - Alexis On Fire
AMAZING FACT #288 - New Home
AMAZING FACT #287 - 5943 Stationery Stores
AMAZING FACT #286 - How come all these "Guaranteed Income" sites that spam my Inbox regularly (and want me to pay cash in order to work for THEM) never tell me WHAT IT IS I'll be doing in order to make this "Guaranteed Income?"
AMAZING FACT #285 - She's Cute, she's Cuddly, she's G-G-Gab.
AMAZING FACT #285 - Cool!
AMAZING FACT #284 - In response to a query by Spatchula, this is a Smoo.
AMAZING FACT #283 - DeFraggle your hard drive... it might work better without all those Muppets in it!.
AMAZING FACT #282 - Amazing Fact #281 was written by Doc Milner.
AMAZING FACT #281 - One day, George and the man with the yellow hat went to the zoo. George saw lions and tigers in cages; then he saw his Aunt Sally in a cage. Why was she in a cage? George was curious.
AMAZING FACT #280 - It's true that a dog can smell 20 times better than you; although, depending on what he has been rolling in, he can smell 20 times worse.
AMAZING FACT #279 - It's in the fireplace. Just pull it out. It's in the bottom... Oh, Dog!
AMAZING FACT #278 - I Dream Of Wires
AMAZING FACT #277 - Hoobastank Dishwalla.
AMAZING FACT #276 - Hello, Had to write to say what a cool show HMS played tonight at 279. I have been a fan since the self-titled release. This is the first time I could get to see HMS (not from a lack of trying). I missed the recent show last year at the Big Bop. Looking forward to hearing the new album. I'm still grinning ear to ear...... best show I've seen this year.
AMAZING FACT #275 - Here’s a cheesy fact: the best-selling food item in Microsoft cafeterias is pizza.
AMAZING FACT #274 - Ghost Riders In The Sky.
AMAZING FACT #273 - Tha Doc! kinda suggested that he wanted to go to a puppet school (actually, I believe he was talking about his adventures when he attended Public School, but this is more interesting). I thought that along with my weight-gain clinic, I could open a puppet school, where you go to learn ventriloquism and puppet-crafting. Casey and Finnegan could be the school's macots.
AMAZING FACT #272 - Spatch and I had the brilliant idea to start a weight-gain clinic. I don't mean to build muscle, I mean to pack on the pounds and be a real couch-potato. The trend has always (well, lately) been to be trim and slim. I think it's time for a change. Renée Zellweger could be our first customer.
AMAZING FACT #254 - The Latin word "canicula," meaning "small dog," is the diminutive form of "canis," the word that ultimately gives us the English word "canine."
"Canicula" was also the name for Sirius, the star that represents the
hound of the hunter Orion in the constellation named for that Roman
mythological figure. Because the first visible rising of Sirius occurs
during the summer, the hot sultry days that occur from early July to
early September came to be called "dies caniculares," or as we know
them in English, "the dog days."
AMAZING FACT #246 - Will Tracey's new article will be posted soon.
AMAZING FACT #245 - I wonder where Will Tracey is?
AMAZING FACT #242 - Warranty Void If Removed.
AMAZING FACT #239 - Information shreds a tear.
AMAZING FACT #238 - You are a bit of a process junkie today, fascinated by watching the wheels go round.
AMAZING FACT #237 - We've added an extra line to your gas bill, not an extra charge :)
AMAZING FACT #235 - Friend of felines, Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door
AMAZING FACT #234 - Does Jay rock? Hell if I know...
AMAZING FACT #232 - "Hello. Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune (ICQ makes me annoyed... again)"
AMAZING FACT #230 - "They're coming to take me away, ha ha."
AMAZING FACT #229 - "I AM 'Letting my beer bottle do the talking.'"
AMAZING FACT #228 - "Send a funny monkey, frog, bird or kangaroo."
AMAZING FACT #226 - "I've come to the conclusion that I don't know Diddley; Bo or otherwise."
AMAZING FACT #225 - "Some people have a choice between Eating it or Wearing it; Spatchula chooses instead to Drink it."
AMAZING FACT #219 - "Never liked Cheap Trick??? How can he say such a thing?!?"
AMAZING FACT #215 - "Use scanreg.exe to backup the MSWindows
Registry."
AMAZZZING FACT #108: Don't ask me, 'cos I don't know.
AMAZZZING FACT #110: Our mascot is Giraffe Prolonged Vision Responsive and Fast Aggresive and Efficient Robust and Adaptive to Ever Changing Environment Strong and Teamwork.
AMAZZZING FACT #111: If time were of the essence, then why am I thinking about ammmazzing fact #111?!
AMAZZZING FACT #112: Spam my answering machine... PLEASE!
AMAZZZING FACT #115: "Hate makes you impotent, love makes you crazy; somewhere in the middle, you can survive? It's cryptic"
Amazing Fact #151: Spanglish Lesson: Feliz Ano Nuevo! (translation - Happy New Year!).
Amazing Fact #158: Hmmmm...
AMAZING FACT #161: "I make friends... I'm a genetic engineer."
AMAZING FACT #164: "Tango 'Til They're Sore."
AMAZING FACT #167: "Irish Cream Espresso Cheesecake sounds good about now."
AMAZING FACT #168: "Claude DeBussy was born 1 day & 108 years before bluqfu."
Amazing Fact #169: Happy Birthday to Christopher Meloni (April 2)
AMAZING FACT #170: "Garble" developed from the Latin word "cribellum," meaning "sieve" (a device for separating things). How did a word that meant "sieve" develop into one that refers to distorting a sound or meaning? The transition from "cribellum" to "garble" happened slowly as the word passed from one language to another. "Cribellum" was adapted to form "cribellare," a verb meaning "to sift." Arabic speakers borrowed "cribellare" as "gharbala," which also meant "to sift." The Arabic word passed into Italian as "garbellare" with the same meaning. Later, English speakers started using the word to mean "to sift impurities from" and "to distort," and they changed the spelling once again, forming "garble."
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