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Postby Rooster » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:18 pm

Fact - The Blues Brothers were a band for a few years before the film was even written.<br><br>Fact - The last album before the film came out three years before. The same amount of time that Jake spent in prison.<br><br>Fact - <span style='color:#64008d'>The fact formerly located here has been removed not only for the language but also for being an opinion (unless it was to be taken literally <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> ).</span>
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Postby GoldenMercuryDragon » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:38 pm

Fact - Cibophobia is the fear of food<br>Fact - The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis<br>Fact - A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up
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Postby Gizensha » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:47 pm

FACT: Since phobias are irrational and intense fears, there is no phobia of axe-weilding homocidal maniacs, for example.<br>FACT: It is, however, possable to be parranoid about axe-weilding homocidal maniacs.
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Postby Caoimhin » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:17 am

Fact: The book Fahrenheit 451 was originally published in Playboy as a short story entitled The Fireman.<br><br><br>Actually I've just read another story that was published in Playboy and I found out it was quite good (It wasn't IN a Playboy magazine when I read it <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> ).<br><br>Fact: Abercrombie and Fitch was once a outdoorsmen store that sold very good quality clothes for hunting fishing, those tweed jackets, field coats, and.... Heres the big one... Guns! It was actually better quality than L.L Bean until about 15 years ago when they started doing all that crappy over priced stuff. It was more waspy when it started than it is now.

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Postby Steve the Pocket » Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:04 am

<!--QuoteBegin-Tom Flapwell+Jan 21 2006, 10:10 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Tom Flapwell @ Jan 21 2006, 10:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Fact: "Hello" was first used over the telephone, not so much as a greeting as to check whether the other person could hear you. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>And thanks to cell phones, we've now come full-circle. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br>FACT: Alexander Graham Bell originally expected "Ahoy!" to be the standard telephone greeting.

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Postby Gizensha » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:02 pm

<!--QuoteBegin-Octan+Jan 27 2006, 03:04 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Octan @ Jan 27 2006, 03:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Tom Flapwell+Jan 21 2006, 10:10 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Tom Flapwell @ Jan 21 2006, 10:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Fact: "Hello" was first used over the telephone, not so much as a greeting as to check whether the other person could hear you. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>And thanks to cell phones, we've now come full-circle. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Not really... "Hello." 'Hi, is that <x>?' "...Well it's my phone isn't it?" seems to be the common opening of a mobile phone conversation.
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Postby Rooster » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:44 pm

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Postby Bocaj Claw » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:26 pm

Fact: *Spoiler* A genie censored Roger Rabbit.
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Postby GhostWay » Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:45 pm

Fact: The very first thing to be said over the telephone was, "Come here Watson, I want you." This was said by Bell just after spilling battery acid on his lap and asking for his assistant Watson.
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Postby Gizensha » Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:46 pm

FACT: This was misquoted in the Doctor Who episode, Father's Day as "Watson, come here. I need you."
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:35 pm

Fact: On a multiple choice quiz I took, the alleged correct answer was, "Watson, come here. I need you."
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Postby Caoimhin » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:59 pm

Fact: The San Francisco Bay Bridge was a project not commissioned by the U.S government. It was actually ordered to be built by an insane but not dangerous man called Norton I "Emperor of the United States". Everyone didn't really mind him and he was actually a pretty nice guy. People actually took his orders nicely because they got a real kick out of it. They even let him go on his weekly inspections of the city. And people actually saluted him. When he died people were actually pretty sad and he got a real nice funeral (ah Weird U.S, you never fail!).

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Postby Muninn » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:00 pm

Fact - The avatar size limit for the new forum is two pixels more than the old one.

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Postby IceDragon » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:32 pm

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Postby TyVulpine » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:03 pm

Fact: The name "Wendy" was created specifically for the book "Peter Pan". There is no recorded use of the name prior to that.


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