BioKraze wrote:

Tamago wrote:

BioKraze, you love those 50c words don't ya? *hehe*

Why yes, my dear King of Comedy. I do. I love using $6 words in $2.50 sentences. It makes me feel smarter than I give myself credit for. And the last time I took an IQ test, I scored 129 in first grade. Wow.

I scored below 100 in the last IQ test I took but personally its not due to been stupid or anything, I think its more to do with being slow in a literal sense.

It's like I have a Pentium 3 processor stuck with a 133MHz clock.

Turophile: A lover of cheese.

"I like cheese, lol, random."

Actually, I'm not a big fan of cheese...

BioKraze wrote:

Allodoxaphobia: fear of opinions.

....President Bush?

BioKraze wrote:

Bacillophobia: fear of miracles.

Hahahah, don't even need to say it.

BioKraze wrote:

And off we go with more fears and phobias!

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: fear of long words.
Whomever invented that word must have a twisted sense of humour.

Ithyphallophobia: fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Akiophallophobia: fear of having your penis compared unfavourablely with Akio's cock.

Novercaphobia: fear of one's mother-in-law.
Clearly Akio doesn't suffer from that particular thing.

BioKraze wrote:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: fear of long words. (Try saying that one three times fast!)

This one also fits in the Deep Thought thread... Whoever has this phobia won't be able to tell anybody that they have it!

Okay, here's some more obscure words for you folks to ruminate upon...

Armsaye: the armhole in articles of clothing.

Eugeria: normal and happy old age.

Feat: a dangling curl of hair (alternate definition)

Groak: to watch people eat, hoping that they will offer you some of their food.

Hebephrenic: a condition of adolescent silliness.

Iatrogenic: illness or disease caused by doctors or by prescribed treatment.

Lachanophobia: the fear of vegetables.

Lapling: someone who enjoys resting in women's laps.

Logorrhea: excessive talking (verbal diarrhea).

Minimus: little finger or toe.

Nelipot: someone who is walking without shoes.

Nostomania: overwhelming homesickness.

Oniochalasia: buying as a means of mental relaxation.

Ophryon: the space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.

Parnel: a priest's stress.

Pilgarlic: a bald head that looks like a peeled garlic.

Preantepenultimate: anything whose standing is fourth from last.

Puricle: the space between the thumb and extended index finger.

Ruminant: cud chewer.

Scroop: the rustle of silk.

Suppedaneim: foot support for crucifix victims.

Tapinophobia: a fear of small things.

Viraginity: the masculine qualities of some women.

Wheeple: a poor attempt at whistling.

Witzelsucht: a feeble attempt at humour.

Zenzizenzizenzic: a number raised to the eighth power.

And thus concludes my collection of obscure words...for now, at least. Huhuhu...

Okay, time for more trivia!

Armoured knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

The lens of a person's eye continues to grow throughout their life.

The salt content of the Atlantic Ocean is higher than that of the Pacific Ocean.

On the day that Judy Garland of "The Wizard of Oz" fame died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.

If you multiply 111,111,111 by itself, you will get 12,345,678,987,654,321. Interesting, eh?

Al Capone's business cards claimed that he was a used furniture dealer.

Hewlett-Packard's first product was an automatic urinal flusher. (Yuck!)

Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

A jiffy is an actual measurement of time: 1/100th of a second.

Houseflies "hum" in the middle octave, key of F.

The most common time to sight a UFO is 11:00 at night.

There, that should keep you folks running. More later!

"Most cats don't like lemonade." That was the random fact on the bottom of my Snapple cap... Cats don't like lemonade... Who knew?

Bwahaha! Thread Necromancy! Here's some more trivia for you!

Most precious gems are actually colourless. Their colours come from impurities in the stone that act as pigmenting agents.

Until 1890, Vatican choirboys were castrated to keep their voices from deepening. Women were kept out of choir to protect their virtue; thus, the castrations of the males.

When a person's stomach is full, their hearing is not as sharp as on an empty one.

The famous scientist, Einstein, didn't talk until he was four years old...and didn't learn to read until the age of nine.

The human stomach must produce a layer of mucus every two weeks to prevent gastric enzymes from digesting the organ from the inside out. (Creepy!)

The last American train robbery took place in 1933.

Has your mom ever said that your face would freeze if you frowned too long? She was right; it takes 200,000 frowns to create a permanent brow line.

Sixty percent of the swimsuits sold in America never see the water.

It takes roughly 30 minutes for aspirin to seek and nullify a headache.

The fastest bullet is fired from a .223 calibre rifle and travels at 3,500 feet per second, or more than three times the speed of sound. The researcher? Los Angeles Police Department ballistics experts.

In Massachusetts, goats cannot legally wear trousers. Why this law is still on the books is beyond me.

The largest human organ (the skin) is thinnest at the eyelids (1/1,000th of an inch), while the thickest location is the back (1/5th of an inch).

In a game of five-card poker, there are 2,598,960 possible hands.

The only two Disney cartoon movies in which both parents are present throughout the whole story (and don't snuff it, either!) are 101 Dalmations and Peter Pan.

Artichokes are not classified botanically as vegetables, but as flowers.

I suppose that's enough for now. Have fun with your newfound knowledge...

Edit: I nearly forgot! The Hostess Twinkie was "born" on 6 July 1930, by one James Dewar.

Last edited by BioKraze (02-28-2007 06:14:59 PM)

Don't you just Mythbusters?

The fear of teeth is Odontophobia.
The day of the week where people are most likely to commit suicide is Monday.
Car horns beep in the tune of F.
In ancient Japan, women would color their teeth black as a sign of beauty and/or nobility.
40 degress celcius is equal to 40 degress fahrenheit.

Last edited by Drukqs (03-01-2007 08:49:52 PM)

Whoo! Thread Necromancy once more! Here are some interesting factoids about measurements...hope you like them, huhuhu...

A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.

A jiffy is an actual measurement of time -- 1/100th of a second.

The device used to measure a person's blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.

The average lightning bolt is two to four inches wide, and two miles long.

A wind with a speed of 74 miles or above is designated as a hurricane.

At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest river in the world.

Each unit on the Richter Scale, the scale against which all earthquakes are measured, is an incease of power by a factor of roughly 32. Thus, a 6.0 on the scale is 32 times more powerful than a 5.0. (Scary thought, that!)

Easter Sunday is always the first Sundar after the first full moon occurring after the 21st of March on the calendar.

The current calendar year (Gregorian Calendar) was adopted by England and the American Colonies on 14 September, 1752. Eleven days were lost as a result of the transition.

When they still flew, from London to New York via Concorde supersonic jet, due to the time zones crossed, you arrived two hours before you even left. Talk about going back in time!

If the light from the Sun disappeared for any reason, it would take eight minutes for Earth to feel the effects after the fact.

If you added the numbers from one to one hundred together and consecutively, the resulting sum would be 5,050.

A photon under normal speed travels at 186,200 miles per second.

More than 99.9% of all the animal species that ever existed on Earth, whether through evolution or mutation, have gone extinct before the evolution of mankind.

Almost half of all bank robberies take place on Fridays. Perhaps this is why Friday the 13th is such an "unlucky" day...?

It takes ten inches of snow to measure the same in water content as a mere inch of rain.

The highest temperature ever recorded in the continental United States was 134 degrees (F) on 10 July 1913 in Death Valley, California. The world record is held by El Azizia, Lybia, on 13 September 1922 -- 136.4 degrees (F).

The highest waterfall in the world -- Angel Falls in Venezuela -- has a total drop of 3,121 feet.

That weird metal device in shoe stores, used to measure feet for shoe sizing, is called a Brannock device.

The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.

The most snow accumulation within a 24 hour period was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado in April of 1921.

The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by one Louis Cartier.

There are precisely 31,557,600 seconds in a standard calendar year.

Though the Richter Scale reaches ten, a measurement of nine is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction from an earthquake. A measurement of two is the lowest that can be felt unaided.

The world's first speed limit regulation was set in England in 1903. The speed limit? 20 miles.

I'll be back with more trivia eventually. Until then, watch and wait! Huhuhu...