Random fun-fact thread!

He…he sleeps in my bed…and I’ve woke up in the middle of the night to find him looking at me…hoochie mama, I may get a motel room tonight

and lately he been scraping and scraping in his litter box and he hasn’t even pooped…maybe he’s practicing digging a grave or something…and why is Rod Serling standing out in my yard in black and white and smoking a cigarette?

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In Complete Space Every possible Cauchy Sequence will converge.

I lol’d so hard at the Rod Sterling part…lol

Movie fact of the day…The scene where Jim Carrey starts singing for Cannibal Corpse (the metal band playing in the chase scene) by using animal calls in Ace Venture: Pet Detective, was completely improvised by him. So yeah…Jim is awesome in my book.

OOOH this is a good one. When sting wrote the opening song for Emperors New groove (Theme song guy, OOOH YEAH) He told the producers of the film he wanted a younger more energetic man to sing that song. They chose Tom Jones. NOW DAS FUNNY!

LOL…to the above…YES…

new one…

The scene In Indiana Jones (don’t remember which one, sorry.) where the Arabian pulls out the sword, and Harrison Ford’s character shoots him, was also improv…Originally, george Lucas wanted a very “epic” whip/sword fight, but when recording, and due to Ford having a bad day and attitude, he decided to do the shoot em down thing instead. And as we all know, Harrison Ford may be bad to work with, but if he does it, it goes on the big screen.

I heard the reason he pulled the gun, (in "Raiders of the Lost Ark BTW) was because Ford REALLY had to go to the bathroom and didn’t think he could make through the sword fight scene.

I could have sworn it was due to a bad day + bad attitude naturally, but anyway, makes a cool scene.

Omg, i was pronouncing it like, “Jew-bu-lee”, haha, just realized

Actually, the guy invented the solid body electric guitar in general. So yes, he invented the technology, then designed the Les Paul.

Glad somebody knows this, as well…

New Fact…
Carrie Fisher’s was a real cutie…(this is a real nerd reference…old 90’s show…think guy in red jump suit…black hair…)

oh, and Daddy Long legs are not Spiders.

actually, Leo Fender invented the electric guitar.

No. People had been electrifying guitars well before either of them, Les Paul designed the first SOLID body electric guitar (see: “The Log”), Fender put out the first commercially successful model.

Wait, a daddy longlegs is not a spider but he is a arachnid. Please explain the difference.

(btw, offstring-stewart is correct. My computer has a list of spiders and then another category following under the subhead “Other Arachnids” which is where daddy longlegs is found. So if he’s not a spider, what is he?)

…land crustacean? Lol.

Actually, he didn’t design it as I come to find out. He mainly endorsed it. He did offer his input though.

On November 22, 1963 CBS morning news carried a story of how Americans considered Rock & Roll music exclusively theirs. Despite energetic attempts from British groups to break into the American market the U.S. just wasn’t buying they had a valid place at the table. The report focused on one group from Liverpool specifically. Later that same day the President of the United States of America was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. We were suddenly a nation in mourning.

Three months later Walter Cronkite was looking for piece to put on his evening news broadcast that might help lift the dark cloud hanging over the country. He located and resurrected the rock music piece from three months prior. Ed Sullivan saw the story and called Cronkite and they initiated a plan to bring the British group to America with great fanfare and promotion that might create an emotional diversion for America. A media blitz was orchestrated with posters is store windows picturing the mop-headed group and screaming girls were hired to meet the plane when they landed in New York and where ever they appeared. All the networks covered the four young English men crossing the pond with their radical new music.

The Beatles, one of the greatest groups in all of rock history had broke through into the American market and the British invasion had begun.

Hey november 22 is my b day small world!!

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Wow! What a statistic. I’m thinking this number would drop considerably it the entire 18 acres came with anchovies.

Goats have rectangular pupils