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- R-aI1
The phrase "Out of sorts", meaning to be feeling ill or under the weather, actually originates from typography.
For those who don't recognise the terminology. A 'sort' is a piece of metal with a character on it, which a typesetter would use when creating a line. If you ran out of a letter then this would be a big problem, you would be 'out of sorts'...
- moldero0
The "Happy Birthday" song is owned by Warner/Chappell & charges up to U.S. $10,000 for the song to appear in a film.
- dskz0
it looks like a SNES disk drive add on
- utopian0
Former California governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child outside of his marriage to Maria Shriver.
- microkorg0
The band name ABBA comes from the first letters of each of the members names.
- I guess it's one of the better permutations: ABAB, BABA, BAAB, AABB, BBAA.bulletfactory
- rascuache0
Only two people in the world know the recipe to Irn Bru. They never travel together.
- luccio0
the original illustrator for Superman lead a double life...businessman by day....S+M voyageur by night. http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Ide…
- he was faster than a speeding bullet...with women. LMFAOLMFAOluccio
- scarabin0
- nice find.ThePublics
- also, the "jeep" vehicle was named after a popeye characterscarabin
- wtf are these cartoons ?
Are these real or a brilliant gag ?mikotondria3 - thats awesomemoldero
- Bullshit.detritus
- not so sure about origin of Jeep either! isn't a play on of GP (general purpose) vehic.?scruffics
- no, the jeep is an animal in popeye who bounces around like tigger. they named the car after it because it's so mobilescarabin
- same with the original illustrator for Superman...he was into S+M BIGTIME http://www.amazon.co…luccio
- ediot0
Fun Fact: Keanu Reeves is immortal.
- moldero0
What dog breed has the strongest bite force?
Pitbull pressure bite was 235 lbs
German Shepherd bite was 238-750 lbs
Alapha blue blood Bulldog bite was 305 lbs
Wild Dogs bite force was 317 lbs
Rottweiler bite force was 328-350 lbs
Wolf bite force was 406-1800 lbs
tosa inu was 556 lbs
Turkish Kangal was -350-714 lbs
dutch shepherd 235 lbs
karelian bear dog 245 lbs
belgian malinois 135 lbsdamn this Turkish Kangal is huge
- scruffics0
estate agents: if they were doctors, their job would be killing people
- moldero0
- scsi ftwprophetone
- oh yeah.2
- i still have mine...just in case ; )duhsign
- they made us buy those in my 1st year of GD degree.... i don't think i have even used itscruffics
- this brings back memories...pressplay
- I've got mine for my mpc 60prophetone
- Throwback!kgvs72
- 100 mb!dopepope
- These were too expensive for college kidspinkfloyd
- Plenty of space for your PageMaker 6.5 print project and low res tiffs and fontsprophetone
- Ahhh yes, the click of death sound always made for a fun day at the studio.t_rock
- stupid place to put the eject button. had mine on my desk and a notebook hit the button mid-save. ruined my senior project.kona
- project and i had to start it over 3 days before it was due. :/kona
- click of death... those things priceyali
- I had ten Zip disks, 1 whole Gig!
Ancillary - Jaz Drives were where it was at, not this bullshit zipautoflavour
- 1 Gig up in this bitchautoflavour
- pinkfloyd0
Internet girls are ugly
- kgvs720
You can't lick your elbows.
- scarabin0
i poked around and learned that trollface's evolution goes like this:
and was drawn by this guy, http://whynne.deviantart.com/ , who was trying to draw mighty mouse but failed and named the drawing "rape rodent", itself a failure among memes.
- trollface came about when he was trying to draw rape rodent later onscarabin