What's something new you learned today?

[everythingsxen]

I learned that you can use the HTML link thingy here on DU to hook the link to a Smiley.

Like thus...

:evilgrin:

and thus

:nuke:

What have you learned today?

[MrSlayer]

1. How to wire an electronic thermostat.

Hadn't done that before today.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I must be brain dead!

I can't think of anything new that I learned today! :cry:

Either that, or I've lived too damn long......*sigh*

[everythingsxen]

6. Look at it this way...

When you woke up this morning, you learned you were still alive. ;-)

[XemaSab]

3. I learned about bioremediation

I learned about the symptoms and treatment of heat stroke

I learned that I live in one of the top 100 most expensive zip codes in the country

I learned that data entry is boring

[AlienGirl]

4. That my younger son saw me coming from the bathroom last night

I was still asleep in bed, and he saw me walk out of the bathroom at the same time. Spooky, yes?

Tucker

[rasputin1952]

5. That there were Galloping Killer Kangaroos, and Demon Ducks of Death

in ancient Australia...and I thought Drop Bears were enough to worry about down there...:scared:...:D

[outofbounds]

7. I learned that

some people have hedgehogs for pets

A Terac? That wild lookin critter on "strangest mamil you ever held" post eats insects

A convertable bra is not the same as the one worn in the super bowl by Janet Jackson

And boob sweat is the hidden problem

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. That my husband

should never use the weed whacker in flip-flops.

[everythingsxen]

10. Ouch!

I learned that lesson a long time ago... That's a painful one!

[sendero]

9. I learned that..

.. the reason my icemaker in the kitchen refrigerator isn't working is that the water valve is non-functional. A new one is on order. :)

[otherlander]

11. That 37 out of 40 people suck as human beings.

Kidding. I was watching the Daily Show rerun at 8, and Dean mentioned that guy Milgram and I was like, "What?" so I looked it up because I had nothing better to do.

[nuxvomica]

12. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

I suppose I had known it but always thought of it in terms of the President being in surgery or something. I was watching the second season DVD of "24" and Palmer's cabinet was conspiring against him because he was delaying military action against three Middle Eastern countries implicated in a plot to blow up Los Angeles with a nuclear bomb. Palmer was hesitating because Jack Bauer told him he had proof that the evidence implicating the countries was faked, apparently by oil interests that wanted a Middle Eastern war so their Caspian reserves would increase in value. A crazy concept, I know. That could never happen. ;-)

[u4ic]

13. That it is not possible

to put too much garlic in with roast potatoes. (thought I was there, but no....)

[Cobalt Violet]

14. That there is/was a defoliation problem in the White Mountains, NH.

I noticed huge amounts of Birch trees seemed dead in certain areas that I visited over the holiday. I don't remember seeing so many dead trees. I really didn't know what happened but I learned today when I looked it up.

Read about it here:

http://www.state.nh.us/dred/divisions/forestandlands/bureaus/forestprotection/ForestHealthHighlights.htm

[LynzM]

15. That's really cool!

I learned that it's possible to load data from two different lab sites into one document number in one of my databases. This is BAD.

[NMMNG]

16. I learned that my 401k profited nearly 14% over the past fiscal year

[Broken_Hero]

17. that mr rogers

can whoop chuck norris...

evidence----->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ejM4ZiJnj8&search=ultimate%20showdown

[Frank Cannon]

18. That Olivia Newton-John outranks Paul McCartney in the British Empire

She's an Officer (OBE) and he's a lowly Member (MBE).

However, David Gilmour (CBE) of Pink Floyd outranks both.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. Actually, he's a knight, so he ranks both of them in precedence...

so you learned something else new :D

[Frank Cannon]

22. Well, there's Wikipedia for you

It still has him as a lowly MBE. I figured something wasn't right.

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Well...

he's an MBE, and knight bachelor (ie a knighthood not in one of the orders of chivalry), so he keeps the postnominal MBE (but takes precedence before any members of chivalric orders below the rank of knight).

[WCGreen]

19. I learned how fucking broke I really am.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. ......

:hug:

[HughBeaumont]

21. Something I learned today

Black and white is always grey
Looking through the window pane
I'm not inside your brain
Something I learned today
Yield to the right-of-way
Stopping at a 4-way sign
Someone else's rules, not mine

Something I learned today
Never look straight in the sun's rays
Letting all the sunshine in
Can't remember where I've been

. .. Oh, and ALL of the local bands I listened to last night online jumped the bandwagon of their respective genres 3-4 years too late.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. I learned that my dentist was one of us...:D

I've known her for more than 15 years, and she's both a terrific dentist and a very thoughtful person. But I never knew about her politics, or if she even thought much about such things, since you can't talk much with someone's hands in your mouth, LOL!:D

But, today, they took X-Rays and I was taken back to 9/11, which I also spent in the dentist's chair, getting X-Rays. So I told her that that day changed my life. While I was held hostage there, on 9/11, I kept seeing that second plane hit the WTC, over and over and over, on CNN on her TV overhead. By the time I walked out of there, I was scared witless and was determined to find out what was really going on in this country, and the world, to allow such a horrible thing to happen.
:scared:

So I began reading and looking things up and then I found DU. 9/11 was the day I became political.:kick:

And my dentist was really moved by my story and I could hear her telling everybody who works there about this website that I'd told her about... She was all excited about that and was going to look up DU just as soon as she got home. :-)

And the hygienist wrote down the address for DU and everybody there started talking about politics, Bush* and his "wedge issues," while people are dying, and how he's ignored North Korea and I/P and how much better a president Clinton was, LOL! I walked out of there, this time, feeling really good (and with clean teeth) :D And having turned on a few more people to DU...:bounce:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Today, at long last........

I finally realized the power of words .......

I learned that what I post can and does make a difference to people here...

And that knowledge blew my mind! :blush:

[leftofthedial]

27. I learned how to do an autolobotomy

with a wire whisk and a bent kitchen fork.

[AmyDeLune]

28. I learned how to put the text

in the word balloons in Paint Shop Pro...