Tell me something interesting

[MonkeyFunk]

and it damned well better be INTERESTING!!!

[rug]

1. Jamestown was founded to make glass.

Because England was deforested. Wood, the oil of the 17th century.

[1gobluedem]

2. Michigan and Ohio went to war over Toledo

Michigan lost, so they thought. Consolation prize was the Upper Peninsula.

We don't mind anymore.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. hrmm....

almost interesting.

[rug]

7. Well it's a lot more interesting than philboy's potato chip.

[MonkeyFunk]

8. Agreed.

I have a team of rabid squirrels heading to Philboy's house right now.

[noshenanigans]

15. Actually, really interesting...

My bff got for her wedding a couple of glass bottles or jars or something (I dont know what to call them really- jugs?) from Jamestown. Maybe I'm dim, or the wine's really been hitting me, but I'm not making the connection to deforestation and colonialism. Why'd they have to travel to make glass?

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. I have a potato chip shaped like Woodrow Wilson. n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Not interesting.

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. This is the ACTUAL potato chip from my digi cam....

tell me that's not freakin' interesting.

[PeaceNikki]

4. My cat makes a "Kramer Entrance" every time he enters a room.

But conversely, he's a tolerant and accepting individual.

I've never heard him use the "N" word.

[lost-in-nj]

See my post on

Rising phoenix's thread...



lost

[triguy46]

10. Zane Grey was a dentist.

[Inchworm]

11. 2,988 Train accident/incidents so far this year

TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS: 2,988
Number of fatal accidents/incidents 172 5.76%

Total train miles: 196,676,357
Total fatalities: 188
Total nonfatal conditions: 1,923

Total accidents/incidents is the sum of train accidents, highway-rail incidents, and other incidents.
Total accident/incident rate is the number of events times 1,000,000 divided by total train miles

All this depends on their reporting...
http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Query/Default.asp?page=statsSas.asp

http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Default.asp

:hi:

[MonkeyFunk]

12. wow

that's a lot of accidents!

That was interesting.

[Bullwinkle925]

13. George W. Bush is an idiot. Dick Cheney is Satan's child.

Karl Rove is a mama's boy. Donald Rumsfeld is a 'legend in his own mind'. Condoleeza Rice has(d) an oil tanker named for her (need we say more about her connections?). Alberto Gonzales is a Bushie lapdog.

or - did you know all of this already?


:shrug:

[snailly]

14. St. Louis has the best water in the country

All the mayors say so...
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=6707491

[AlCzervik]

16. the only known recording of an actual La cosa nostra ceremony happened

in the town i was born and raised in, Michael Bloomberg was also born there as well.
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/whitey/globe_stories/1997/0607_fbi_makes_admission_on_bulger.htm