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Random Fact of the Day...
Speaking of collective nouns, everyone knows a flock of geese is a gaggle, right?But how many know a skein of geese is a migrating flock, in flight?
hahaha. I know but chickens are vile. I prefer to say they live in herds. LOL
Cambria wrote: "hahaha. I know but chickens are vile. I prefer to say they live in herds. LOL"y'know, I have gone through cycles with chickens. when I was a wee bit, I really liked them; as I got older, I thought they were annoying, but now that I"m REALLY old, I think they're sort of cool - especially the fancy ones. My mom used to have an odd assortment that she got from a friend's family and they laid eggs in all different colours - not just brown and white, but also a sort of pale pink, green and blue. Very neat.
wow, colored eggs are cool. Are you sure it wasn't the easter bunny? lol
Cambria wrote: "wow, colored eggs are cool. Are you sure it wasn't the easter bunny? lol"Yup ... growing up on a ranch you see all kinds of things, including watching a chicken actually lay an egg. Now THAT looks PAINFUL!
Here are my random facts for the day:*A fly beats its wings 200 times a second.
*The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was a 34B.
Hell, I could have told you that!Tom Crayder
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*A fly beats its wings 200 times a second.
*The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was a 34B."
I wonder if that is due to weight gain, pure luck, or doctors....LOL
Amy wrote: "Cambria wrote: "Here are my random facts for the day:*A fly beats its wings 200 times a second.
*The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was a 34B."
I wonder if that is due to weigh..."
The answer is in the Walmart pictures.
The red food colouring cochineal is not made from beetles. It is made from bugs. Yummy!
JAC
J.A. wrote: "The red food colouring cochineal is not made from beetles. It is made from bugs. Yummy!
JAC"
Aren't beetles bugs?
And this whole conversation sounds like the kind of lunacy we'd talk about in The Village of Wundee (A Nice Place To Live(tm)), which is a group of people, many of whom I've known since 1993, that have stuck together ever since meeting on the old newsgroup Alt.1d (wundee, get it?) and eventually formed a mailing list. It's a zany group - y'all remind me of them. :-)
Ooh, just seen this thread, very cool. An appropriate collective noun for this site, a kindle of kittens.
We were talking about cochineal only yesterday, have seen the beetles/bugs it comes from while we've been abroad. The topic came up because little one was at a party yesterday, given a marshmallow snack thing and one of the ingredients is cochineal - yuck!
Katy, according to Qi, (and I quote) "Bugs suck"!!And Stephen Fry said it so it must be true....Oh I like that, TC!
JAC
LOL. this thread is funny. I like random stuff like this. On that note... am I the only one seeing the cafe press add on the side with the iphone cover that has my book cover on it??? That's some nice publicity. unless of course, thats only me who's seeing it. lol
Cambria wrote: "LOL. this thread is funny. I like random stuff like this. On that note... am I the only one seeing the cafe press add on the side with the iphone cover that has my book cover on it??? That's some n..."I don't see any ads, except for books. ??
Hmmmm. I wonder if the ads vary per computer...... Oh well. Lol.
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OK - I may be the only person that excited about it.
Other random fact of the day?
Big foot has been spotted on every continent on earth except for Antarctica!
Maybe the penguins just aren't telling...The only ad I see is for the RSPB.
Cambria, they might have cookies that trace what you've been looking at and put the ads up accordingly. And you have to watch out for those penguins. They are SNEAKY! Apart from when they watch planes go overhead and don't stop watching and just fall over backwards. That's NEVER not going to make me laugh...
I bet it's on Youtube somewhere, if anyone has access thereto.
JAC
JA- i think that must be what is going on. Too bad. Would have loved the free publicity. LOLAnd who the heck would want to go to Antartica.... Even Bigfoot has some sense.
Have you seen "Despicable Me"? It must be the cookie-robots!!JAC
Cambria wrote: "JA- i think that must be what is going on. Too bad. Would have loved the free publicity. LOLAnd who the heck would want to go to Antartica.... Even Bigfoot has some sense."
My 2nd husband was obsessed with going to Antarctica - I never understood it. I'm not sure if he still wants to - after I left him he did all sorts of things I was always discouraging him from, like buying a house, signing up to be a cop and then buying a boat. Interestingly enough, despite the fact that he was always complaining that I spent too much money, he recently had to declare bankruptcy ... (Yeah, we're still friends - always were better friends than anything else).
I can attest to that, Splitter. My hubby reads all the time, but it's always about things he wants to learn more about that interest him at the time. Like nowadays, it's all things garage, since we've just built a new one. He considers fiction rather pointless :)
Mysti wrote: "I can attest to that, Splitter. My hubby reads all the time, but it's always about things he wants to learn more about that interest him at the time. Like nowadays, it's all things garage, since we..."Fortunately, my husband likes to read, and he likes to read a pretty good variety of stuff - sci fi, space opera, fantasy and, of course, military history. What is it with men and their fascination with the military? Anyway, he's actually introduced me to some pretty good books over the years.
J.A. wrote: "Cambria, they might have cookies that trace what you've been looking at and put the ads up accordingly. And you have to watch out for those penguins. They are SNEAKY! Apart from when they watch..."
Seriously? Penguins do that? LMBO!!!!
Katy wrote: "Cambria wrote: "hahaha. I know but chickens are vile. I prefer to say they live in herds. LOL"y'know, I have gone through cycles with chickens. when I was a wee bit, I really liked them; as I go..."
I looooove chickens! I had some as a kid and they all had different personalities. I used to read to them, my Rhode Island red rooster used to sit on my knee while I was reading, LOL!
Amy wrote: "Dentophobia is the fear of having dental work done. Here is a site with some other phobias in it...I have some of these! LOLhttp://www.medicinenet.com/phobias/ar..."
I didn't find a category for the fear of drool getting on me...
Sara, Youtube it. I kid you not, it's hysterical!JAC
I was laughing so hard, I was crying! Reminds me of how stupid turkeys and guineas are...
Wow, Sara i can't imagine having a chicken sit on my knee as i read to it. Uh huh, not happening. LOL
LOL! I didn't mind. It was part of a 4H project I was doing. Reading to chickens, not them sitting on me.
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JAC"
I LOVE DESPICABLE ME!! That move was adorable!!
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J.A. wrote: "Have you seen "Despicable Me"? It must be the cookie-robots!!JAC"
I LOVE that movie!!!
I really liked it too! Especially that youngest girl, she was so silly, I just laughed almost constantly at her!
I just really felt for Gru, trying his best to be the bad guy and it never really working....But I did like the Boogie-Robots just for sheer "Why??"-ness!
JAC
Yes, Gru was funny. Never quite being bad enough. LOL.
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Aw, Ames, he'd make a GREAT babysitter! The kids would have him in a nervous wreck but it'd definitely keep them out of other mischief!JAC
Cassie - Gathering Leaves wrote: "It's so FLUFFY!!!! :-)"THAT right there is why I wanted to see the movie! I have no idea why...
Haven't seen Despicable Me, though it looks entertaining. I think it's out on cable now, so will check it out.I used "gaggle of geese" in a picture book years ago. Love the sound of that.
And chickens? Yeah, we used to have them until the raccoons, owls and fox got 'em. We had 4, and we each named one: Nugget, Parmesan, Soup, and of course my daughter broke the trend and named hers Princess. The funny thing is we thought we had all hens...until the monrning when a rooster was crowing like mad in the hen house...my first thought was that one of our neighbors' roosters got in our hen house! The cad! Until I realized the crowing came from Princess...
Actually, that would be a "flock" AFAIK; but *shrug* it could be a peck, also ... that's something I don't know OtTomH ...
And my acronyms for those who don't know:
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
OtTomH - Off the Top of my Head