Useless knowledge
 

I heard this on sports radio here in Toronto this morning,thought it might be an interesting topic for the first day back at school.

There are only 2 cities that use the same colours for all their pro sports teams.

Pittsburgh....Black and gold

Montreal....Red,white and blue.

Why would anyone know this?

Please post your useless knowledge.....i need some entertainment(slow businessday) :)

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy.
Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booths brother saved Lincolns son from being hit by a train.

[quote=bbor]the first day back at school.
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Holy cow, I forgot you people up north get school started real late. Its like a month in down here.

My girlfriend is a teacher and they started today... I also always started the day after Labor Day in Pittsburgh.

pics pls, kthnx.

D'you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds?

What about Green Bay?

You have apparently never seen Rosie O'Donnels head.

I think the size is a little misleading there ... much of O'Donnel's head is filled with air, therefore making the 8 pound range still very possible.

Mine weighs much more than that....not cause i'm smart(obviously)....but because i have a ham head.

Apparently no one gets the Jerry Maguire reference... :(

It was gotten, relax. It's a given in a useless knowledge thread.

Useless knowledge.....I did'nt get it :(

the bottom of a wine bottle, where its indented (convex? concave? i can never remember) is called a "punt".

Anne Boylin (sp) had 6 fingers on one hand. I raed that in a Disney Adventures when I was 12 and thought I'd never need that ever. I went on a Cruise when I was 16 and lo and behold, in a trivia game, that question came up and my team was the only one to get it right.

In the school where I'm student teaching, classes started today. I showed up in the morning, and was told I didn't need to observe today's classes, so I got an unexpected day off! But tomorrow is the first REAL day of classes.

Lock up your firearms and be wary of any teenagers hanging around your girlfriend's place.

so does Antonio Alfonseca, I would have thought he could get some crazy movement on his pitches with an extra finger on your pitching hand, but nope, he sucks ass.

I've read that the words silver, orange and purple are the only words not to rhyme with any other english words.

Orange rhymes with "door hinge"

I got nothing.

You're needy.

Did you know that Noop's penis is thick?

I'm guessing you are one of the select few with that knowledge.

Funny. Subtle. Insulting.

I give it a 9.4.

Correct.

There is a town/city in 49 states of the union named Warren.

"Rhythm" is the longest word in the English language that does not contain "a", "e", "i", "o", or "u".

What about "celery"? I thought that didn't rhyme with anything either....

Also month.

"Facescious" is one of two words in the english language that uses one of each of the vowels in alphabetical order throughout the word. I forget what the other one is.

i heard thar hitlers mom wanted an abortion but the doctor advised her not too

Dola, and "racecar" spelled backwards is "racecar".

New Jersey and Oregon are the only two states where it is illegal to pump your own gas.

I don't know if it's illegal in NJ, because I know I've done it a few times when I didn't want to wait for the attendant.

There is a name for this.....what is it???? It's driving me crazy that i can't remember it.....

palindrome?

Danke :)

Celery - Felony
Month - Cunt, Runt, Punt

I think you are pronouncing these words wrong.

The definition of a rhyme is any word with the same last syllable.

The only words without rhymes are orange, month and oblige.

John Ratzenburger (Cliff Claven) was in Empire Strikes Back

??? I say it out loud and they ryhme.

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Month, not munt. TH. Thhhhhhh, as in thick. There's no "th" sound in cunt, punt, or runt.

Thank you, please come again... :)

Actually, a technical rhyme has to match all the way back to the forst consonant sound of the last accented syllable.

You wouldn't accept a word like "misty" to rhyme with "beauty" -- even though they have identical last syllables. Instead, you would need a word like "duty" to properly rhyme with "beauty."

Or "booty" but that sends us down a different avenue altogether...

And lemme tell ya...Jeebs knows about cunt.....he work in the restaraunt business eh...."that f'n CUNT did'nt leave me a tip" :D

I'm such a geek for useless knowledge that I have heard everything in this thread before, including Anne Boelyn's sixth finger (and even a rumored thid breast).

Well, I guess I never heard Noop's rhymes before, so those are new to me.

So you are saying month doesn't rhyme with punt?

In some parts of the US month and punt might rhyme. Maybe even in a country song lyric, but not in proper english.

And now for the longest palindrome....

a man a plan a canal panama

That's not what I was saying, but it's also true.

I thought the lack of rhyme with words that have entirely different consonant sounds was pretty evident.

There's certainly some poetic license involved, especially in music, but none of those words from Noop's list are true rhymes, of course.