Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) Probably useless but interesting/funny facts

Right, unfortunately, no. That means Iwill not buy you new owen if you burn yours in that bulb experiment <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Oh, well. You can't blame me for trying. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

If mess things up trying to cook real food, why should I be able to cook a light
bulb right. I'd probably be the one who would melt it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Hey, maybe you would let me come try it with yours. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

-More money is printed daily for the game monopoly than money printed by the US treasury.

-If a barbiedoll was life size her measurements would be 39-23-33.

Oh no! Barbie and Ken have split! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

Barbie and Ken

This doesn't sound like hypocondria, this sounds like pilladdiction. Get her a psyciatrist. She needs it. Btw, this wasn't the model, right? I see it as pretty difficult to aim at a modelcareer and addicting pills at the same time...

If this sound harsh, that's the way it is. Sorry about her though <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />. Having an addicting relative must be hard.

Übereil

Gal

do take care of them, Gal. it's true their problem is more psychological than physiological. i hope they'll get help soon.

Sure, you are welcomed. I was planning to buy another one anyway. Take some CD's and some lightbulbs with you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

-Sheep in Scotland faint if you jump out at them. (Personally I think that if the sheep in Scotland faint, the sheep in the rest of the world will too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />)

-Bats always exit a cave to the left

-A giraffe can clean it's ears with it's 21 inch tongue

-A hippo can open it's mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot child inside (wonder who tested that)

-Elephants can't jump

-A hippo can run faster than a human

-A horse can sleep standing up

That's a new one... Let's see if I can come up with something...

No country have ever sucseeded in invadeing Russia. I allso think Sweden was closest (the only had to get the king to Moscow, but didn't sucseeded <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />).

Übereil

there are over 50 million users on the net.....and not all of them are nice! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

more than 80% of women handle the money in the household...... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> Hmmm? ,why is that? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It came with the car when I bought it."

The record for the world’s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates: First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, an caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car).

A man went in to rob a bank. He demanded the clerk to give him all the money. They told him to go sit out in his car and they would bring him the bags of money. He agreed and went out to his car. In the meantime, the people in the bank called the police. When they got there the man was still sitting in his car waiting for the money and they arrested him.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads of their feet.

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

The Javan rhinoceros - a solitary, single-horned species - is the world's rarest large mammal. Only an estimated 50 to 70 of the animals remain in the wild. There are none in captivity <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />

I disagree.

Mongol Invasion
In the early 1200s, Mongol invaders (nomad warriors from central Asia)--under Genghis Khan and his grandson Batu Khan--conquered much of Kievan Rus. In a brutal and terrifying manner, Kiev--at the time an equal of Paris with its 80,000 people--was looted and burned. Barely 200 structures remained standing.

Mongol rule over Russia lasted almost 250 years (@1240-1480). Though Russians were allowed to keep their language and customs, learning and craftsmanship declined. The Eastern Orthodox Church gained in prestige, fostering strong nationalist feelings, but turned increasingly inward. Ritual and ceremony, rather than behavior, became primary. In addition, the Russian people became more suspicious of foreign ideas and ways. Mongol isolation kept the European Renaissance from making headway. Moscow gradually became the chief city-state. In 1380, Dimitri Donskoy, with an army of 150,000 men, defeated Mongol hordes, though half his soldiers were killed. Dimitri replaced wooden and earthen walls surrounding Moscow with a kremlin (KREM-lin), or fortress, made of stone. This victory temporarily interrupted Mongol rule.


During so called Time of Troubles (1598-1613)
The harsh ruling Boris Godunov (GOD-enohf, 1552-1605), a wealthy nobleman elected tzar after no male heir was born to Ivan IV’s son, brought to an end the Rurick dynasty. Famine, plague, civil unrest (including an uprising by peasants and Cossacks), and the capture of Moscow byPolish and Lithuanian forces were indicative of the societal chaos during this time of troubles.

OK, Russia HAS been sucsessfully invaded. But only once...

Übereil

-A horse has 35 square feet of skin

-A house fly only lives for 2 weeks (often not even that long <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />)

-A jellyfish is 95% water

-A kangaroo can hop 30 feet at once

-A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is on the ground

-A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day

-A lion's roar can be heard a mile away

Wouldn't you if you were in that crocodiles place?? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />


That's because the bones of a bird are hollow, so they be light enough to fly.


You can never put shoes on your dog because of that. When you see those poor chihuahua's from those moviestars, they are all dressed up like puppets, don't do this to your dog!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />

Not true. I've seen enough bounce along with their tail in the air. Maybe they can't start jumping without their tail on the ground.

"The earth moves round the sun in an oval track, that has an average radius of 93 million miles, at a speed of 18 1/2 miles a second."

"Earth's average speed of revolution about the sun is 29.8 kilometers per second, while Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun and therefore the fastest, travels at an average speed of 47.9 kilometers per second."

"Orbited by its companion, the Moon, the Earth travels at more than 65,000 mph (105,000 kph), covering millions of miles each year as it journeys through space."

I think I have whiplash! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Because it is continually losing body heat, the shrew must keep moving to stay
warm. If inactive for more than a few hours, the animal will lose enough body heat
to freeze to death.

In the seventeenth century, the French decided that adding frogs and snails to
their fine dining menu was a good idea.

Red wines have about five times more tannin than white wines.

Charlemagne, the Frankish Emperor, never learned to write; even though he
practiced on tablets, he admitted he couldn't master the skill. He learned to
read, however.

Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed
and replaced by another.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />