Random Fact Thread

[Dante]

-I'm spending Christmas at home.
-I think my grandparents will be here, too.
-And I'll be with them on Boxing Day, too.
-Well, I guess having to spend quite a while with them in this month of the year balances out not seeing much of them the rest of the year.
-I'm pretty sure there's not going to be any Christmas ham, though.
-Or even regular ham.
-Although with a little tinsel and some holly, any ham can become a Christmas ham.
-"With a few small modifications, any canoe can travel through time!!!"
-Speaking of which, Pokey the Penguin has updated a little.
-I'm always glad of that.
-It's one of my favourite webcomics.
-Anyway, I'll spend quite a while this morning shut up in this house's study, doing Maths homework.
-Which I keep on telling myself will be either bad/good.
-I was going to read a book, but then I stayed up late last night and finished it.
-Kenneth Oppel's Skybreaker, sequel to Airborn.
-Both pretty good, and I like the setting.
-And I understand the first is being made into a movie.
-If so, I might actually see it.
-Speaking of which, I need to get Infernal Devices soon.
-They've already released the cover of the fourth book, so I'm hopelessly behind.
-If I'm lucky, I'll get it for Christmas.
-Shame my parents are so hardback-phobic.
-But anyway, I'm always glad to finish a book.
-It makes one less to read.
-I'm glad I've broken up for the holidays.
-It looks rather unpleasant outside.
-Grey, still fairly dark, damp...
-Lots of dead brown leaves lying around...
-Not even any birds hopping about.
-I'll get a picture of those magpies someday.
-Anyway, I'll have to get off soon, and I don't want to push it, so I'll finish this post now.

[lauren]

-I watched the muppets christmas carol today
-It's a tradition in my family to watch it every christmas
-I was afraid we would have to break tradition this year because the other day when we went to rent it out from the video shop it was not there
-But we got our hands on it in the end
-We usually drink eggnog whilst watching it to get in season
-I don't like eggnog
-Niether do my sisters
-That's why this year we didn't get it
-Instead we got fuit cake and M&Ms
-I was disappointed when we watched the movie
-We usually get it out of video but this year we got it out on dvd
-Apparently they cut out one of the best scenes in the movie with the song "The love is gone"
-Why would they do that!
-It's such an emotional scene
-That is just silly, they probably deleted it because it may have been to sad for a younger audience
-Well that's the only reason I can think of
-I learnt how to play poker texas hold'em
-It find it quite amusing
-I would like to go to a casino one day and play it with actual money bets
-This room smells of nutmeg
-At first I liked the smell but now it's really getting to my nerves
-I'm suppose to be editing a story for my friend
-But I lost my edited sopy and I don't want to edit it all over again
-She'll be sad once I tell her this
-I was suppose to hand it in to her on msn tonight
-I don't think I'll go on msn, and just pretend my msn doesn't work when she asks

-

[Triangle Eyes]

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture
element.'
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen
rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that
tried to shoot them down. Both companies built cars in a joint
plant call Diamond Star until 2005.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of
Independence Hall is 4:10.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total
is 5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet
came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered
trademark of AT&T.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of
5megabytes.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is
measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is
550 megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real
brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is
number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a
resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being
able to make change for a dollar.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one
at a time.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is
Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her
daughter Judy is 15.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person
who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999
(January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened
this
century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's
salaries.
Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation , was played by
six different cats.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th'
sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman
occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th"
sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the
Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977)
is 3263827.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the
production of Guinness beer.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but
more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are
radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear
reactor.
In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government
recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum)is
in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck
Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager
claiming they need someone who went to college. During the
conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is
standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed
low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in
"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh
enuakita
natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,
"L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were
caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked
for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures
logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which
occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is
'angstschreeuw'.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was
"Smile".
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution
of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped
together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is
"antidisestablishmenterianism".
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel
= motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a
"portmanteau."
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's
assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression
for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith
Fore.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside
sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her
basement.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book
'The Naked Lunch'.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's
Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten
words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he,
in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada
for marketing reasons.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was
the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A pig's Scuba Steve lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's headphones is shaped like a corkscrew.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand
corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the
front upper right-hand corner.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of
it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of theirfirst
names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same
number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law
against selling dolls without human faces.
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts
were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister,
Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles
at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran
a saloon there.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill
in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the
second man on the moon in 1969.)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul
Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme
songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on
the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after
Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and
only, home run.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once,
on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was
mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about
the wreck.
The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was
Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had
around
$2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less
expensive
twelve sided coin.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack
Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence
"Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton
Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry,
founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band
ever
seen in England--1961
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a
brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the
Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called
a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack
and
break off... Thus the saying.
Horses cannot vomit.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was
just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because
the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could
key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a
mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is
called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used
as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce
emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the
set by a raging elephant.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with
engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the
springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really
singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,'
and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually
singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but
this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady
Mondegreen.'"
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the
ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and
used
a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible
-- in many places - refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one
vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of
a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet,
normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe
DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement
made by swearing on their testicles.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably
shorter than his right.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off
would and therefore forstall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out
Inigo Montoya...)
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a
more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts
dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How
the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna
Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via",
which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an
intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place),
they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed.
You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of
"trivia."

[SF]

-The post above me is an actual Random Fact post
-How unusual
-Heh
-So I've been feeling ill since last night
-I've mostly been ignoring it
-Andrew is coming over tonight ;D
-I'm on Christmas break, as of today
-I go back on the 5th I believe
-Oh how I love Chistmas (winter?) break
-I'll be home for Christmas, and I have church that day also
-I have a few things to do around the house today
-Just little stuff
-I don't have much else to say

[Carma]

-My friend lent me a book today.
-It's So You Want to Be a Wizard.
-She's got most of them so I'll be able to borrow thw next one too.
-Tomorrow is the last day before Christmas holidays.
-We're a Secret Santa in french class.
-I wonder what I'm going to get.
-I go back on the 9th.
-In cooking class today, we got the fudge we made yesterday back.
-It was pretty bad because it was hard.
-I ended up giving it to my friend.
-During study period, I drew some book characters.
-I did some Harry Potters people, and some asoue ones.
-I really like the Harry Potter ones; I think I'll scan them sometime.

[Linda Rhaldeen]

sadako said:

-My friend lent me a book today.
-It's So You Want to Be a Wizard.

-That's a good book.
-The rest of the series is good, too.
-It's a bit strange, though, becuase the first book was written over 20 years ago, and the last one just barely, and the author has tried to keep it in modern times the whole time, with only about a year of time passing in the series.
-If that makes any sense.

[Grace]

-I thought the longest one-syllable word was "though."
-That took up some room, triangleeyes.
-
-Anyway, I've yet to check on the 667 Factor.
-Doubt I will.
-Maybe I should go listen to RENT.
-Nah.

[Carma]

-I've heard that the local threater group is going to do Cats for this August.
-I'm pretty sure I'll go.
-Last time they did Beauty and the Beast, which was really good.
-My sister and mom are playing Scrable.

[PJ]

snicketface said:

-The post above me is an actual Random Fact post
-How unusual

-It reeks of copy & paste to me, personally
-So
-On the 25th I'll be going to the Snowy Mountains for two weeks
-With nothing but friends, my Internet-less computer, a stack of DVDs, lots of books, and a potatoe cannon to keep me company
-Actually, it's only the Internet I won't have, truth be told
-So I guess I ought to say goodbye, or something
-Eh, later
-Kai and Giles came over
-We rented movies
-I've actually never pulled an all-nighter
-Last night was the longest I'd ever stayed up, till about 5 Am
-Which was weird, as it was only 3 people
-Hmmm
-Must have been the over-abundance of Coke
-So, anyways
-He died with a Felafel in his hand and Donnie Darko pwn
-I highly suggest you watch them
-Bleh

[SF]

philipjucker said:

snicketface said:

-The post above me is an actual Random Fact post
-How unusual

-It reeks of copy & paste to me, personally

-Well, I thought that was a give-in
-I feel a bit ill
-Have I mentioned that?
-Well, I still do
-Andrew came over
-As if you all really wanna hear what we did?
-I thought not
-Anyways
-It was snowing here earlier, but seems to have stopped
-I just noticed I opened itunes so I could listen to some music, and never actually put anything on
-Now I'm to lazy to put the headphones on
-Ah well
-I'm pretty tired
-[yawn]

[Dante]

-I'm pretty much almost recovered from my cold.
-I should be back to full health by tomorrow.
-...Although full health isn't exactly that great.
-But it's better than being ill.
-Today I'll cough a lot, though.
-I shall probably feel just like Mr. Poe.
-But not a bungler.
-It's sunny outside.
-Shame about the shadows.
-It does look rather nice, though.
-A pleasant enough early morning.
-Of course, it's easy to be up early morning when it's winter.
-Although I'm probably up early morning in summer, too.
-Although perhaps not over the summer holidays.
-I just heard seagulls, but then I realised they were on TV.
-Although I did see some suspiciously seagull-like birds at school a while ago, battling the crows.
-Ah, yes.
-I just remembered I have to do some more Maths homework.
-I don't know why I'm complaining; it's not hard.
-And I'm not going to complain about breakfast, either, as that's something to eat.
-Still a couple of days until Christmas.
-I don't think anything interesting is happening to me in the interim, so I'm looking forward to it.
-Have fun in the Snowy Mountains, PJ.
-Oh yes, I forgot.
-You get your presents just tomorrow, don't you?
-Well, enjoy those, too.
-Anyway, I don't actually have all that much to say this morning.
-Was it yesterday that -
-No, it was the day before.
-Or technically yesterday.
-But anyway, I haven't read any more books recently.
-I expect I'll get quite a few for Christmas, though.
-In the meantime, I'll get back to the poetry of Robert Browning, I suppose.

Edit:

-My whole family is out.
-My mother is at work.
-My father and brother are out somewhere...
-And it's just occurred to me that I neither know where they are, nor when they're coming back.
-I should probably pay more attention.

[PJ]

ffwf said:

-Have fun in the Snowy Mountains, PJ.
-Oh yes, I forgot.
-You get your presents just tomorrow, don't you?
-Well, enjoy those, too.

-*evil laugh*
-Net-Wars II Entry 7 should be up either tonight or tommorow morning
-The LAST entry
-I sure do hope I get some good books for Christmas...
-I walked in on my mum packing some presents...
-I think she might have gotten Raven's Gate, by Anthony Horrowitz
-*shudder*
-I hope she didn't
-That's what the cover looked like, though it could have been the First Trilogy of the Seventh Tower by Garth Nix...
-We'll see

[lauren]

-It's 11:57, I should be going to bed now
-I've been staying up late quite often these days
-I don't really feel sleepy
-My dog is sleeping
-Actually he is sleeping in quite a funny way
-The sides of his mouth seem to be blowing up everytime he snores
-My old dog use to bark in her sleep
-I am yet to witness this one sleep-bark
-Work finished at this evening
-Which he pretty good as we usually end around 10:30
-Actually I was expecting us to finish a lot later
-After all it's nearinig Christmas so I would have thought there'd be more stock that needed a packing
-I was wrong.
-My dog has woken up and he is staring at me
-It's freaking me out
-He's probably staring at me because I was staring at him and it's freaking him out
-When are we going to get the secret santa list
-Look it's already 12.04 AM in Western Australia
-Thus it is the 24th and it should have come on the 23rd
-Hey it is the 24th now, that means Christmas Eve
-Well it's not technically Christmas Eve as it is not the evening
-It is the early early morning
-Thus it is the early early morning of christmas eve

[Sugary Snicket]

- Merry Christmas and Happy holidays, everyone.
- I JUST went to Olive Garden and had a huge dinner.
- The strange thing is, now I'm hungery again.
- I recently found the favorites area in my Internet browser.
- I'd always known where it was, just I haven't actually used it until now.
- And 667 is on it!!!! ;D
- My little brother was joking about Puttanesca all the way to the resteraunt.
- I told him to shut up, they hire chefs, not orphans to cook the food here.
- He still wouldn't shut up.
- I feel like playing some X-box, but it's late enough as it is.
- My computer's clock is WAAAAAYYYY off....
-It's telling me that it's 3:19.
- But it's way later than that.
- Like around seven-ish.....
- There is currently a little no-privacy-zone icon in the bottom right-hand corner of my computer screen.
- And when I go to change sites, the bar that says 'Internet' says 'unknown zone.'
- I don't even know what that is.
- I guess that's why it's called the UNKNOWN zone, instead of 'The zone that we are quite familiar with, thank you very much.'
- Any similarity to the 'Twilight Zone' there?
- LOL.
- I <3 'Twilight Zone'.
- It's on the Scifi channel.
- Late.
- AT NIGHT!!!!
- Sorry, too much Spongebob for me.
- Wow, it's been a while since I posted in this thread, huh?
- *contemplates*
- Has anyone here read any of the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' books?
- Or am I just a nerd who likes Douglas Adams?
- For those who have read it, doesn't the narritive style seem sorta like ASOUE?
- "Suh-SPISH-us!!!!!"
- LOL Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
- Did anyone see the eppie where they went camping and got lost in the woods?
- Or the eppie with Cheese? I <3 Cheese.
- I should start a Cheese fanclub in this board.
- .....Actually I should probably do that in 'Our Wicked World".
- ^_^
- OH13 out, y'all....

[Antenora]

-I went to visit my Grandmother M in the big retirement home/senior center where she lives.
-My uncle J, whom I haven't seen in some time, was there as well.
-He apparently lives with someone I haven't met in a mobile home.
-Grandmother gave me an uncertain amount of money in an envelope.
-We're planning to order some things from online catalogs after Christmas.
-On Christmas Day, I'll be visiting my other grandparents.
-There are seagulls at my school in the winter.
-They sometimes fight with the crows and ravens for random crumbs lying around.
-Have a good time in the mountains, PJ.
-It seems like everyone's going on vacation soon...
-I'm staying home for most of Christmas break, though.
-I don't think I've ever stayed up all night, at least when I was trying to.
-Sometimes, I find that I can't sleep for more than about an hour at a time, so I'm effectively awake all night without wanting to be.