Random Fact Thread

[Dante]

-Maybe, but I still think it'll reach at least 500 pages.
-And that isn't hard; we must be only about thirteen posts away from that now.
-Appropriately enough.
-Anyway, it's another one of those mornings where I don't have to be in school for ages.
-And because one of my parents is giving me a lift to school, I probably have an extra ten minutes or so.
-Anyway, I have a General Studies test today.
-I was meant to have it last Monday, but I wasn't there.
-Quite a lot of people also weren't there, strangely, but I had an excuse.
-Although I think some people might have been rehearsing for our school's production of Guys and Dolls.
-I don't know if I should have gone to see that or not.
-It would have been interesting to see some of my contemporaries in costume.
-Then again, I'd probably have been bored most of the time.
-School plays: Merits and demerits of.
-I've also remembered that I was supposed to have revised some terms for Economics today.
-I'll do that after I've finished this post, probably.
-Lousy Economics.
-My classes are boring, and the students are obnoxious.
-I wouldn't say it's hit rock-bottom, but only because I don't think that's possible.
-It's like they went as low as they could go, but then that itself had another low, which had its own low, and so on and so on, and every lesson they move into one of these new lows, but never quite reach the very darkest depths.
-Rather like the paradox of the runner and the tortoise.
-I didn't even want to take Economics; I wanted Philosophy, but it wouldn't fit the timetable.
-And when my parents complained, some of my teachers fed me a load of waffle about everyone hating Philosophy and how nobody passes.
-I now suspect that to have been all lies.
-I should have thought of that, really.
-But I do worry about grades, and I wasn't fond of the teacher.
-More fool me. My associates are always telling me what a great time they have in their Philosophy classes, and how interesting it is.
-Jerks.
-Philosophy classes: Merits and demerits of.
-I haven't seen any birds in my garden for the longest time.
-Maybe it's the wrong sort of weather?
-Weather: Merits and demerits of.
-Thinking of things to talk about: Merits and demerits of.
-Posting this: Merits and demerits of.
-Merits and demerits: Demerits and merits of.
-Repeating the same word until it no longer sounds like a word: Merits and demerits of.

Edit:

-I did that Economics revision.
-Now I won't have to do it at school, where I wouldn't have been able to concentrate.
-It's impossible to concentrate at school, because there is nowhere in the entire building that is quiet and empty.
-Sometimes I can barely hear myself think.
-Anyway, I see that Britain is being accused of spying on Russia using a rock.
-Wow, the ingenuity of those spies never ceases to astound me.
-Conspicuous, suspicious rocks located near to the embassy: Merits and demerits of.

[Zavi]

-I suppose I'll contribute to getting 500 pages.
-We have yet another snow day today.
-We've had at least five days now that school has gotten canceled. Two were flood days. No, there wasn't a flood in New Hampshire; either someone purposely broke the safety showers in what used to be a chemistry lab, or some pipe just burst. But we don't have to make those two days up, so we're going to school for only 178 days instead of 180.
-I have Drama tomorrow.
-It should be fun.
-But there's a really annoying kid there. Oh well. My friends will be there too.
-And then I have city choir next Monday; but I might have to miss that rehersal due to an orthodontist appointment.
-Spying on Russia with a rock? The minds of the people these days...
-My iPod needs to be charged, but I'm too lazy to charge it.
-But the plug and the actual iPod are right here.
-I'm still too lazy.
-I need to clean up my desk. It's getting rather--or, shall I say 'very' cluttered.
-I'm going to make more sad attempts at drawing today.
-Maybe I'll actually improve this time.
-I doubt it, but I must practice.
-It took me ten years of doodling to make decent dragons. But that was self taught, no art classes.
-Maybe I should take art classes.
-I was about the only person who actually liked Art class in school.
-I could only have it for one trimester. Bleh. Now it's over.
-Now I have gym. The worst subject of the school.
-But on the bright side, the games we're playing now are quite enjoyable.
-And I'll have Design Tech class next trimester.
-Today's episode of Oprah looks rather promising; I'll be looking forward to watching it.
-Dr. Phil was moved to 3:00 PM, so I miss some of it because of school.
-But today, I have no school, so I won't miss anything.
-I tape both shows when I have Drama on Tuesdays and Thursdays, because I usually get home at about five or six.
-In March we have it every day, and I won't get home until about seven or eight.
-I really need to work on my dancing skills.
-I'm terrible.
-And I'm going to learn a whole new set of steps tomorrow, I think.

Edit:

-I need to correct all this bad grammar.
-I almost have 1,000 posts. Squee for me.
-That rhymes. [/pointing out the obvious]
-I still need to charge my iPod.
-I guess I'll do that now.
-I wonder if my friend is on AIM.
-I hate AIM.
-Whoa, that sounded oxymoronic.
-Oxymoronic. Cool word.
-Well, I don't think it's an actual word.
-But I do hate AIM.
-I only really talk to one person there, and only because she doesn't have a better program like MSN.
-MSN and Yahoo are so much better than ugly AIM.
-And MSN icons are way better than AIM ones.
-AIM just sucks.
-No one speaks proper English there.
-I despise the phrase: 'lol'.
-It doesn't even make sense!
-Just kidding, laugh out loud!
-That makes absolutely no sense.
-But netspeak never does, does it?
-At least it's not l33tsp34k.
-I say, why follow such a disturbing trend?
-You sound so much more mature and appealing if you use proper English.
-Whoo, that was a rather long edit.
-I don't think I'm done yet, either.
-But I don't really have anything better to do yet.
-Well, yes I do. So I guess I'll stop.

[Skeleton Key]

-I just realised.
-My parents did a terrible job raising me.
-My stroller had a skull charm dangling off it, for Cripe's sake!
-And they taught me to say "Cripe's sake".
-If you ask an infant what the name of the store is, they'lkl usually say "Raley's" or "Safeway" or "Supermarket". My parents say I said "Hot Topic"
-My parents went to Old Navy solely to buy Halloweeen clothes.
-I named one of my plushies "Frankenkitty"
-Their nickname for me through second grade was "Gothgirl"
-My mom only buys me Gothic Victorian clothing because the modern clothes are too revealing.
-As soon as I learned how to read, mom shoved TBB in my face.
-If someone asked me who me favorite "pretend character" was, I'd usually say "Kiki" (From Kiki's delivery service) "Little Witch" "Lydia" (From Beetlejuice) or "Sunny Bow-dah-lee-air"
-No wonder I'm so weird.
-If my parents had raised me better I could have been normal.

[Snicket]

-We are almost to 500 pages.
-I am making a new Pintoid Camera.
-It is a pinhole camera built into an altoids tin.
-My new one will have 8 lenses.
-I may post the pictures later.
-Will this be the longest thread on 667 that actually has a topic?

[Deleted]

Chuck Norris can win a game of connect four in only three moves.

[PJ]

skeletonkey said:

-If my parents had raised me better I could have been normal.

-Then again, what's so fun about being like everyone else?
-Individuality pwns
-I have to study, now, so there are only three facts
-Make that four

Edit:
-Oh, right
-I'm also staying back home now, to study

[Dante]

-I had what I imagine was a "normal" upbringing.
-It was rubbish.
-I've spent years catching up on things I should have learnt and read when I was being fed the same old rubbish as every other nitwit.
-I still am.
-Anyway, I'm home for lunch.
-Again.
-And I will be every Tuesday for the next two weeks until half-term.
-Yes, my timetable has been messed up.
-One of my ELit teachers has gone off sick again.
-For a month.
-Oh, and we're not doing The Winter's Tale anymore, we're doing Hamlet.
-Most of my class confronted our other teacher in ELit this morning to complain about how our education is being seriously messed around.
-I won't bore you with the details, but we came to a conclusion.
-We're basically swapping out our dull General Studies lessons and Tutorial for extra English lessons, and we'll have an extra lesson after school on Monday as well.
-There will, we understand, be biscuits.
-This actually leaves me with four free periods over the week, and only one extra.
-So yeah, that's good.
-Still, half of our ELit education has been, frankly, a shambles.
-We're a great deal behind where we should be, and when our actual teacher returns, we neither learn anything nor do anything new.
-Hopefully, it's been sorted out for the very last time now, though.
-Anyway, I have Maths this afternoon.
-A lesson which I dread, because we get pointless amounts of homework.
-At least I've got this break, though.
-Although I'll have to leave again in about half an hour.
-Actually, I could probably afford to leave quite a bit later, but I'm pretty paranoid about time sneaking up on me and stabbing me in the back.
-Anyway, less on my dull and repetitive school life.
-On l33tsp34k:
-01\/16 133+51'341< 15 +31-1 1<3\/\/1_!1!!11111!1!!11onetwothree
-Oh yeah, my General Studies test was easy, also.
-But it hurt my hand from so much concentrated writing in so little time.
-And I've apparently strained the muscles in my shoulders somehow, because it is physically painful to put on my bag.
-On the bright side, I'm eating lunch now.
-Ugh. Raisins.
-Anyway, I had ELit homework, but I did it when I got home.
-Free periods due to teacher absence are great.
-They are quite possibly the best aspect of Sixth Form.

[Carma]

-In french class, we're getting pen-pals from Africa.
-In march, we might get replies from the African kids.
-I'm excited.
-Many of the girls in my class were hoping to have a guy write them back.
-I don't really care about that.
-In cooking, my brownies I made for my exam fell on the floor.
-Then three guys had the thought of "hey look brownies!" and picked them up and ate them.
-The teacher said they were really good and so did those guys, so at least I know I got a good mark.
-Yesterday I got The Silver Chair from the library and I'm planning to watch that soon.

[Snicket]

-I know a guy who is Iranian.
-He surprisingly jokes about bombs and how Iraq is going to launch Nuclear Missiles to the United States. And Canada.
-He thinks George Bush is tapping his phones.
-He has several other Iranian friends named Sunni, Pepti, and Pekita.
-He has a cat named Snowball.
-Today, I am going to take pictures with my 8-hole Pinhole Camera.
-I want Kodak's new 2-lens Digital Camera.
-I have their original and it sucks.
-I also own one of the first ever Digital Cameras.
-It was made by Apple in the 90's and was called "The Apple Quicktake Cam" or something like that.
-Its name is kind of ripped-off by Logitech with their "Quick Cams"
-I have a wireless Logitech Keyboard and Mouse.
-I have already mentioned that at least two times in this thread.
-The pic in my Signiture is from the loading screen of the Phillips WebTv boxes.
-These were computers that hooked to your TV and were able to get on the internet.
-Microsoft bought them out.
-The WebTv was my 20th computer I ever owned.
-I am still trying to fix it.
-Eight years ago, it somehow stopped working.
-It may be like the Lisa's or the Mac Tvs.
-They just stop working one day.
-My Lisa still works though.
-I have been reading up on Ball Lightning.
-I didn't know it existed until I randomly pulled up the Wikipedia Page on it.
-I am also reading theories on the origin of the Hope Diamond.
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-Wow, almost 500 pages.
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-We have came a long way.
-*Plays Green Day's "Good Riddance" song.*





Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

[jemima]

-Chocolate is toxic to cats.
-Green Day rules.
-Green Day is actually a slang term for a day spent sitting around smoking.
-I don't like the concept, but I don't entirely care; the band just rocks.
-I think the prefix "veri-" means "truth," see 'verisimilitude' and 'veritiserum' to see what I mean.
-Black panthers (is there any other kind?) are actually jaguars with very dark fur. Under bright lights, you can see the spots of the jaguar's underneath all that black.

[Zavi]

-Chocolate is also toxic to gods--dogs.
-I think onions are, too.
-But don't quote me on that.
-Wicked rawks.
-And it's 'veritaserum'. But I think the prefix meaning is correct.
-Look at the word: 'veritable'.
-I just came back from Drama.
-It was entertaining.
-But this kid really annoys me.
-I think he likes me a little too much.
-My best friend is leaving for a vacation to Florida on Thursday.
-I'm gonna miss her! D:
-She's gonna get one extra big hug tomorrow.
-She'll get one when she comes back, too.
-I was in a very bad mood at lunch.
-But I won't go into detail about that.
-I'm running out of things to say.
-So I'll stop.

[Alice Wilde]

-I want to see this thread reach 500 pages.
-Therefore, my contribution.
-I found this really cool site with all the songs my favorite radio station used to play.
-Before it got taken over by Latino pop.
-Nothing against the Hispanics.
-http://songfinder.mypuppet.net/songlist.php
-It's mostly dance musik.
-I spell it with a 'k' because it looks more modern and technoesque.

[Carma]

-So, wow, 500 pages.
-I'm watching American Idol right now.
-Oh, just look at all those bad singers...
-I've just found out that the library has CDs.
-woo.
-I'm going to get lots of CDs next time I go.
-Which won't be for at least a week because of exams.

[SF]

-I believe this will be on the 500th page
-To stop Dante's streak of getting the first post on the 100th pages
-I was upset earlier, but am fine now
-I really hate this English book I'm in dealing with tenses and the like
-My Algebra II book is pretty hard also
-I have a History and Geography test tomorrow
-I got a 12/10 on my Marriage and the Family pop quiz
-Two were bonus points
-Huzzah!
-Now to finish my English homework.

[Zavi]

-I'm glad I have this time in the morning before school that I can get on 667.
-Yzay.
-I can't believe I just said that.
-I like my English class.
-I hate my Math class.
-Three minutes until I should go.
-I hate school.
-But a lot of people do.
-I think I have city choir today.
-Yeah, we do.
-And we have Drama tomorrow.
-Nothing on Friday though, I think.
-I have an orthodontist appointment next Friday, though.
-Roar.
-Stupid braces.
-I hope we don't have a subsitute in gym today.
-Whenever we do, we play kickball. I hate kickball.