Interesting

[The Hammer]

The number of insect species dwarfs the number of all other animal species combined. In spite of this, even a college biology graduate is likely to know very little about all of these animals unless they specifically take an entomology course.

Chickens outnumber people like 3.5:1

And they're smart. We're doomed

 

[John53]

I'm going to the fishmonger and buy some fish for tonight and tomorrow night, might even get a crab if they have some.

 

[John53]

I once thought I saw Gandalf in front of a Home Depot. Turned out to be a guy that walks around the area dressed like Jesus.

Prove it wasn't Gandalf!

 

[John53]

I just checked the letterbox and there was some advertising for PRO-X-22 miracle stimulant that can really transform my sex life in no time at all. That should really come in handy (pun intended) with the Mrs overseas for 4 months.

 

[idea]

GMm/r^2

kqq/r^2

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Prove it wasn't Gandalf!

He didn't turn me into a newt.

 

[JustGeorge]

Fun fact: there are presently more alcoholics on Earth today than anywhere else.

Are you certain?

I once thought I saw Gandalf in front of a Home Depot. Turned out to be a guy that walks around the area dressed like Jesus.

Everyone dresses like Jesus.

I want to see a guy dressed like Shiva. Then I'll be impressed.

I'm going to the fishmonger and buy some fish for tonight and tomorrow night, might even get a crab if they have some.

No one wants to hear about you getting crabs, @John53 ....

 

[Heyo]

I learned something interesting on a recent trip to Normandy. William the Conqueror, known to the English as a Norman interloper, is celebrated in Normandie as an empire builder, law giver, and warrior for Christianity. He is known in the magnificent medeaval city of Rouen as “Guillame Le Conquerant.”

His presence, and that of Joan of Arc - Ste Jeanne d’Arc - can be seen and felt everywhere in Rouen. And a visit to the heart of Normandy brought home to me a certain historic commonality between French and English culture.

@Rival , if you haven’t been to Rouen yet, you truly must, I think you’d love it.

In his time, William was known as William the ******* (the censor monkey will probably have **ed that out, he got that epithet because his mother wasn't married to his father).

 

[Shadow Wolf]

For the time being I have green hair.
The most recent nickname given to me is the Pyschopathic Phlebotomist.
I'm currently reading Spinoza's Ethics. It's been awhile since I've read something this hard.
I'm in the process of starting my own businesses.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Smart cars are apparently a sort of TARDIS as Shaquille O'Neil somehow manages to fit in one.

 

[Heyo]

Say something interesting.

I don't care what it is.

It can be something you found in your couch cushions, something that happened when you were 5, or a trivial fact you haven't had the opportunity to share in awhile. Or anything else you can think of, so long as its interesting!

Go!

When I point out facts that I find interesting, people look at me as if I were an alien or something.

Interesting: When you write the natural numbers in an Ulam Spiral, and mark the primes, a pattern emerges.

 

[ChristineM]

Just been to a brocante/antique sale. Interesting, some nice stuff, some unusual stuff, but we didn't buy anything

 

[Tomef]

I learned something interesting on a recent trip to Normandy. William the Conqueror, known to the English as a Norman interloper, is celebrated in Normandie as an empire builder, law giver, and warrior for Christianity. He is known in the magnificent medeaval city of Rouen as “Guillame Le Conquerant.”

His presence, and that of Joan of Arc - Ste Jeanne d’Arc - can be seen and felt everywhere in Rouen. And a visit to the heart of Normandy brought home to me a certain historic commonality between French and English culture.

@Rival , if you haven’t been to Rouen yet, you truly must, I think you’d love it.

Not really an interloper in England, just one of a great number of claimants to the thrones of England (and Scotland) from all over Europe at different times. Bonny Prince Charlie was technically Italian. Actual English monarchs, in an sense beyond maybe being born there or maybe being related to some other king, and English as in Anglo-Saxon, which is another topic, have only made up about 2 3rds of the bunch. William, as the illegitimate son of the previous king, had a legitimate/disputable claim on the throne.

What he did bring in though were all his Old Norman speaking mates, whom he gave land and titles to. That was the big thing that caused such a shift in English society.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I've lost control I don't see an end there's no escape I don't even have a home anymore. Time to buy a new keyboard.

 

[ChristineM]

An interesting journal thread... So far not so many posts but interesting content.

Mock Turtle world

 

[JustGeorge]

I've lost control I don't see an end there's no escape I don't even have a home anymore. Time to buy a new keyboard.

What happened?

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

Just been to a brocante/antique sale. Interesting, some nice stuff, some unusual stuff, but we didn't buy anything

When I was in Toulouse, we ran into an African market.
They didn't sell anything illegal as far as I could tell, but it still was a black market of sorts...

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

What happened?

He couldn't find his keys.

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

He couldn't find his keys.

Speaking of which... Where is the "any" key?

 

[Mock Turtle]

What happened?

It's a joke I pinched from somewhere.