Trivia Thread.

Let me add some audio trivia to this:

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

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Originally posted by Infidelity:
Let me add some audio trivia to this:

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

Not after it's bounced off a few satellites!

Mark

My top three ...

Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee lost control of his bladder while surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

Louis Armstrong's first trumpet was stolen from his hotel room in New York City in 1926. Thirty years later, he found it in a Detroit pawn shop.

The pope's official barber, who cuts only the pope's hair, earns an annual salary equivalent to $250,000 (US).

Dear 555,

Now with World Youth Day upon us here in Sydney, i hope that the good pilgrims are aware of the lack of VANITY shown by the leader of the Catholic Church and his ability to behave in a modest manner as per the examples depicted in the GOOD BOOK.

I shudder at how people with power are able to spend other people's money on themselves and then espouse :

Humility

and a lack of Vanity.

Oh well next few days Sydney will rejoice in their inability to legally :

CAUSE A NUISANCE TO ANYONE ATTENDING WORLD YOUTH DAY.

This is punishable by fines up to $5000.00

I imagine the courts will be full of wellwishers giving free condoms to the pilgrims.

This is all over the news here and is causing much merriment to Sydneysiders who will be inconvenienced by this event.

I wish i had ONE SINGULAR whose needs i attended to occassionally for the modest and humble sum you detailed.

Damn i might even join the Catholic Church.

The world has gone mad.

Anyway the POPE wears his little cap so why does his hair merit such expert attention.

I thought Vanity was a SIN.

Anyway to add fun to World Youth Day Cardinal Pell has got into a spot of Bother over his correspondence with two complainants of Sexual assault abuse by a priest upon them.

Look it up it is interesting how such an eduacted and intelligent man can get himself into this pickle.

regards David

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Originally posted by 555:
Louis Armstrong's first trumpet was stolen from his hotel room in New York City in 1926. Thirty years later, he found it in a Detroit pawn shop.

Bizarre - I once found a prawn in a trumpet shop.

I've got a hair on my arse that cracks like a whip when I fart.

Tony

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Originally posted by Infidelity:
Let me add some audio trivia to this:

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

Don't forget the sound still has to travel from the receiver's loudspeaker to the ear.

How about starting "***the OFFICIAL Pedantry Thread***"

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I once found a prawn in a trumpet shop.

Intriguing, I once found a prawn manhandling crumpet.

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The pope's official barber, who cuts only the pope's hair, earns an annual salary equivalent to $250,000 (US).

John, if you think $250k is trivial, Te Salute, Don Corleone!

Things are tough all over ...

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Originally posted by TomK:
[Don't forget the sound still has to travel from the receiver's loudspeaker to the ear.

And from the mouth to the microphone!

A flea can leap the equivalent of a football field in a single bound.

A monsoon is a wind, rather than rain.

The man who wrote the music for the song "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile" committed suicide.

Swifts are unable to take off from the ground.

Did you know, you can't hang a man with an artificial leg in Saudi Arabia?

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Originally posted by 555:
The pope's official barber, who cuts only the pope's hair, earns an annual salary equivalent to $250,000 (US).

I imagine this came from that well-known authority Factopolis? (Certainly it was the only place I could find anything about papal barbers' salaries by Googling.)

Talking of the Pope, did you know that he is in fact a member of this Forum? Forum name: Ratbag. He has a 500-series DBL active system. Those late night raves in the Papal apartments - mainly Jungle - really are a blast.

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Did you know, you can't hang a man with an artificial leg in Saudi Arabia?

Or should that read "Did you know, you can't hang a man BY an artificial leg in Saudi Arabia?"

Well spotted Howard. In fact, you've got to use a rope! Boom, boom!

(I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down!)

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

For the US or International baseball fans...

The "Foul Pole" is in fair territory and itself is fair (home run) if hit.

Knuckle balls are thrown with the nails, not the knuckles.

The White Sox wear black socks... and always have.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Charles Rolls, partner of Royce, was the first Englishman to be killed in a plane crash, in 1910.

Before he started building cars, Andre Citroen designed and built the steering gear on the Titanic.

The Lotus badge bears the full initials of founder Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.