Kentucky Fried Chicken was originally flavored with a mixture of twelve herbs and spices. The twelth ingredient was a secret known only to Colonel Sanders himself, forcing the company to change to the more familiar eleven herbs and spices after his death.
-- David Zeiger dzei...@the-institute.net Whenever I find myself in a difficult situation, I ask myself "What Would Jesus Do?" The mental image of my opposition being cast into pits of hellfire for all eternity *is* comforting, but probably not what the inventors of the phrase had in mind.
>I'm trying to come up with a list of false "fun facts" of the sort that >get put together as email lore and sent around. You know, the ones that >say "rule of thumb" came from the middle ages and referred to the >largest diameter of stick a man was allowed to beat his wife with.
>But I don't want my list to be rumors and falsehoods that have been >around forever. I want it to be brand new. Help me create this list and >I will send it around and you can tell me if it reaches you.
> FUN FACTS
>1. If everybody who has an email account tried to send an email at the >same time, the entire internet would freeze up for 16 hours while it >processed the load.
>Who wants to add to the list?
<End of list + 1>: Almost all of the 'facts' on any list of this sort are A) incorrect and 2) made up. -- Visit the Furry Artist InFURmation Page! Contact information, which artists do and don't want their work posted. http://web.tampabay.rr.com/starchsr/ Address no longer munged for the inconvenience of spammers. (Yes, this really is me.)
StarChaser Tyger <starcha...@mindless.com> wrote: ><End of list + 1>: Almost all of the 'facts' on any list of this sort > are A) incorrect and 2) made up.
Ooooh. That's tempting! I'll have to think about it.
-- Opus the Penguin "Any question that begins with "Why do my cats..." is rhetorical." - Jerry Randal Bauer
On 20 Sep 2003 06:37:11 GMT, dzei...@the-institute.net (David Zeiger) wrote:
>Kentucky Fried Chicken was originally flavored with a mixture of >twelve herbs and spices. The twelth ingredient was a secret >known only to Colonel Sanders himself, forcing the company to >change to the more familiar eleven herbs and spices after >his death.
We were shorted up here then, because I remember hearing ads for eleven herbs and spices when the Colonel was quite definitely alive.
Bill Kinkaid <kink...@wobble.telus.net> wrote: > On 20 Sep 2003 06:37:11 GMT, dzei...@the-institute.net (David Zeiger) > wrote:
>>Kentucky Fried Chicken was originally flavored with a mixture of >>twelve herbs and spices. The twelth ingredient was a secret >>known only to Colonel Sanders himself, forcing the company to >>change to the more familiar eleven herbs and spices after >>his death.
> We were shorted up here then, because I remember hearing ads for > eleven herbs and spices when the Colonel was quite definitely alive.
It is not well known that Colonel Sanders was played by an animatronic robot for some 20 years after his death. You may recall all those commercials where the colonel simply waved in a somewhat stiff manner.
-- Opus the Penguin "Any question that begins with "Why do my cats..." is rhetorical." - Jerry Randal Bauer
>>Kentucky Fried Chicken was originally flavored with a mixture of >>twelve herbs and spices. The twelth ingredient was a secret >>known only to Colonel Sanders himself, forcing the company to >>change to the more familiar eleven herbs and spices after >>his death.
>We were shorted up here then, because I remember hearing ads for >eleven herbs and spices when the Colonel was quite definitely alive.
Same here, too. Besides, Cecil says the 11 herbs and spices are mostly salt, pepper and sugar. -- Visit the Furry Artist InFURmation Page! Contact information, which artists do and don't want their work posted. http://web.tampabay.rr.com/starchsr/ Address no longer munged for the inconvenience of spammers. (Yes, this really is me.)
>>>Kentucky Fried Chicken was originally flavored with a mixture of >>>twelve herbs and spices. The twelth ingredient was a secret >>>known only to Colonel Sanders himself, forcing the company to >>>change to the more familiar eleven herbs and spices after >>>his death.
>>We were shorted up here then, because I remember hearing ads for >>eleven herbs and spices when the Colonel was quite definitely alive.
>Same here, too.
Wow.
>Besides, Cecil says the 11 herbs and spices are mostly >salt, pepper and sugar.
Bill Poundstone, who also says Cecil is mostly Ed Zotti.
>>>>Kentucky Fried Chicken was originally flavored with a mixture of >>>>twelve herbs and spices. The twelth ingredient was a secret >>>>known only to Colonel Sanders himself, forcing the company to >>>>change to the more familiar eleven herbs and spices after >>>>his death.
>>>We were shorted up here then, because I remember hearing ads for >>>eleven herbs and spices when the Colonel was quite definitely alive.
>>Same here, too.
>Wow.
I don't pay much attention to the commercials now, when I'm not fast forwarding through them, but as a kid, I remember 'eleven herbs and spices'... -- Visit the Furry Artist InFURmation Page! Contact information, which artists do and don't want their work posted. http://web.tampabay.rr.com/starchsr/ Address no longer munged for the inconvenience of spammers. (Yes, this really is me.)
>I don't pay much attention to the commercials now, when I'm not fast >forwarding through them, but as a kid, I remember 'eleven herbs and >spices'...
I'm pretty sure this was meant to be part of an AFCA list of disinformation, in the style of those "facts lists" you get via Email from your less clueful contacts. There was even a pool as to how long before we'd get some back, to debunk. I thought I had Helge debunking on the fly, but he gave me a plausible explanation about simply showing how easily Bill's fact was debunked, and a statement to the effect they should be a little harder.
Now, you, on the other hand, and that other guy...
>>I don't pay much attention to the commercials now, when I'm not fast >>forwarding through them, but as a kid, I remember 'eleven herbs and >>spices'...
>I'm pretty sure this was meant to be part of an AFCA list of disinformation, in >the style of those "facts lists" you get via Email from your less clueful >contacts. There was even a pool as to how long before we'd get some back, to >debunk. I thought I had Helge debunking on the fly, but he gave me a plausible >explanation about simply showing how easily Bill's fact was debunked, and a >statement to the effect they should be a little harder.
Not my fact. I was the debunker, not the debunkee (sounds like a swamp in Florida, doesn't it). Even if it was hook and line (not quite sure about the sinker)
dennisbren...@worldnet.att.net (Dennis Brennan) wrote: > Opus the Penguin wrote:
> When the list is complete to your satisfaction, kindly post the > whole thing here before you send it off to the races.
It's all ready to go. I just have to decide how I want to introduce it into the wild. (I also have to decide whether to keep the very last fact or not). Last chance for volunteers to launch this thing!
Thanks to all who participated. Please remember that the final choices were the result of my own deranged and indefinable criteria. So no one should feel slighted if I didn't pick their contribution.
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The common housefly is unable to stop eating bacon grease. If it lands on a patch of bacon grease it will either consume the entire patch or die from overeating. A housefly is unable to eat more than 3/4" square inches of bacon grease so this can be a entertaining but messy way to dispose of flies.
In 1960, the Dominican Republic outlawed the practice of voodoo. In retaliation, Haiti outlawed the playing of baseball.
The game "Donkey Kong" was developed by Japanese programmers. The Japanese title was "Big Ape Kong." Translators mistakenly confused the English "Donkey" with the intended "Monkey."
The giraffe has an extra heart located in its neck. Without it, it would pass out every time it raised its head.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, a man arrived at the United Nations and presented credentials identifying him as a delegate from the new republic of Konglubistan. He was seated in the General Assembly and took part in debates for 18 months before the editor of the World Almanac notified the UN that no such country existed.
There is a species of worm in South America that can only reproduce by getting cut in half. The two halves then grow into complete worms.
Kentucky Fried Chicken was originally flavored with a mixture of twelve herbs and spices. The twelth ingredient was a secret known only to Colonel Sanders himself, forcing the company to change to the more familiar eleven herbs and spices after his death.
Of all the places in New England that have a "Washington Slept Here" sign on them, only one, the Bright Star Inn of Blue Ball, PA, has ever been verified.
The letter s is used so frequently that English type setters often ran out. When that happened, they substituted an f.
The earth is placed at an almost perfect distance from the sun. If it were one mile closer, the whole planet would be a desert. One mile further out and the whole planet would be covered in ice. It's an ALMOST perfect distance. If we were just .2 miles closer, the whole planet would be a tropical paradise similar to Hawaii. Let's get out the rocket boosters, guys!
A frog's croak echoes twice.
The name of the Ferrari Testarossa automobile is derived from an Italian word for a type of narrow, tubular pasta. The literal translation from the Italian is "small one."
The Canadian province of Newfoundland is technically at war with the Italian city of Florence, and has been since the Napoleonic Wars.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the claw hammer.
Golf is not exactly the world's most strenuous sport. You would have to play 31,236 holes to burn off the calories in a single serving of pie a la mode. You could accomplish the same goal in one game of tennis.
Although any schoolchild can perform long division, mathemeticians have not yet been able to devise a theory of how it actually works.
The current claimant to the throne of the Chinese Empire is a pharmacist in Orange County, California.
The only U.S. president ever to have been struck by lightning was Zachary Taylor, who was struck twice.
Per capita consumption of chocolate in Delaware is over five times the U.S. national average.
The calendar of the Hittite people of ancient Turkey had a finite number of days. The last day on their calendar happened to be July 4, 1776.
Rutgers University in New Jersey was originally founded as a school within the state's prison administration, to teach skills to inmates. The classes proved so successful that members of the general public were admitted.
The island of Mabu, in the Marshall Islands, has no written language. The Mabuans have traditionally relied on human memory. Until 1979 (when written records began to be kept in English), the operator of the principal telephone switching station in Mabu had to memorize the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all 8,000 of Mabu's residents.
Due to a surveyor's error, the official western border of the state of Kansas is 17 feet 8 3/4 inches east of the official border of the state of Colorado. Consequently, there is a long, thin strip of land between the two states that technically is not part of either state.
Corduroy was unknown in Europe until Marco Polo brought it back from China.
The severity of hurricanes has significantly increased since 1914. This is because the Panama Canal opened that year, allowing cooler water from the Pacific Ocean to mix with warmer water in the Caribbean.
The small European country of Liechtenstein is technically a vassal of the Czech Republic. Every year, Liechtenstein's government is required to deliver five pounds of gold and twenty cows to the Czech government.
If everybody who has an email account tried to send an email at the same time, the entire internet would freeze up for 16 hours while it processed the load.
When the band Kansas broke up in 1983, two former members went on to form a new group. In order to convey the message "I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," they named the band Toto.
"Seinfeld" is the longest running US TV show never to have featured the wedding of any of the principal characters.
Almost all of the "facts" on any list of this sort are A) incorrect and 2) made up.
-- Opus the Penguin "Any question that begins with "Why do my cats..." is rhetorical." - Jerry Randal Bauer
Opus the Penguin wrote: > dennisbren...@worldnet.att.net (Dennis Brennan) wrote: >> Opus the Penguin wrote: >> When the list is complete to your satisfaction, kindly post the >> whole thing here before you send it off to the races. > It's all ready to go. I just have to decide how I want to introduce it
If you want a "give-away check", continue...
> die from overeating. A housefly is unable to eat more than 3/4" square > inches of bacon grease so this can be a entertaining but messy way to
Think you missed something I posted earlier: better change that to *cubic* inches, or by not making sense it will be kinda weakened.
> Of all the places in New England that have a "Washington Slept Here" > sign on them, only one, the Bright Star Inn of Blue Ball, PA, has ever > been verified.
PA is in New England? I think someone mentioned that, too. I don't know who's in your killfile.
On 23 Sep 2003 03:12:43 GMT, Opus the Penguin wrote:
>Rutgers University in New Jersey was originally founded as a school >within the state's prison administration, to teach skills to inmates. >The classes proved so successful that members of the general public >were admitted.
As a graduate of said school, I believe this to be almost correct. If it said "residents of lunatic asylums" instead of "inmates", it would be a true fact. Many of them are still there.
>Almost all of the "facts" on any list of this sort are A) incorrect and >2) made up.
This gives the joke away. I would skip it.
-- Hand me down my soup and fish I am gonna get my wish.
>Opus the Penguin wrote: >> dennisbren...@worldnet.att.net (Dennis Brennan) wrote: >>> Opus the Penguin wrote:
>>> When the list is complete to your satisfaction, kindly post the >>> whole thing here before you send it off to the races.
>> It's all ready to go. I just have to decide how I want to introduce it
>If you want a "give-away check", continue...
>> die from overeating. A housefly is unable to eat more than 3/4" square >> inches of bacon grease so this can be a entertaining but messy way to
>Think you missed something I posted earlier: better change that to >*cubic* inches, or by not making sense it will be kinda weakened.
>> Of all the places in New England that have a "Washington Slept Here" >> sign on them, only one, the Bright Star Inn of Blue Ball, PA, has ever >> been verified.
>PA is in New England? I think someone mentioned that, too. I don't >know who's in your killfile.
I missed that one. No, PA is *not* in New England.
-- Hand me down my soup and fish I am gonna get my wish.
>>I'm pretty sure this was meant to be part of an AFCA list of disinformation, in >>the style of those "facts lists" you get via Email from your less clueful >>contacts.
Which brings up a point. It's fun to see lists of foolishness accumulate, but to actually send yet another list of bullshit out into the world seems irresponsible...I get enough crap email as it is, sent out by well-meaning idiots, and don't know that anyone needs more, sent circulating deliberately.
-- "Just because something is in the constitution, that makes it right?" - AM22 on afca
> Opus the Penguin wrote: >> dennisbren...@worldnet.att.net (Dennis Brennan) wrote: >>> Opus the Penguin wrote:
>>> When the list is complete to your satisfaction, kindly post the >>> whole thing here before you send it off to the races.
>> It's all ready to go. I just have to decide how I want to >> introduce it
> If you want a "give-away check", continue...
>> die from overeating. A housefly is unable to eat more than 3/4" >> square inches of bacon grease so this can be a entertaining but >> messy way to
> Think you missed something I posted earlier: better change that to > *cubic* inches, or by not making sense it will be kinda weakened.
>> Of all the places in New England that have a "Washington Slept >> Here" sign on them, only one, the Bright Star Inn of Blue Ball, >> PA, has ever been verified.
> PA is in New England? I think someone mentioned that, too. I > don't know who's in your killfile.
I caught both of those helpful hints. But after due consideration, I felt that "real" facts lists of this sort contain just such errors. That's part of their charm. Anyone with a bit of knowledge can falsify some of them without getting off their butt.
-- Opus the Penguin "Any question that begins with "Why do my cats..." is rhetorical." - Jerry Randal Bauer
fOn 23 Sep 2003 04:35:26 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote: ] > die from overeating. A housefly is unable to eat more than 3/4" square ] > inches of bacon grease so this can be a entertaining but messy way to ] ] Think you missed something I posted earlier: better change that to ] *cubic* inches, or by not making sense it will be kinda weakened.
No DON'T use cubic inches. If you see a smear of bacon grease on the window sill you don't measure the thickness of the grease. I was the original poster of the grease idea and I INTENTIONALLY did not use a cubic measurement.
"All I wanted to do was sail my boat. Navigate by the stars, watch dolphins swim alongside, maybe kill a few of 'em." -Cisco
>Which brings up a point. It's fun to see lists of foolishness accumulate, >but >to actually send yet another list of bullshit out into the world seems >irresponsible...I get enough crap email as it is, sent out by well-meaning >idiots, and don't know that anyone needs more, sent circulating deliberately.
Yeah! And plus, my Jeffery Dahmer item somehow isn't on the list.
Arthur Kimes wrote: > fOn 23 Sep 2003 04:35:26 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> > wrote: > ] > die from overeating. A housefly is unable to eat more than 3/4" > square > ] > inches of bacon grease so this can be a entertaining but messy way > to > ] > ] Think you missed something I posted earlier: better change that to > ] *cubic* inches, or by not making sense it will be kinda weakened. > No DON'T use cubic inches. If you see a smear of bacon grease > on the window sill you don't measure the thickness of the grease. I was > the original poster of the grease idea and I INTENTIONALLY did not use a > cubic measurement.
You might not measure it, but it's what the fly is eating; it's not eating a two-dimensional substance.
>Dutch said, in small part: >>>I'm pretty sure this was meant to be part of an AFCA list of disinformation, >in >>>the style of those "facts lists" you get via Email from your less clueful >>>contacts.
>Which brings up a point. It's fun to see lists of foolishness accumulate, but >to actually send yet another list of bullshit out into the world seems >irresponsible...I get enough crap email as it is, sent out by well-meaning >idiots, and don't know that anyone needs more, sent circulating deliberately.
That was the reason I put in my addition...anyone who read down that far might realize that it would be stupid to pass it on... -- Visit the Furry Artist InFURmation Page! Contact information, which artists do and don't want their work posted. http://web.tampabay.rr.com/starchsr/ Address no longer munged for the inconvenience of spammers. (Yes, this really is me.)
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