Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information

1/24/2009 10:10:18 AM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
tevhss Macon, GA age: 48	For instance; -The feminine spelling of my name is TRACY or TRACIE. Mine is Tracy. -The masuline spelling is TRACEY -The feminine spelling of my Mom's name is FRANCES. -The masuline spelling is FRANCIS -In written conversation, a capitalzed word shows emphasis. -Capitalized sentences and paragraphs are perceived as yelling. -When writing or speaking about yourself and someone else, always use yourself last in the sentence. -When refering to only certain members of a known group of people, it is best NOT to make comments about those certain people that can be misread as all inclusive of the known group. -Unless you saw it with your own eyes, don't believe it or repeat it. -If you did see it with your own eyes, still don't repeat it. -Alcohol clouds judgement and memory.(This is why you will NEVER see me drunk.) OK! I've started this thread with a few facts from left field. Let's see some interesting and funny trivia and useless information!!!
1/24/2009 11:29:18 AM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
mst73 Lawrenceville, GA age: 36	There is no letter "a" in definitely. It is definitely, NOT definately.
1/24/2009 11:32:37 AM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
georgiagirl2009 Tifton, GA age: 28	Quote from mst73: There is no letter "a" in definitely. It is definitely, NOT definately. dang, i need to write that down... i keep misspelling it. y'all feel free to let me know when i have misspelled something!
1/24/2009 11:54:04 AM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
robtest Norcross, GA age: 48	Quote from tevhss: For instance; -In written conversation, a capitalzed word shows emphasis. -Capitalized sentences and paragraphs are perceived as yelling. Over use of Capitalization makes the information harder to read and less likely to be absorbed. So Ironically, instead of GETTING BIG ATTENTION, you normally end up being ignored... Forums are a very useful tool if used correctly. Here on the DH forums, it gives you the chance to interact with other singles on a national and even international level. Here on the GA forums, it gives you the opportunity to interact with singles that you might actually meet. It gives us an opportunity to get to know each other, and kinda get a feel for what other people are like. It kinda takes the edge of just meeting someone that you have traded a few emails and perhaps talked on the phone with a bit. This is the internet though. It's allow us to move about in an almost anonymous state, gives us odd feelings of empowerment that we can sometimes behave in manners that we might not do face to face. It allows liars to ply their trade amounst the seekers of truth. It is both good and evil at the same time. Personal prudence must be developed and employed. Sometimes people let their emotions get them cared away. On forums that can be a dangerous thing. Sometimes you might forget that not only are you interacting with the people currently, you might also be leaving footprints to be followed by a potential suitor. Many times it is best to hold one's tongue, rather than run off the next Mr./Ms. Right before you even get a chance to meet.
1/24/2009 1:27:45 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
sophos8 Milledgeville, GA age: 28	Geeze, this thread is right up my alley. I'm pretty much the king of useless information. Chef Boyardee was a real person. He got his start by giving his spaghetti sauce to friends in milk containers. Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs used to sing opera. A desert is a hot dry place you only want to go through once, so it has only one S. Dessert is an after meal treat that you always want a second serving of, so it has two S's. Towards, backwards, forwards are all misspelled. They aren't supposed to end in s. The proper spelling is adviser, not advisor. However, it has become such a common misspelling, that it is listed both ways in the dictionary. The word "teenager" was first coined in a magazine in the 1950s. It was first spelled teen-ager. However, due to constant misspelling of leaving out the hyphen, it only took 20 years to become teenager. (The Associated Press style in newspapers kept "teen-ager" until the early 2000s.) Latin is the root of several different languages, most notably English and Spanish. English and Spanish are almost completely opposite in their rules of grammar. In Latin, the rolling of the R was semi-important, but not necessary. In English, it is completely unnecessary. In Spanish, if you don't roll the R, you aren't saying the word. In Latin, placement of words in sentences was semi-important. In Spanish, it doesn't matter where you place the subject of the sentence -- the accent of the sentence and words points out what the subject in. In English, if you don't place the subject in the right place, the sentence sounds strange and foreign. (Yoda in Star Wars try speaking like.) I've got hundreds more bits of useless information. I think I'm going to have to take over this thread to answer questions people don't know the answer to.
1/24/2009 2:18:15 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
40_yr_old_virgo Tallapoosa, GA age: 45	The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. A c*ckroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! Cat's urine glows under a black-light! One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! (I have four times that I know of - Bozo show when I was about 6, a commercial where I worked at, a news report about the Virginia Lottery - we were standing in line, and I was interviewed at a school board meeting)
1/24/2009 3:42:17 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
tevhss Macon, GA age: 48	These are fantastic responses!!!! Just what I was hoping for! Let's keep it up folks. A dictionary in every room of the house is NOT a bad thing. Not using them IS a bad thing. Unfortunately, I am a terrible speller and get in too big of a rush to stop and check my spelling. Sorry! When you are having trouble going to sleep at night, read a dictionary. Works every time!
1/24/2009 3:56:54 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
robtest Norcross, GA age: 48	The great irony with the easy of the internet, to look up the spelling of words is that you actually have to able to spell "dictionary" to goto the website www.dictionary.com
1/24/2009 9:01:52 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
mst73 Lawrenceville, GA age: 36	Marilyn Monroe did NOT have 6 toes. She was in a photo barefoot on the beach. There was sand around her feet that made her appear to have a 6th toe. And Lawman does NOT have a vagina on his hand.
1/24/2009 9:07:16 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
sophos8 Milledgeville, GA age: 28	Both of those pics could have fooled me!
1/24/2009 9:49:53 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
fairysparkles Acworth, GA age: 43	The English Language! Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language? Let's face it, English is a language where, There is no egg in the eggplant. No ham in the hamburger, And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple! English muffins were not invented in England. French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that, Quicksand takes you down slowly, Boxing rings are square, And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing! If the plural of tooth is teeth, Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth! If the teacher taught, Why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, What the heck does a humanitarian eat!? Why do people recite at a play Yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and Drive on parkways You have to marvel at the unique lunacy Of a language where a house can burn up as It burns down And in which you fill in a form By filling it out And a bell is only heard once it goes! English was invented by people, not computers, And it reflects the creativity of the human race. (Which of course isn't a race at all) That is why When the stars are out they are visible, But when the lights are out they are invisible And why it is that when I wind up my watch, It starts. But when I wind up this observation, It ends. Submitted by Anish Grover (), Pune, India
1/24/2009 10:54:14 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
sophos8 Milledgeville, GA age: 28	I never liked that poem much. Although it's fun and fantastical for children, it fails to take into account that the English language is made of several different languages, which is why is seems to disagree with itself.
1/27/2009 7:31:57 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
pentopaper Calhoun, GA age: 42	It is aginst the law in Atlanta to tie a giraffe to a phone pole
1/27/2009 7:36:17 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
casual37 Norcross, GA age: 38	mU head HERTS iN dis POSTE.mE tRYING 2 use Correct GRAMMMMERE wOULD mAKE ME thinks 2 much.. LOL..
1/27/2009 8:15:40 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
mst73 Lawrenceville, GA age: 36	their, there, they're to, too your, you're so many more but drives me crazy when used in wrong context
1/27/2009 8:32:07 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
splitlicker Stockbridge, GA age: 45	do you know why they say dont drank sea water A blue whale when haveing sex cum's 400 gallons but only a 1/4 of that goes into the female whale the rest goes into the sea.
1/27/2009 10:07:26 PM	Trivia, Grammar and Other Useless Information
sophos8 Milledgeville, GA age: 28	Quote from splitlicker: do you know why they say dont drank sea water Yes I do. The answer is that the kidneys only make urine that is less salty than salt water. (Salt water is 10,000 or more ppm salt to water ratio.) Therefore, to get rid of the excess salt, you would have to urinate more water than you drank. That means you die of dehydration.