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De-Ignoramousnessifying.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:03 / 22.09.04

I am dissatified with the contents of my head. I know the names of Chewbacca's offspring but there are huge dusty wastes where Important Stuff should be. This saddens me.

You! You who have been to more school than me! You who have Important Stuff in Brains! Give up your secrets! Fill leaky gaps in head with Stuff you think people should know. Facts, figures, online resources, quotes, references, things you happen to know and feel like passing on (eg, "Superglue is a really bad way to attach your hair extensions"). Whatever Stuff you deem to be Important.

Improve me.

Char Aina

16:19 / 22.09.04

1
the right answer is necessarily secondary to the right question.
2
knowlegde may be power, but intent is your vector.

w1rebaby

16:24 / 22.09.04

If you buy the small hoagie for dinner, you will eat the whole lot, because half is not quite enough and you're greedy, and feel a bit ill.

But if you buy the large hoagie, you can eat half for dinner and take the other half to work the next day, where it is a perfectly adequate lunch. So you get two appropriately-sized meals for $3.50 each, although you might wish to augment one or both with, say, some crisps or a soup, depending on your appetite.

w1rebaby

16:26 / 22.09.04

Oh, and on the subject - never buy a large doner. A small doner is always enough and you never want to eat the extra meat that you get; your jaw gets tired before then and you're sick of the whole idea. Science.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:45 / 22.09.04

Christ,never eat a doner. It's the opposite of food.

The War of the Lelantine Plain. We're not sure if it happened, but we know exactly where it either happened or didn't.

That is how history is *supposed* to work.

Sekhmet

16:47 / 22.09.04

Armadillos almost invariably have four offspring at a time, all four of the same sex.

ibis the being

17:50 / 22.09.04

all right, De-Ignoramousnessify me - what's a doner?

and, in order to keep tropical fish in an aquarium you have to establish a functioning nitrogen cycle, wherein nitrifying bacteria consume the toxic byproducts of fish waste and convert (excrete) them in a less toxic form.

Studygirltash

19:44 / 22.09.04

The safety plan that it should only take 2.5 mins to clear a building in case of a fire comes from a 1800's fire in a theater in Scotland where it took the orchastra 2 times thru God Save the King to get the theater cleared when fire broke out on the stage...Thank heavens the people closest TO the fire didnt leave or else we would never get this important, now highly outdated, piece of information

unheimlich manoeuvre

20:01 / 22.09.04

Plants are living power stations.They turn sunlight into the fuel (carbohydrate) that powers our bodies using carbon dioxide and water as the raw materials. The only by-product is oxygen.

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It is not only Iran or North Korea, which may raise concerns about nuclear developments

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badger, badger, badger bananaphone

Lilly Nowhere Late

21:00 / 22.09.04

One can become as addicted to one's own mistakes as to the most powerful drug or lust or alcohol.

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21:27 / 22.09.04

You who have Important Stuff in Brains!

That is so cool. Will you marry me? Why won't anyone MARRY me?

Anyway, seeing as you want any type of knowledge, i'll link you to this, it's a really good free online book about myths, old tales and superstitions and the common links between them.

I give you this because I'm strange, and because the little I* have read of it really made me feel like I was learning something important.

*Capitalised I's come courtesy of the brain of Sax.

pointless and uncalled for

08:52 / 23.09.04

Before you, and this really does apply to everyone in the world, decide to tell an anecdote or cautionary tale or the like, please first refer to Snopes or some other website relating to the telling of urban myths. Then afterwards the telling you should automatically suffix the tale with one of the following phrases.

a) Snopes has confirmed this to be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
b) Snopes has been unable to either confirm or deny the accuracy of this tale.
c) Snopes has revealed that there are some accurate elements to this story but it has been somewhat exaggerated.
d) Snopes has confirmed that this story is an utter bowl of dogshit and you're never going to get those two minutes of your life back because I am a worthless fuck.

_Boboss

09:02 / 23.09.04

a doner's a post-alcohol snack regularly consumed by brain-damaged members of the great british public. it's a kebab of peppered lamb served inside a pitta bread with on-the-turn salad produx and lots of ketchup/chilli sauce. they taste very bad but there is something about an excessively lagered stomach that often craves one. really, you have to be drunk to eat one because of the frightening way the lamb is cooked: it's total grey factory-meat moulded around a pole and set turning in front of an electric fire for everyone to see. you know unexplained livestock mutilations where the animal appears to have been 'cored'-out through the asshole? that's how you get doner meat.

higuita

09:26 / 23.09.04

Personally, I eat doners sober. Large ones too, but just with onions as I find lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber distracting. Maybe it's the extra salad in a large doner that makes your jaw ache?

A thing I have learned through hard experience which I would like to share is...

In carpentry, plumbing, gardening and other similar pursuits, the right tool helps immensely. Bodging along with an adjustable spanner, two screwdrivers and a hacksaw will get you there but you'll save time, effort and pain with the right tool.

I'm sure there's other things but this is at the front of my head for some reason.

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