Useless (but interesting) trivia

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The baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind album is now older than Kurt Cobain was when he died.

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[HoosierDaddy]

Actually, "a" is the only letter that is a word after you take it from "boats"

 

[GeorgeC]

Like Porsche, BMW also has a design house for non-automotive products. Their most successful product? The Music Man Bongo bass guitar. I used to own one. Look weird as hell (think “toilet seat”) but play and sound awesome.

The blue bass is a Music Man Bongo. The others are more traditional looking Music Man basses that I own.

I switched from Fender to G&L my self. Leo's later work was really good including Musicman.

 

[shogun32]

The Music Man

I kept looking thru my copy of Meredith Willson's masterpiece but all I could find was brass and woodwinds...

 

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[shogun32]

Is it cool military story time?

https://www.military.com/air-force/...-10-warthog-using-only-cranks-and-cables.html

back when airplanes were designed for pilots and not generals.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

They're not designed for generals. They're designed for corporate contracts. Look at the cost overruns with the F35. Over a $trillion to deliver a plane that can't fly or fight. For the money spent we could have just purchased more F22's.

And say Please, screw us more. Remember the contractual penalties (not F35) for not delivering before the end of month x (don't recall the exact month in example I'm thinking of). No penalty was assessed when both parties agreed delivery was made on the 42nd of X.

 

[shogun32]

They're not designed for generals. They're designed for corporate contracts.

actually, ex-flyboy Generals only love fast and sexy, F16, F15, F22 and the latest boondoggle. A10 was hated the moment it was conceived. It only exists because the Army managed to convince Congress to cram it down the USAF throat. It was a HUGE political fight and to this day the USAF brass want nothing to do with it despite it being the best damn airplane of the last 50 years that can take just an incredible amount of damage, protects the pilot and does it on the cheap with cheap weapons. USAF Generals can't stand cheap. They can't stand being sullied having to support the filthy Army either and getting their boots dirty. They gotta have missile systems with complicated avionics and 6 digits/copy missiles that often don't work in heavy cover. I swear they jerk off to dollar signs.

You want to talk racism, you haven't seen it until you talk to USAF brass about low and slow. They're worse than Mustang fanboys talking about Camaro.

 

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[shogun32]

I wonder how many 'modern' celebrities/actors have an actual life skill.

 

[Bikeman315]

I wonder how many 'modern' celebrities/actors have an actual life skill.

So you’re saying acting is not a life skill?

 

[martinjlm]

How “great” are the Great Lakes? Lake Superior is roughly the size of South Carolina.

 

[dpAtlanta]

Ask this to most people and you will get wildly off guesses:

Q: If you were to grid off the United States in 1' by 1' squares, and you placed every person in their own square for the entire world's population, how much of the U.S. would they occupy.

(Most folks guess, a half, or a third... etc.)

A: The city limits of Lexington, Kentucky...!

Yes... there is enough area to fit the entire world's population within the city limits... and the entire rest of the earth is totally EMPTY.

If you think about it realistically, it would look pretty silly.
Measure your bathroom... lets say it's 10'x15".......... stick 150 people in there now!
Imagine the heat generated in the center, or in areas of participants who have a 48" waist (i.e. Sumo Wrestlers)?
Where in the grid would the nudist be placed... and would you want to be stuck next to them?
If the grid was organized male/female/male/female, would the grid need to be greatly increased in nine months?

 

[shogun32]

A: The city limits of Lexington, Kentucky...!

so why not use a more rational metric of 1 meter square, or per prison regulation 2 meter square?

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