Useless (but interesting) trivia

[ShadesOfBloo]

The world's most successful mine-sniffing rat died of old age yesterday.
He had a 5-year career in which he located 71 land mines and 38 other munitions.

While this bit of trivia is useless in America, the rat program has saved a lot of lives in Cambodia. They have 40,000 citizens missing a limb because they lost it to a land mine. Three people from a different de-mining organization were killed by an anti-tank mine on Monday.
Apparently, Cambodia needs more rats.
https://www.reuters.com/business/en...g-hero-rat-magawa-dies-retirement-2022-01-12/

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072153873/magawa-hero-rat-dies-bomb-sniffing

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[theruleslawyer]

Ahem….. batcheeks

 

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Oral Sex is an anagram for Axl Rose.

Coincidence?

 

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[Ponyupnow]

Why not? Never too old to learn.

So by this basis Mauna kea is higher than everest....yet we keep calling everest the highest mountain on earth

 

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[oneheadlite]

...Bono says that he hates the name U2 and most of the songs they sing.
Of course you can say that when your net worth is $700 mil...................................

 

[martinjlm]

...Bono says that he hates the name U2 and most of the songs they sing.
Of course you can say that when your net worth is $700 mil...................................

I’m 10 years in with a band whose name I can’t stand. And there are a few of the songs we do regularly that I also don’t like, but our audience enjoys them so what the heck, eh?

 

[dpAtlanta]

"Stroller Goat...?"
Unusual I would say.
Carroll Shelby naming the GT350 based on the distance between two buildings was interesting... but you have to tell us how "Stroller Goat" became the chosen name. Surely it beats Carroll's reason.
(Your lead singer has a great voice)

 

[martinjlm]

"Stroller Goat...?"
Unusual I would say.
Carroll Shelby naming the GT350 based on the distance between two buildings was interesting... but you have to tell us how "Stroller Goat" became the chosen name. Surely it beats Carroll's reason.
(Your lead singer has a great voice)

The guitarist with the Lions shirt is the one who started the band (the other guitarist is my son). Roberto was born in the Dominican Republic, but his parents moved to NYC when he was a baby. There is a picture of him as a baby, naked in a stroller in a kitchen. There was a goat tethered to the stroller. His wife insisted that if he ever started a band he would have to name it Stroller Goat. Now ain’t you sorry you asked?

 

[dpAtlanta]

Now ain’t you sorry you asked?

Hell Ya… I’m glad I asked…!
I was born in Detroit, and my wife was born in the Dominican Republic… so we are kind of a shoe in to be in the band. I play a mean Kazoo, as long as you don’t ask me to play anything you have heard before, nor anything that has rhythm or sounds remotely musical or doesn’t make paint peel off walls.
Am I in the band……..??????

 

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