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(01) Microsoft Bashing
(02) Bizarre death
- A True Story
(03) Greetings from
Joe
(04) FREE MeMail
publications
(05) Calling Technical
Support....
(06) TI P-system
and Y2K
(07) DM2K Version
1.5
(08) TI99: Mouse
software
(09) TI99: TIMUG'99
(Final Update)
(10) FunnelWeb from
SCS2 (WDS2)
(11) A Little Humor
(12) 40 Random and
Relatively Useless Facts
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A blonde went to
her mail box several times before it was even time for
the mailman to make
his rounds.
A neighbor noticed her repeated trips to the curb and asked if she was waiting for a special delivery.
Her reply: "My computer keeps telling me I have mail".
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Software prices rising: Blame Microsoft
No matter how the
"antitrust trial of the century" turns out, one
verdict,is already
in: The consumers have lost.
According to system
vendors, industry analysts, internal Microsoft
documents, and a
report by an independent consumer group, Microsoft's
overwhelming domination
of the markets for operating systems (over 80
percent) and for
productivity software (nearly 80 percent) has translated
into higher prices
and limited choices for consumers.
PC vendors won't
say how much they pay for copies of Windows, and they're
understandably nervous
about critisizing Microsoft. But ask them off the
record, and they'll
tell you that Microsoft has more than doubled what it
charges computer
makers for its OSes - from a low of $15 in 1991 to as
high as $70 in 1998.
Companies that make
disk drives, monitors, and memory - those that have
real competition
- have cut prices, while Microsoft, which has killed off
its competition,
has raised prices.
Compare prices in
markets where Microsoft faces strong competition with
those in markets
it dominates. For example, Intuit's popular Quicken
Deluxe personal
finance program costs about $60, a bit less than it did a
couple years ago;
Microsoft's Money 99, which lags behind Quicken in
market share, costs
roughly the same. It's a different story in the
office suite arena,
where Microsoft has a 78 percent share. According to
a survey of online
software stores, Microsoft's Office 97 costs from 33%
to 50% more than
its rivals.
Consumers buying
from large computer makers can't substitute Lotus
Smartsuite or Corel's
Wordperfect Suite for Microsoft Office or will have
to charge you for
both. The larger computer makers pay Microsoft $100 or
less for Microsoft
Office while second-tier PC vendors are charged over
$150. Some second-tier
vendors thus, preinstall Lotus Smartsuite on their
systems for a mere
$24 a copy.
One thing is clear,
consumers are paying higher prices for, and have less
choice in, software
products than they would if Microsoft didn't dominate
that market.
Jeffrey Rothfelder
-- PC World, February 1999
Will Linux Replace Microsoft on the Desktop??
No way! Not that
it isn't a much better bug-free system because it is.
Not that it's so
hard to install and setup, because although it is at
present, it is getting
easier and soon will be just as easy to install as
Windows. Not that
there aren't enough applications to run on it, although
at the present time
the list is a bit short, more and more applications
are being ported
over and right now they are also completely free. No,
the reason is Microsoft's
monopolistic predominance in the consumer
market. Just look
at the office suite and browser markets. Most
unbrainwashed people
have to agree that while Wordperfect is a far better
word processor than
Microsoft's Word and costs much less, and Netscape is
also a better browser
than Internet Explorer, the huge majority still use
Word and Explorer,
under the impression
that using all Microsoft
products makes them work better together and
coordinates better
with Microsoft's Windows operating system. It'd be the
same situation with
Linux. It may take over a certain share of the market
with the rebels,
but the die-hard Microsoft robots would still be too
afraid to jump ship.
... And notice all those viruses rampant now?
No one ever bothered to mention that those template viruses that are introduced through email messages only infect if you're running Microsoft's Word, that the Melissa virus that attacks email lists only affects Microsoft's Outlook & Express, and now there's a new one out that's supposed to affect Microsoft's Excel. What a strange coincidence!
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(02) Bizarre death - A True Story
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS president Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death.
Here is the story:
On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide.
He left a note to that effect indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the eighth floor level to protect some building workers, and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.
Ordinarily, Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he "intended" is still defined as committing suicide. That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below at street level, but that this suicide attempt probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.
The room on the ninth floor from whence the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously, and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Mr. Opus.
When one intends to kill subject A, but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B.
When confronted with the murder charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought the shotgun was unloaded. The old man said it was his long standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident, that is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.
The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her sons financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus. Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed that the son was in fact Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.
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I just wanted to let people know that I have my site up and running and have been slowly adding pieces to it. I've added some forums for people to begin drumming up discussions. Since this is a work of art in progress, I'll look to the folks in the community here to help point out problems (as they have been doing thus far) suggest some improvements and changes while it is being built from the ground up. In the meantime, please note the following:
1) This is a free service for TI community members here. Although you need an ISP to connect, it is meant to be a virtual community that will allow:
a) free access through a variety of interfaces, ASCII, HTML or Client/Server;
b) *no* advertising from outside sources. This is a not-for-profit effort meant to be a gift to the community as the TI-99/4A brought me where I am today.
2) This service will offer you a free e-mail account, along with the use of our own mail client (for all three interfaces).
3) This service will offer file libraries, to be broken down as members suggest, so that you can easily search for and find the files you need in any category and share with other members.
4) This service offers discussion forums, their topics (although some now exist) up to the members as suggested. Forum messages do allow file attachments that may be uploaded with your terminal emulator or IE 4/Netscape Communicator.
5) This service offers polls and questionnaires (which I hope to use soon) to gather important feedback from members.
6) This service offers real-time chat, private chat and local paging services which I hope can be used to have 'round-table' conversations or allow community members to share knowledge/information about their products or services.
7) The service has a "user registry" so that you can share things about yourself with your fellow TI community members.
I do not have a list-server, nor would I desire to offer one. (Feel free to use your account there to subscribe to Mr. Wills' excellent service, however).
I sincerely hope that some of you out there don't find this material offensive in your in-boxes, because it didn't offer anything explicit. To the fellow who complained about the off-topic posts, I hope you realize that your lack of tolerance has done nothing more than elicit another flood of off-topic posts to address a need for either defending or excusing those posts. I call that poetic justice for wanting to have the last word... ;)
For others who have sites, specifically Mr. Wills for his list-server, Mr. Wright for PC99, WHT for their SCSI card, etc., etc., I would formally like to ask for permission to add links to your pages or services so that others looking for these products can have another venue to find them. Please?
Joe Delekto -- jdelekto@gcomm.com
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(05) Calling Technical Support....
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Thank you for calling Technical Support. All of our technicians are currently busy helping people who are even less competent than you, so please hold for the next available technician. The waiting time is now estimated at between fifteen minutes and eternity.
In order to expedite
your call, please punch your 58-digit product
identification number
on to your telephone, followed by your product
serial number, which
can be found in a secret compartment inside your
computer where,
for security purposes, it is printed in the smallest
typeface possible
to prevent being seen. Please note that you made need a
size 11 3/4 torx
screwdriver which
may only be available from your original equipment
manufacturer.
Do that NOW!
Thank you again for calling Technical Support. We recommend that you sit at your computer, preferably turning it on at some point, and have at hand all your floppy disks, CD-ROM disks, computer manuals and original packing materials in order to allow the technician to aid you in the unlikely event that he ever gets to your call. If you were an inconsiderate jerk -- we mean forgetful customer -- and threw away your original packing materials, please call the company that sent you the computer and ask them to resend you the empty box with the plastic bubbles, fake popcorn and the wasted paper advertising that they recycle. We will hold your place in line on the phone while you wait for your boxes to be delivered. (yeah right !) ...
It would also be helpful for you to refrain from sobbing while explaining your problem to the technician. Shouting obscene threats will cause you to be immediately disconnected and blackballed from further communication with Technical Support, not only from ours but that of every other electronics-related firm in the industrialized world. (we all talk you know)...
Thank you once again for calling Technical Support. In order to enable us to better assist you, it would be helpful to know more about you and your equipment. Have you called Technical Support before? If you have, please press the numeral "one" on your telephone touch pad.
If not, press the
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on your touch pad,
spell out the phrase: "I am confused and despondent
and quickly losing
the will to live." Once you have finished, hang up
your phone and make
arrangements to sell your computer because by the
time the technician
takes your call, it will be obsolete, and you will be
too senile to use
it anyway.
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2. Have I exhausted every possible means of help before utilizing the sacred, last-resort-only telephone option?
3. Have I sent a fax to Fast Fax Technical Support?
4. Have I consulted my manual?
5. Have I read the Read-Me notice on the floppy disk?
6. Have I called up my know-it-all geek cousin who I can't stand but who can probably fix this thing for me in under five minutes?
6. Have I given the central processing unit of my computer a good, solid whack?
If you can not honestly
answer "yes" to all these questions, please get
off the line immediately
so that our overworked technicians can help
those truly desperate
customers whose suffering is so much greater than
yours. You must
be really be so bored that you have to call technical
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have someone to speak to about geek stuff.
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Since there was a lot of discussion about the TI P-system and Y2K, I thought I would check out the version for the GENEVE.
This is the PECAN "Power System", a "DOS-hosted" variant developed after Softech went belly up. Lou had a license that PECAN failed to support so Paul Charlton wrote the "host" (=boot) program as an MDOS executable. (In one of my last conversations with Lou, he said that he was transferring a (or was it "the") license to me, but I have no idea what that meant).
So anyway -- I booted it up and invoked the SET option. It lets you set a date in the range "00 to 99", so I tried a few with the following results:
70 to 99 are translated to 1970 to 1999. 00 to 69 are translated to 2000 to 2069.
So I guess its Y2K consistent, but you still have to set the date (and time) manually (and the time doesn't change unless you add code to read a clock chip).
Jerry L. Coffey -- jlcoffey@comm-plus.net
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(07) DM2K Version
1.5
From: Dano Eicher
I have just placed
DM2K Version 1.5 on Don's website (ftp.whtech.com)
I'm guessing he
will move it into SCSI, though it also works with HFDC,
RAMDISK and Diskette.
Version 1.5 includes a number of enhancements..
Improved support
for ramdisk's at CRUs over >1000.
A source / destination
copy.
Geneve Archive bit
handled.
Ramdisk named A-Z.
Bug fixed on Disks
with no name.
and probably more
that I forget..
This disk manager is rock solid!
EICHER@delphi.com
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(08) TI99: Mouse
software
From: Carmany, Bob
There is actually quite a bit of mouse software available for the TI. I have one of the Horizon (serial mouse) models and it comes with a software package including a driver for TI-Artist. I have a mouse driven XB menu program and an A/L mouse-driven menu program. Ron Markus sells a package called "Mouse Development Package" (Asgard Software) that has source code and finished routines that work very nicely with a serial mouse. There have been other routines from time to time in MICROpendium as well. With a little initiative, one could adapt the source (both A/L and c99) to fit almost any application.
Carmany, Bob -- bob.carmany@ci.greensboro.nc.us
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(09) TI99: TIMUG'99 (Final Update)
Remember TIers, TIMUG'99
is scheduled for Saturday, June 12th, from
7:00AM to 7:00 PM
at Spang Mansion, 6388 Kolthoff Drive in Brook Park,
Ohio. (Just South
of the I-X Center.)
We are also happy
to announce we have secured Spang Mansion for Friday
evening, June 11th
from 7:00PM to 10:00PM for the preconference get
together. If you
are planning to arrive on Friday, June 11th for
TIMUG'99 or are
a local TIer, why not come to the get
together social
at Spang Mansion? This will give you a chance to have a
good time renewing
old acquaintances
and swapping tales, ideas and information as well as
finding out just
where
Spang Mansion is
located before the conference on Saturday morning.
Snacks and soft
drinks
will be served.
Please remember Spang Mansion is a Brook Park, Ohio NONSMOKING, public facility and this restriction is strictly enforced.
Also, DO NOT bring any equipment or valuables to the get together to be left over night at Spang Mansion. Over night security will NOT be provided.
TIMUG'99 Conference Schedule (Subject to Last Minute Changes):
7:00 - 8:50AM Spang
Mansion
All Participants
Set-up Conference Site
9:00 - 10:00 AM TI-99/4A
Room
Bruce Harrison The
End Of An Era"
10:15 - 11:15 AM
Geneve Room
Tony Knerr SGCPU
& HSGPL Card Demos
10:15 - 11:15 AM
TI-99/4A Room
Ron Markus Software
and Hardware offered by RamCharged Computers
11:30 - 12:30 PM
Geneve Room
Tim Tesch &
Ted Zychowicz Open Forum for Geneve 9640
11:30 - 12:30 PM
TI-99/4A Room
Dan Eicher GPL Development
Kit Demo
1:00 - 2:30 PM TI-99/4A
Room
All TIers Invited
Multi-User Group Conference
2:45 - 5:00 PM Geneve
Room for All Geneve Users
Tutoring and Consultation
by Dave Connery, Tony Knerr,Tim Tesch, Ted
Zychowicz
2:45 - 3:45 PM TI-99/4A
Room Lew King
Using a modem at
43,000+ bps with a stock TI-99/4A and an Interrupt
Modification.
4:00 - 5:00 PM TI-99/4A
Room
Charles Good Demonstrating
the TI-74
5:15 - 5:30 PM TI-99/4A
Room
All TIers Invited
Jim Peterson Achievement Awards
5:30 - 6:00 PM Spang
Mansion
All Participants
Conference Site Clean Up
6:00 - 7:00 PM Spang
Mansion
All TIers Invited
Pizza Party!
(Mike Wright will be showing the latest version of PC99 at the Cadd Electronics table.)
User Groups Represented:
Chicago User Group
Computer Users of
Erie
Hoosiers User Group
Lima User Group
Mid-South 99 User
Group
Milwaukee Area User
Group
North Coast 99ers
TI-Chips
West Penn 99ers
The TIMUG'99 grand
raffle prize will be an Epson Inkjet Color Printer.
This will be a
'break-even' raffle.
Therefore raffle tickets will be sold ONLY up to
the cost of the
printer.
For more details of TIMUG'99, just click on the following hyperlink to Harry Hoffman's web site: http://members.stratos.net/harryhoffy/newsletter/
Glenn Bernasek
Secretary - TI-Chips
GBBasics@aol.com
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(10) FunnelWeb from SCS2 (WDS2)
Has anyone ever tried
to run FunnelWeb from SCS2 (WDS2) with any success?
Here is how to do this with SCS1.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JUNE 1995 LIMA NEWSLETTER
HOW TO INSTALL FUNNELWEB
ON A HARD DRIVE
by Charles Good
Lima Ohio User Group
This article assumes you are installing Funnelweb on SCSI hard drive #1. The device name is SCS1 (that's a "one"). If you are installing on a hard drive controlled by a Myarc HFDC card substitute the letters "HDS" or "WDS" each time "SCS" is used in this article.
You need to put all the Funnelweb files you plan to put on your hard drive on a floppy disk, configure these files on disk, and then upload them to your hard drive. Funnelweb only recognizes a directory named "FWB", so from MDOS on the Geneve and create this directory from the root directory by entering "MD FWB". The Geneve should respond with "Done".
The important files to configure are FW, CF, CG, and to a lesser extent LOAD. Once properly set up and uploaded to your hard drive, not only will Funnelweb operate properly, but you can reconfigure at any time from the hard drive by running Funnelweb's configuration program.
Start Funnelweb from disk. One way is to use EXEC and type "EXEC A:FW". Run Funnelweb's Configure and under the LOADING heading press H for hard disk path until WDS.FWB is displayed. Press Back (Fctn/8). Now select DEVICES and press "W" to configure a workfile name. This should be the subdirectory where most of your text files will be stored when you use Funnelweb's word processor. I suggest entering "SCS1.TEXT." for the workfile name. Press Back (Fctn/8). Now save your configuration to SYSCON, then press Back again and INSTALL this hard disk path to files FW and LOAD. Then QUIT Configure and go back to a Funnelweb central menu.
Start Disk Review
and bring up a directory of the disk
containing your
Funnelweb files. Move the cursor next to file FW and
press I (for inspect).
Select 2 File Search. Select ASCII and search
for the string WDS1.FWB.
Press 2 to edit and change this to "SCS1.FWB".
Press CTRL/W and
then CTRL/A to write this change back to disk. Then
press Back a few
times to abandon the search. Move the cursor next to
the file LOAD, press
I, and in a similar manner change WDS1.FWB. to
"SCS1.FWB.". Press
Back a few times to abandon the search and return to
the disk directory
listing.
Now move the cursor
next to file CG and press I. Select 2 file
search and search
for the ascii string DSK1.S which should be at the very
end of a sector.
Press 2 to edit this sector and change this to SCS1.F
and then move the
cursor in the ascii field to the character
immediately in front
of the "S" that you just typed. Press Ctrl/H to go
to the hex display
and change this byte to 0F. Now go back to ascii by
pressing Ctrl/A
and move to the next sector by pressing Ctrl/N, and you
will see YSCON at
the beginning of the sector. Put the cursor over the Y
and type WB.SYSCON
and save this change with Ctrl/W followed by Ctrl/A.
What you just did
was change the string DSK1.SYSCON, which was spread
over two sectors,
to the string SCS1.FWB.SYSCON and you also altered the
length byte at the
beginning of the
string to reflect the new longer length of the string.
Press Back a few
times and again search file CG, this time for
"DSK1.FW" which
you should type over with "SCS1.FWB.FW". Now move to the
space immediately
before the first S and press Ctrl/H to switch to hex.
Type "0B" here to
change the length byte to the new longer length and
write these changes
to disk with Ctrl/W and then Ctrl/A.
In a similar manner
search file CG for "DSK1.LOAD" and change
this to SCS1.FWB.LOAD
and change the length byte immediately in front of
the first S to "0D".
Now search for "DSK1.UL" and type over this with
"SCS1.FWB.UL". Move
the cursor to the space in front of the first S, do
Ctrl/H for hex and
change the length byte to "0B".
Write these changes
to disk with Ctrl/W and then Ctrl/A.
Now press Back a few times to the Disk Review directory and move the cursor to file CF. Press I and search this file for the string "WDS.FWB.", which should be changed to "SCS1.FWB." and written back to disk.
You are almost done. Exit Funnelweb and go to MDOS. Copy all the files on the modified Funnelweb disk to the FWB direcotory. If the disk is in the A drive and your hard drive is drive H then you can type "A:" and enter, then "COPY * SCS1.FWB." and enter will copy the files.
Funnelweb should
now run properly from your hard drive. You
can boot it any
time from extended basic, or directly from MDOS using
EXEC. I have a one
line batch file called FWBAT that does this.
The one line in
the file is "H:EXEC H:\FWB\FW". You can also from your
hard drive within
Funnelweb successfully run Funnelweb's CONFIGURE, which
is the result of
all the above changes to CF and CG.
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A pastor, who was previously a sailor, was very aware that ships are addressed as 'she' and 'her'. He often wondered what gender computers should be addressed as. To answer that question, he set up two groups of computer experts.
The first was composed of women, and the second of men. Each group was asked to recommend whether computers should be referred to in the feminine gender or the masculine gender. They were asked to give 4 reasons for their recommendation.
The group of women reported that the computers should be referred to in the masculine gender because:
1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realise that, if you had waited a little longer you could have had a better model.
The men, on the other hand concluded that Computers should be referred to in the feminine gender because:
1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
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My son and his girlfriend
were watching the news during the Gulf War.
They were showing
a clip of a "Smart Bomb" being released from a plane
and traveling straight
into the target with the TV camera in the nose of
the bomb picking
up everything right up to the point of
impact. Whereupon,
she (a blonde of course) turned to my son and asked,
"I wonder how they
get the film back?"
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Traveling eastbound on the Ohio Turnpike, just past Toledo, we drove past a sign that read:
NEW YORK 490 Miles 789 Kilometers Via Turnpikes
My friend, a man almost done with his undergraduate studies at a Big Ten university, looked at me and said, "See, that's why I hope we never go to the Metric System; it'll take so much longer to get to places."
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(12) 40 Random and Relatively Useless Facts:
1. Rubber bands last
longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one
of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. The national
anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one has memorized
all 158 verses.
4. There are 293
ways to make change for a dollar.
5. The average person's
left hand does 56% of the typing.
6. A shark is the
only fish that can blink with both eyes.
7. There are more
chickens than people in the world.
8. Two-thirds of
the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
9. The longest one-syllable
word in the English language is "screeched.
10. On a Canadian
two dollar bill, the flag over the Parliament Building
is an American flag.
11. All of the clocks
in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
12. No word in the
English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.
13. "Dreamt" is
the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
14. All 50 states
are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the
$5 bill.
15. Almonds are
a member of the peach family.
16. Winston Churchill
was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
17. Maine is the
only state whose name is just one syllable.
18. There are only
four words in the English language which end in
"-dous":
tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
19. Los Angeles's
full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
los Angeles de Porciuncula",
and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size:
"L.A"
20. A cat has 32
muscles in each ear.
21. An ostrich's
eye is bigger than its brain.
22. Tigers have
striped skin, not just striped fur.
23. In most advertisements,
including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10
24. Al Capone's
business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
25. The only real
person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
26. When the University
of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home,
the stadium becomes
the state's third largest city.
27. The characters
Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the cop and Ernie
the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful
Life.
28. A dragonfly
has a lifespan of 24 hours.
29. A goldfish has
a memory span of three seconds.
30. A dime has 118
ridges around the edge.
31. On an American
one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left
hand corner of the
"1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the
front upper right-hand
corner. ( Looking at a dollar bill from the front,
the "shield" is
the upper right-hand "1").
32. It's impossible
to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at
home! )
33. The giant squid
has the largest eyes in the world.
34. Who's that playing
the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul
Reiser himself.
35. In England,
the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
36. The name for
Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum,
looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z,
hence "Oz"
37. The microwave
was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate
bar melted in his pocket.
38. Mr. Rogers is
an ordained minister.
39. John Lennon's
first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
40. There are 336
dimples on a regulation golf ball.
41. Coca-Cola was
originally green.