Interesting 'Facts' 2.0

[Zook]

FACT: You must recover.

False. You must recover!!!

The most famous video game character is an overweight Italian-American plumber. And his 'superpower' is that he can jump high.

When people in a group are asked to name a color, most people will say 'red.'

 

[Bailey]

If I don't win a medal this time around oh baby things are gonna get fat....ter

 

[digitalmaster287]

Fact: At the time of posting, Jammer's post count is 1337

 

[Jammer]

Aw sweet!

I missed it, though.

EDIT: This was #1338. Too bad...

EDIT: My 1337th (leetth) post was pretty disappointing. It was me congratulating someone about something in a thread that got closed immediately after I posted my post.

Hey, at least I didn't do like AltF4 did and wait three weeks before posting my 1000th post, using a sock puppet in the meantime. (AltF4, not to be mean, but was that really necessary?)

 

[Konpaku]

Wendy's makes the fastest burgers.

 

[smashbot226]

The ancient Greeks invented bubble gum.

 

[AltF4]

Hey, at least I didn't do like AltF4 did and wait three weeks before posting my 1000th post, using a sock puppet in the meantime. (AltF4, not to be mean, but was that really necessary?)

YES IT WAS!! lulz.

And it wasn't a sock puppet, it was my gf's account.

So there.

 

[AltF4]

Double Post
(for great justice)

Check out today's featured picture on Wikipedia:

A male Kirby's Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi) dragonfly in Tsumeb, Namibia. The species may be found throughout Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean Islands and in southern Asia. This specimen is displaying the pose that gave its genus the name "Dropwings".

That's pretty cool.

 

[Danbearking0]

FACT: Geno will NEVER EVER EVER EVVVVVVVEEEEEEER be in brawl. don't flame me

 

[ChaosTheory]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.[/FONT]

 

[Mr.Lombardi34]

Of course they are, 2 is the only even prime number, so anything else that ends in two is even and therefore not prime. And with five, anything that ends in 5 is divisible by five.

 

[HugS]

The only way to get freshly made burgers and fries at Mcdonalds, if you choose to go there, is to order these items without salt.

All the old trash sitting in the heaters has salt. They would need to make you a new batch if you asked for no salt.

Enjoy...

 

[AltF4]

I try to avoid fast food, but when I do go, I usually do that trick. Not specifically with salt, though. Sometimes I'll ask for no ketchup... then add my own ketchup.

 

[Handorin]

And you also order a milkshake for only a little bit more cost (I think), and then fill it with soda after you finish that.

 

[Elysium]

Sticking with the fast food theme.

Jack in the Box tacos only "cook" for 10 seconds.

 

[Bailey]

I have never seen a Jack in the Box restaurant. That is a fact.

 

[Jammer]

I was walking down the street, minding my own business, and I heard some tinkly music coming from underneath the sidewalk.

Then a Jack in the Box restaurant popped out and scared the crap out of me.

(Not a fact.)

 

[MysticKenji]

"2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month."

"Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants."

"German soldiers, both heterosexual and homosexual, are allowed to have sex with each other"

 

[digitalmaster287]

Bacteria reproduce once every 20 minutes.

 

[Jammer]

Bacteria reproduce once every 20 minutes.

Not all bacteria. Escherichia coli can perform binary fission every 20 minutes. Most bacteria are much slower, though, on the order of an hour or two at the fastest.

Man, is there anything E. coli can't do?

 

[MysticKenji]

Cure cancer?

 

[Jammer]

You know what, Mystic, I would not be surprised if someone used genetically-engineered E. coli to attack cancer cells. In fact, I think that E. coli's the most likely candidate for something like that, behind genetically-engineered viruses.

Fact: 1 hour and 38 minutes until 2008! (for me--yes, I know your experience may vary, Meleeruler)

By the way, I don't think I've ever seen you, anywhere, Meleeruler.

 

[Meleeruler]

Fact: Timezones exist.

 

[Elysium]

Fact? : Melee stay in the backroom

 

[digitalmaster287]

Fact: 40 days till Brawl!

 

[Kiseki]

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

uses every letter in the alphabet.

i hope this hasn't been used

 

[wWw Dazwa]

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

Actually, you're missing an S. The correct phrase is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The 'e' and the 'd' are covered by 'over' and 'dog,' respectively.

 

[Wikipedia]

Dazwa, you need to fix your location; I don't know if you have noticed but the "Posts: 1" isn't on it's own line. You should try to fix that, it would look way better.

 

[wWw Dazwa]

 

[Wikipedia]

Dang, that stinks, I always thought you were an idiot because you thought you were being cute but you didn't even do it right.

I don't know what the dimensions are on my computer but it looks like this to me:

Location: Topshaaam,
Maaaine Posts: 1
Posts: 2,173

 

[wWw Dazwa]

Dang, that stinks, I always thought you were an idiot because you thought you were being cute but you didn't even do it right.

That bullet hit me straight in the heart, Wiki.

EDIT: Take a screencap. I wanna see.

hmm, I wonder if other people were like "lol look at that dummy" when they saw my location. Luckily the people who nominated were the opposite

 

[Jammer]

hmm, I wonder if other people were like "lol look at that dummy" when they saw my location. Luckily the people who nominated were the opposite

FACT: On Jammer's computer screen, Dazwa looks like a smarty-pants, not a dummy.

1280x1024, by the way, although it really shouldn't matter at all unless Wikipedia is using some stone-age browser like Internet Explorer that renders web pages all wrong.

FACT: Man, I eat way too much yogurt. One of these days the "active yogurt culture" is going to overpower my white blood cells and turn me into a mass of strawberry-banana goop. Slowly and painfully. And there's nothing modern science can do, besides get a spoon.

FACT: Yes, I know yogurt cultures aren't actually dangerous bacteria that your immune system must fight.

FACT: It would be cool, though. They'd have to put warnings on the package: "Do not eat if you have a weakened immune system, are suffering from an infection, or if you have AIDS!"

FALSE: If you have AIDS and that offended you, I'm sorry.

 

[Mr.Loser]

Fact: I get really annoyed when people order fires "no salt" just for fresh fries.

Fact: when you do order fries no salt I have to go to the back and wash the fry scooper bring it back then clean out a special area for those fries then I can not scoop up any fries until your fresh fries come up creating a line most of the time for people waiting on their fries <_<

Fact: At the BK that I work at(and many more) we won't bite your head off if you ask for fresh fries.

 

[Handorin]

Fact: IE is top tier because it doesnt give me viruses and other crap like Firefox. (Opera is pretty good too. >_>)

 

[Jammer]

FACT: Handorin is a little confused about which browsers are actually susceptible to viruses and "other crap".

FACT: This thread has departed quite a ways from its original intended path.

FACT: Gabriel's Horn is a solid object created by rotating the curve y = 1/x with x >= 1 around the x axis. It would take pi gallons (not really--but you get the point) of paint to fill it with paint, but it would take an infinite amount of paint to paint the surface.

Crazy, huh?

 

[AltF4]

You know what, Mystic, I would not be surprised if someone used genetically-engineered E. coli to attack cancer cells. In fact, I think that E. coli's the most likely candidate for something like that, behind genetically-engineered viruses.

FACT: If you did that, you'd end life as we know it. (I Am Legend)

 

[GoldShadow]

If I don't win a medal this time around oh baby things are gonna get fat....ter

I'll try and do some awards again soon!

The ancient Greeks invented bubble gum.

Partially True. The ancient Greeks didn't really have bubble gum, but they did have something like chewing gum called mastiche, made from the resin of a tree.
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gum.htm
http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/catalog-gum-history.php

You know what, Mystic, I would not be surprised if someone used genetically-engineered E. coli to attack cancer cells. In fact, I think that E. coli's the most likely candidate for something like that, behind genetically-engineered viruses.

This is true, actually. Right now, there is plenty of research on all sorts of ways to fight cancer. This includes the use of bacteria and viruses as vectors.

Viral vectors can work in several ways. They can be modified in a laboratory so that they express antigens found on tumor cells... this causes the body's immune system to mount a response against those antigens, destroying the tumor cells in the process. Or a virus can also be modified so that it inserts genetic material into tumor cells that causes them to be killed. It might be possible to do this with bacteria as well.

Bacteria as treatment for cancer has not been studied as much but there are some treatments that show promise. One idea involves making drugs that only kill cells when they're activated by a specific enzyme. The idea is to modify bacteria such that they "stick to" tumor cells (they aggregate around tumor cells) and release the drug-activating enzyme. So first, you would inject the bacteria into the cancer patient. The bacteria would all gather whereever the tumor cells are, and start releasing the enzyme. Then you would inject the drug into the cancer patient, and it would be activated only at the tumor sites by the bacterial enzyme, and kill the tumor cells.

Bacteria may also be used to destroy gene transcripts in cancer cells using RNAi, killing tumors.

http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.aspx?CdrID=43989
http://www.eurekah.com/chapter/3742
http://www.sgm.ac.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/080502.pdf
http://cbrl.stanford.edu/giaccialab/pictures/PDFs/liu_genetherapy.pdf

 

[Black Waltz]

You know what, Mystic, I would not be surprised if someone used genetically-engineered E. coli to attack cancer cells. In fact, I think that E. coli's the most likely candidate for something like that, behind genetically-engineered viruses.

/omg i smell an I Am Legend future...brb im going to go rename my german shepherd sam and force her to run on a treadmill.

 

[Elysium]

Fact: Dazwa wants to win best location so bad he posts it in the interesting facts thread.

Possible Fact: Dazwa will lose best location to me or Mic_128

Fact: Alt F4 will win best debater.

Fact: Goldshadow will win most intelligent

Fact: jammer will win most respected noob.

Test those facts. lol

 

[KrystalRules]

Fact: more people die by toilets then by shark attacks every year