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Dumb Funny "Facts" in Articles
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:28 am
by Vraith
Some things just crack me up yet annoy me, too even...maybe especially...when they really don't matter.
Recently saw mention of a crazy rollercoaster drop. It literally defies space and geometry! 120degrees!
Really? Cuz 90 degrees is straight down...you can't get steeper than that.
Sure, you can measure the other direction and CALL it 120, that's like calling the 3degrees grade on a road a 177degrees climb [or drop]...OOOOHHH! scary!
Post yours, make me laugh.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:52 am
by dANdeLION
Maybe the incline is at 30 degrees, then the drop is straight down, which would make it a 120 degree angle.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:36 pm
by sgt.null
whenever someone talks about change and they mention a 360 degree turn. really? that puts you right back in the direction you were facing before.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:29 pm
by danlo
" "Hey, what do you expect from a culture that drives on parkways and parks on driveways?"
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:00 am
by Vraith
danlo wrote:" "Hey, what do you expect from a culture that drives on parkways and parks on driveways?"
Heh...what's the rest of that...trucks haul freight, Freight trains shipment, Ships CARgo?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:02 pm
by Rigel
Why is there braille on the drive up ATM?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why are there locks on the doors of the 24 hour convenience store?
As for the angle... perhaps the drop was inverted?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:38 pm
by [Syl]
This article from the local paper last month made me laugh.
A 5-year-old girl was swimming in the four-foot section of the pool while eating grapes. She had a squirt gun and was playing with it by spraying an adult. The adult turned his head to avoid being sprayed. When the adult turned back, the child was at the bottom of the pool.
She was pulled out of the pool and resituated.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:45 pm
by aliantha
Where have all the copy editors gone?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:28 pm
by Vader
I know it's okay to do so but I personally hate it when they say "people got evacuated". To me it either sounds like giving them enemas or - even worse - disembowl them. (in this sense you may well evacuate a zombie in a splatter movie). Call me old fashiened, but to me buildings and areas get evacuated and not peoploe.
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:50 am
by sgt.null
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:16 am
by I'm Murrin
They spelt Faroe with an extra E?
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:59 pm
by sgt.null
Murrin wrote:They spelt Faroe with an extra E?
looks like the plural. as in islands?
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:27 pm
by I'm Murrin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands
Faroe, not Faeroe. But obviously that's not what you posted the image for - I'm stumped.
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:17 am
by sgt.null
Murrin wrote:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands
Faroe, not Faeroe. But obviously that's not what you posted the image for - I'm stumped.
me too most of the time, and now. i had no idea what the map meant. the article i got it from did not make it clear wht they had the map. so it stumped me as to what it meant.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:53 am
by Avatar
aliantha wrote:Where have all the copy editors gone?
Tell me about it. There's a site here that makes a running joke of all the copy errors on one of our main news sites.
--A
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:41 pm
by Holsety
danlo wrote:" "Hey, what do you expect from a culture that drives on parkways and parks on driveways?"
Let me try and explain this one.
A drive way is the way to where you drive, AKA a ROUTE TO DRIVING, a parkway is a way to where you park, AKA A ROUTE TO PARKING.
Not so backwards as you might think, we Americans are.
aliantha wrote:Where have all the copy editors gone?
A better place, obviously. Copy editor heaven.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:37 am
by sgt.null
soon newspapers will be dead anyway...
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:00 am
by Holsety
sgt.null wrote:soon newspapers will be dead anyway...
How will dog owners the world over cope? We NEED the New York Times desperately.
But once my dog goes, I don't give a f**k. Unless the web gets destroyed by a virus.
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