Interesting trivia fact: Lego is technically the world largest tire manufacturer.

One more, subtle pop culture reference?
http://showbizgeek.com/django-unchained-the-ultimate-trivia/#more-8563

I wonder if they cite their sources somewhere. Still, good trivia to rattle off.

Inside election trivia, David Axelrod has won his moustache bet with Joe Scarborough. Obama has now carried all of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota.

Playing with an EV calculator, even if I give Romney all of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina AND Virginia, he still needs another state to get to 270. If Obama wins ANY of those states, he's getting a second term.

Oh, and I get the feeling the networks are just playing it safe on Ohio, all the outstanding votes are in blue counties, and Obama's in the lead.

Gilda was great. Little bit of trivia....the SNL Musical Director and Lead Guitarist you can see behind Steve on the right (and at the end) with the long blonde hair is G.E. Smith. He was married briefly to Gilda from 1980-82.

I lufe-a zee Svedeesh Cheff! Pusseebly my fefuooreete-a Mooppet. Um de hur de hur de hur.

(Trivia note: Järnvägskorsning means railway-crossing)

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

I remember a little trivia thing from this brain teaser site. The salt and pepper shakers in a restaurant are usually in the middle. If you take one, use it, and place it more on the other person "side" of the table rather than the middle, they will start to get irritated...they might not even know why. So while we might "behave" more in crowds, that doesn't mean it is good for us. Violence is a good measure to take into account, but so is total happiness and suicide. Perhaps living in a city with access to medicine, cars, and wealth can't make you as happy as marring the girl next door you grew up with your whole live. I can't say, but it is food for thought.


I move the shakers, sugar, ketchup and vinegar to my EDGE of the table. Then glare at everyone until they pay up.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

I remember a little trivia thing from this brain teaser site. The salt and pepper shakers in a restaurant are usually in the middle. If you take one, use it, and place it more on the other person "side" of the table rather than the middle, they will start to get irritated...they might not even know why. So while we might "behave" more in crowds, that doesn't mean it is good for us. Violence is a good measure to take into account, but so is total happiness and suicide. Perhaps living in a city with access to medicine, cars, and wealth can't make you as happy as marring the girl next door you grew up with your whole live. I can't say, but it is food for thought.


I always put the salt and pepper on the other side of the table so that my friends don't have to reach for it. This might explain some confrontations we've had.

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Someone puts the salt shaker over to my area of the table - sh*t's gonna get real.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

I remember a little trivia thing from this brain teaser site. The salt and pepper shakers in a restaurant are usually in the middle. If you take one, use it, and place it more on the other person "side" of the table rather than the middle, they will start to get irritated...they might not even know why. So while we might "behave" more in crowds, that doesn't mean it is good for us. Violence is a good measure to take into account, but so is total happiness and suicide. Perhaps living in a city with access to medicine, cars, and wealth can't make you as happy as marring the girl next door you grew up with your whole live. I can't say, but it is food for thought.

I remember a little trivia thing from this brain teaser site. The salt and pepper shakers in a restaurant are usually in the middle. If you take one, use it, and place it more on the other person "side" of the table rather than the middle, they will start to get irritated...they might not even know why. So while we might "behave" more in crowds, that doesn't mean it is good for us. Violence is a good measure to take into account, but so is total happiness and suicide. Perhaps living in a city with access to medicine, cars, and wealth can't make you as happy as marring the girl next door you grew up with your whole live. I can't say, but it is food for thought.

>> ^oritteropo:

Interesting. My first c64 wasn't a rev 1 ROM, so it didn't have this bug (did any PAL c64's?).
A bit of googling suggests that if you has pressed play on your datasette, and then stopped it, you could have recovered! If only we'd had the internet in 1982!!!
http://www.c64trivia.com/TRIVIA3A.DAT.html
>> ^deathcow:
There was a bug in the C64 where if you typed and filled the very bottom line of the screen with text and then kept typing which overflowed to the next line, (which would make the screen text all flow up one line to make room) and THEN you backspaced back onto the last line, it would lock the machine up cold. I lost code to this bug enough times that it eventually became set in the brain at a very low level to avoid this.
To THIS day when working in the bottom line of a text editor, notepad, etc whatever, if I am typing and flowing into new lines in the bottom, my brain raises red flags if I am backspacing.



That was cool (bottom trivia question) !!!!

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[Trivia] - The guest singer on this track is the daughter of Jon Anderson, former lead singer of rock band YES.

@50: Here's a little trivia. A "factoid" is an untrue or false fact presented as true. It's only due to its misuse that it gained the definition of a small piece of information thought to be true.

Seems a little US-centric to me. Jeopardy's run from 1964- to present with a ten year gap is impressive, and I know it says 'one of the...' but in the interests of Trivia there are a number of UK based shows that beat or equal it, and I'm sure other countries can boast likewise: Round Britain Quiz (since 1947, radio), University Challenge (1962), A Question of Sport (1970) and Mastermind (1972, but with a few years gap) are the obvious ones.

I guess we haven't had quite the scandal here that the US has with quiz shows in the fifties/sixties.

I guess my point was missed, FWIW I'm not a luddite who doesn't see any value in handheld technology. I've been through about 6 iPods now and have come to rely on them, for music and for advancing my Spanish and Portuguese through podcasts.

My problem is with the techno-dweebs I know who get excited over any technology advancement. As long as it's newer, faster, shinier, smaller, with better audio/video/storage/bandwidth, etc, than last quarter's model I'm supposed to be impressed when they wave it around and rattle off its specs. Then they use it to look up Brady Bunch trivia or some such garbage.

The smug sense of "I have more computing power in my hand than the Apollo astronauts had" yet they can't construct a fucking correct sentence on their own if their lives depended on it. But I digress. >> ^Quboid:

I wouldn't have thought there'd be so many Luddites on the sift.
@ulysses1904, yes, your non-existent example of exaggerated uselessness is indeed useless. Something useful? How about checking prices and product reviews while in the shop? I can browse my local video store and if I see an interesting movie, I pull out my phone, load the IMDB app, take a picture of the BluRay case and learn all about it.
When I was in Italy a few months ago, I had language trouble when ordering food on one occasion - I pulled out my phone, typed my order into Google Translate and handed the phone to the waitress. That day, the human race was closer to having a Babel Fish than we have been in thousands of years of human development - but hey, it's just a gizmo, right? Who cares?
In fact, come to think of it, even your example isn't useless - that birther nonsense wouldn't have lasted long if everyone with a smartphone could have done that while watching Obama's inauguration.
@CheshireSmile, if that's all you need then fine, although I'm guessing your friends have rubbish keyboards on their phones. I don't need much, but I want loads and why not? If I'm waiting for a plane or something, I like to be able to web browse, check Facebook and Twitter, play games, whatever.
My Samsung Galaxy S 2 probably would not survive falling out the window of a moving car, however this has yet to cause me any distress - just out of interest, how often does your phone fall out of a moving car?