Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[Teysa]

The mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska is a cat. Juneau is the only state capital in the U.S. you can't get to by car.

[Jester]

One last quick note on denonyms...

You can see from my earlier list that someone from Utah is a Utahn. Odd, but not too weird.

What you probably didn't know is that someone from Tampa is a Tampon. I know, I know, you're sitting there thinking, "Noooo, it couldn't be...."

It is.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

The mask that (the character) Michael Myers wore in the original "Halloween" was a William Shatner mask painted white, with the eyeholes made a little wider. They bought it for $1.98.

[corwin02]

Let’s muse for a second that a man with a Master’s degree in Special Education who was working with special needs children found a better career in a more sordid field of employment (I am talking about Ron Jeremy).

[corwin02]

And as a timewaster

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[sms001]

mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska is a cat.
Juneau ...you can't get to by car.

Well, honorary mayor.

And wow, I did not know that!
Not by just a little bit either, it's a 90 miles/144 klick pair of ferry rides in the final stretch.

[Teysa]

Well yeah, true about the honorary part but it's still pretty cool.

[fireheart]

Juneau is the only state capital in the U.S. you can't get to by car.

Speaking of locations you can't get to easily...

-There was a story about a family who lived in some weird area that had a 3-hour commute to send their kids to school. Can't remember where it was, but part of it included a ferry (and the parents both worked, so kids were not able to be school-of-the-aired)

-You cannot fly to Kangaroo Island in South Australia-ferry only. (I believe)

-In the Anangu Pitjanjara Yankulitjara (I know I've spelt that wrong!) lands between South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia, you cannot access those lands without a permit. Said permits are only granted to workers who will be working in the area.

[dalesys]

One last quick note on denonyms...

Could you mean denynonyms?

(Demonyms)

[AnaKhouri]

Roald Dahl, on his deathbed, sweetly told his family that he wasn't afraid but that he would miss them.

Then he seemed to go unconscious, so a nurse injected him with morphine and he said his real last words, 'Ow! Fuck!'

[bhskittykatt]

-There was a story about a family who lived in some weird area that had a 3-hour commute to send their kids to school. Can't remember where it was, but part of it included a ferry (and the parents both worked, so kids were not able to be school-of-the-aired)

I don't think it's a 3-hour commute, but on Lummi Island they only have an elementary school, so middle and high school kids have to be ferried to the mainland.

In Point Roberts they only have an elementary school, too. Point Roberts is on the mainland, but is cut-off from the rest of the US by Boundary Bay. Middle and high school students going to school in Blaine have to cross the US/Canada border four times a day - twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon.

[wolfie]

What you probably didn't know is that someone from Tampa is a Tampon. I know, I know, you're sitting there thinking, "Noooo, it couldn't be...."

Gotta ask you this - are people from Tampa stuck-up c***s?

It's been brought up in other threads, partly by me and my annoyance at being called an Arizonian, when in fact I'm an Arizonan, but here is a list of what you call people from each state:


Michigan: Michiganian (though I've always heard Michigander, pretty much from people from Michigan.)

Courtesy of one of my brother's friends: a woman from Michigan is a Michigoose. Why? Well, if a man from Michigan is a Michigander...

[Sunshine]

King ranch in texas is bigger than rhode island

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Remember this scene in "Taxi Driver"?

Improvised. De Niro was getting into character, and director Scorsese told the cameraman to turn the camera on and watch.

(P.S. - that one guy in the cab who was watching his wife cheating on him? That was Scorsese.)

[fireheart]

Remember this scene in "Taxi Driver"?

Improvised. De Niro was getting into character, and director Scorsese told the cameraman to turn the camera on and watch.

(P.S. - that one guy in the cab who was watching his wife cheating on him? That was Scorsese.)

Speaking of moments that shouldn't have been in the film, at the beginning of knocked up, jay baruchels character was screaming on the roller coaster. Apparently that was a genuine shot of him being freaked out-he didn't like roller coasters, so the producer could only get one take.