505 Glass Tank Contests Continued Multiple Winners

[DocTonyNYC]

McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes and the second largest purchaser of chicken in the world. Its annual orders for french fries constitute 7.5% of America’s entire potato crop.

McDonald's is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world and it earns the majority of its profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.

 

[skydragon]

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold

 

[Lynzy]

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”~~~Aldous Huxley

 

[Debra_oh]

Liam Neeson declined the role of James Bond in 1994 because he was "Not interested in starting in action movies".

 

[Lynzy]

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.~~~The Buddha

 

[Reddhott]

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

 

[papajeep]

The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.

 

[Debra_oh]

you remember more if you doodle while listening

 

[Lynzy]

“Where words leave off, music begins.”~~~Heinrich Heine

 

[spacekitty]

 

[papajeep]

The " tooth brush " was invented in the south, had it been invented anywhere else it would have been known as the " teeth brush ".
It's ok I'm from the south

 

[Ding]

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Citium Zeno

 

[Ding]

King Agesilaos when asked why their swords were so short."Because we fight close to the enemy."

 

[spacekitty]

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WW II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

I always thought it was how people measured the coal they needed for their furnace...
but it turns out there are a LOT more possibilities out there... LOL!!

snopes.com: 'The Whole Nine Yards' Etymology

(I just LOVE that website!!)

 

[Debra_oh]

Peter Ostrum (Charlie from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 1971) currently works as a veterinarian.

Trivia that will never come up again---- he and I went to elementary and junior high school together

 

[Ding]

"Why is it you Spartan women are the only ones who rule over your men?" An Athenian Woman. "Because we are the only women who give birth to real men." a Spartan woman.

 

[Debra_oh]

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a complete and grammatically correct sentence.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

By the end of the twentieth century, one out of eight American workers had at some time been employed by McDonald's and 96% of Americans had visited McDonald's at least once. It was also serving an estimated 22 million Americans every day and even more abroad.

 

[Ding]

"Because fear makes each man do his best to shelter his unarmed right side with the shield of the man next to him, thinking that the closer the shields are locked together the better will he be protected." Thucydides on why hoplite armies edge to the right as the battle begins.

 

[Reddhott]

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.