... there are people in the world who wholehearted believe that the "AD" used to indicate a date means "After (Christ's) Death". Idiots.

you mean BC doesn't mean Before Christ? ...

oh that does it! How many more things I was taught at Sunday school were lies?



when you put money in the bank, you are loaning them money ... all them user fees make sense don't they

Potential sarcasm aside, BC does mean "Before Christ('s birth)". AD stands for "Anno Domini", which is derived from medieval latin and means "In the year of the Lord" (sometimes said as "Year of our Lord", but I'm not a Christian so sod that noise).

The main reason this is important is that Jesus wasn't instantaneous, so if AD meant after his death, then there would be a gap of a few decades between 1 BC and 1 AD.

In unrelated news, Pepsi Throwback does not contain citric acid for some reason.

Jesus has a casting time of one round and a duration of instantaneous.

Unless it's counted as his biblical rebirth/return from the dead/zombification. Then there's a few days of overlap.

And, of course, he was actually born before the end of BC...

All of Santa's reindeer are female; male reindeer lose their antlers in the winter.

it goes BC, LC, AD

LC isn't used much because its a non-confirmed 3 or so Decades that most likely didn't even happen.

true fact, Quantum Physics states that there are no true facts... only observed possible likelihoods.

According to James Joyce, (Paraphrasing) "It took 17 years to write Finnegan's Wake, it should take 17 years to read."

I'm on year 8 and counting.

I was wondering how that was coming.

jesus, how long is the movie?

It's a book.

Because he reads movies, you see.

That's probably why it's taken 8 years.

in case law the v in R v Smith or John v Smith is pronounced 'and'
any time a lawyer or judge pronounces it as 'verse' he/she gets mocked by their peers behind his/her back for looking like a giant tool

While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97 percent of people still use boats for aquatic transportation.

... >_>

it was mentioned that the book should take 17 years to read... and that it has taken 8 so far for Devcon.... thus I asked,

"how long is the movie?" as a joke.



been a few months since I dragged this out...

<- Me

It's always piss on destron day!

There's your irrelevant fact!

No.

*Checks calender*

*All the days are marked "Piss on Destron Day"*

Oh god damn it!

Well, crap, I don't have to go that bad, but....

MAKE IT RAIN!

wait a second ...

AH DAMN IT! I need to pay better attention

Stop by under the golden arches!

Apparently, Canadian iced tea is different from American iced tea. American iced tea is basically regular tea, but iced, obviously. Turns out Canadian iced tea is carbonated. This sounds delicious.

we have the other stuff too... I'm consistently amazed at how different a place most of you think it is up here.

^ Well, "your people" seem so amazed at how different it is down here. I keep wanting to think they're similar, but the Manitobans keep proving otherwise.


The way I found that out was that over the past 2 years, I've had Canadian customers order iced tea, but then realize that it wasn't what they thought it was. Today I finally asked what it was they were expecting and they gave me the explanation I said above. Their words, not mine.

well that's just US media bombardment, we've been lead to believe that any type of product we have is just US left overs - its why we over compensate with the things we know are ours like hockey, timmies and Superman.

had to throw that last one in

it took me 5 years to stop saying Zee thanks to WGBH and the CTW, I still watch MacD commercials and rush out to get a 99 cent bigmac only to pay 4.50 for it when I get there.

maybe its just a regional thing... there could be carbonated iced-tea 2 states over.

Canada is the ice-cream scoop, and America is the cone.

well more like Mexico is the Cone, the United States is a scoop of Vanilla, Canada is a scoop of Black Cherry dipped in rainbow sprinkles and fudge ... while Greenland is the Maraschino cherry stuck to one side and the Caribbean are some sprinkles that fell off

America is a continent not a country

North America is a continent. "America" isn't.

Get your facts straight if you're going to correct someone.

America is a continent divided into north and South... that's why its the "united states of America"

not "united states is America"

No, North America and South America are separate continents.

That's like saying Africa, Asia, and Europe are one continent.

Well, for Europe and Asia you could kinda make an argument for them being one continent as the border is rather arbitrary.

A·mer·i·ca (-mr-k)
1. The United States of.
2. also the A·mer·i·cas The landmasses and islands of North America, Central America, and South America.



and that other one is Eurasia ... even though Africa is still attached to it... Afroeurasia doesn't sound right

So what's a Qubec?

Something that doesn't exist. There is however, Quebec (note the "e" there between the u and the b) which stands either for a Canadian Province or the aforementioned Province's capital city. There is no need for the "a" you put there.

Apparently, ice cream has alguae in it as an ingredient.

So is it like a Trebek?

No, he's from Ontario.

and a lot less manly since he went stashless

Is that near Floridia?

Yeah, right next to Mt. Rushmore.

I thought that was in the state of Chicago.

No no no, Chicago is Utah with St. Louis and New Jersey.

And New York is the capital right!

There ya go! Now we're getting somewhere!

So what's the capital of Texas? Kentucky?

and its all just south west of Springfield

Apparently, [whatever the name she's using now because she can't pick one and stick with it] mistakes this thread and instead of pointing out facts just asks random questions.

The novel Life, the Universe, and Everything began life as a Doctor Who script by Douglas Adams, called "Doctor Who and the Cricket Men". It was deemed too comedic and shelved until Douglas converted it into the 3rd HHGTTG book.