Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[darkroxas45]

Austin Powers once French kissed a horse (sorry if i got that wrong I haven't seen that movie in forever ) if it helps my case Mike Myers' friends thought his dad was weird

[wolfie]

The scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home where the crew is talking to a woman about Alameda was unscripted - the off-screen types had to chase her down to get a release in order to use the footage in the movie.

This movie was originally released during the Cold War, and Soviet censors went over movies from the West with a fine-tooth comb. One line that had people rolling in the aisles (and may have cost a censor his job for leaving it in) was "The bureaucratic mentality is the one constant of the universe". Another line that got left in (and definitely DIDN'T cost a censor his job) was "You are entering a primitive and paranoid society" when the crew arrived in the 20th century U.S.

Washington DC used to be considered a hardship posting for foreign diplomats, because the city was built in a malarial swamp.

[Jester]

Here's something y'all probably didn't know: at one time, in the late 1800s, Key West was the richest city per capita in the USA. Between the cigar factories, the shrimpers, the spongers, and the wreckers, and because it was a port city with access to both the US mainland and the Caribbean, this place was THE place.

[AnaKhouri]

If you accidentally spill Dayquil into the burner on your stove, tell yourself you'll clean it up later, forget to do that, then turn on the burner, it kind of smells like you're making candy.

[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.

[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.)

[Sunshine]

King ranch in texas is bigger than rhode island

[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...

[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.

[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!'

[dalesys]

One last quick note on denonyms...

Could you mean denynonyms?

(Demonyms)

[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.

[Teysa]

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

[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.

[corwin02]

And as a timewaster

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