It's Friday Smackers! I know you all look forward to the useless bits of information I pass along on Fridays. Several have asked me where all the information comes from so I thought I would share. I read. A LOT. I retain about 85-90% of what I read. If the info is interesting more times than not I can recite it word for word. If it's eh...mediocre, not so much. Many of the books I read, I could put down, for weeks, months or even years. When I decide to pick it back up, I can tell you the page I left off and pick right where I left off.....
I have had many people insist that they would love to have a photographic memory. Trust me, it's not as cool as you might think. While sometimes it can be convenient to have the ability to recall insidious yet often extraneous bits of information, with the good always comes the bad. For every light there is dark. When you turn the lights out to go to sleep, and desultory information starts flashing, in fast forward? There is. no. off. switch. So yeah, occasionally useful, but mostly unsought.
In addition, when I have a theme idea for Friday I will do a bit of research, from books, internet search, etc...
Anyfactoid, let's get started. In the words of one of my favorite authors Mark Twain:
~A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes~
We often assume that information is true simply because it has been stated repeatedly. Passed down from generation to generation. However many of those tidbits are misconceptions and just plain falsehoods.
Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.
Chastity belts were not originally imposed to keep people from having sex. They were intended to keep youngsters, of both sexes, from masturbating.
Ninjas, historically, didn't wear black. For nighttime operations, they wore dark blues, dark grays, and browns.
Bats are not blind. Most bat species do use echo location to augment their vision, however, all bats have eyes and are capable of sight.
Already that's it for the trivia today. I have had a bunch of requests for more Movie Trivia, therefore, next Friday's FFF will be Movie Quote Trivia. I will post the answers on Saturday.
Happy Friday! As always, I leave ya with LOVE!
Already that's it for the trivia today. I have had a bunch of requests for more Movie Trivia, therefore, next Friday's FFF will be Movie Quote Trivia. I will post the answers on Saturday.
Happy Friday! As always, I leave ya with LOVE!
36 comments:
I had no idea about the chastity belts... I'll be passing that one on today! ;0)
BWAHAHAAA!! for real on the chastity belts??? that's nuts! LITERALLY! ha! have a good day lady! i'm sure i'll be chattin' with ya :) MUAH!
It's true that falsehoods spread so quickly.
That's why I live by a very simple creed.
Believe none of what you hear
Half of what you read
And everything I tell you.
A photographic memory...that explains everything Zgirl!!! lol
It's actually scary....no wonder you never sleep.
If my mother knew what chastitiy belts were good for I would have got one for my 13th birthday!
lmbo@secretia's reply. Being from the country Iknew about the drake/duck thing. LIke you I know a lot of sometimes useless facts. I also love books and do the same thing only I have to finish them or I go nuts. It is nothing for me to have 2 books going at the same time. One for bathtub reading the other for bedtime reading lol.
I want to marry you..did you know that??
Interesting about the chastity belts! Love all these factoids! And I'm gonna suck (again) at your movie trivia. Oh well!
I have a pornographic memory.
WAY better.
I have one of those memories...it is haunting! I love your factoids!
Thanks for the factoids B!
Somewhere is this messed up world, some asshat is probably selling Chasity Belts.
....so....people aren't gonna believe me now when I say I carry my brass balls in my purse (its a Coach, it can handle it) all because of your fun little factoid.
I'm thinking a Thankyoufuckingverymuch note will be in order for you next week.
And in totally unrealted news, I learned this week that grasshoppers have ears on their legs. That would be kind of awkward you know, if you were having trouble hearing someone and the trouble was in the ear way high up on your inner thigh....WHATS THAT YOU SAY? I can't hear you! Please, do come closer and speak directly into my ear....
I've had a photographic memory my whole life.
As I've gotten older, the photos are starting to be more like underdeveloped polaroids.
I don't know that a chastity belt would ever keep me from masturbating. I think I'd wind up hitting that thing with a Playboy until I needed a new chastity belt.
That's real.
Love the Mark Twain quote. And I love the comments too. Mooog's pornagraphic memory, Daffy's grasshopper factoid....
I can relate. I think this is why Jonathan doesn't sleep, his mind never stops.
I never knew that about the duck species...
High school would have been way more boring with a chastity belt. Ug.
I am so jealous of your photographic memory. You rock!
A photographic memory? Too cool.
Do you have my blog archives memorized? Nice to know I have it backed up somewhere!
I did actually know that about the chastity belts! Whoo hoo. I feel smart now that I knew one! lol
I always look forward to these! :) Chastity belts, huh? LOL!
I actually knew all of these except the Ninja one. My memory stores a ton of useless information as well.
My son has an awesome memory for every wrong that was ever done to him. He's 10 and still bitching about things that happened when he was 3 years old. I wonder if a good smack to the head would knock it out of him?
These are fun and interesting!
I would suck if I wasn't able to masturbate. :-/
Who knew??? Wow...thos chastity belts..that's somethin' else right there.
i can see how that would be both a curse and a blessing. what if you read erroneous information...? then that would be trapped in your mind, wouldn't it? do you suffer from insomnia? when did you first notice your gift/affliction?
Ninja's don't wear BLACK?!?
This is such bullshit! I can't believe I've been lied to all these years.
Now what the hell am I supposed to do with all these spare ninja outfits I keep stashed around my house, office, car, and Costco restroom?
Anyone can dry hump anything if they try hard enough...lol
OMG! Daffy Duck is a girl!
So, you're telling me that you can recite my blog word for word?! hehe
I had heard about that chastity belt origination somewhere else also. Good Times.
I can hear parents everywhere starting their cars as they head out to buy chastity belts under the new rule of preventing masturbation.
Very interesting. I love these tidbits of trivia.
omg, chastity belts??? Who knew?? And the ducks? I'm learning here! But unlike you, I forget everything nearly instantaneously.
I feel so dumb....I knew none of those!! You are so smart!!
Got turned on to your blog my Me-Me. Good stuff.
I'm fascinated by your photographic memory. I can see how it would helpful and troublesome. I have what I'll call photographic intuition coupled with synchronicity, which means I have a knack for remembering bits of inexact facts that are tied together in a timely way. I have to search for the actual facts sometimes, but the connections are made for me.
Now that I read what I just wrote, I realize it sounds like total bullshit. I hope you lie awake at night thinking about what an idiot I am.
Damn can't believe the chastity belts! Can you imagine the mess inthe morning on the teenage boys sheets though?
Kate xx
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