Interesting But Useless Facts

Originally posted by Bowmann
Get a grip.

The best way to cook a porcupine (or hedgehog for that matter) is to cover it in clay and cook at a high heat for about 2 hours. Then when you peel off the clay (it should be firm but not brittle) it should remove most of the spines.

Originally posted by Nordlys
Online Porcupines: People who seem unable to write a sentence that lacks a barb. There’s a rude, condescending, dismissive, or insulting edge to nearly everything they say. Often these barbs are thinly disguised as humor, or as hyper-rationality.

Believe it or not, most porcupines are not aware of how irritating or hurtful they can be. They believe it ...[text shortened]... g.contentious.com/archives/2005/01/28/online-porcupines-pricky-business-online-vermin-part-1 )

I read that it is illegal to molest a butterfly in California.

In Texas, if two trains come to a crossing, neither until the other has passed. Needless to say, it was repealled very quickly (or amended).

Originally posted by rwingett
I haven't seen a single interesting "fact" in this thread yet. A more appropriate title would be "Boring and apocryphal tidbits."

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
This got a rec?

Originally posted by Nordlys
Why not? It was the most interesting fact about porcupines I could find (okay, I only spent about two minutes on it). What surprises me more is that nobody used my post to accuse me of being a porcupine. I also wonder what "hyper-rationality" is.

Originally posted by Nordlys
Why not? It was the most interesting fact about porcupines I could find (okay, I only spent about two minutes on it). What surprises me more is that nobody used my post to accuse me of being a porcupine. I also wonder what "hyper-rationality" is.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
My facts were far superior, yet I did not get any recs. Inconceivable!!!

Originally posted by Peachy
The leech has 32 brains.

Most posters have none.

Four people played Darth Vader; David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the beathing.

Originally posted by Peachy
Four people played Darth Vader; David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the beathing.

Originally posted by Nordlys
Beathing? Beating? Breathing? Bathing?

Originally posted by Peachy
Third one from the right.. I mean left.. 🙂

Did you know that Kermit the Frog is left-handed..?