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[Kristen]

Did they also teach you that girls get pregnant from giving blow jobs. My church youth group leader thought that. She was 24 and embarrassed that I, at age 14, had to tell her it wasn't true.

Did she think that was the only way to get pregnant or that blowjobs were an additional method of getting pregnant?

She thought you could get pregnant also by giving blowjobs. We were having a church sleepover and since church girls are sluts we were playing truth or dare and some 13 year old girl asked her if she had ever given a guy a blow job. She was shocked and said "Of course not! I don't want to get pregnant!" Some of the girls accepted that as a good answer but me and the PK couldn't stop laughing. Fucking Christian schools, I swear.

[Whittle]

-Fred Savage is the director of Daddy Day Camp

gotta start somewhere

[Captain Hot Stuff]

I CALL BULLSHIT!!!!

I dunno about alligators but crocodiles can run like the wind.

[blacktoothgrin]

-Fred Savage is the director of Daddy Day Camp

It's actually Daddy Day Care.

[Kristen]

But its sequel is called Daddy Day Camp which is directed by Fred Savage.

[baollis]

Delaware is the only state that doesn't have a National park.

[blacktoothgrin]

I apologize, Kristen. I wasn't aware of the sequel.

[AudeSapere]

- Vermont has only four Starbucks, none until 2002; its capital, Montpelier, is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
- There is no medical name for the back of the knee.
- The white part of an egg is called the albumen.
- The Hudson River that flows through New York City is not actually a river. While the Hudson starts as a river in the Adirondacks, when it reaches New York City it is actually a tidal estuary, since it is deeper than the body of water into which it flows (New York Harbor, though the tidal effects can be felt as far as the Federal Dam at Troy).

Also, I'm moving to Halifax.

[Kristen]

I apologize, Kristen. I wasn't aware of the sequel.

No, I apologize for there even being a sequel

[Jaspers]

New Jersey is the only state without a major university containing the state's name.

[emily]

Oh come on, you've never heard of the NJU Fightin' Eyetalian Stereotypes?

[James]

well i mean come on they would have to admit that they were from new jersey

NO IT IS LOWER NEW YORK I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT

[Wohngespenst]

Hey we've got TCNJ, it's no university but... I don't know where I'm going here.

[More Like]

Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland 0. Yes, college football's most prestigious award is named after a coach who once ran up the score on tiny Cumberland College in 1916. There is a background story here: Cumberland had discontinued its football team before the season, but Tech held Cumberland to its scheduling agreement (otherwise Cumberland would have had to pay Tech $3,000), so the tiny school from Lebanon, Tenn., sent a scrub team of 14 players. It wasn't pretty as Cumberland had 15 turnovers. Beatdown? This was more like bad sportsmanship. Shame on you, John Heisman.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Heisman's running up the score against a totally outmanned opponent was supposedly motivated by revenge against Cumberland's baseball team running up the score against Tech 22-0 the previous year with a team primarily comprised of semi-pro players

it's okay it was just revenge

[Five Tool Player]

Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland 0. Yes, college football's most prestigious award is named after a coach who once ran up the score on tiny Cumberland College in 1916. There is a background story here: Cumberland had discontinued its football team before the season, but Tech held Cumberland to its scheduling agreement (otherwise Cumberland would have had to pay Tech $3,000), so the tiny school from Lebanon, Tenn., sent a scrub team of 14 players. It wasn't pretty as Cumberland had 15 turnovers. Beatdown? This was more like bad sportsmanship. Shame on you, John Heisman.

Cumberland started kicking the ball off to Tech after Tech touchdowns, too. That was one of my favorite games to read about when I was little.

[Wat]

-When Thomas Edison first made electricity available in the home, there was extensive debate as to whether alternating or direct current should be used. Edison supported DC chiefly because his major rival George Westinghouse had come forward in favor of AC; in order to prove his point, Edison toured the country electrocuting dogs and cats to death with AC electricity. For some reason he believed this would cause people to believe AC was more dangerous than DC (it's actually slightly less so). At what could appropriately be called the climax of this tour he executed an adult circus elephant named Topsy in front of an assembled crowd.

-Alexander Graham Bell originally wanted "Ahoy ahoy!" to be the official greeting used on the telephone. Thomas Edison suggested the word "hello," and it became a source of bitter contention between them.

-Most species of octopi are smarter than the average housecat.

-On the eve of the Battle of Drepana during the First Punic War, the Roman commander Publius Claudius Pulcher consulted the sacred chickens carried by every Roman fleet. When they would not eat, indicating a bad omen, he declared "If they will not eat, then let them drink!" and hurled them into the sea. The subsequent battle was the only major Roman defeat of the war.

[Mike]

The College of New Jersey is a terrible, terrible place.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

At what could appropriately be called the climax of this tour he executed an adult circus elephant named Topsy in front of an assembled crowd.

Hahaha holy fuck.

Alexander Graham Bell originally wanted "Ahoy ahoy!" to be the official greeting used on the telephone.

Bonus fact: this is the reason Mr. Burns always says it when answering the phone in the Simpsons.

[Mike]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never described Sherlock Holmes as wearing a deerstalker hat, nor had he ever included the phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson," in his stories.