But they have been touring for years.....

http://www.lynyrdskynyrd.com/board_p...rd-skynyrd-bio

I saw them in Laconia, NH Bike Week years ago.

 

Once again, sarcasm fails to make itself visible! :-)

 

Sorry guy...I WAS being sarcastic..
Guess you didn't get it

 

I dunno . . . I wouldn't call it sarcasm - not ironic enough! ;-)

Back to trivia: I believe Roger Dean illustrated their album covers.

 

What's the largest town, in the largest county, in the largest state, East of the Mississippi?

 

The Chevy bowtie emblem was a design on wallpaper in a Paris hotel room where Billy Durant, GM founder, stayed. He supposedly tore off a piece of the paper with the design. That would be amazing if that piece survived.

 

Giving someone "the finger" is one of the basest violations in modern culture, but its origins date back over 2500 years. The first written record of the insult occurred in ancient Greece, where the playwright Aristophanes (the Adam Sandler of his day) made a crude joke using the middle finger as a *****. Even back then, the bird was considered an aggressive, phallic put-down.

It has been argued by anthropologists that the finger is a a variant of a classic "phallic aggressive" gesture used by primates. By jabbing a threatening phallus at your enemy like a wild animal, you aren't just belittling him, but also making him your sexual inferior. Instead of using a real *****, civilized Platos called upon the substitute wieners within their own hands to mock, threaten, and humiliate opponents.

And boy, did it. When the Romans imported the art, music, and culture of the Greeks, the finger came along, too. Roman Emperor Caligula, a pioneer in perversity, frequently shocked his citizens by forcing them to kiss his middle finger instead of his hand. One of his subjects, Cassius, who Caligula often taunted as being too effeminate, finally had enough humiliation and assassinated him. Clearly, the bird was not to be taken lightly.

 

The largest state would be Georgia, but the largest county is apprently Aroostook County in Maine. Not sure about the town.

 

Got one for you guys. Little bit of American military trivia. What is the signifficance of the number 21 in a 21 gun salute? Why is it 21?
21 is the sum of 1+7+7+6. Pretty cool.

 

no, I have heard of the band,but greenslade is my surname.

 

Why???
Because Canada has more coastline than any other country in the world.

How MUCH of the world's coastline is in Canadian borders?



Jim

 

Greenslade is my surname.I have heard of the band,but never heard there music,

 

Why? Probably because we were slowly building the navy from 1940 to combat the U boats. It had nothing to do with coastline. Russia has the most coastline and our navy was larger than theirs. Britain and German has smaller coasts and their navies were bigger than ours.

We were convoying supplies and war material to Britain to keep them alive and in the fight and we needed more ships to do it. If Britain fell, our bombers at the time couldn't leave Canada bomb Germany and return. Britain had to be saved. That's why almost half the pilots in the Battle of Britian were RCAF pilots.

Coast Guard patrol ships took care of the coastline or as much as we could cover. It was war and it was a war we had to win, at all costs. The population new it. By summer 1941 there were 1 million volunteer soldiers in the army. For a country of only 12 million at the time, an army of 1 million and the third largest navy, is pretty good, I think. I thought that not many people would know that, so I posted it. That's what this thread is about. Post stuff you think people may not know. We all learn a little useless information.

I suppose a good chuck of the worlds coastline is within Canadian borders. A good chunk of fresh water is within the borders too, about 25% of the worlds drinkable water, actually it's the province of Ontario that has 25%, I don't know about the rest of the country combined. Here's another trivia question:What country holds at least one quarter of the worlds drinkable water? If it ever comes up in a game of trivia, you'll look like a genuis.

 

Ken,

Please read it again. The operative word is "IN"

 

I suppose the operative word here is "largest". If so it's Ware County. If not Fulton. Largest town in Ware is Waycross. I thought in the south counties were called Parishes?

From "Live and Let Die" Sheriff Pepper says : "Ten fingers on the fender. Looks like you picked the wrong Parish to haul *** through, boy" The sheriff rocks.

 

Ken,

Bingo, We've got a winner. Waycross. It doesn't matter that most of the county is cover with Swamp and Pogo [the cartoon character] is the only one of any fame from down there.

Parish is mostly a Louisiana term.

 

Although that sounds cool I think it is just a coincidence since Canada, the UK, India, and many others use a 21 gun salute and I do not think we are all thinking back to 1776. I really do not think that UK would celebrate the birthday of royals and mourn the dead by saluting US Independance Day. Just my 2 cents.

Some more trivia about gestures...

Biting one's thumb was an old rude British gesture. It is comparable to "the finger" in modern terms. It is often done by placing the thumb upright (as in a "thumbs up" sign) just behind the upper incisors, then flicking the thumb outward in the direction of person the gesture is meant to insult. The gesture is also a traditional Sicilian insult meaning 'to hell with you'

Adam

 

It just might.
Canada has almost 57% of ALL the coastline on the planet.
Measured 356,000km over the globe, 202,000km in Canada alone.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...elds/2060.html

Makes sense they wanted to keep all of that safe.

Jim

 

That's good trivia...I didn't know that! Thanks. Now to find a decent beach......

 

In the movie "Jackie Brown", Beaumont Livingston (played by Actor/Comedian Chris Tucker) got his brains blown out by Ordell Robbie( Actor Samuel Jackson) in the trunk of a 80-81 Olds 98. Jerry Lee Lewis Owned a (not certain of year) 50s Olds 98. Rap group and DJ Public Enemy and Funk Master Flex owned 98s, Clint Eastwood's rival in Any Which Way You Can drove a new 1980 Olds 98! Yeah I know, I watch to much TV!lol

 

Here is a quick cut and paste of what wikipedia says, it goes along with what you said. My bad.

A myth common in the United States of America relative to the origin of this tradition is that the year 1776 inspired the 21-gun salute because the sum of the digits in 1776 is 21 (i.e., 1+7+7+6 = 21). This, however is not true. Beginning in the colonial period, the United States fired one shot for each state in the Union as its national salute. This practice was partly a result of usage, because John Paul Jones saluted France with 13 guns at Quiberon Bay in 1778 when the Stars and Stripes received its first salute. The practice was not officially authorized until 1810, when the United States Department of War declared the number of rounds fired in the 'National Salute' to be equivalent to the number of states—which, at the time was 17. The tradition continued until 1841 when it was reduced from 26 to 21.

 

....so the answer to my question of a few days ago, "where is Rattlesnake anti venom made?"......it's right here in Australia where we don't have rattlesnakes. So next time one of you gets a shot of the life saving serum after getting nipped by a diamond-back I would hope you'll stand to attention and sing the first verse of Advance Australia Fair. Don't worry about the second verse 'cos we don't even know it.

 

That's good to know. While I'm shovelling 5 inches of snow from my driveway, I often wonder if a Rattlesnake is lurking behind a tree ready to strike. Makes me uneasy.

 

I believe the Northern Snow Rattler is particularly active around Edmonton this time of year. Hard to spot too, being white n'all.

 

No, we can spot them. They're stupid. They wear winter coats to keep warm and get this, the coats aren't even white. LOL.....dumb snakes

 

Not meaning to make you mad but according to the U of Alberta, Canada had the fourth largest Navy at the start of 1945. I would guess that the U.S. had a bigger Navy if you included auxillary ships but definately if you only counted combatants. The reason this caught my attention is I am retired U.S. Navy.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_count...st_naval_fleet

 

I don't get mad very easily and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I remember reading that we were third after Britain and Germany. When I read your post I found we were third after the US and Britain. Then I found a write up from another Canadian universary that specifically asked "Were we Third?" (paraphasing)

Our Navy turned 100 this year and the author states that he spoke with some retired WWII vets who said that they were proud to serve, for a brief time, in the fourth largest navy in the world.

So with that said I yield to your expertise on the subject and stand corrected. Thanks for the information and good job.

 

Good article!!!

http://naval.review.cfps.dal.ca/arch...l5num3art2.pdf

 

That's the article I found. I thought I was right, but I should be use to it. I'm never right around the house either.

 

We must be the 5th largest then. Being an island nation we naturally rely on a very powerful navy to protect our shores.

 

Hydrogen does not exist in pure form on the earth. Neither does Helium.

The number of atoms in the observable universe is estimated to be 10 to the 82nd power (10^82), but that is a low end estimate.

Recent estimations say there are 500 billion galaxies in the universe and each galaxy may have around 400 billion stars. Still think there is no life out there???

If you live on top of a mountain time will pass slower for you (at least to an observer at sea level). However, you'd likely not be able to notice

David Blain the illusionist remained underwater and held his breath for 17mins. Youtube has a video.

 

I met Indain Larry, in Laconia, NH (Bike Week), June 2004!!
He was a super nice guy. I was glad to chat with him, two months before he got killed.

 

Only two presidents have been born in Kentucky both served at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis

 

That's four times the size of our navy and you have twice as many boats. And you copied our uniforms.

 

We apparently have more ship but not more sailors.....

patroling the Northwest Passage


anti-sub ships


our ships in the Carribbean (can also detect subs)

 

While the crew of your Carribean division certainly looks more "ship-shape" than most, I'd say she has manouvered that vessel into a tight spot and it's gonna get scratched up pretty bad.

 

i would in a second! how about 65 MPH on this.

 

What year did Oldsmobile first put a V8 in a car? HP?


Adam

 

Good help is hard to find.

1929 in the Viking. It was a monoblock. Don't know the HP but I'd guess it was under 100.

 

AMAZING WORD TRICKS



A. Did you know that the words "race car" spelt backwards still spells "race car"?

B. Did you know that "eat" is the only word that if you take the 1st letter and move it to the last, it spells its past tense "ate"?

C. And have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in "illegal immigrants" and add just a few more letters, it spells out: "Go home you f@cking free-loading, benefit-grabbing, kid-producing, violent, non-English speaking arseholes and take those other f@cking hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, goat-f@cking, raggedy-*** bastards with you"?


How weird is that?