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Old 04-12-2011, 09:18 AM   #61
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. . .Or are all the statements in this thread false, and I missed the gag....?

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No, they are supposed to be true (most of them, anyway), so you are permitted to hold onto your peeve.

I stand corrected, and hereby rename the thread "Little facts of no consequence that are purported to be absolutely true".
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OK, another sleep one - a snail can sleep for 3 years...
There's a snail on the ceiling in the bathroom at work that I thought was dead. It's been there for six months and has cob webs hanging from it.

The other day when I looked up it was on the other side of the ceiling.
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There's a snail on the ceiling in the bathroom at work that I thought was dead. It's been there for six months and has cob webs hanging from it.

The other day when I looked up it was on the other side of the ceiling.
Are you sure you hadn't just entered a mirror image parallel world for a moment?
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Like all other "-oid" words, android, meteoroid, alkaloid, it means 'similar but not the thing...'
Hemorrhoids are similar to grapes, butt not the same thing.
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Well heres a little "Factoid" people love to be told they are wrong

I couldn't help myself
That's what strangers on the Internet are for.
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No strangers are there to tell you they are an 18 year old girl just waiting to, well you get the picture
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No, they are supposed to be true (most of them, anyway), so you are permitted to hold onto your peeve.
I will. I have that one, and the one about "unique" being used to mean "unusual." I think I've totally lost the battle for the latter, but I hold hope of saving "factoid."

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/factoid.html

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I stand corrected, and hereby rename the thread "Little facts of no consequence that are purported to be absolutely true".
There's a word for that, too: trivia.
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the unique factoid thread nah
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No strangers are there to tell you they are an 18 year old girl just waiting to, well you get the picture
(snip) ... Waiting to, well, sell you ED remedies, offer products to enhance your breasts and/or penis, hire you to be a secret shopper, or give you your (insert African country) lottery winnings.

That's what you were getting at, right?
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(snip) ... Waiting to, well, sell you ED remedies, offer products to enhance your breasts and/or penis, hire you to be a secret shopper, or give you your (insert African country) lottery winnings.

That's what you were getting at, right?
Yes of course Although if you happen to have both breasts and a penis, ED is probably the least of your worries

but then again Hermaphroditus didn't seem to have an issue with it...

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I will. I have that one, and the one about "unique" being used to mean "unusual." I think I've totally lost the battle for the latter."
I'm with you 100% on that one. I hate people saying something is really unique. No it's not. It's just unique!

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Right, you say "I think you're really a 50-year-old dude," and they tell you "No, you're wrong."

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My one pet peeve is people misusing the subjective and objective pronouns. I yell at the TV quite often, shouting "It is 'him and me' not 'he and I'"!
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