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the poles are flattened too

the EMB-145 is a brazillian made jet that carries about 50 SOB (souls on board)

Refinement of many illicit narcotic drugs involves very toxic solvents.

One of the leading causes of enviornmental pollution in South America is cocaine production.

One main of the solvents used in cocaine refinement is gasoline, which is often dumped into waterways or spilled onto the ground after the refinement process.

Political parties in South America that claim that cocaine production decriminalization will help the lower classes universally fail to address its critical environmental hazards, especially the fact that the human population that is most effected by these hazards are these same lower classes.

Heroin refinement involves either 3 or 4 different refining stages, each one involving a different type of solvent. Stage 3 Heroin is cheaper to make, tends to be tarry in texture and is sold in blocks or small balls rolled in foil. This type of Heroin is often called Tar Heroin or Mexican Brown The most highly refined heroin is called Stage 4 heroin, or China White, and it if often sold in a powder form. Producing Stage 4 Heroin is very dangerous because it involves very volatile solvents combined with high heat, where the slighest mistake can result in a serious explosion.

Heroin is the "brand" name (from those good folks at Bayer) for diacetylmorphine, given to it when it was still legal in the late 1900's. Heroin was orginially intended as a less addictive alternative to morphine, and was widely used before it was accepted that it's actually more addictive. Diacetylmorphine is an aritifically produced compound that is similar to the compound created when your body metabolizes morphine and combines it with the body's own acetyl-based compounds. The reason why heroin provides a faster rush and is more addictive is because the body doesn't have to metabolize heroin before it can effect the brain. This makes the high more intense and accelerates the processes that form an addiction.

Humans can be albinos.

I.E. is an abbreviation for Latin id est, "that is." E.g. is for exempli gratia, "for the sake of example."

So you could say, "I like citrus fruits, e.g., oranges and lemons"; or, "I like citrus fruits, i.e. the juicy, edible fruits with leathery, aromatic rinds of any of the numerous, tropical, usually thorny shrube or trees of the genus Citrus."

"It's" is ONLY used for the contraction of "it is". Otherwise, the correct spelling is 'its' (no apostrophe)

Judgement has two correct spellings:
judgment
judgement

you have a greater chance, as a firefighter, dying of a heartattack than from a fire.

This one is about Alligator Gar.

Alligator Gar are one of the largest freshwater fishes. They live primarily in brackish water in the S. Texas area, although I think there are some in China. Warm, stagnant water is preferred. They have an air bladder, which most fish do, but theirs is special and is connected to their breathing gills. This allows them to gulp air for oxygen instead of getting it from the water. They are prehistoric type creatures, unchanged through time. Their range is shrinking, however, though the populations in Texas seem stable.

The bodies are mostly cartilage with very little bone. The big scales are often used in Native American jewelry, and in the past as tools- scrapers and even arrowheads. The flesh is white, firm, and quite tasty... one factoid: most fish sold as "fishsticks" comes from gar- either this species, or another. (which also lives this far north- the longnosed gar)


These fish are a high-adventure sport fish, or a nuisance, depending on your point of view. The guys below were bowfishing. If you can't imagine that, it involves searching for the fish, and actually shooting them with a bow, which is harder than you think. This is merely to get a hook in! These fish are covered with big plate scales for protection. Anyway, once the arrow, attatched to your "fishing line"- generally more like a rope or small steel cable- you have to battle the darn fish on a rod. Crazy stuff. I wish they wouldn't bowhunt them, instead get them to bite like regular fishing.

Longnose gar:


haha.. that's not me or anyone I know...
Personally it's my goal to catch one. They are here in the lake I fish, but the best time to fish them here is in late spring- they are in shallow water then.

Horses like sugar.

Which is why they like carrots. Carrots are very high in sugar.

During the Second World War, when sugar was being rationed, the British used carrots to satisfy their sweet tooth. Even since then, the U.K. is the only nation in the world that consumes more carrots than potatoes.

Since sugar was rationed and people couldn't make the usual desserts, Brits came up with the carrot cake, a modern take on an ancient recipe that was essentially bread pudding made with carrots. Many other sweet carrot recipes, like gingered carrots, come from the Brits during this time too.

Hugh Laurie, the actor who plays Dr. Gregory House in teh hit Fox show "House" is a British actor most famously known for playing Bertie Wooster in the BBC series "Jeeves and Wooster." Lauries has been in several other productions, but Americans in particular may remember him from a cameo on "Friends."


"Jeeves and Wooster" was a series based on the popular palor comedy of P.G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse was extraordinarily prolific, writing over 100 novels in his lifetime.

My blood sugar level right now is 94.

The quote "Know thyself" is often wrongly attributed to the Bible. It is in fact attributed to Socrates, and later rephrased by Shakespeare in Hamlet, when Polonius advises his son Leartes, "To thine own self be true."

Although popular understanding of the Biblical tale says Eve took an apple frrom the Tree of Good and Evil, the Bible text does not specific the type of fruit Eve plucked. It appears the image of teh apple derives from Milton's Paraside Lost, which specifies teh fruit as an apple. Apples are not indigenous to the Fertile Crescent, so that the biblical text intended it to be an apple is unlikely. Most likely, it intended the fruit to be a pomegranate, a fruit associated with desire in other folklore and myth.

Although the existence of Satan or the Devil, demons and angels are common Christian beliefs, very little is actually said of them in the Bible. Texts that appear to refer to Satan, demons or angels are either very vague, cryptic or appear to have other, often historically validated non- angelic/demonic/Satanic meaning. Most of the Christina beliefs in Satan, demons and angels stem from noncanonical writings and tradition.

Although Jesus mentions Satan, he never speak of Satan in ways that indicate knowledge of him or belief in his existence is essential for slalvation. Because of this the Catholic Church acknowledges that the belief in the existence of Satan is not dogma, since dogma are specifically those tenets of the faith necessary for salvation. So in the eyes of teh Catholic Church, Catholics and any other Chirstians can deny the existence of Satan without being outside the faith. (Evil itself is another story.)

In the Gospel According to John, the person called "the beloved disciple" is traditionally held to be John. However, nowhere in the Gospel is the beloved disciple's identity clarified. It neither states that he was John, nor even that he was one of the 12 Apostles.

I read this the other day on Wikipedia and thought it was interesting.

"Contrary to popular belief (perpetuated by the above-mentioned caricatures), Napoleon was not especially short. After his death in 1821, the French emperor's height was recorded as 5 feet 2 inches in French feet. This corresponds to 5 feet 6.5 inches in Imperial (British) feet, or 1.686 meters, making him slightly taller than an average Frenchman of the 19th century. The metric system was introduced during his lifetime, so it was natural that he would be measured in feet and inches for much of his life. A French inch was 2.71 centimetres, an Imperial inch is 2.54 centimetres. In addition to this miscalculation, his nickname le petit caporal adds to the confusion, as non-francophones mistakenly take petit literally as meaning "small"; in fact, it is an affectionate term reflecting on his camaraderie with ordinary soldiers. He also surrounded himself with soldiers, his elite guard, who were always six feet tall or taller."

Pete Rose was originally offered to play Kareem Abdul-Jabar's role in "Airplane!" but couldn't film it since it was filmed during baseball season. I found this out yesterday after watching the "Shirley Edition" of the DVD with the "trivia pop-up" feature.

I couldn't resist verifying a rumor I heard in High School about Napoleon le petit (Napoleon the small) Bonaparte (and may explain why he was called that):
"It has been said that no organs were removed from the corpse, but this does not seem to be true. While Dr. Antommarchi was examining that body, Vignali -a Corsican chaplain to whom Napoleon had insulted telling "he was impotent" -asked him to cut the male organ. The doctor did it, and the penis was kept for many years by Vignali family.

(In 1999 such an organ was sold in a Christie's auction. John Lattimer, an US urologist, became the new owner, having paid $4,000 for it. In accordance with his observations, the penis size was 4.1 cm, and "could" have increased to a maximum of 6.6 cm in lenght when excited). "

Centimeters, mind you, not inches