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12 Jan 2010, 7:35 am

I used to do it; I don't so much anymore though.

Believe me, even when you're on topic, most really don't care to hear it.

Saves me so much time just not saying anything.

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12 Jan 2010, 9:19 pm

I used to spout random facts too but lately I find it easier to just write it in a notebook or type it into lists. I like to make lists...even about the stupidest things...

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13 Jan 2010, 12:06 am

LOL all the time.....I just got yelled at for that today. =)

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13 Jan 2010, 12:37 am

Yep. I remember random tidbits from all over the place. I also like asking random questions to help me make connections between different, seemingly unrelated, but somehow related in my mind, things.

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13 Jan 2010, 2:07 am

If I read an Uncle John's bathroom reader, my random facts meter goes up by about 300%.

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13 Jan 2010, 10:28 am

Moony wrote:

If I read an Uncle John's bathroom reader, my random facts meter goes up by about 300%.

WOOOT I read those books too! Aren't they great!?! !

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13 Jan 2010, 1:02 pm

Netish wrote:

Moony wrote:

If I read an Uncle John's bathroom reader, my random facts meter goes up by about 300%.

WOOOT I read those books too! Aren't they great!?! !

They're treasure chests of random facts. A good read when you're standing in a line, or on a quick bus/subway ride. Not very serious reading, though, and most of these facts are utterly useless.

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14 Jan 2010, 7:38 am

MathGirl wrote:

Netish wrote:

Moony wrote:

If I read an Uncle John's bathroom reader, my random facts meter goes up by about 300%.

WOOOT I read those books too! Aren't they great!?! !

They're treasure chests of random facts. A good read when you're standing in a line, or on a quick bus/subway ride. Not very serious reading, though, and most of these facts are utterly useless.

to be fair, I've never actually read it, so I really can't say either way...but when are facts ever useless? If there's one thing I love reading up on, it's cultural history; entertainment history, basically.

That ain't in there?

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14 Jan 2010, 7:40 am

No

It's all specific rather than random

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14 Jan 2010, 7:53 am

Yes I do it quite a lot but most of my random facts tend to be about the topic being discussed at the time.

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14 Jan 2010, 8:00 am

Rocky wrote:

I feel the need to rattle off some random trivia (off the top of my head) brought to mind by the previous posts or avatars of posters. You all may already know these bits of trivia. In reverse chronological order...
@poopylungstuffing- the ukulele translates to mean dancing flea.
@release_the_bats- Brian Wilson is a musical genius who once battled depression and agoraphobia.
@pensive- Sirius is the brightest true star visible in the northern hemisphere and is known as the dog star.
@Willard- Three periods (or dots) when used as punctuation is known as an ellipsis.

I better stop now or my inner Cliff Clavin will completely take over.

Now do me

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16 Jan 2010, 2:47 pm

When I was fourteen the only way I could converse with people was to quote facts from the Guinness Book of World Records.

About that time (in the seventies) there was a sketch on Carol Burnett- she and a guy were matched on a computer dating service.

Both characters were baffled as what if anything they had in common-"so why did the cmputer match us?"

Then one of them threw out some fact "the tallest man in the world is eight feet eleven"... then the other spouted another Guiness fact... they ended up in each other's arms- two guiness geeks find true love! The way they acted it out was quite hilarious.

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17 Jan 2010, 7:25 am

I don't like saying random facts unless it's somehow related to the topic of discussion, in which it's not as random.

I felt that if I were to toss out random facts out of nowhere, people would think I'm being a show-off.

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17 Jan 2010, 11:20 pm

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Yes. I'll interrupt people, as I feel I'm almost going to burst, with random facts, sometimes about nothing that has to do with what they're saying. If I don't, then I may forget.

That describes me, especially if I've recently learned a new fact that's interesting. However I don't intentionally interrupt. I wait until someone has finished their sentence and then say..."Did you know that (insert fact here)". They still accuse me of interrupting them though.

I don't understand it. Other people are allowed to start conversations about anything they like but when I start one, I'm apparently "disrupting the flow" (my mums friends words).

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19 Jan 2010, 2:25 am

jocundthelilac wrote:

Rocky wrote:

Now do me

Sorry it took so long. I have to be away from the keyboard longer than I would like. Thanks for offering the challenge. Here goes:

Iceland is greener than Greenland and Greenland is icier than Iceland. (I think. Tell me if I am wrong.)

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19 Jan 2010, 1:20 pm

I've always wondered about that. How is that Greenland is actually more ice, and Iceland is actually more green.

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