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Re: The random krap and bizarre pics thread
What can I say about this guy? He has a great idea!
www.hogrockcafe.com/bat_day.htm
It's a classic!
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Re: The random krap and bizarre pics thread
This definitely falls into the category of random krap:
(though I have at times wondered how the thing got started, and who the hell Kilroy was, if anyone)
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KILROY WAS HERE!
In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, 'Speak to America,' sponsored a nationwide contest to find the REAL Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article.
Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts had evidence of his identity.
Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war. He worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy . His job was to go around and
check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet.
Kilroy would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off
duty, the riveters would erase the mark.
Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.
One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then that he realized what had been going on.
The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to the check and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message. Once he did that, the
riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks.
Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint.With war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them.
As a result, Kilroy's inspection 'trademark' was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced. His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific. Before the war's end, Kilroy' had been here, there, and everywhere on the long haul to Berlin and Tokyo .
To the unfortunate troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that some jerk named Kilroy had 'been there first.' As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.
Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always 'already been' wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arch De Triumphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.)
And as the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for the coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo! In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference.
The first person inside was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), 'Who is Kilroy?' ...
To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he
gave it to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy front yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .
So now You Know.
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Re: The random krap and bizarre pics thread
Cool story! When I worked at the local cement plant as a millwright, I left that logo everywhere! High up on structural beams, rail cars, tunnels and all kinds of out of the way places. I usually used 'soapstone', but sometimes a spray paint can came in handy.
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8/28/2008, 7:44 am
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Random video.
Good tune for Wilson's entrance song?
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8/30/2008, 9:50 am
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Denny's dispels rumors that they won't serve certain people.
" We welcome Junkies with Opened Arms"
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Modesto man tries to amputate own arm
Aug 31, 2:34 PM (ET)
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - Police say a man tried to cut off his own arm at a restaurant in Modesto, Calif., because he thought he had injected air into a vein while shooting cocaine and feared he would die unless he took drastic action.
Authorities say 33-year-old Michael Lasiter rushed into the Denny's restaurant late Friday and started stabbing himself in one arm with a butter knife he grabbed from a table.
They say that when that knife didn't work Lasiter took a butcher knife from the kitchen and dug it into his arm.
Police Sgt. Brian Findlen says Lasiter told officers he thought he needed to amputate his arm to keep himself from dying from the cocaine injection.
Lasiter was taken to a hospital for treatment of severe cuts.
The Denny's closed for the night.
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One can only assume that their future bitter divorce settlement/arguments will be held in Disneyland- The Happiest Place on Earth:
Michigan couple tie the knot at funeral home
Sep 1, 10:34 AM (ET)
ST. JOSEPH TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - It generally has flowers, and a clergyman is often present, but this was a first for a local funeral home.
Jason and Rachael Storm held their wedding at Starks and Menchinger Family Funeral Home, where he is a funeral director.
Their reception, including dinner and dancing, also was held at the funeral home.
"This room is usually filled with sadness and contemplation, but today it is filled with joy and celebration," the Rev. Greg Prather said at the start of Saturday's ceremony.
Jason Storm, 24, doesn't see much difference between getting married in a church or the funeral home.
"I look at it as, if you go to a church and get married, how many caskets do you think have been rolled down that aisle?" he told The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph.
Rachael Storm, also 24, said the location did "not creep me out at all.
"I'm very accustomed to what he does. The one thing I'm very much about is being unique."
However, not everyone was entirely comfortable with the idea.
Rachael Storm said some invited guests initially refused to attend, but the couple assured family and friends there would not be any caskets or corpses in the room.
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Re: The random krap and bizarre pics thread
Do we have any theoretical physicists on this board?
Just wondering what the cubic volume of a fart would be that was produced by eating 11.5 pounds of chili in ten minutes?
Would it be enough to fuel the space shuttle?
(I emailed Mando but he declined to reply.)
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Man gulps 11.5 pounds, wins Ohio chili contest
Sep 2, 9:53 AM (ET)
MASON, Ohio (AP) - A man nicknamed "Humble Bob" stuffed himself with 11.5 pounds of a local specialty called chili-spaghetti in only about 10 minutes to claim victory in a holiday eating contest.
Bob Shoudt won $2,500 at the inaugural Skyline Chili Spaghetti eat-off Monday at Kings Island amusement park.
"Humble Bob" dashed to an early lead, sucking down more than two pounds in less than a minute.
Shoudt, of Philadelphia, is ranked No. 5 by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.
He did so well at vacuuming up the pasta mixture Monday that he narrowly beat the federation's top-ranked competitive eater, Joey Chestnut. Chestnut won this year's July 4 hot dog-eating contest at New York's Coney Island with 59 dogs in 10 minutes.
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WoW.
Bad enough that I looked it up- but someone actually did the math !
If the following doesn't prove that you can find out ANYTHING and EVERYTHING on the interwebs-- then I don't know what does.
Typical gas volume percentages in a fart:
Nitrogen: 59%
Hydrogen: 21%
Carbon dioxide: 9%
Methane: 7%
Oxygen: 3%
Stinky stuff (hydrogen sulfide & methyl mercaptan): 1%
An average fart has a volume of 35.7 cubic centimeters.
Nitrogen: 21.0 milliliters
Hydrogen: 7.5 milliliters
Carbon dioxide: 3.2 milliliters
Methane: 2.5 milliliters
Oxygen: 1.1 milliliters
Stinky stuff: 0.357 milliliters
A perfect gas at STP has a molar volume of 22.4 liters. That means a fart contains:
Nitrogen: 0.000938 moles
Hydrogen: 0.000335 moles
Carbon dioxide: 0.000143 moles
Methane: 0.000112
Oxygen: 0.000049 moles
Stinky stuff: 0.000016 moles
Nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen are all diatomic, forming molecules of N2, H2, and O2 at standard temperature and pressure. The molecular weights are N2 (28), H2 (2), CO2 (44), CH4 (16), O2 (32). The molecular weight of methyl mercaptan (CH3SH) is 48.1. The molecular weight of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is 34.8. That means the masses of the gases in a fart are...
Nitrogen: 0.0263 grams
Hydrogen: 0.0003 grams
Carbon dioxide: 0.0063 grams
Methane: 0.0018 grams
Oxygen: 0.0016 grams
Stinky stuff: 0.0008 grams
The total mass of a fart is 0.0371 grams.
The "fuel" value of a fart is in the hydrogen and methane. You can get 142000 Joules per mole of H2 burned in O2, so the 0.000335 moles of hydrogen gas in a fart will yield 47.57 J. You can get 890400 Joules per mole of CH4 burned in O2, so the 0.000112 moles of methane will give us 99.72 J. The combined combustion potential energy of a fart is, therefore, 147.29 Joules. It would keep a 60-watt light bulb lit for one second, if the efficiency of conversion of chemical energy to electricity were 40.7%.
The rest is up to you. Find out how many Joules of chemical potential energy is contained in the usual load of fuel for the spaceshuttle, then divide that by 147.29 Joules. The ratio will be your answer. However, I read somewhere that it takes about 1E13 Joules to put the spaceshuttle into orbit, so the approximate answer is: 68 billion farts. Everyone on Earth would have to contribute ten farts.
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Bucks, I think the Random Krap Award has been solidified.
Just curious, did you actually google "how many farts does it take to power the space shuttle"?
I love the intertubes.
Actually I googled "cubic farts", which of course, is a very normal thing to ask about.
(as evidenced by the 224,000 returned search results)
Cubic farts
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