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Frookie
06-17-2006, 11:04 PM
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For those of you who don't know, I'm putting a new fact in every week from this book till I run out of them or chose to stop putting them in. This is where the old one's will go to:

1. (6/11/06 - 6/17/06)

Touch of Evil - Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey claims to have been born with a vestigial tail that was surgically removed when he was an adolescent.

2. (6/18/06 - 6/24/06)

Touch of Evil - A 1631 printing of the King James version of the Bible was missing a rather important word. It became known as the Wicked Bible for leaving out "not" out of Exodus 20:14, which as a result read "Thou shalt commit adultery."

3. (6/25/06 - 7/1/06)

Touch of Evil - According to a medical study published by the University Hospital of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Germany: "Over a period of 21 years (1972-1992), roughly 21,000 forensic autopsies revealed 39 cases (0.19%) of natural deaths occurring during sexual activity....In most cases sudden death occurred during the sexual act with a prostitute."

4. (7/2/06 - 7/9/06)

Touch of Evil - Less than three years after appearing on the "state quarters" series, the New Hampshire natural rock formation known as the "Old Man of the Mountain" crumbled. Of course, the same force that originally crafted the site was to blame for its collapse: Mother Nature.

God
06-18-2006, 12:13 PM
It's June 18th. Wheres my ****ing fact.

MeTal CaNdYcaNe
06-18-2006, 02:06 PM
That's a new fact in his sig, genius.

Frookie
06-19-2006, 09:24 AM
yes, and I will put a new one in hopefully this Sunday at 12:00 A.M. because I hope to get internet access on my laptop then ;)

diet poop
06-19-2006, 03:23 PM
I love Mental_floss, it's the only magazine I subscribe to. I haven't gotten Forbidden Knowledge yet, but I want it. I devoured Condensed Knowledge(pun definitely intended)

Frookie
06-20-2006, 02:09 PM
lol, but honestly, this book reveals a lot of funny things like that Beethoven probably didn't chop off his ear and give it to a brothel, but that he gave it to some guy who said his music sucked

Willy_Wonka
06-20-2006, 03:39 PM
The only magazines i read are MAD, Popular science, and Popular Mechanics

Hellraiser
06-20-2006, 10:16 PM
2 things frookie - great sig idea

and

are you really from tokyo?

diet poop
06-20-2006, 10:33 PM
are you really from tokyo?
No, he's not.

Frookie
06-21-2006, 03:39 PM
I should really update my location now because I'm chillaxin at the beach hur!

MrNaPaLm32
06-21-2006, 03:42 PM
I should really update my location now because I'm chillaxin at the beach hur!Congradulations, you're chilling at the beach...In front of a computer. That defeats the purpose of your arguments.

Frookie
06-22-2006, 03:43 PM
I get hardly anytime to get on here at the beach so shut it

Snow
06-25-2006, 10:13 PM
I get hardly anytime to get on here at the beach so shut it

Why would you want to be on a computer during vacation?

MeTal CaNdYcaNe
06-26-2006, 02:11 AM
Why would you want to be on a computer during vacation?
I can't believe you just asked that.

Snow
06-26-2006, 10:13 AM
Why not?

MeTal CaNdYcaNe
06-26-2006, 02:01 PM
Computer=hotvacationlover

Hellraiser
06-26-2006, 03:12 PM
^ im with stupid - a week without my pc is like micheal jackson with out children!

MeTal CaNdYcaNe
06-26-2006, 04:00 PM
Amen. Except I don't rape my computer.

Frookie
06-26-2006, 09:06 PM
well, I'm back, and plus I had to check my e-mail to see whether or not I was accepted into a college class during the summer, and I got in ;)

MeTal CaNdYcaNe
06-26-2006, 09:40 PM
Congrats! [That IS good right?]

Frookie
06-27-2006, 09:18 AM
yes

MeTal CaNdYcaNe
06-27-2006, 05:19 PM
Then congrats again.

Frookie
07-10-2006, 01:33 PM
I am actually in my suite now doing not much in the way of anything but check out what I missed while I wasn't on here