Pretend you're Cliff Clavin and post some random trivia...

[Connonym]

I'll start-- Redheads are more sensitive to pain and require more anesthesia than non-redheads. The gene that causes one to be redheaded (MC1R gene if you really want to know) is the reason.

[Recovered Repug]

1. Mr Ed was played by a zebra.

That was a big reason for the series ending. For obvious reasons it couldn't change to color format.

[NoGOPZone]

27. That's not true

Mr. Ed was an American Saddlebred

[JVS]

33. I heard they made his mouth move by sticking a carrot in his bum

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. Obama + Lolcats = www.yeswecanhas.com

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Weeelll, y'know, Doiane, Monty Python's Flying Circus wasn't a circus at all

It was actually a highly developed comedic version of a county fair, which was invented by the ancient Roganians.

[leeroysphitz]

4. A ducks quack does not echoe and nobody knows why. N/t

[TZ]

8. In conjunction with that

Only male mallard ducks quack. Females do not. And other ducks make various other noises

[DS1]

16. bullshit

[leeroysphitz]

18. Maybe. That doesn't make it any less random or trivial. n/t

[DS1]

19. it's not trivia if it's wrong

[leeroysphitz]

20. Describing a thing as trivial is a way of rating that things importance

or lack of importance. It has nothing to do with truthfulness or accuracy.

[Connonym]

21. I always assumed trivia was fact

Otherwise the whole game Trivial Pursuit would be sort of nebulous wouldn't it?

ETA: Your context is what my dad always referred to as bullshitting, which was just making up random stuff to tell a story.

[leeroysphitz]

22. Oh. I wasn't trying to deny that the duck thing was bullshit.

I'm sure it is. I didn't make it up. I read it somewhere but I don't buy it for a second.

I was merely attempting to oblige the O.P. since, IIRC, more than half of what Cliff Claven said on Cheers was bullshit.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

ewwwwwww.

[CreekDog]

11. not so surprising

i know people that haven't used their heads as long as I've known them. :think:

[TZ]

12. I will NOT go there...I will NOT go there

I will NOT go there..but I so want to...:evilgrin:

[CreekDog]

13. for shame

i was not even thinking about that! :spank:

i mean, i am now. :rofl:

[geardaddy]

32. I can attest to that!

When I lived in Taiwan, I killed a cockroach (one of those nasty huge Asian ones) on the edge of a door. The top half flew onto my very untidy desk. A week later I was looking for some papers and saw the top half still moving.

:scared:

[Broken_Hero]

6. David Prowse,

who played the physical role of Darth Vader, also trained Christoper Reeve,in his role as Superman(aka was a weight trainer)

Prowse also played the buff bodyguard in A Clockwork Orange.

[sarge43]

7. A heraldic female gryphon has wings

A male, sharp spikes protruding from its body, no wings. In rampant attitude, the gryphon is said to be segreant.

[trof]

9. Elephants can't jump.

[NoPasaran]

10. The captain of the famous Mississippi River steamboat "Robert E. Lee"

Died of injuries inflicted by a hit-and-run bicyclist.

[Connonym]

14. ZOMG! I just discovered the ULTIMATE Cliff Clavinism:

Found this totally by coincidence this morning in Mental Floss Magazine:

"Cliff Clavin was an afterthought. Actor John Ratzenberger originally auditioned for the role of barfly Norm Peterson. When he lost the part to George Wendt, Ratzenberger sked the producers if they'd written in a 'resident know-it-all.' All bars, he pointed out, have one. Thanks to his persistence, the character of mail carrier Cliff Clavin became a regular on Cheers."

[Lethe]

15. The only character from Cheers who was in a Star Wars movie....

john ratzenberger was in Empire Strikes Back

[scarpa43]

24. The only ACTOR from Cheers to be in a Star Wars movie n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. I'd rather play Calvin and Hobbes...

...and this is Calvinball.

[applegrove]

23. I can't think of anything. Oh no I've lost my Cliff Claveness!!!

[Greyskye]

25. Ah, did 'ya know that Polysilicon is hundreds of times more resistant then metal

when used for routing purposes on semiconductors, Normy?

Norm: "I know that the path of least resistance is beer down my throat."

[Aristus]

26. King County, Washington was originally named for President Franklin Pierce's

slavery-supporting Vice President, William Rufus King. In the mid-1980's, the county was officially re-named in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Now if we can just re-name adjacent Pierce County after someone other than a President widely regarded as one of America's 10 Worst.

[Bombero1956]

28. car trivia

The Mitsubishi Eclipse, also sold as the Eagle Talon and Plymouth Laser, was named after an English racehorse from the 1700s that won 26 races.

[KamaAina]

29. Pensacola, Fla. is farther west than Washington Island, Wis.

Don't believe me? Go look at a map.

[Redbear]

30. Nomar Garciaparra and Frank Catalanato

are the only two major league baseball players whose last names have five syllables.

And Rangers catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia has six.

[geardaddy]

31. St. Patrick was Welsh.

or at least born in what is now Wales.

[Inchworm]

34. Well, cup 'o Joe is actually a Navy term

Named after the Secretary of the Navy in 1914 when he banned alcohol on the ships. Josephus Daniels was indeed a Carolinian T-totaller. Beer, Sam.

:hi:

[Hawkeye-X]

35. Did you know that eating 20 pounds of chocolate is equivalent

of smoking a joint of marijuana? True fact!

[5thGenDemocrat]

36. Here's one of my favorites (as an old sports writer)

In all the 85 or so runnings of the Indianapolis 500, the field has never included a driver named "Smith."
John
Jimmy Johnson (the ex-Dallas Cowboy coach) and Janis Joplin were classmates at Port Arthur (TX) High School.
So were Hugh Downs and Phyllis Diller (at Lima Central (OH) High).

[JoePhilly]

37. America was really founded because many early settlers ...

were sick of the rain in England and other many other parts of Europe.

Yup ... It had nothing to do with freedom ... it was all about the way wool cloths start to stink when it gets wet.

That's right, in fact, if they had some water proof fabrics, America would have remained basically idle for another 200 years.