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Fact: Unlike the condescending Mac ads, most PC users aren't nerdy, chubby, droll and boring suit-dressing men in their 40s.

Fact: Unlike depicted in the ads, most Mac users aren't cool hipsters.They're actually a bunch of picky, condescending, elitist... hey, what are you doing reading this?

Okay, not really. Sorry.

Fact: Women feel more comfortable using a Mac than a PC.
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Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones apparently 'sniffed' his father.
He just mixed a little bit of his father's ashes with some cocaine and sniffed it :shock:
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Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) is married to Tove Torvalds (née Monni), a six-time Finnish national karate champion.

Stephan Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) was married to Candi Clark, a world-champion whitewater kayak racer.
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The first commercially produced keytar, in 1980, was the Moog Liberation. The first owner was Spyro Gyra keyboardist Tom Schuman; the following three units were owned by Devo.
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Made by the same people that made the Moog synthesizer (the one that's the size of a house) I take it.
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GaijinPunch wrote:Made by the same people that made the Moog synthesizer (the one that's the size of a house) I take it.
There are many Moog synthesizers, Robert Moog and his company is the most legendary synth manufacturer ever.
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I would like to own a Mini Moog but at 4000$ USD, I can't afford such a thing.
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Fact: rabbits can not vomit.
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Duck's quacks don't have any echo.
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Stormwatch wrote:Fact: rabbits can not vomit.
That's interesting. In junior school I had a teacher who repeatedly told a story of how she had (as a child) put her pet rabbit in a wheelbarrow and catapulted it into the air until it vomited. So this means she's either a twisted bitch or a compulsive liar. Perfect teacher material either way :?
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zinger wrote:Robert Moog and his company is the most legendary synth manufacturer ever.
Is it a single Moog featured in the "Dark side of the Moog" series by Pete Namlook and Klaus Schultz? A special one? I read about one from the 70's. Fucking huge.
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eight wrote:Duck's quacks don't have any echo.
Debunked.
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Damn ducks fooled me. :(
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GaijinPunch wrote:
zinger wrote:Robert Moog and his company is the most legendary synth manufacturer ever.
Is it a single Moog featured in the "Dark side of the Moog" series by Pete Namlook and Klaus Schultz? A special one? I read about one from the 70's. Fucking huge.
I don't know much about "Dark side of the Moog", haven't heard it and I don't know what they used. Anyway, between 1967 and 1981, Moog produced and sold "modular synths" as well as new modules for these, which made it possible to expand them to infinity. You could fill up your whole apartment with modules and hook them up together to form one enormous synthesizer.
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Bret Michaels, vocalist of glam metal band Poison, got a reputation of a junkie for backstage photos that show him injecting himself with a syringe. Actually, it was insuline for his diabetes.
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Jack Tramiel (Commodore, Atari) is an Auschwitz survivor.
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During WW2, Hugo Boss produced the uniforms of the SS.
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Windows 3.2 was only released in chinese.
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Eric S. Raymond, programmer, free software advocate, and author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary", is a witch.
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Ian James Corlett was the voice of villain Dr. Wily in Captain N.

He later worked in the MegaMan series -- as the hero's voice.
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ZZ Top's first album was titled, quite aptly, ZZ Top's First Album.
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Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Factual error in the Pixar film Finding Nemo:

Mr. Ray tells a student named Jimmy to keep his supraesophageal ganglion to himself. This is a part of an insect's central nervous system. This means that Jimmy is an insect (few insects live in freshwater, such as the water boatman, but none are known to live in the ocean), and Mr. Ray is essentially telling an underwater insect to keep his brain to himself.[/i]
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james hetfield is scared of rollercoasters

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here he is crying liek a little baby duringa ride in denmark somewhere :lol:
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[quote="sven666"]james hetfield is scared of rollercoasters

so am I... :oops:

(even more useless fact btw ;))
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My post here: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=15218 from 6:50 AM was the last post until Caincans post here http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=15163 at 11:49
I know that new Capcom 2D fighter news was big, but I've never experienced such a long radio silence before. My useless contribution for this day.
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Sonic's first appearance in a game was in Rad Mobile.

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See the air freshener?

It was released a year before the original Sonic the Hedgehog game.
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Roger Ebert described The Passion of The Christ as "the most violent [film] I have ever seen". From him that's saying quite a lot. I'm glad I've never seen it.
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Queen's guitarist, Brian May, is also an astrophysicist.

- http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070726/music_nm/queen_dc
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Trogdor was a man.

I mean, he was a dragon man.

Or maybe he was just a dragon.

But he was still Trogdor!
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