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I currently own over 5 shirts that have reference to pirates on them.
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Dale wrote:
Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:
Dale wrote:15% of the worlds weight is ant's.
I call bullshit.

Is it possible you mean biomass?
I heard my dad say this once don't know were he got that concept he might of ment biomass. But then again ant colinies can be miles long and their was an ant colony that spans the entire country of africa. I guess I'll haft to read further. Considering they are basically under everything and can be found everywhere it might be possible.
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An Antarctic krill, whose species comprises roughly 0.66% of the Earth's biomass, the highest of any single species.
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The AmigaCD32 thread forced me to buy one......
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I heard once that ether a craw fish or a shrimp goes pee out of it's face.

And the male Sea Horse gives birth.
I did great so much water and milk that I threw up when I was little.
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The games Carrier and Elemental Gimmick Gear have their logos made with the same font.

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Masami Kurumada, creator of Saint Seiya, found that he wanted to be a manga artist after reading Ashita no Joe by Tetsuya Chiba and Asao Takamori.

Shingo Araki, the art director for the Saint Seiya anime, also happened to have done the same job in the Ashita no Joe anime.

Ashita no Joe also became a videogame. It was released in the USA as Legend of Success Joe, and is regarded by many as the worst fighting game for the Neo Geo.
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Stormwatch wrote:Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
and people are still afraid to tell him that
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Several bands are named after places.
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If you rotate Tyrian's logo 180 degrees...

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...it will still look exactelly the same. That's called an ambigram.
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The "Eunice Aphroditois" worm is sometimes called Lorena Bobbit worm because of the way he attacks his prey when it wanders close by. It's said it sometimes slices it in half with his sharp claws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbit_worm
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Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is the only known moon with a fully developed atmosphere. Its composition is:

- 98.4% nitrogen
- 01.6% methane
- trace amounts of other gases such as hydrocarbons (including ethane, diacetylene, methylacetylene, cyanoacetylene, acetylene, propane), argon, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, cyanogen, hydrogen cyanide and helium.

At the surface, Titan's temperature is about 94 K (−179 °C, or −290.2 °F).
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Stormwatch wrote:If you rotate Tyrian's logo 180 degrees...

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...it will still look exactelly the same. That's called an ambigram.
Tyrian <-> NairyT <-- Is not the same, even in the logo if you ask me.
The first 2 letters on either side look the same but the 2 middle letter won't.
Even if you mean flipping the R will not look the same.
So are you wrong or am I wrong ?

[EDIT]Forget it ! I need some glasses it seems :roll: [/EDIT]
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I said ambigram, not palindrome!
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In other news: Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Initially uncredited, Michael Jackson is the actual writer of "Do the Batman".
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Rayman is the best selling PlayStation game of all time in the UK.
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24/108 posts in this thread are from Stormwatch
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Han shot first.
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Not counting prototypes or hacks, the rarest titles for the Atari 2600 are probably CommaVid's Magicard and Video Life.
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This just in: Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Fact: When I tell Yahoo! e-mail to Save Message Text, and it asks me what to do with the file, even if I click the box to "Do this automatically with files like this from now on," it won't.

Fact: The latest update to Yahoo! e-mail is crap.

Fact: I tried to sign up with Gmail, but it wouldn't send the code to my phone.
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OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) is a tic-tac-toe computer game made for the EDSAC computer in 1952. It was written by A.S. (Sandy) Douglas as an illustration for his Ph.D. thesis on human-computer interaction for the University of Cambridge. OXO is the first known (graphical) game to run on a computer. However, there is patent dating from 1947–1948 that describes a missile simulation game utilising a cathode ray tube.

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Minzoku wrote:Fact: When I tell Yahoo! e-mail to Save Message Text, and it asks me what to do with the file, even if I click the box to "Do this automatically with files like this from now on," it won't.

Fact: The latest update to Yahoo! e-mail is crap.

Fact: I tried to sign up with Gmail, but it wouldn't send the code to my phone.
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Minzoku wrote:Fact: I tried to sign up with Gmail, but it wouldn't send the code to my phone.
Be glad you didn't get an account. More info here: http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
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Fact: many, MANY completely unrelated songs have the same titles.
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Kurt Harland, formerly the lead singer of Information Society, later became a videogame music composer. He did soundtrack for games like X-Men 2: Clone Wars, Gex 3D, and the whole Legacy of Kain series.
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Moon Patrol was the first game to use a parallax scrolling effect.
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That sega ages ps2 remake of space harrier has totally new boss not found in original game! (Stage 19 fractal ON) it's demon
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