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100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year
An anonymous reader wrote to mention a BBC list of 100 topical pieces of information that they've reported on over the course of 2005. While some of them are very Brit-specific ("16. The London borough of Westminster has an average of 20 pieces of chewing gum for every square metre of pavement."), there are some interesting, touching, and humorous stories in there. "20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood. 32. 'Restaurant' is the most mis-spelled word in search engines. 65. Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, had a hand in creating the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into."
New Year's is a god damn *retarded* reason to celebrate. OHMYGOD! My odometer hig six figures! Time to party!!!
Seriously. Come on. Be a man and VOLUNTEER to work shitty hours over holidays like this while all the lazy fucks go boozing. There's a reason some are successful and others aren't. Using any idiotic excuse to go get drunk and avoid work puts you in one of those categories. Guess which?
"7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo."
We all knew French and baboons share same ancestry.
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."