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I wasn't sure where to put this, but I thought it would be fun. I borrowed this idea from a friend of mine on another Christian board, and I thought it would be fun to put these here... These are all facts, but most of 'em are just useless knowledge... My friend has a head for this kind of stuff soo... Here we go!

Without futher ado, I present:

POINTLESS FACT OF THE DAY FOR 9/1/06

The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.

That's because most cities have gone to the dogs.   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Speaking of dogs, do you know that dogs have about 10 vocal sounds.  However, Cats have over 100 ::). (i now know why cats are noisier ;D)

Cats aren't noiser, they are a whole lot softer then a dog too.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

WHOA! Sorry guys! XD I haven't been around the past few days because my LittlePilgrim account logged out, and that day was the day I lost access to my old YAHOO account... So I've been working over the past few days to recovering everything (IE, getting a new YAHOO account, trying to recover my password here with little success and creating a new username, etc) Anyway... today's a special treat. THREE pointless facts for THREE days, instead of just one! :D PLUS one for today. :p

POINTLESS FACT OF THE DAY for 8/2/06...

The first live murder aired on TV was in 1963 when Jack Ruby killed JFK's assassain, Lee Harvey Oswald.

 POINTLESS FACT OF THE DAY for 8/3/06...


Americans will spend more money this year on cat food than on baby food!

POINTLESS FACT OF THE DAY for 8/4/06...

The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

And now for TODAY's pointless fact:

 POINTLESS FACT OF THE DAY for 8/5/06...


If you are typical, you can guess someone's sex, with 95% accuracy, just by smelling their breath!!!

Hello TheLionRoars,

Are you saying that you used to be LittlePilgrim here? If so, did your computer fry? If you filled in the secret question portion of your account, the system will send your password to you by email if you answer the secret question correctly.

By the way, I don't have a clue how one could tell the gender of another person by smelling their breath.  Further, experimenting with this doesn't sound like fun.   ;D  In fact, it might be unpleasant with many people.

Hi LP/theLionroars,

I'm glad to see that at least you got back on. I hope that you got things straight in your computer now.

BEP,
Problem is, I don't remember the answer to the secret question. Even if I did, it would do me little good, because when I lost access to my YAHOO account, I also lost access to the address where that email would have been sent. Besides, I kinda' like this name better. :p (BTW, there's a reason I capitalized "Lion" and nothing else. ;) The "Lion" in this case, refers to Christ, the "Lion of Judah".)

POINTLESS FACT OF THE DAY for 8/6/06...


The first meal eaten on the moon was 4 bacon squares, 3 sugar cookies, peaches, pineapple-grapefruit drink, and coffee.

Hello theLionRoars,

OK - I'm slow, but now I get it.   ;)   It appears that you experienced an Internet meltdown instead of a computer meltdown. SO, it could have been much worse. I'm just glad that you're back and everything is working again.

Love in Christ,
Tom

Revelation 3:20 NASB  'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

 :o :o :o

 ;D ;D ;D

 ;D   ;D  Except for those who have a habit of running red lights.

Even on the moon they drink coffee  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

i guess coffee make you awake. ???  ::)  and so the people who take time to know that "there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar", drink a lot of coffee. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D  I think I need some more coffee before I try to figure that one out.   ;D ;D

yea give me some coffee too cause I didn't know that...

let's see if we can break it down

1. 100 pennies's

2. 20 nickles

3. 4 quarters

4. 2 half dollar coins

5. 90 pennies and a dime

cont

6. 90 pennies and 2 nickles

7. 80 pennies and 2 dimes

8. 80 pennies and 4 mickles

9. 80 pennies and 2 nickles and 1 dime

85 pennies 1 dime and a nickle

this is too much  :o :o ??? ??? ::) ::) :-\ :-\ :-\ ;D ;D ;D

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I'm not even going to attempt it.    ;D ;D ;D ;D

not even after a few gallons of coffee  ??? ::) :o

How about if 1 or 2 drums of coffee.... ;D ;D(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif) (http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

by the way, i am wondering if the people here who love coffee can tell me if this statistics are true ;D

79% of coffee drinkers consume their coffee at home.
91% of coffee drinkers consume their coffee at breakfast
27% of Americans put sweetener on their coffee

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I don't know about everyone else but I drink my coffee black, at home and usually only after I've been up for an hour or two.

I am the unusuall coffee drinker  :D :D

mmm well im from australia and i have my coffee fairly strong pref. white with 1 sugar otherwise blank if were out of milk lol and i have it always at smoko times (morning and afternoon tea) and mornings and sometimes another in the afternoon or night depending...i have smoko ones at work and the others at home!!!
Just incase youre interested!!!

I see that Australians like their coffee, too. I drink mine all day, at home and away, with sugar and cream.

i dont think us aussies are really cream people!!! lol!!! generally we cant be bothered prob.

 ???I'm from Aus and i am buggered. Well for starts i don't have coffee, but if i did i'd put milk in it. What is with the cream that you yanks have. is it the same as down here. the stuff that comes from full cream millk when you turn it into skim or low fat (I have no idea what you call your milk!), the stuff that you put on desserts or scones, oh wait you don't have scones or Pavalova, (by the way you are missing out heaps on that front). I went into the starbucks the otherday, yes i was also shocked to find one here i thought that it was only in america, and they asked for cream. That is why i'm confused i just wanted milk. ???

Some people here call milk cream when it comes to putting it into their coffee. There is half and half, which is higher in the cream and there is just milk, then there is all the dry powdered stuff.

As for me, I was raised in a family full of farmers and hill folk. When we said cream it was the rich stuff that settles at the top of the jar when the milk separates.

I love coffee in many different ways:

Just plain black
With sweet and low (diet sweetener)
Some plain milk
Half and half - a heavier cream milk
Coffee-mate No Fat Flavors - cinnamon being my favorite

Coffee is my favorite drink, and the doctors are now saying that it's good for you. I'm glad since I drink probably 6 to 8 cups per day. I like the taste of coffee so much that I rarely use anything in it except for some sweet and low.

Coffee is the largest traded commodity throughout the world; yes, even greater than oil.

Coffee is good for you. ;D ;D

Now that is a useful fact.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

I think so brother.................... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

NEWSFLASH!

It is a scientific fact now that coffee is good for you, but probably not in the quantity that we drink it.   :o  I think they said something like 2 to 3 cups a day was really good for all kinds of health problems. BUT, I don't think they ever published what happens to folks who drinks 6 to 10 cups a day.  I think they need to pay us, and we can tell them.    ;D   They should at least buy our coffee for us for let's say 10 years.

How about 3-4 pots a day?? ;D ;D ;D

You can always tell them ones...they're hanging off the ceiling rafters!!!

Woo Hoo ............... Hanging out with the bats ...........


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i went to Shakespears Romeo and Juliet in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melb and there were bats flying all around us at dusk...freaky!!!

We have bats around here all the time. They like getting into our attacks and our barn rafters. Around dusk they come out to eat the mosquitoes.

haha we have possums but i dont think they eat mozzies i dunno

We have possums here, too. They do eat a lot of things but I don't think they eat mosquitoes either.

:o :o :o :o :o

Not me, I am calm as can be.............. ;D ;D ;D ;D

That means, your batty Pastor Roger?? (http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

And do a good job, eating them squiters. :D :D :D

They don't eat squiters. :(

Nope you're the one drinking the 3 to 4 pots a day.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

But your the one hanging out brother.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Not from the rafters though. I'm lucky to hang out sitting in a chair.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

*SNICKER*

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

squiters???

mozzies In hillbilly language

Mosquitoes. ;D ;D ;D

or skeeters


 :D :D ;D ;D

And your batty brother.

Them too.........................  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Yep it rubbed off onto me from the king of batty's (DW).


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Not me, your older then me. (http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)

Age has nothing to do with that.   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

It does when you follow your elders............ ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Are you saying we have a first??

 ;D ;D ;D

 We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Programming.

Polar bears are left-handed.

August 8th begins 'National Pickle Week.'

Most toliets flush in the key of E flat.

Howdy-Doody had 48 freckles.

400 quarter-pounders can be made from 1 cow.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.

A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds.

Now that is a major senior moment.

Nope.......................  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Ahhh  ....   a second then.    ;D ;D ;D ;D

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second!

If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit!

A starfish doesn't have a brain.

Whitby has more doughnut shops per capita than any other place in the world.

They also drink Coca~Cola  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Banned Books Week will begin on Saturday, September 24

The billionth digit of pi is 9.

The original Mortimer Snerd and Howdy Doody were both made from wood fiber dough.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.


Hmmmm   now actually that could be some useful information.

And covered in fabric.

f you eat just 2 Krispy Kreme donuts , it has more calories than a Big mac. ;D

The first one-hundred digits of pie are: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502

884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) fashioned an extremely original approach to filmmaking.

Another definition of the blue moon is the third full moon that occurs in a season of the year which has four full moons.

No Comment........................ ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Nope....... ;D ;D ;D ;D

The relative atomic mass (also known as atomic weight and average atomic mass) is the average of the atomic masses of all the chemical element's isotope.

The starfish is shaped like a star. It isn't a fish, as the name implies, it belongs to the echinoderm family.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The name of the Greek letter π is pi

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

Fokker Dr.I - WWI German Fighter (1917) were also of pipe frames covered by fabric.

Pi is an infinite decimal. ;D ;D ;D

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink

Alligators cannot move backwards

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down

Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span

Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day

The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts

A regular dozen is twelve, but a baker's dozen is 13. The Baker's Dozen comes from Colonial America where bakers were hung for making the loaf light.

97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own

Your brain is 80% water

Crocodiles and alligators open their jaws differently. The jaws of the crocodile are hinged to open the top jaw, while alligators open their bottom.

The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet=20

If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge hidden in the background

10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not.

5%-10% of StarTrek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdraw symptoms if they miss an episode.

Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox

When the water is beyond their wading depth, flamingos swim at the surface.

Eosophobia is the fear of dawn

Lee Harvey Osawald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600

The Texas Horned Lizard spends most of their heating up their bodies from the sun.

Dan Aykroyd's conehead from Saturday Night Live was auctioned off at .$2,200

Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters crushed him.

Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella

North American bullfrogs prefer warm weather and will hibernate during cold weather.

A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years

National pi day is March 14

Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot

Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness

Canada's imports from LDCs are one one thousandth (0.1 percent) of our total imports.

Goofy had a wife, Mrs. Goofy, and one son, Goofy jr.

People DO NOT get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors alot more.

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79cm

Garden worm is also a common alternative name for the Earthworm.

Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA

The revolving door was invented in 1888

The first recorded occurrence of a Tornado was June 10, 1682

The first umbrellas were used in Windsor Connecticut, 1740

The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984=20

Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles February 24, 1938.

The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springsteen's Born in The USA

Their are only two types of pig: American and European

Cows have four stomachs

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop--even you heart!

A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp

Every animal you can think of  mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians all have brains.

Dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps

Star fish don't have brains.

Your skin is the heaviest organ

Las Vegas created 130000 lb cake, measuring 102 feet long, 52 feet wide and 20 inches high

The human brain stops growing at the ages of 18-20

Sneezes can travel over 100 mph

85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube

The landscape behind Mona Lisa is the Alps. One can determine the time of year due to the fact that no snow is seen and by studying the plantlife.

Only 7% of the population are lefties.

Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Montpelier Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have 10

Our eyes never grow, our nose and ears never stop growing

Camels' milk can't curdle

Most hamsters blink one eye at a time

Yuck

It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound

At the beginning of the Second World War, the Japanese Navy (or, in the Japanese language, Nihon Kaigun, or even Teikoku Kaigun, the Imperial Navy) was arguably the most powerful navy in the world. Its naval aviation corps, consisting of 10 aircraft carriers and 1500 topnotch aviators, was the most highly trained and proficient force of its kind. Its 11 (soon to be 12) battleships were among the most powerful in the world. And its surface forces, armed with the superb 24" Type 93 (Long Lance) torpedo, were incomparable night fighters.

No word in the English language rhymes with month

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old

Most common name in the world is Mohammed

Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older

Capital ships were mostly named after provinces, although Kongo-class, being battlecruisers, were named after mountains.

Kongo class
Kongo: "Stability" - "The invincibility of Buddhism"
Hiei: "The Cold" - a monastery and mountain, NE of Kyoto
Kirishima: "Misty Island", a volcano
Haruna: A volcano

Fuso class
Fuso: "Land of Divine Mulberry Trees" (an old name forJapan)
Yamashiro: A province, contains Kyoto

Ise class
Ise: A province, east of Yamato
Hyuga: A province, contains Miyazaki

Nagato class
Nagato: A province
Mutsu: A province, the northern tip of Hokkaido

Tosa (Kaga) class
Tosa: A province, contains Kochi

Kii class
Kii: A province, contains Wakayama, Owari

Yamato class
Yamato: A province, contains Nara and points south. Also, an ancient name for Japan
Musashi: A province, includes Tokyo

The name Wendy was made up for the book, Peter Pan

Uma Thurman doesn't have a innie or an outie bellybutton, but a 'stretch'

The guy in the Darth Vader suit didn't know that James Earl Jones was doing the voice until the screenplay.

Aircraft carriers and seaplane carriers were mostly named after mythical flying creatures.

Hosho class
Hosho: "How a phoenix dives", implies power

Kaga class
Kaga: "Increased Joy", a province name (Kaga was originally laid down as a battleship)

Akagi class
Akagi: "Red Castle", a volcano in the Kanto area (Akagi was originally laid down as a battlecruiser)

Ryujo class
Ryujo: "Such as a dragon builds", "Sacred Dragon"

Soryu class
Soryu: "Blue-gray dragon"
Hiryu: "Dragon Flying in Heaven"

Zuiho class
Zuiho: "Lucky or Auspicious Phoenix"
Shoho: "Luckbringing Phoenix"

Ryuho class
Ryuho: "Dragon and Phoenix"

Shokaku class
Shokaku: "Crane Flying in Heaven" (also "Happy Crane")
Zuikaku: "Lucky or Fortunate or Auspicious Crane"

Hiyo class
Hiyo: "A Falcon Flying Away"
Junyo: "Wandering Falcon"

Taiho class
Taiho: "Great or Greater Phoenix"

Shinano class
Shinano: A province, containing Nagano City (Shinano was originally laid down as a battleship); also the longest river in Japan

Unryu class
Unryu: "Cloud of a Heaven-flying dragon", "Dragon in Clouds"
Amagi: "Heaven castle," a volcano
Katsuragi "Katsura Castle," a mountain

Chitose class
Chitose: "1000 Years," or, "Long Life", a city
Chiyoda: "That which will live 1000 years or 1000 generations", "Like the Fields" (also the name of the Imperial palace in Tokyo)

Taiyo class
Taiyo: "Greater falcon"
Unyo: "Cloud falcon"
Chuyo "High Seas Falcon"

Kaiyo class
Kaiyo "Sea falcon"

Shinyo class
Shinyo: "Condor"

Mizuho class
Mizuho: Juicy rice ears

Nisshin class
Nisshin: Daily fort patrol

It takes a half gallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot.

The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines

Large, Heavy or "Type A" Cruisers were named mostly after mountains, but Mogami-class were named after rivers as they were originally laid down as Type-B (light) cruisers.

Furutaka and Aoba classes
Furutaka: "Older Falcon" (a mountain)
Kako: "Captain", a river
Aoba: "Green Leaf", a mountain
Kinugasa: "Silk Parasol", a mountain

Myoko class
Myoko: A volcano
Nachi: A mountain in Kii (q.v.) province
Haguro: A mountain
Ashigara: A mountain

Takao class
Takao: "High Hero", a mountain NW of Kyoto
Atago A mountan near Kyoto
Maya: A mountain north of Kobe
Chokai: "Bird Sea", a volcano in Ugo province

Mogami class
Mogami: A river, divides the Ugo and Uzen provinces
Mikuma: "Three Corners", a river
Kumano: "Snowbell Ringer", a river
Suzuya: A river

Tone class
Tone: "Land Possessor", the river between Musashi (q.v.) and Shimosa provinces
Chikuma: A mountain in Tango province

A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body

Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

Light, Small, or "Type B" cruisers were generally named after rivers & streams.

Tenryu class
Tenryu: "Heaven's Dragon", a river rising at Lake Suwa, in Shinano (q.v.) province - has famous rapids.
Tatsuta: "Dragon Field", a river in Yamato (q.v.) province

Kuma class
Kuma: "Wounded Valley", a river in higo province
Tama: "Mountain Top", or "Wetlands", a river in Musashi (q.v.) province, also a mountain and a place name
Kitakami: "Territory" - a river and a mountain range in Rikuchu province
Oi: "Greater Fountain", a river
Kiso: "Steep Slope", a region near Nagano

Nagara class
Nagara: "River", a river.
Isuzu: "Clear Water" or "50 Bells" , a river.
Yura: "Sand Region", a river in Tango province
Natori: A river
Kinu: "Planted Field", a river
Abukuma: A river

Naka class
Naka: "Water", a river
Sendai: "Natural lake", a river in Satsuma (q.v.) province
Jintsu: "Wonderful Godly Works", a river

Yubari class
Yubari: "Origin at the Hot Springs", a river

Katori class
Katori: A river, and shrine founded by Jimmu Tenno, the divine first emperor
Kashima: "Ferry Island", a place and shrine in hitachi province
Kashii: "Stream Ford", a place on Hakuta bay, and a shrine

Agano class
Agano: "Slope Water", a river, mouth at Matsusasaki town
Noshiro: "Large Passage Through a Plain" - a river in Ugo province
Yahagi: "Fletcher" (arrow maker), a river in Mikawa province
Sakawa: A river in sagami (q.v.) province

Oyodo class
Oyodo: "Big Standing Water", a river

Queen Elizabeth was good friends with William Shakespeare

DW has apple trees.

First class destroyers were named after environmental or calendar names.

Minekaze class
Sawakaze : "Wind from a Swamp" (Lowlands Wind)
Minekaze: "Summit Wind"
Okikaze: "High Seas Wind"
Shimakaze: "Island Wind"
Yakaze: "Wind of an Arrow's Flight"
Hakaze: "Wind from a Wing Stroke", "Following Wind", or "Wind Dancing in Branches"
Nadakaze: "Wind over the Restless (Open) Sea'"
Shiokaze: "Wind and Flame ("Sea Breeze")
Akikaze: "Autumn Wind"
Tachikaze: "Wind from a Swinging Sword", or "Wind From a Sword Stroke"
Yukaze: "Evening Wind"
Hokaze: "Wind on the Sail"
Nokaze: "Wind over Fields"
Numakaze: "Wind over the Marsh"
Namikaze: "High Wave and Strong Wind"

Kamikaze class
Kamikaze: "Divine (God-made) Wind"
Asakaze: "Wind from the Sea after Sunrise" (Sea breeze, Morning Breeze)
Harukaze: "Spring Wind"
Matsukaze: "Wind in the Pines"
Hatakaze: "Flag-flying Wind", "Flag-fluttering breeze"
Asanagi: "Morning Calm" (Cessation of the Asakaze (q.v.))
Yunagi: "Evening Calm" (Cessation of the Land Breeze) (wind from land after sunset)
Oite:Tailwind (Fair or favorable wind)
Hayate: "Storm Gust" (Gale)

Mutsuki class
Satsuki: "Month of First Buds"
Kisarigi: "Second Month"
Yayoi: "Month of Growing Plants"
Mutsuki: "Month (moon) of First Rice-Sowing"
Uzuki: "Month of Blooming Makinos"
Fumizuki: "Month of Rice Ears"
Kikuzuki: "Month of Chrysanthemum Blooms"
Minazuki: "Sixth Month"
Mikazuki: "Sickle Moon"
Nagatsuki: "Month of Long Moonlight"
Yuzuki: "Evening Moon"
Mochizuki: "Full Moon"

Fubuki class
Murakumo: "Gathering Clouds" or "Cluster of Clouds"
Hatsuyuki: "Winter's or Year's First Snow"
Fubuki: "Snowstorm"
Isonami: "Shore Wave" (Surf)
Shinonome: "Morning Twilight" or "Daybreak Clouds"
Usugumo: "Thin Misty Clouds"
Shirakumo: "White Clouds"
Shirayuki: "White Snow"
Miyuki: "Deep Snow"
Uranami: "Waves in a Bay", "Bay Wave"
Shikinami: "Rolling Waves" (Waves Chasing One Another)
Ayanami: "Wave Patterns", "Weave Wave", (Waves whose beauty suggests figures woven in silk)
Asagiri: "Morning Mist"
Sagiri: "Mist"
Amagiri: "Dampening (Dewey) Mist", "Mist in the Sky"
Yugiri: "Evening Mist"
Akebono: "Daybreak (Dawn)"
Oboro: "Mist Veil Through Which Only a Shade of the Moon is Visible", or "Haziness Diffusing the Moonlight"
Ushio: "Tide"
Sazanami: "Curling Waves (Ripples)", or "Pretty, Small Waves Raised by a Zephyr"

Akatsuki class
Ikazuchi: "Thunder"
Inazuma: "Lightning (Thunderbolt)"
Akatsuki: "Dawn"
Hibiki: "Echo"

Hatsuharu class
Nenohi: "New Year Festival of Old Japan"
Hatsuharu: "Spring Rains"
Hatsushimo: "First Frost of Season"
Wakaba: "Fresh Verdure" (Young leaf or leaves)
Yugure: "Evening", "Evening Dusk"
Ariake: "Dawn, But Still the Moon Remains in the Sky", "Dawn Twilight"

Shiratsuyu class
Shiratsuyu: "Shimmering Dew" (White Dew)
Shigure: "The Frequent Rains of Fall and Winter" (Autumn Shower)
Murasame: "Frequent Rain Showers" (Scattered Showers), or just "Shower"
Samidare: "Monsoon Rain Over Land" (Early Summer Rain)
Harusame: "Light Spring Rain Before the Leaves Bud", or just "Spring Rain"
Yamakaze: "Mountain Wind" (Wind From the Hills)
Yudachi: "Evening Thunder Shower in Summer"
Kawakaze: "Winter Wind" (Wind on the River?)
Umikaze: "Sea Breeze"
Suzukaze: "Cool Breeze in Summer"

Asashio class
Asashio: "Morning High Tide"
Michishio: "Flood (Tide Running Full)"
Oshio: "High Tide"
Arashio: "Rough Sea Flood" (Tide)
Natsugumo: "White Summer Clouds"
Yamagumo: "Mountain Clouds (White Clouds in the Hills)
Minegumo: "Summit Clouds (White Cloud on the Mountain Peak)
Asagumo: "(White) Morning Clouds"
Arare: "Hail"
Kasumi: "Haze" (Mist of Flowers)

Kagero class
Shiranui: "Phosphorescent Foam"
Kuroshio: "Black Current" (Warm current from Japan across N. Pacific)
Kagero: "Glimmering Spring Air", or "The Shimmering Mist that Rises from the Earth on a Hot Day"
Oyashio: "Cold Current"
Hatsukaze: "Year's First Wind"
Natsushio: "Summer Tide"
Yukikaze: "Snowy Wind"
Hayashio: "Swift-Moving Tide"
Isokaze: "Wind on the Beach"
Amatsukaze: "Heavenly Wind"
Tokitsukaze: "Favorable Wind"
Urakaze: "Wind on the Sea"
Arashi: "Storm"
Hagikaze: "Wind Before the Horn Clover Blooms"
Nowaki: "Fall Gales"
Tanikaze: "Wind from the Mountain to the Valley"
Hamakaze: "Wind on the Strand"
Maikaze: "Whirlwind"

Yugumo class
Yugumo: "Evening Clouds"
Akigumo: "Autumn Clouds"
Kazegumo: "Clouds Driven by Heaven's Winds"
Makigumo: "Cirrus Clouds" (Rolling Clouds)
Makinami: "Overflowing Waves" (Rolling Wave)
Naganami: "Long Waves" Takanami: "Pearly Waves" (High Wave?)
Onami: "Billow Wave" (Big Rough Waves)"
Kiyonami: "Clear Waves"
Hayanami: "Quickly-following Waves"
Tamanami: "High Climbing Waves"
Suzunami: "Breaking Waves"
Hamanami: "Beach Waves"
Fujinami: "Growth of Imperial Wisdom"
Asashimo: "Morning Frost"
Okinami: "High Seas Waves"
Kishinami: "Shore Waves"
Hayashimo: "Return to Time of Frost"
Akishimo: "Autumn Frost"
Kiyoshimo: "Clear Frost"

Shimakaze class
Shimakaze: "Island Wind"

Akizuki class
Akizuki: "Autumn Moon"
Teruzuki: "Pale or Lighter Moon, Shining Moon"
Suzutsuki: "Colder Moon"
Hatsutsuki: "New Moon"
Niizuki: "New Moon"
Wakatsuki: "Moon in First Quarter"
Shimotsuki: "11th Month" (Month of Frost, Frost Moon)
Fuyutsuki: "Winter Moon"
Harutsuki: "Spring Moon"
Yoizuki: "Moon Visible as Day Joins Evening"
Hanatsuki: "Blooming Moon"
Natsuzuki: "Summer Moon"

The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla

Second-class destroyers were named after plants.

Matsu class
Matsu: "Pine"
Momo: "Fir"
Take: "Bamboo"
Ume: "Apricot"
Kuwa: "Mulberry Tree"
Kiri: "Emperor Tree" (also called Paulownia)
Maki: "Large Interleaved Stone Yew"
Momi: "White Pine"
Sugi: "Pushing Cypress" (Cedar?)
Hinoki: "Sun Cypress"
Kaede: "Fan Horn"
Kaya: "Nut Yew"
Kashi: "Oak"
Sakura: "Cherry Tree"
Tsubaki: "Camellia"
Keyaki: "Japanese Elm"
Nara: "Painted-leaf Oak"
Yanagi: "Willow"

Tachibana class (Matsu Flight II)
Tachibana: "Orange"
Tsuta: "Young Fern", or "Fence Vine"
Nire: "Chinese Elm"
Hagi: "Two-Colored Clover Bush"
Kaki : "Cactus Fuzz"
Sumire: "Manchurian Violet"
Shii: (no English common name, species Schiia Sieboldii Makino)
Nashi: "Ornamental Pear"
Enoki: "Jelly Tree"? Kusunoki: "Camphor Tree"
Hatsuzakura: "First-Blooming Cherry Blossoms"
Kaba: "Birch"
Odake: "Manlike Bamboos"
Hatsuuna: "First-Blooming Apricot"

Yup  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Isoroku Yamamoto

Mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack, and leader of Combined Fleet until 1943, his plane was shot down over Bougainville on April 18, 1943 by American P-38 aircraft. I personally think Yamamoto was a gifted individual, but also a bit over-rated. His needlessly complex operational scheme at the Battle of Midway dispersed his forces in the face of a still-dangerous foe, and directly led to the disaster there. Further, in the subsequent battles around the Solomons he was seemingly unable to capitalize on the weaknesses of the U.S. carrier forces opposing him, and was also unwilling (until it was too late) to risk sending the heavy surface units of the Combined Fleet down there to kick some butt. This unwillingness, to me, belies Yamamoto's underlying belief that battleships still were the ultimate arm of decision, and should therefore be hoarded in hopes of participating in a Decisive Battle.

Chuichi Nagumo

Every IJN fan's favorite whipping-boy admiral, and hey, why should I be any different? Gruff, conservative, not overly-imaginative, and at his core profoundly suspicious of the potency of carrier-based airpower, Nagumo was (ironically enough) placed in charge of the most powerful naval air armada of the first half of the war: Kido Butai, Japan's carrier strike force. He was in charge of executing Yamamoto's plan for a Pearl Harbor attack, which was also ironic, because he and Yamamoto got along very poorly, and Nagumo didn't believe in Yamamoto's plan at all. The result; a spectacular, but somewhat superficial victory in Hawaii, wherein the US heavy surface units were largely destroyed or disabled, but our escort vessels and (much more important) our oil tanks farms and repair facilities escaped practically untouched (despite the urging of his staff officers to launch a second attack and destroy them). This, in turn, left the US Navy with both the carrier escorts and the logistical underpinnings necessary to carry on the war.
After Pearl Harbor, Nagumo commanded Kido Butai through its subsequent six-month long reign of terror, during which it roamed the Pacific with seeming invincibility, until it was finally dismembered at the Battle of Midway. Thereafter he went on to lead the Combined Fleet's carrier aviation forces through a series of uninspiring performances around the Solomons, finally being removed from command after the Battle of Santa Cruz, October 25-27, 1942. He died by his own hand during the invasion of Saipan in July, 1944.

Aritomo Goto

I would have liked to have met this guy; he looked like a real character. Admiral Goto participated in several of the major campaigns of the war, being commander of Cruiser Division 6 (Aoba, Furutaka, Kako, and Kinugasa). His ships supplied the bulk of the muscle Admiral Mikawa used to such good effect at the Battle of Savo Island. Goto was killed aboard the Aoba during the Battle of Cape Esperance, October 11-12, 1942.

Gunichi Mikawa

Victor at the Battle of Savo Island, the worst defeat ever suffered by the United States Navy. With a 'pickup team' of mostly aging cruisers and a lone destroyer, Mikawa sortied down 'The Slot' shortly after the U.S. Marine Corps landed on Guadalcanal. Through a combination of determination, good luck, and lapses in command and control on the part of the Allied naval forces, Mikawa's force achieved total surprise, and quickly sank four Allied heavy cruisers while suffering only minor damage to his own vessels. Unfortunately, he then promptly withdrew from the scene of the fight before destroying the Allied transports anchored in the Sound, for which act he has been endlessly (and in my opinion, unjustly) pilloried by historians on both sides... (send me PM if you want to argue the point).

Tamon Yamaguchi

Perhaps Japan's most gifted carrier admiral, Yamaguchi was astute, aggressive, and ambitious. Unfortunately for Japan's war effort, he was also heavily steeped in the Bushido Code, which meant that he was pretty much obligated to do away with himself after having lost his carrier Hiryu during the closing stages of the Battle of Midway.

Jisaburo Ozawa

Commander of Japan's carrier forces from November 1942 through the remainder of the war. Ozawa, who's nickname was 'The Gargoyle', was commonly regarded as one of the three ugliest admirals in the Navy. He also happened to be a fine commander, compassionate towards his men, and unselfish in his operational planning. It was his ill fate to be the commander of a fleet that was doomed, through a combination of logistical, technological, and training inferiorities, to lose an uninterrupted series of battles to the ever-expanding American naval forces. His fleet ended its combat career off of the Phillipines as nothing more than a bait force, flight decks empty for lack of planes and pilots. Nevertheless, Ozawa played his role intelligently and professionally until the end.

Tameichi Hara

Captain of destroyer Amatsukaze at the beginning of the war, and squadron commander aboardShigure during much of the fighting in the Solomons. He survived several very close scrapes in the Solomons, including being the lone destroyer to survive the fiasco off of Vella LaVella on August 6, 1943, where three of four Japanese ships involved (Hagikaze, Arashi, and Kawakaze) were all ambushed and sunk within the space of a few minutes in the Battle of Kula Gulf. By the end of the war he had become skipper of Yahagi, which accompanied (and was sunk along with) Yamato on her final sortie, although Hara again survived. Hara exemplified the best in Japanese surface commanders; highly skilled (particularly in torpedo warfare and night fighting), hard driving, and aggressive. He was also bitterly critical of the Japanese Navy's handling of the war.

Raizo Tanaka

This guy was a bonafide genius, probably one of the finest squadron commanders of the entire war to serve on either side. He routinely defeated superior Allied forces in the Solomons, or escaped with the bulk of his forces from traps that should have meant his annihilation, the Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, being a prime example. His primary working assets were often no more inspiring than a handful of overloaded, overworked destroyer transports. Fortunately for the U.S., he was removed from surface command shortly after the final evacuation from Guadalcanal, presumably a casualty of the Navy's finger-pointing as to who was to blame for the debacle. (send me PM if you want to argue the point).

neither can kangaroos or emus

or orange i think

Shrimp can only swim backward.

Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.

Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump. :o

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth

The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.  :o :o

There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter

A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid,

When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less.  ;D

A male kangaroo is called a Boomer.

That i confess i did not know.

I wonder how many of these facts can actually help increase our IQ  ::)   ;D ;D

um my guess none!! lol

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

hence pointless  ;D ;D ;D ;D

A female kangaroo is called a flyer

and a baby kangaroo is a Joey and a herd of kangaroos are called a mob.

 ;D  I feel much smarter after reading this thread, and I'm wondering if there is a degree program for "Pointless Facts of the Day".

No I reckon that one day you are going to go on a quiz show, and the final Question would be 'What is a male Kangaroo called?" and you know the answer and bingo you're rich and everybody thinks that you are really smart!! ;D ;D ;D

We tend to call a lot of things a 'mob' when we can't be bothered knowing what it's acctualy called. But here are a few; A mob of sheep, A herd of cattle, (my fav) A crash of rhinos (What made them think of that?), A flock of seagulls, a caravan of cars. etc...

AHA!!!!
So they are not so pointless after all and they actually taught something therefore increasing a person's inteligence even if a teeeeennny tinnnnny iitttty bitttty bit  ;D ;D

I can't imagine.    ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

It might get you into the Mensa Society also.

(Wait a minute that is a pointless thing, too.)   

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We call that a convoy here.

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Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.