Ask me anything

[proud2BlibKansan]

I know all kinds of cool stuff now. My son gave me this book for Mother's Day.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971394288/002-1146860-3649662?v=glance

For example:

During the Cold War, the code to unlock nuclear missiles was 00000000.

Head transplants on monkeys have already been performed.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Carl Sagan was a pothead .

Are you surprised ? ;)

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. No, not at all

That makes sense.

Some legal, readily available substances can get you high.
and
Each month, new warnings are added to the labels of 40 drugs.

[Sanity Claws]

2. What is the chemical composition of quartz?

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. That's not in the book

but this is:

Well over 300,000 tons of chemical weapons have been dumped into the sea.

[Sanity Claws]

9. Yikes -- that's scary

Glad I'm not a fish

[bigwillq]

3. Do you like Mary Poppins? (nt)

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Yes

at least, I did when I was 10.

Barbie is based on a German sex doll.

[bigwillq]

10. Do you speak German? (nt)

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. No, but

my grandmother did.

[bigwillq]

14. What's No. 4 on that list?

Four is my fave number.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. 4. Shakespeare's works are

loaded with sexual jokes and terms.

[babylonsister]

4. What are the next winning lottery numbers? nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Well,

every number is less than 100. There are six of them. Take a guess, I will let you know if you are right.

and
The board game Monopoly was swiped from the Quakers.

[babylonsister]

15. Monopoly + Quakers does not compute. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. you never know . . .

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121997.htm

On January 5, 1904, Lizzie J. Magie, a Quaker woman from Virginia, received a patent (view patent) for a board game. Lizzie Magie belonged to a tax movement led by Philadelphia-born Henry George; the movement supported the theory that the renting of land and real estate produced an unearned increase in land values that profited a few individuals (landlords) rather than the majority of the people (tenants). Henry George proposed a single federal tax based on land ownership believing a single tax would discourage speculation and encourage equal opportunity.

Lizzie Magie wanted to use her game, which she called "The Landlord's Game" as a teaching device for George's ideas. The Landlord's Game and Monopoly are very similar, except all the properties in Magie's game are rented not acquired as in Monopoly and instead of names like "Park Place" and "Marvin Gardens" one finds "Poverty Place", "Easy Street" and "Lord Blueblood's Estate". The objectives of each game are also very different. In Monopoly the idea of the game is to buy and rent or sell property so profitably that one becomes the wealthiest player and eventually monopolist. In The Landlord's Game, the object was to illustrate how (under the system of land tenure) the landlord had an advantage over other enterprisers and to show how the single tax could discourage speculation.

The game spread as a common folk game among the Quakers and proponents of the single tax, usually copied instead of purchased, with each new maker adding their favorite city street names as they drew or painted their boards (usually on table cloth.) It was also common for each new maker to alter or write new rules. As the game spread from community to community, the name would change from "The Landlord's Game" to "Auction Monopoly" and then just "Monopoly".

[jeff30997]

7. Is creationism really a scam which only really stupid peoples fall for?

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Yes

and

The Vatican, including the pope, is directly involved in the Cathoiic church's pedophile cover-up.

God's name is 'Jealous'