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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
The palindromic prime number 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's Prime, due to the significance of containing the number 666, on both sides enclosed by thirteen zeroes and a one.

In the short scale, this number would be named "One nonillion, sixty-six quadrillion, six hundred trillion and one". In the long scale, this number's name would be "One quintillion, sixty-six billiard, six hundred billion and one".

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prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Sham bam bamina! posted:

The palindromic prime number 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's Prime, due to the significance of containing the number 666, on both sides enclosed by thirteen zeroes and a one.

In the short scale, this number would be named "One nonillion, sixty-six quadrillion, six hundred trillion and one". In the long scale, this number's name would be "One quintillion, sixty-six billiard, six hundred billion and one".

i originally thought the "milliard gargantubrain" was just a funny sciency name. didn't find out "milliard" is actually a british number until years later

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slćgt skal fřlge slćgters gang



it's French 😤

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Krankenstyle posted:

it's French 😤

it used to be british too, also it used to not be french (because the french moved from short scale back to long scale, and the british moved from long scale to short scale after americans did)

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slćgt skal fřlge slćgters gang



thx for the worthless thing from Wikipedia lol

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
lol

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

The "Mystery" of Atlantis
It is never made clear what the "mystery" of the island is, even after the player finishes the final zone. However, another mystery does appear in the final zone where it turns out that Wynn's master is Gonbe; the main character from Ikki, another video game developed by SunSoft.

Doom Mathematic
Sep 2, 2008

prefect posted:

i originally thought the "milliard gargantubrain" was just a funny sciency name. didn't find out "milliard" is actually a british number until years later

I figured the Zetetic Elench in the Culture books just had some lovely outer space name, but "zetetic" and "elench" are both real English words.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

* American-Jamaican singer Sean Kingston sampled the song in his debut single "Beautiful Girls".
* In 2019, an instrumental, higher key version of the song was used in a commercial for NexGard, a flea and tick-killing medicine for dogs.

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
The fact that geese do not have crops occasioned what many consider to be the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes'—or rather author Arthur Conan Doyle's—biggest forensic blunder. In "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", a large valuable gem is supposedly hidden in a goose's crop.[6]

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
Kuchisake-Onna, as told commonly, was a beautiful, young woman that lived in a village of Japan. She would roam around the village, and ask the folks, "Am I pretty?", to which they would reply with an enthusiastic "yes". This made her very confident in herself, and as she was married to an intelligent samurai, she believed that she would be able to get away with an affair with a noble soldier. But her husband found out, and in anger, asked the soldier, "Why her? Why my lady rather than all other women of the village?", to which he replied, "For she is the most beautiful of the village, I cannot pass up such an opportunity." The samurai adored his honesty and acknowledged that he had the right response and reason. The soldier was poor after all, and had not had many positive things occur in his life.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slćgt skal fřlge slćgters gang



goblin week posted:

Kuchisake-Onna, as told commonly, was a beautiful, young woman that lived in a village of Japan. She would roam around the village, and ask the folks, "Am I pretty?", to which they would reply with an enthusiastic "yes". This made her very confident in herself, and as she was married to an intelligent samurai, she believed that she would be able to get away with an affair with a noble soldier. But her husband found out, and in anger, asked the soldier, "Why her? Why my lady rather than all other women of the village?", to which he replied, "For she is the most beautiful of the village, I cannot pass up such an opportunity." The samurai adored his honesty and acknowledged that he had the right response and reason. The soldier was poor after all, and had not had many positive things occur in his life.



but with samurai armor

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory, officially abbreviated as DDR SDRAM, is a double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) class of memory

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

In early 2002 Sir Lancelot suffered a broken foot from chasing a campus lawnmower.

Spaced God
Feb 8, 2014

All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!



Many railfans also collect "railroadiana" or "railwayana". Railroadiana refers to artifacts from railroads and railroad operations and could include nearly anything to do with a particular railroad, including public or employee timetables, locomotive number boards, dining car china, passenger train tickets, tools and pieces of equipment such as lanterns, or sometimes items as big as train horns, or track speeders. Although few can afford the acquisition cost or the space for storage, some railfans collect full size rolling stock or locomotives.[citation needed]

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Krankenstyle posted:



but with samurai armor

compersion is a feeling of craig-san

Manky Tungeon
Jun 11, 2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Pee_Island

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
i really like that it's in "Witless Bay"

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
A very large tortilla was made by 12 chefs in Vitoria, Spain in 2014, claiming to be a record.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
After two days of constant drumming, the Poles had to use shovels to clear the embassy of dead sparrows.[7]

Devonaut
Jul 10, 2001

Devoted Astronaut

Culture writer Nathan Rabin has theorized in his The A.V. Club column that Marlon Brando's late career was heavily influenced by The Great Gazoo advising him.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012



Cheesedreamcharlie - Own work
This is a classic cheese dream made with American Cheese.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART
Because Thomas Edison produced the world’s first kiss on film, it has often been remarked that Thomas Edison was the first pornographer in film, in a sense. This opinion is mentioned in The Big Bang Theory Season 11 Episode 8. [3]

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:



Cheesedreamcharlie - Own work
This is a classic cheese dream made with American Cheese.
this guy has bodies in his crawl space

edit: http://cheesedreams.net/

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Jul 19, 2019

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
honey. i had the cheese dream again.

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

Sham bam bamina! posted:

this guy has bodies in his crawl space

edit: http://cheesedreams.net/

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Also, since the game uses many of the graphical assets seen in 2004's Fight for NY, it does not reflect physical changes seen in some of the celebrities featured in the game. For example, Busta Rhymes, in the role of Magic, still has his dreadlock hairstyle, which he cut in late 2005. Also, Ludacris still has his cornrow hairstyle, which he would cut in the summer of 2006.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:



Cheesedreamcharlie - Own work
This is a classic cheese dream made with American Cheese.

it's a cheese nightmare, jesus christ

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
who among us has witnessed the pure bliss that is a cheas dream,

cheezedreamcarlie has

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? Would you boy?

Spaced God
Feb 8, 2014

All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!



In December 2007, Dean criticised the BBC and its television programme Doctor Who for including an episode with a starship "cruise liner" called the Titanic, that was similar in appearance to the historical liner. Speaking from her nursing home, she said: "The Titanic was a tragedy which tore so many families apart. I lost my father and he lies on that wreck. I think it is disrespectful to make entertainment of such a tragedy."[11] A spokeswoman for the show said: "No offence was intended. 'Voyage of the Damned' is set on a spaceship called The Titanic and not a boat."[11]

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
Controversies

While the English version just listed members of the shark family, the Korean version says Mommy Shark is "pretty", Daddy Shark is "strong", Grandma Shark is "kind" and Grandpa Shark is "cool". In January 2018, the left-leaning South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun published a front-page editorial condemning these lyrics as sexist.[6][24]

aardvaard
Mar 4, 2013

you belong in the bog of eternal stench

Blaziken has received generally positive reception. IGN readers ranked Blaziken the 50th best Pokémon ever.[10] Game Informer ranked it the 36th best Pokémon.[11] In a poll by Official Nintendo Magazine's Tom East, Blaziken was voted as the third-best Fire-type Pokémon. They stated "A kung fu chicken? What's not to like?". In a poll of the best Pokémon from Ruby and Sapphire in celebration of the games having 10 years under their belt, Blaziken was ranked in third place. [12] Another poll of the best Pokémon introduced in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald placed Blaziken third.[13] GamesRadar used Blaziken as an example of a human shaped Pokémon done right.[14] The Escapist's John Funk wrote that Blaziken was "awesome" an example of a Pokémon that players who refused to play past Red and Blue were missing out on.[15] Game Informer's Jeff Marchiafava felt that Blaziken was less cool than other Fire-type Pokémon and stated that it has a 1970s "vibe". While he felt that the Mega Evolution was an improvement, he called it a "Mega Disappointment."[16] Kotaku's Eric Jou also felt that it had a weak design and cited it as an example of Ruby and Sapphire's weak Pokémon designs.[17] IGN's Jose Otero felt that Blaziken would be a good choice for a playable character in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U due to its Mega Evolution, whereas fellow editor Tim Gettys felt that it would be unlikely.[18] ONM editor Thomas East wrote that Blaziken was a good idea for inclusion in a fourth Super Smash Bros. title.[19] However, instead of Blaziken, the Super Smash Bros. games' creator Masahiro Sakurai actually decided to included Greninja as a playable fighter in the game.

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
Mega Disappointment is, coincidentally, what my parents call me.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
its not a coincidence

Doom Mathematic
Sep 2, 2008

quote:

Following the Skull Army's defeat, the Okotans are able to return to the City of the Mask Makers for the first time in millennia. The Toa, bestowed with new armor and weapons by Ekimu, begin a new task of finding the Elemental Creatures: ancient beings who incarnate the life force of the elements and know the locations of the Toa's golden Masks of Unity, as well as Makuta's Mask of Control. Finding one in each region, the Toa befriend the creatures, who lead them to their unity mask temples. Donning the masks, the creatures mount and 'unite' with the Toa and share the location of Makuta's mask with them. Meanwhile, Umarak, a hunter born from the shadows, is employed by Makuta to find his lost mask. Aided by his Shadow Trap creatures, he follows the Toa and the Elemental Creatures to the Labyrinth of Control, the secret off-shore location of the Mask of Control. Inside, the heroes dodge the maze's booby traps and enter the mask's chamber, uniting with their creatures to do so. However, Pohatu's stubbornness to unite with Ketar, the Creature of Stone, allows Umarak to ambush him and enter himself. Fleeing with Makuta's mask, the hunter gives Pohatu the ultimatum of claiming it or saving Ketar, to which he chooses the latter. Umarak later confronts Makuta and defies the claim that he was ever his servant by wearing his mask, but Makuta takes control and transforms him into a horrific beast. Now the Mask Hoarder's minion, "Umarak the Destroyer" raises an army of Elemental Beasts created out of his Shadow Traps to attack the Mask Maker City as a distraction for the Toa, while he seeks out the lost pieces of the Mask of Ultimate Power. Realizing their enemies' true intent, the Toa and an upgraded Ekimu pursue the Destroyer to the Black Crater in the region of Stone, where he recreates Makuta's forbidden mask in order to open a portal to the Shadow Realm (Makuta's prison after his battle with Ekimu). But when Gali attempts to retrieve the mask pieces, her spirit is pulled through. In the realm, she discovers the Toa's true destiny, and just as Umarak is consumed by the portal, she returns to relay the information and unite the Toa into banishing Makuta for good. With their destiny fulfilled and power expended, the heroes return to their stars to overlook a safe Okoto, with the intent of returning should danger ever arise again.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


it's where the trump tape is hidden

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

akadajet posted:

it's where the trump tape is hidden
i thought that was here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Pot_Island

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Urine_Themed_Islands

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