Originally Posted By DAR The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, an obscure term for the lung disease called Silicosis. The second longest word in the dictionary is pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, an inherited disorder of some sort. The longest English non-medical term, and third-longest word in the English language, is floccinaucinihilipilification, which is the act of considering something worthless. Antidisestablishmentarianism is the fourth-longest word in the English language. It refers to a political position. TNT is a type of dynamite. African countries are prone to erupting into fights. The parotoid gland is an external skin gland on the back, neck, and shoulder of toads and some salamanders. It secretes an alkaloid milky substance to deter predators. The substance produced acts as a neurotoxin. Bats are mammals.
Originally Posted By alexbook A study of census records found that babies have been named after every U.S. state except Massachusetts.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order. Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist. "Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Originally Posted By Ursula Race car is the same thing spelled backwards. APT ISDN systems are the best kind to bridge with a Dolby Fax...unless both facilities have Dolby fax, then you don't need a bridge. Standard union rules state that on a Saturday (or 6th day) double-rate in effect is used to calculate the rates after 12-hours have elapsed from the call time. For Sundays (or 7th days) it is the same. The rate for Saturdays (6th) is time and a half, so in essence, double-rate in effect is triple time. For Sundays (7th) double-rate in effect is quad time, since you are doubling doulbe-time. Meal penalty take effect after six hours have elapsed from the crew's call-time without a meal-time period being called. The minimium amount of time for a meal-break is one-half-hour. Meal penatly is billed per half-hour per crew member. Call times can be cancelled as long as it is 8-hours before the call time. Cancelling after this 8-hour window will cause full charges to be billed.
Originally Posted By Ursula Short calls can be used for ADR and Scoring staff only. Short calls are billed at four hours to the client, crew members get six hours of pay, and any second used after the crew is clocked in for four hours is billed at time and a half. Short calls can be used on the weekend. However, the rates are per 6th and 7th days as applicable.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight It's impossible to lick your own ear. But not someone elses. However they can in turn go back and lick your ear for you. No huh? I missed the whole thought behind this thread didn't I?
Originally Posted By Ursula ^ No, that's correct, you can't lick your own ear. The human brain weighs, on average, 3 pounds. A woman's brain is, on average, 7 oz. lighter than a man's brain due to men having larger heads. On average, of course.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2" x 3-1/2"
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. No piece of paper can be folded in half consecutively more than 7 times .
Originally Posted By friendofdd There are as many chickens on this planet as humans. Do you have yours?
Originally Posted By alexbook There are estimated to be between 200 and 2,000 native Esperanto speakers in the world. The most famous of them is George Soros.
Originally Posted By markymouse The only more or less common English language word without a vowel is nth, as in "to the nth degree".
Originally Posted By alexbook Hachette Book Group USA is a distributor for Little, Brown and Company, Grand Central Publishing, Filipacchi Publishing, Time Inc. Home Entertainment, Microsoft Learning, Chronicle Books, Harry N. Abrams, Phaidon Press, InnovativeKids®, Weinstein Books, MQ Publications, and DC Comics.
Originally Posted By markymouse DC Comics was named for its most popular early title, Detective Comics. When Oregon became a state, a name was needed for the area to its north. Columbia was proposed, as a patriotic reference and as a reference to the main river in the area. However, there was concern that Columbia would be confused with our nation's capital, the District of Columbia. So the name of Washington was chosen. Yes, that's right, the state of Washington was named to AVOID confusion with the name of our nation's capital.
Originally Posted By BeautysBeast Michael myers in Halloween was played by the brother of Joanie from happy days during the scene when the mask is pulled off.There were 2 other actors/stuntmen portraying michael throughout the film
Originally Posted By alexbook Victor Hugo's novel, "Notre-Dame de Paris," was retitled "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" when it was translated into English.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Ice gets chewing gum out of little girls' hair. "Go hang a salami, I am a lasagna hog" is one of the longest pallandromes in the English language. English was the first language worldwide to have more people speak it as a second language than as their native tongue (I don't know if there is another yet). Oil and water don't mix.
