Planet Earth is a fine institution. Looks like the imates are running the asylum.
This is a great thread.

R5,
Tuna is the amazing cactus flesh. Atun is tuna fish.
M

OK, for those who know no Mexican geography, we are in the virtual center of the country, in the mountains, and many hundreds of miles from any salt water beach.
Thankfully, way away from the majority of gringo tourists.
M

On this date in 1793, the first public zoo, the Jardin des Plantes, opened in Paris.

Dang! You win, LoveItaly. Your I.F. is much better than mine! :-)

Enjoy!!!

West Virginia would be bigger than Texas if they ironed it out flat and got rid of all the mountains.

Okay, maybe that last one is just a boast and not necessarily factual.

It is 15 hours ahead from Oregon to Japan ... if you want to make a phone call :)

<i>just in case you too have a baby boy or girl who needs to hear from you..((L))</i>

Scarlett
That is useful information. Please try again.

I work in an institution...says so on my ID card ;)

I'm highly allergic to cantaloups and honeydews.

I memorized the entire periodic table in high school because I was too lazy to refer to it constantly in class.

And from the West Coast of the US Italy is 9 hours ahead of our time..6 hours ahead from the East Coast of the US.

Now who said this is &quot;useless information&quot;!

Useless information: Our Solano County voters voted against raising the sales tax about 1/8 of one percent so that our local roads, I-80 and various public transporation options (such as the ferries to SF) could be improved.

I worked my way through college working at Macy's in the Fine China and Crystal department. I can identify many, amy china , crystal and silver patterns at a glance by name and manufacturer... talk about a head FULL of uselless information! :) I do however find personal satisfaction when snobby people have &quot;tacky&quot; pieces displayed!

ahotpoet..forgive me, I got carried away~

useless, useless,..... Pup yodels at horses. ((&amp;))

I had the pleasure of telling Carol Burnett that the men's store I worked in on Maui didn't sell men's purses in 1982. My heart was beating wildly because I used to love her on tv!

A cluster of bananas is called a hand. A banana is called a finger. :^o

A cornish game hen is really a really young chicken of no more than 2lbs. ~:&gt;

Every person has a unique tongue print. :P

We lose an average of 40-100 strands of hair a day. :O

Ah Scarlett
Much better

Ackee and saltfish is the national dish of Jamaica.
Ackees are poisonous if picked before they are ripe.

Jamaica's flag has three colours and each colour represents something :
Gold : sunshine
Black : Hardship
Green : Grass

The meaning of the Jamaican Flag: Though there is hardship, the grass is green and the sun shines!

:)_

There is only one US state capital city whose name incorporates the name of the state in which it is located.

That would be Oklahoma City. :-)

Lothar Matth&auml;us of Germany has the most appearances as a player in Football World Cup Games ever: 25.

The fastest goal in World Cup history was scored by Hakan S&uuml;k&uuml;r of Turkey in a match against South Korea in 2002: 11 seconds into the match.

And one bit of semi-useless information:
ahotpet's sentence of German would have to be
&quot;Mein Plattenspieler ist kaputt.&quot;

Here is some more information I'm itching to share: P_M can yodel :))

Are we ready for Jeopardy now?

HSV
Guten Himmel! I had all I could do to say, it much less spell it. But the line definitely was &quot;Unser&quot; maybe spelled unsere
The next line was &quot;Das ist aber schade&quot;
Later on I expanded my repetoire to include, &quot;Wo ist die Jugendherberge?&quot;