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RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - FlyingMongoose - 09-10-2015
Guys... it's happening it's being developed by Niantic (guys behind Ingress, you know, the most popular mobile ARG in the world).
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Didzo - 09-14-2015
![[Image: uK9cfM0.gif]](http://i.imgur.com/uK9cfM0.gif)
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - CaffeinePowered - 09-15-2015
Post for the gyarados on the cosplay facebook page I set up finally starting to take off, 578 page likes and counting
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - CaffeinePowered - 10-19-2015
Finally finished Breaking Bad last night, very good series that I took too long to get around to.
Moral of the story is, if you don't have universal healthcare, highschool teachers become meth kingpins
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - FlyingMongoose - 10-19-2015
(10-19-2015, 11:32 AM)CaffeinePowered Wrote: Finally finished Breaking Bad last night, very good series that I took too long to get around to.
Moral of the story is, if you don't have universal healthcare, highschool teachers become meth kingpins
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Surf314 - 10-24-2015
I'm doing a Halloween trivia on Tuesday. It's almost done but I'd like to do some questions based on scary facts. Like facts that are actually scary to know them. Unsolved mysteries, weird ways to die, etc. PM me if you know any (Xineoph will be at my trivia).
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - matter11 - 10-29-2015
(10-24-2015, 01:30 PM)Surf314 Wrote: I'm doing a Halloween trivia on Tuesday. It's almost done but I'd like to do some questions based on scary facts. Like facts that are actually scary to know them. Unsolved mysteries, weird ways to die, etc. PM me if you know any (Xineoph will be at my trivia).
your PM quota is full
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Surf314 - 10-29-2015
(10-29-2015, 10:18 AM)matter11 Wrote:(10-24-2015, 01:30 PM)Surf314 Wrote: I'm doing a Halloween trivia on Tuesday. It's almost done but I'd like to do some questions based on scary facts. Like facts that are actually scary to know them. Unsolved mysteries, weird ways to die, etc. PM me if you know any (Xineoph will be at my trivia).
your PM quota is full
Yea that is so weird.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Surf314 - 10-29-2015
Here was my trivia if you want to play along at home:
1. Candy – What was the first individually wrapped penny candy in America? [spoiler]Tootsie Rolls[/spoiler]
2. World Culture – Where did the Jack o’ Lantern originate? [spoiler]Ireland[/spoiler]
3. Etymology – What is Samhainophobia (sow-en)? [spoiler]Fear of Halloween[/spoiler]
4. Monsters – What is the name of the mad lawyer who becomes Dracula’s servant? [spoiler]Renfield[/spoiler]
5. Etymology – Which comes from the old English word wicce which means what? [spoiler]Wise Woman[/spoiler]
6. Geography – Transylvania is a region in which country? [spoiler]Romania[/spoiler]
7. World Culture – What is celebrated in Mexico starting at midnight on October 31? [spoiler]Day of the Dead[/spoiler]
8. Movies – How many Halloween movies have been made? [spoiler]10[/spoiler]
9. History – What famous magician died on Halloween? [spoiler]Harry Houdini[/spoiler]
10. Monsters – Similar to witchcraft trials, suspected werewolves were also persecuted. The trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now what country? [spoiler]Switzerland[/spoiler]
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Surf314 - 10-29-2015
11. Wicca - What is generally considered the maximum number of witches a coven should have? [spoiler]13[/spoiler]
12. Movies – The movie Final Destination was originally a spec script for what popular science fiction horror drama television series? [spoiler]X-Files[/spoiler]
13. Monsters – The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head, what continent was it found on? [spoiler]South America[/spoiler]
14. Holidays – What is the day after Halloween called? [spoiler]All Saint’s Day[/spoiler]
15. Costumes – Google’s Frightgeist has rated which comic book character as the most popular costume this year based on web searches? [spoiler]Harley Quinn[/spoiler]
16. Decorations – What vegetable was traditionally carved before the pumpkin? [spoiler]Turnip[/spoiler]
Final Question:
What ethnolinguistic group started Halloween? [spoiler]Celts or Gaels more specifically[/spoiler]
Half time was to identify the scary movie from theme songs.
Edit: double post is because it will only let me do 10 spoilers per post.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - HeK - 10-29-2015
(10-29-2015, 02:57 PM)Surf314 Wrote: Edit: double post is because it will only let me do 10 spoilers per post.
There is no specific setting for this. I'll have to dig deeper later on.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Surf314 - 10-29-2015
(10-29-2015, 05:21 PM)HeK Wrote:(10-29-2015, 02:57 PM)Surf314 Wrote: Edit: double post is because it will only let me do 10 spoilers per post.
There is no specific setting for this. I'll have to dig deeper later on.
If it helps it said they were photos and only 10 photos are allowed per post.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - The Generic Name - 10-30-2015
(10-29-2015, 09:36 PM)Surf314 Wrote:(10-29-2015, 05:21 PM)HeK Wrote:(10-29-2015, 02:57 PM)Surf314 Wrote: Edit: double post is because it will only let me do 10 spoilers per post.
There is no specific setting for this. I'll have to dig deeper later on.
If it helps it said they were photos and only 10 photos are allowed per post.
How are the answers all NOT dongs?
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Dr. Zaius - 10-31-2015
did we got spoopked
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Gasman - 11-07-2015
Ready for a small time waster? It's a website that gives census info about surnames, like surname history and current population density of the surname.
http://forebears.io/surnames
My last name, for instance, only belongs to about 430 people throughout the entire world, and is almost all within the US. The last name where it originated from, however, is almost all currently within Germany, and my mother's maiden last name has a very rich history and is currently almost everywhere throughout the world.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Luinbariel - 11-07-2015
(11-07-2015, 02:10 PM)Gasman Wrote: Ready for a small time waster? It's a website that gives census info about surnames, like surname history and current population density of the surname.
http://forebears.io/surnames
My last name, for instance, only belongs to about 430 people throughout the entire world, and is almost all within the US. The last name where it originated from, however, is almost all currently within Germany, and my mother's maiden last name has a very rich history and is currently almost everywhere throughout the world.
That's pretty sweet, thanks for linking this!
My dad's somewhat into our family history and has been able to go back to the 1600's with records he could get his hands on. Apparently there's a chance we're related to this guy, and some historical society is doing a search for relatives right now. You can send in your family tree to a certain number of generations, and they're using that to track back and find out. He sent it in last week, we'll find out some time in the future, I guess.
Based on what he showed me there actually could be a pretty good chance, would be neat.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Gasman - 11-07-2015
(11-07-2015, 05:08 PM)Luinbariel Wrote:(11-07-2015, 02:10 PM)Gasman Wrote: Ready for a small time waster? It's a website that gives census info about surnames, like surname history and current population density of the surname.
http://forebears.io/surnames
My last name, for instance, only belongs to about 430 people throughout the entire world, and is almost all within the US. The last name where it originated from, however, is almost all currently within Germany, and my mother's maiden last name has a very rich history and is currently almost everywhere throughout the world.
That's pretty sweet, thanks for linking this!
My dad's somewhat into our family history and has been able to go back to the 1600's with records he could get his hands on. Apparently there's a chance we're related to this guy, and some historical society is doing a search for relatives right now. You can send in your family tree to a certain number of generations, and they're using that to track back and find out. He sent it in last week, we'll find out some time in the future, I guess.
Based on what he showed me there actually could be a pretty good chance, would be neat.
That kind of makes me curious if anyone else here is related in some way to somebody famous/important in history.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Luinbariel - 11-07-2015
Go to it, BRB! Dig up your family history!
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - FlyingMongoose - 11-08-2015
My great uncle did, found out my affinity towards tech is nothing new in my family, a long time ago we were blacksmiths (tech at the time), then my great great grandfather and great were the only mechanics in the village (newest tech at the time) they called him "Maestro", then the only house in the village with an electric light (singular)... then my grandfather and great uncle both got electrical engineering degrees as that kind of generalized education was, again, most prevalent tech.
But the more interesting parts involve the fact that my great grandfather was in WWII... not on the good guys side since he didn't have a choice (former austria-hungary, no slovenia) but I also later found out he was part of the resistance and also had plenty of stories that came very close to the possibility of me not existing today (including a bathroom incident that involved a bomb hitting said bathroom).
He was also once given a Harley Davidson by the Nazi's to fix, of course he's in austria-hungary with no imperial measurement tools so he first had to make them with his basically foot drive bench tools meant for making tools. But he fixed it, and rode it once, and said "It was the scariest thing I've ever ridden in my life!"
If you go far enough back you often need to find your records in churches, and apparently my family lived in that village for 600 years. The more recent history is more entertaining because I was lucky enough to have had these discussions with my great grandfather when I was younger. And my great grandmother (who lived to 96 before she passed).
The house that has been in the family (for that long) is still in the family, currently half owned by my grandfather and his brother. Their sister currently lives in it to take care of it. I hope one day to go and visit the family home and perhaps visit other relatives.
That's my dad's side.
Plus my mother has been digging into her side of the family for a very long time. Not as interesting if you ask me, the typical british/irish immigrant story that about everyone knows.
But that definitely is a very cool link.
RE: New/Improved Longest Thread - Dr. Zaius - 11-08-2015
The Neumann's are the 16th most populous last name in Germany, and in the top 2k USA.
My grandfather was born in Germany and came here during the war.
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