Did you know that...

[Griffin NoName]

mmmmm brainslip = senior moment at any age - good

[Swatopluk]

20.12.2012 is also an option (at least for Europeans)

[Bluenose]

20.12.2012 is also an option (at least for Europeans)

...and Orstralyans. 

[Bruder Cuzzen]

I can't fall asleep again.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Well, the world's bound to end for somebody on 12.12.12*.... wait.  That was yesterday, and we're still here...  Oh well.  Carry on!



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<sub>* Why?  Because the Creator of Everything just loves Big Round Numbers.  Right?  I mean, the creator of the whole universe has to love Big Round Numbers, right?  Right?  No?  Oh well...

( with apologies to Scott Adams, for stealing his joke...)</sub>

[Griffin NoName]

12/12/12 was the world ended for Ravi Shankar. Already the info pages for him say "was" instead of "is" - google.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

12/12/12 was the world ended for Ravi Shankar. Already the info pages for him say "was" instead of "is" - google.

And yet?  The rest of us (life) goes on, stumbling through the coming abyss as best as we are able.

For is not the future an abyss--one we cannot pierce, apart from stepping forward one tiny increment at a time?



Or as Star Trek quipped:  The Undiscovered Country.

[Griffin NoName]

12/12/12 was the world ended for Ravi Shankar. Already the info pages for him say "was" instead of "is" - google.

And yet?  The rest of us (life) goes on, stumbling through the coming abyss as best as we are able.

But does that count, if he can't witness that it does?

Maybe our sole purpose is to hear trees fall?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Could be-- your typical tree having a much longer viewpoint than your average human.   

[Aggie]

Ayuh, maybe they are here to see humans fall.

S'why, when they die, they become tripping hazards.

[Darlica]

Did you know that the Muskox isn't an ox or cow at all?

It is a goat! albeit it has it's own sub family with in the Caprinae, Ovibos (Latin: "sheep-ox").


I had no idea and I pride myself, with having a rather good knowledge about our wildlife.

[Swatopluk]

I knew but also had forgotten some of the details.
Similar to the gnu (wildebeast, smoking or not)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Cool!  Nature all to often is contemptuous of our humble efforts to curtail her with fixed categories. 

[Bruder Cuzzen]

I don't recall knowing that and am very likely to forget very soon .

[Swatopluk]

Did you know that on this day 2oo years ago the first edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales was published (and flopped)?