Fun with facts

[Pachyderm]

I try to find out an interesting little titbit of information each day, just to keep the ole noodle oiled, and to store things away. You never know when some useless trivia will win you that pub quiz...

Todays nugget is this:

Cash (Johnny Cash, of I Walk The Line fame) enlisted in the United States Air Force. After basic training at Lackland Air Force Base and technical training at Brooks Air Force Base, both in San Antonio, Texas, Cash was assigned to a U.S. Air Force Security Service unit at Landsberg, Germany. Assigned as a morse code decoder on Russian Army transmissions, Cash was the first American to discover that Josef Stalin had died.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I think Lackland's outside Houston. My buddy is there for her basic right now, and that's what she told me.

[Pachyderm]

It's near Houston, right enough.

I imagine an American and a Scot's definition of "outside" may be slightly different....

We may only be a small country, but we lead the world in deep-frying things. And, possibly not coincidentally, in heart attacks. Who else would batter and deep-fry a Mars bar?

[Aggie]

We battered and deep-fried a pair of shoes once..... 

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Deep-fried coke was the thing at this year's fair. Deep-friend twinkies were last years.
I suppose. I lived outside close to San Antonio for a while, and it wasn't all that Houston. I think Lackland is closer to Houston, though.
I dunno. Ask Chatty.

[Pachyderm]

The official Lackland AF website says San Antonio. That's what I'm going with, so as not to cast doubt on the veracity of the rest of the statement... 

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

You are correct then.

[Sibling Chatty]

Lackland's San Antonio. About 250 miles or so from Houston.

Houston only has Ellington Field, home to the infamous Champagne Squadron of the Texas Air National Guard...

[Aphos]

OK...as an official Air Force vet, I will confirm that Lackland AFB is in San Antonio.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I stand corrected. 

[Swatopluk]

We had the one ton rat already, didn't we?*
(only a slight shift in theme from the Bush)

*yes, I know we had

[anthrobabe]

yep-- deep in the heart of old San Antonio she be

Houston is where astronauts call when they have a problem (recent question on some TV trivia show or something)


two words----- fried pickles
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Pachyderm]

Todays little gem is:

A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.


A friend of mine was at a conference in Glasgow, and a local colleague took him to a dodgy back-street chip shop, which had an item on the menu that beggars belief.

Take a doner kebab. Dip in batter. Deep-fry.

Apparently, there was a health warning on the wall....

[anthrobabe]

Ok so if doner kebab is meat on a stick that is roasted-- from what I understand then
batter dipped deep fried doner would be a

CORN DOG!!!! (sort of) a corn dog is a batter dipped deep fried hot dog on a stick

[The Meromorph]

 
But its kinda both drastically up market (kebab instead of hot dog),
and drastically down market (crispy batter instead of corn bread)!

And Dibbler would charge more for it, 'cos it's named meat (and not fluffy or tiddles neither [unlike the hot dog in the corn dog])