Thursday, December 4, 2008

Tales from the Drunk Side: Knowledge

Behold! My giganormous brain!

I know everything!

You know what they put in tracer rounds?

Fucking magnesium. So it would have an orange flame.

Why? So gunners can see where their shots went.

Most shampoos in Malaysia have formaldehyde - embalming fluid. That's why your hair looks like a corpse's.

The weight of the earth is 1 trillion metric tons. Or tonnes. Whatever the fuck.

Animation has a speed of 24 or 26 frames per second. Which is the limit in which the human eye can see still images.

That's why if you show a movie to a dog, it might not get it.

And some pricey animations have more frames per second. To make the movement smoother.

The technique of making 3D animation look like 2D is called cell-shading.

The whiskey's original name comes from the Gaelic uisge-beatha which means 'water of life'.

Sherry came from Spain, in casks branded as Jerez. The English privateers who used to rob the fucking thing called it 'Jerries'.

In Portugal, it is called Xerez.

Sherry, usually used in cooking, is considered a prostitutes' drink or alcoholic housewives.

In the past, ampethamines or speed, were prescribed to housewives, students, lorry drivers and anyone else. It was also used as a 'diet pill'.

Shakespeare rarely signed his name as Shakespeare. Usually, it's Shaxberd or some other stupid variation.

He used to idolize Kit Marlowe, who wrote Faust.

Man, I am so cool.