A random thread of absolute randomness...

[kejedo]

NONE of the Beatles could read music.

 

[Mike047]

Yes, George Martin was their musical translator

[kejedo]

Mickey  Mouse was originally called Mortimer, but I thought the early cartoon was called Steamboat Willie. 

 

[kejedo]

Coffee can make people sleepy. Yawn.

 

[kejedo]

John Hanson was first president of the US under the Articles of confederation; John Adams was first pres to live in the White House.

 

[kejedo]

First Friday of May is NoPants Day.

 

[kejedo]

Pringles may have been new fangled, but their shape has a scientific name – hyperbolic paraboloids – which can be expressed as the equation z=Ax2+By2.

 

[kejedo]

Keep seeing ads on tv for chex cereal. Years ago when I was first quitting holiday observations, my (now late) husband brought 

[kejedo]

Just now, kejedo said:

Keep seeing ads on tv for chex cereal. Years ago when I was first quitting holiday observations, my (now late) husband brought 

home a gift for our family - it was a paper cup of chex cereal with a bow on it. Also got a similar paper cup with bow from my (former) sister in law, with four small cookies in the paper cup and covered with aluminum foil and again a stick on bow. I really don't miss those holidays at all.

 

[kejedo]

Jules hotel and lab, Key West: Guests dive 21 ft. to reach a 2-bedroom suite offering views of sea life, a stocked fridge & more. I, personally tended bar at Gateway, last pub before the Keys.

 

[kejedo]

In the Ancient Olympics, athletes competed naked. It symbolized purity and closeness to the gods. “Gymnastics” comes from Greek gumnós (naked).High school and college male swim teams had to swim naked until the 1970s when it became illegal. Many schools continued with bare swimming, even after it was banned.

[kejedo]

Is it Taiwan, Formosa, or Taipei: an island or archipelago, Chinese or Japanese?

Fascinating piece  of  land whose history continues to be written .

[dljbsp]

A surprising fact: the U.S. Department of Energy is actually the agency responsible for America’s nuclear weapons. Not the Defense Department. The reason goes back to the Manhattan Project. When the war ended, Congress decided that nuclear weapons were too dangerous to be handled solely by the military, so they placed all design, research, and stewardship under what became the Department of Energy. That’s why DOE still runs the national labs, oversees the stockpile, and even maintains public pages explaining how nuclear bombs work, how they’re secured, and how they’re dismantled.

[dljbsp]

Most people assume Inuit cultures have the most words for snow, but Scotland quietly holds the crown with more than 421 distinct snow terms recorded in the Scots Thesaurus. These words don’t just describe snowfall — they capture the personality of it. There’s snaw-pouther for fine, powdery snow that drifts in the wind, feefle for swirling flakes, flindrikin for a light, teasing shower, and snaw-breek for a sudden burst that stops just as fast. The sheer variety shows how deeply snow shaped Scottish life, language, and humor. Instead of treating snow as one single thing, Scots treated it like a whole vocabulary of moods — each with a name sharp enough to make you feel the weather as you say it.

[Friends just call me Ross]

I have just 2 words for snow: "Go Away!"  🤣😂🤣

[kejedo]

9 hours ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

I have just 2 words for snow: "Go Away!"  🤣😂🤣

Me too. Afraid to go outside and face first big snowstorm.

[kejedo]

Woodpeckers peck on trees for the innards like bugs and fruit, are somewhat endangered, and some places have none; they also drum on other things like poles.  Woody woodpecker has been around since 1941 by Walter Lantz (not Disney.)

 

[kejedo]

3 minutes ago, kejedo said:

Woodpeckers peck on trees for the innards like bugs and fruit, are somewhat endangered, and some places have none; they also drum on other things like poles.  Woody woodpecker has been around since 1941 by Walter Lantz (not Disney.)

 

Woodpeckers drill large round holes, sapsuckers drill rows of small holes.

 

[dljbsp]

27 minutes ago, kejedo said:

Woodpeckers peck on trees for the innards like bugs and fruit, are somewhat endangered, and some places have none; they also drum on other things like poles.  Woody woodpecker has been around since 1941 by Walter Lantz

‐ “Some places have none”: Geographic absence is true for some habitats (e.g., treeless regions).

“They also drum on other things like poles”: True. Woodpeckers drum on resonant surfaces (trees, utility poles, metal surfaces) as a territorial or mating display.

I could not find any references of a tree that grows its fruit on the inside . . . And nothing about Woodpecker pecking on trees for fruit.

Only Acorn Woodpeckers peck holes in trees specifically to store nuts. Other woodpecker species do not use trees as granaries — they drill mainly for insects, larvae, or sap.

[kejedo]

https://www.boothbayregister.com/article/fruit-loving-woodpeckers/20046 observation of woodpecker eating fruit includes glimpse of one bird putting fruit into a tree hole for pecking and nourishment.