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5 Jan 2006, 02:25 AM | #31 | |
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Is there any truth to the story I once heard, that Brazil got its name from the Irish legend of a land "far to the west" called Huy Braseal(sp?)?
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Why do moths come out at night and hang around lights?
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Having recently watched my DVD of Educating Rita, I wonder: Does Michael Caine's lines in the movies he does always include his catchphrase, "Not many people know that"? I think this line was in Batman Begins as well...
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Two questions: The phrase "phone it in"
1) Does this mean "to give a half hearted effort"? 2) Where does this phrase originate from? |
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Why do blatantly obvious things like packets of peanuts or walnuts often say "contains nuts" or (worse) "may contain nuts" on their packaging?
And a bonus: why does it seem that many, many more people have nut allergies these days? When I was a kid (not THAT long ago), I'd never even heard of anyone having problems eating nuts, now you hear horror stories all the time. |
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To add plausibility to this, it's said that only in Western cultures (where young children are allowed nut products) is there widespread incidence of nut allergy. |
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It's also curious that peanuts trigger a "nut allergy" when they are actually a form of pea, and their only connection with nuts is the name. Is this some form of Nominative determinism?
What makes it odder is that you never hear of pea allergies. |
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my only food allergies (not serious) are peas and peanuts - both are legumes. the roasting process in the US has been discussed as a possible reason for the high incidence of peanut allergies.
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As The Storm would know, it's pretty bad if you've got a peanut allergy where I live.
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Why is it that on this Dasani water bottle it says "Non-Carbonated". Show me a water bottle company that makes carbonated water O_O.
I also wonder - why does said water bottle have nutrition facts? Not only that, but the number of servings is 2, and there's 0 grams of everything there. Why would you number the servings to 2 in a water bottle? That's like slicing a nut in half and then giving someone both halves of the nut. Why do it? It's like they exceeded federal regulations. |
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