A "Well, bugger me!" thread

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Stuff what I learned today-

The tadpoles of the South American Paradoxical Frog are three times larger than the adult frogs.

In the "Little Ice Age" of the 16th century, polar ice spread so far south that Eskimos reached Scotland.

The Inuit launguage has only three vowels and no adjectives. If you want to count in Inuit, once you get past 12 you have to switch to Danish.

The Welsh language has no word for "brown". Until fairly recently, it had no word for "blue" either.

The Andaman Islanders still cannot make fire. They save it for centuries after lightning strikes.

The penis of the Nine-banded armadillo is two-thirds the length of its entire body.

[Krill]

Where did you learn all that?

[LordShiva]

Andaman Islanders

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4144405.stm

[Zkribbler]

Re: A "Well, bugger me!" thread

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Stuff what I learned today-

The tadpoles of the South American Paradoxical Frog are three times larger than the adult frogs.

In the "Little Ice Age" of the 16th century, polar ice spread so far south that Eskimos reached Scotland.

The Inuit launguage has only three vowels and no adjectives. If you want to count in Inuit, once you get past 12 you have to switch to Danish.

The Welsh language has no word for "brown". Until fairly recently, it had no word for "blue" either.

The Andaman Islanders still cannot make fire. They save it for centuries after lightning strikes.

The penis of the Nine-banded armadillo is two-thirds the length of its entire body.

Zounds! I appear to be a nine-banded armadillo!

[LordShiva]

You're only 3 inches tall?

[Cort Haus]

Re: A "Well, bugger me!" thread

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
The tadpoles of the South American Paradoxical Frog are three times larger than the adult frogs.

Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka is better though.

[LordShiva]

qft

[Lancer]

"The Andaman Islanders still cannot make fire. They save it for centuries after lightning strikes."

Drop them off a box of bic lighters just to screw with the prime directive.

[rah]

Does lighning strike there only once every couple of centuries?

[LordShiva]

no

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by LordShiva
You're only 3 inches tall?

[Tiamat]

The penis of the Nine-banded armadillo is two-thirds the length of its entire body.

Well that's just ...um.. well

[Alinestra Covelia]

Granted, this probably has more to do with the fact that the female probably has a lot of armor plating to get through.

I read a good article in a magazine on the plane today about beetles and whether horn size correlated with penis size. Apparently it does, but inversely. IE if they fight more, they need bigger horns but don't need to worry about wedding tackle size.

[DRoseDARs]

Heh, battering ram.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
I read a good article in a magazine on the plane today about beetles and whether horn size correlated with penis size. Apparently it does, but inversely. IE if they fight more, they need bigger horns but don't need to worry about wedding tackle size.

Ah. "SUV Syndrome".