Thread Of The Day

When you are a kid and still learning the basics of life, you can have some strange ideas about the world. The members of the unexplained-mysteries.com forum admit some weird things they used to believe.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=135056

Highlights include the kid who thought picking belly button lint could make the belly come undone and he would fly around the room flapping like a broken balloon. Another poster thought the world was black and white a long time ago.

One woman had a father who would watch football on Sundays. She thought one game lasted the entire day. It wasn’t until she was married, and her new husband wanted to wait until a game was over to go out, that she found out her dad was watching several games throughout the day.

So far this thread is 13 pages long and growing of weird stuff people believed as kids.

I used to think a teenager was a person who was half boy and half girl. I have no idea how I came up with that concept.

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A skydiver at the DropZone.com forum brings up an interesting legal question. He has jumped at a drop zone that has an unfriendly neighbor, aka Neighbor McNasty.

Occasionally, an errant parachutist may land on this man’s property, or even just close by then cross the property line while running out their landing. The neighbor got fed up with this and has erected a menacing fence. One with solid steel poles and topped with barbed wire.

Surely, Neighbor McNasty knows the barbed wire could seriously injure a skydiver. Is he legally liable if that happens, or is it a completely reasonable way to keep out trespassers.

I believe, legally, this property owner has just as much right to use barbed wire as anybody else. It is not his fault if a skydiver lands on it. They are the ones assuming the risk in this risky activity. However, morally, it may be wrong. A solid fence without barbed wire is adequate.

So, I am undecided on this issue. I guess you could say I’m on the fence.

Here is today’s Thread of The Day:

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=3301680;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;guest=50936596

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Question: How long was the Hundred Years’ war fought?

Members of the forum at historum.com have a thread where they ask each other and solve history trivia questions like this.

http://www.historum.com/showthread.php?t=99

Hint; the war between England and France was not 100 years.

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What is a man to do when his wife admits she is in love with a female co-worker and basicaly says she wants to date her?

I don’t know the answer, but the members of the LoveShack.org forum offer their advice to a confused man in this situation.

http://www.loveshack.org/forums/t162423/

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According to BrotherhoodOfBaldPeople.com, there are 1.4 billion bald people in the world. In this thread, a few of them keep a journal of their daily head shaving ritual.

https://www.brotherhoodofbaldpeople.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1311

However, it is not necessary for the forum members to write in a journal. They are so bald, you can see what they are thinking.

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Many people have a hobby of collecting things. Some collect stamps, others prefer Beanie Babies, or Matchbox cars, model trains, baseball cards, or even lunch boxes.

Today, I found CerealBits.com and discovered there is a community of cereal box collectors. In this thread in their forum, a member is advertising his extensive collection is for sale. He wants to get rid of them so he has room to start a new collection.

http://www.cerealbits.com/cereal/forum/showthread.php?t=689

cereal box collection

This photo is not the whole collection. Click the link to the forum to see more.

Although the thread doesn’t mention any prices, apparently this is quite a valuable collection. One member mentioned it could be in a museum, and others are envious and wish they had the money to afford it.

I just have one question for whoever ends up buying it.

Got Milk?

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The fans of the soap opera “Days of Our Lives”, take a poll on what they would rather see more of on the show; characters making love, or characters having sex.

http://boards.sonypictures.com/soaps/showthread.php?t=122145

As of this posting, the vote is 46 to 2 in favor of making love. I am guessing the 2 votes for sex are the only two male members of the forum.

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In the 70′s, the band America made it acceptable to ride “A Horse With No Name”. Today’s bicyclists at bikeforums.net will have no part of that.

In today’s Thread of The Day, they reveal their bikes’ names, except for one stick-in-the-mud who declares he doesn’t name inanimate objects.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=465660

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Google Earth is a fascinating program that gives you an on-demand, bird’s eye view of the world. You can see your own backyard or visit far away places. It is an addictive toy.

The planet looks completely different from the sky than what you see on the ground. Places can look artistically surreal, like a beautiful abstract painting.

I’m not sure exactly what this screen shot is, but it’s a large area in the Oklahoma panhandle.

You can see this and other Google Earth “paintings” in today’s Thread of the Day:

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/26723/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1

It helps to download Google Earth first to get the most out of this forum.

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I always believed that timeshares are a ripoff. Timeshares give you less flexibility and more commitment. It doesn’t seem any cheaper than just booking a room at a resort for a week whenever you want, either through a travel agent or directly.

But, if you are interested in buying a timeshare, go to tugbbs.com first. It is a forum for timeshare owners. The knowledge of the experienced owners is a great help for new or wannabe owners.

In today’s Thread of The Day, the experienced ones give great advice to a newbie who is considering buying a timeshare at a resort called Club Intrawest in Whistler, British Columbia.

http://tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81106

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