I always wonder what was really in that bag of Skittles that these Bizarre Freaks consume! -MST-
That is a great trick…now DEPORT the self-confessed Illegal Alien. -MST-
Forgive my honesty, but every time I hear the name Ketanji, I think someone with a colorful feathered skirt and a bone in their nose is about to break out in a wild dance. -MST-
It appears that someone left the gate open at Sesame Street! -MST-
Well…that is the way it worked in the past! I took what seemed to be a short nap, woke up and found out that now somehow these Fruit Loops have been magically rigged into government positions. Someone needs to find that Genie, shove her back into her Wine Bottle and weld the top shut! -MST-
The word TWELVE is worth 12 points in a game of Scrabble.
Originally, snooker only had five colored balls (red, yellow, green, pink and black). The blue and brown balls were added later.
The line a darts player must stand behind to throw is called the oche.
The most productive set of letters in a game of Scrabble is AEINRST. It can be rearranged to play nine different seven-letter words: anestri, antsier, nastier, ratines, retains, retinas, retsina, stainer, and stearin.
There is around a 15% chance that the seven tiles you pick out of the bag at the start of a game of Scrabble will be able to spell a seven-letter word.
Chess has been played for at least 1,500 years. But the alternating black and white board was only introduced in the late 11 th century.
Potentially, the highest-scoring word that can be played in a game of Scrabble is the chemical name oxyphenbutazone. That would mean playing your seven tiles across eight tiles already located on the board, in such a way that you hit all three possible triple-word scoring squares in a row! In the unlikely event that that would indeed happen, oxyphenbutazone would score you 1,778 points.
Explanation: How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find them by analyzing their gravitational effects on matter, light and spacetime. The featured image shows an illustration that combines a simulation of a black hole binary system in its final “death-dance” with an astrophotography image of the Tarantula Nebula in the background. Even though black holes don’t emit light, they distort the path of light rays, acting like a gravitational lens. As a result, the nebula appears extremely distorted, forming Einstein rings and multiple images. Tarantula Nebula lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, 160,000 light-years away. That is more than 1,000 times closer than any of the binary black hole mergers detected so far. We’ll probably never detect a merger so close to home!
President John F. Kennedy’s last words, spoken just before he was shot on November 22, 1963, were “No, you certainly can’t,” according to historical accounts. This was a response to Texas First Lady Nellie Connally, who remarked, “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,” as they drove through the city.
The oldest known chess set dates from 900 CE. It was made in India.
The proper name for the hobby of collecting stamps is philately, while a stamp collector is a philatelist.
Other words for collectors and enthusiasts include an arctophile (a collector of teddy bears), deltiologist (a collector of post cards), phillumenist (a collector of match boxes), tegestologist (a collector of beermats) , and scripophile (a collector of stock and share certificates).
Chess is a compulsory school subject in Armenia.
In the Polish version of Scrabble, Z is worth one point.
There are around 1,000 possible openings to a game of chess.
The character on the front of a Monopoly box is called Milburn Pennybags.
The character you operate on in a game of Operation is called Cavity Sam.
The murder victim in a game of Clue is called Mr. Boddy (but was called Dr. Black in the United Kingdom version, Cluedo.)
I always wonder what was really in that bag of Skittles that these Bizarre Freaks consume!
