Post your Random Trivia

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  1. Deckel

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    We all have some odd assortments of random trivia floating around our heads that may or may not be of interest to other posters that we may or may not otherwise have the opportunity to share with others. I thought it would fun if we had a thread just for those of us who are self-professed Kings and Queens of Random Trivia, so here you go.


    Spew, Baby, Spew.....
     
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    Here is mine:

    Billy Redden, who played the banjo boy in the movie Deliverance, couldn't actually play the banjo. There was someone hiding out of sight of the camera playing it. Last I heard, Mr. Redden worked at Walmart.

    [video=youtube;myhnAZFR1po]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhnAZFR1po[/video]
     
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    The coldest temperature ever recorded in Canada was -63C (-81.4F) in Snag, Yukon in 1947.

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    The oldest nation on Earth is Palestine

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    Next you'll be telling me Mel Gibson didn't really put a smiley face on a target with a pistol at 100 yards. :p
     
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    It was turtledude from off camera with a lever action banjo I think.

    The scene outside the kitchen sink window in Monica's apartment on Friends periodically changed but nobody ever really noticed that when the series was originally airing.
     
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    There are species of beetles that have lock and key sexual organs so that they can only have sex and reproduce with each other. No dilly dallying outside their species.
     
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    The Crab Pulsar which visually lies close to the constellation Orion is the brightest radio source in the universe.
     
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    If it flickers when you look up it is not a star. It is either a planet or a faraway airplane.
     
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    Remember the '90s band Filter?

    [video=youtube;h8MAHQhKe7Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8MAHQhKe7Q[/video]



    Their lead singer, Richard Patrick, is the brother of Robert Patrick. The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2.

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    The G-string is the one most likely to break on a guitar.
     
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    No it's not....

    What do you consider a nation?

    Mesopotamia is older, and well China is certainly way older.

    Of course this subject could be a never ending debate.
     
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    The best way to cut onions is....





    To have someone else do it. ;)
     
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    About that...

    I'm guessing it's because most guitars have the traditional head stock shape for a 6 string with 3 tuners on either side.
    Fenders however (as well as pointy head stocks) where all 6 tuners are on one side of the head stock solve the G string tuning issue that G strings on traditional head stocks are prone to; so I wonder if most guitars being like a Gibson head stock are why the G string is the most broken guitar string?

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    I have no idea why it is TBH since logic would suggest it should be the E
     
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    If you could pilot a spacecraft and fly beyond the event horizon of a black hole, the Schwarzschild metric - the physics equation used for ideal black holes - tells us that space and time reverse roles. So if you hit your thrusters, you will change your position in time and not space.

    If you fell into black hole, you would be spaghettified - squeezed down to a long noodle - and then segmented as the change in gravity over your body length pulled you apart. But for those of us watching, we would see you stop in time at the event horizon. We would see an eternal scream as you are ripped apart, frozen in time. We would see you stuck there forever. But for you it would only last a moment.
     
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    Classical thermodynamics tells that for every person on earth, there is about a 100% chance that with each breath, we inhale one or more molecules exhaled by Julius Caesar, in his dying breath.
     
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    I know the G string is prone to go out of tune on a Gibson (or other three tuners on each side) style head stock because of the position of that string's tuner on that shape head stock puts it at the end making it stretch the furthest and the G string isn't nickle-wound/reinforced like the D string; making the G string tend to lose tuning, on a guitar with the traditional shape head stock.
    It's really nothing though, just need to tune it when it goes out (of tune), it's really no real hassle at all.
     
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    I think how many wraps you have on the tuning post matters some which is somewhat related I suppose. but I have also discussed it with people who said sanding the saddle helped stop it. I guess a lot just depends on where yours is breaking.
     
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    i use swim goggles.
     
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    About that...

    I don't restring my guitars anymore, because, let's face it, I've become a bit of a ... show off, I like to have my guitars set up and I get my strings changed then - it's £30.00 per guitar most places (or about £80.00 if it's a Floyd Rose lock in nut floating tremolo deal) and they clean all the gunk that harms your frets off the fret board and polish your guitar and do the action and everything... But when I used to myself, I took the old adage
    'time is money'...
    It means... When you're on the clock, and on the clock in music can be expensive, when recording... (So that's how this style came about); it's easier too; I put in a lot of the string into the peg, give it a few rotations, tune up; and you're good to go. - Your guitar might look like it needs to have a 'hair cut' (and I do, I do wire cut the ends off) but if 'time is money' and you pop/break a string; take the old one off put in a new one, a couple of turns, you're in, you're good to go/boom.
    You don't even have to cut the ends off the strings, when time is money, you just go. Cutting your guitar strings to make them look neat is easy enough with a set of wire cutters; when I do change my own strings, I use those (I don't live in a music studio and my string changing style is time is money, but I also cut the ends off because it looks neat)..
     
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    During Star Trek, TOS. William Shatner was unable to make the "live long and prosper" sign with his hands. Anytime he is seen doing that on screen he is actually holding up a plastic hand.
     

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