Pointless Fact of the day

[Piranha]

Just in case you missed it here was yesterdays fact

May 25 Pointless fact: If our galaxy was the size of a quarter,then we would be the size of an atom and the nearest galaxy would be 100 feet away.

May 26 Fact: Ole Kirk Christiansen always put quality work into his products.Back when they were making wooden toys one of them was a duck.One of his employees at the time only put one coat of paint on them to save some money.When Ole Kirk found out he told the employee to go back and make sure each duck got three coats of paint even if it took him all night. Back then putting quality work into toys was unheard of.That is probably why Lego is one of the best toys available today.

Piranha

[PSPguy]

Im up fo this. >:-) Whats todays fact?

[Stauder]

Can We add our own facts?

If yes then - Douglas adams chose the no. 42 as the maeaning to Life, The universe & everything cause

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It's a pretty number

;-)

[Holodoc]

  Piranha said:

May 24 Pointless fact: In 1934 the word "Lego" was born by man named Ole Kirk Christiansen

His first toys were wooden and in Dutch Lego means "Play Well"

Are you sure about your "facts"?

Lego is celebrating their 75th anniversary in august this year and "Lego" ist the abbreviation to "leg godt" and this is danish!

In dutch it would be "speel goed".

I would be very interested in some facts about Lego every day, but be aware: Most of us are AFOL's and some of us know a lot about Lego. X-D

Facts On!

[CopMike]

Good idea Piranha *y*

  Piranha said:

May 24 Pointless fact: In 1934 the word "Lego" was born by man named Ole Kirk Christiansen

His first toys were wooden and in Dutch Lego means "Play Well"

Piranha

Eh I really don

[Starwars4J]

  copmike said:

And Piranha - I guess that you got your fact from this site and it

[CopMike]

  Starwars4J said:

Hm, your link doesn't seem to work, if it's just a ".com" at the end I can fix that, but was there a part that's more specific that you wanted to link to?

My bad :'-( - fixed *sweet*!

Correct Links On

copmike

[Kikuichimonji]

The word Lego has no actual meaning in dutch. 'Speelgoed' is simply a translation of 'leg godt' (or, in general, toys)

[snefroe]

hm... wait a second people...

"play well" is just a bad translation.

in dutch we refer to "play well" as "speel goed" (2 words) in a broader expression "amuseer je" (have fun; enjoy), but "play well" cannot be translated as "toy". a toy is translated as "speelgoed" (1 word)

so the question is: does "leg godt" refer to "speel goed" or "speelgoed", as far as i recall, it's the first, not the second...

so, vikings, does "leg godt" refer to a noun or is it an activity? |-/

[CopMike]

  snefroe1 said:

so, vikings, does "leg godt" refer to a noun or is it an activity? |-/

Leg = play - verb (activity)

Godt=well/good - adjective (characteristic) :-)

Language On

copmike

[snefroe]

  copmike said:

Leg = play - verb (activity)

Godt=well/good - adjective (characteristic) :-)

Language On

copmike

ok in that case it means "enjoy", "have fun" ----> "amuseer je" *sweet*

[Piranha]

X-D hehe, wow you guys really do know your Lego facts

my apologies for the dutch error, Must have got Denmarks language confused with Hollands

Well at least I got the wooden part right :-P

Piranha

[Norrington]

Wait, are we allowed to post our own meaningless fun-facts? 'Cause I have a few...

[captaintau]

Something I learned this week, a pointless fact. Nothing to do with LEGO, but very current with the new Transformers movie nearly on us and the special edition DVD released this week.

The voice actor for Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen was also the voice of...

Winnie the Pooh's Eeyore!

[zouave]

The Wright Brothers partly designed thier plane off a bridge designed. about biblical events have been made since they first made moving pictures. Ummm...I can't think of any more.

Edited June 8, 2007 by zouave

[Norrington]

Here are some fun facts about Disney's Haunted Mansion attraction!

1) In the ride, the Ghost Host mentions that "We have 999 Happy Haunts here (...)", and the ironwork on the mansions are shaped like people! Guess how many there are? 999, one for each Happy Haunt in the Mansion. Edit: For those of you who care, here is a rendering of the Mansion's ironwork:

2) In the WDW version of the Mansion, the exterior of the building has chess peices hidden in it! Like the chimneys are rooks, etc. The only peice not represented is a knight, which is because it's all ways "knight" in the Mansion. Get it?

3) The singing busts have the visages of the real people who sung the song, "Grim Grinning Ghosts". The lead singer and broken bust in the song is Thurl Ravenscroft, who also was the voice of Tony the Tiger, and sang "Yo-Ho a Pirate's life for me in PotC and did afew voices in the attraction.

3) There are actual ghosts that haunt the mansion. One such ghost is an elderly man with a cane. He haunts to Mansion in WDW, and is the ghost of a pilot who crashed his plane in the1940s around the marshes where the Mansion would be built. In the DL version, there is a child who's ashes were spread by his mother in the attic part of the mansion. He is seen crying near the exit (he probably wanted to be in PotC ;-) ) and there is a man in a tuxedo near the unload point.

Here are some fun facts about Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction!

1) The current Auctioneer animitronic used to be in "Great Moments with Mr.Lincholn", but he was replaced and moved to PotC. Think about, good ol' Honest Abe auctioning off wenches... disturbing thought 8-|

2) The original (1960s) Auctioneer animatronic was a test figure, so many improvements to the figures were tested on him first, making him the most realistic audio animatronic in DL.

3) The Captain of The Wicked Wench is loosley based on Black Beard.

4) PotC (as well as the Haunted Mansion) were planned as walk-through attractions, but this idea was abandoned after *GASP* It's a Small World 8-

Edited June 25, 2007 by Norrington

[Corvus]

Well, if no one knows I like eagles, they will now.

I have a few fun facts about the Harpy Eagle.

1) A harpy eagle swooping down at 20 miles per hour (32 kph) generates approximately 13,500 foot-pounds (18300 Newton-meters) of energy-- that's more than twice the muzzle velocity of a heavy rifle.

2) In addition to this, a Harpy Eagle female can reach 20 pounds and are armed with talons of up to five inches long- That's the same size as a Grizzly Bear's claw.