Random Facts

[Big Babooba]

Duke Ellington Take the A Train-in Color

I used to play at a bar in Inwood, Manhattan, called The Last Stop. It was right outside the last stop of the "A" train, at 207th st. One of the many machines, that if it still existed, would have my high score still in place.

 

[Big Babooba]

WATER FACTS........

Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.

At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.

A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.

Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.

Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of intense athletic performance.

While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form.

Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.

Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.

Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.

Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.

Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.

Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.

The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today.

The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.

Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.

The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.

The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.

The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.

Approximately 85 percent of U.S. residents receive their water from public water facilities. The remaining 15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources.

By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.

The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.

Boston's water supply comes from the Quabbin Reservoir. I have been known to contribute my fair share to fight Boston's thirst. As a matter of fact, I have had a few too many tonight and am heading to the Quabbin. I will not allow Boston to run dry.

 

[Big Babooba]

Kittens can type - at least Smokey can.

 

[stevetheupsguy]

Boston's water supply comes from the Quabbin Reservoir. I have been known to contribute my fair share to fight Boston's thirst. As a matter of fact, I have had a few too many tonight and am heading to the Quabbin. I will not allow Boston to run dry.

Remind me to bring bottle water, the next time I visit Boston.

 

[fethrs]

My mom lived in Tj for 12 years and I used to spend my summers there. When I was 18 it was just one long party. I think I hit all of the liquour stores, at least once, from my mom's house to downtown TJ/Revolution Ave (about 12 miles) What a summer!

 

[over9five]

Boston's water supply comes from the Quabbin Reservoir. I have been known to contribute my fair share to fight Boston's thirst. As a matter of fact, I have had a few too many tonight and am heading to the Quabbin. I will not allow Boston to run dry.

There's really a lot to be said for well water!!! Anyone can throw (leak) anything into a reservoir and someone ends up drinking it.

 

[stevetheupsguy]

There's really a lot to be said for well water!!! Anyone can throw (leak) anything into a reservoir and someone ends up drinking it.

Thank God for reverse osmosis.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Remind me to bring bottle water, the next time I visit Boston.

You may also want to pass on the fish...

I am just kidding about that as Boston has some of the best fish restaurants in the country, among those being the No Name Restaurant

 

[dilligaf]

You may also want to pass on the fish...

And things that smell fishy! LMAO

 

[stevetheupsguy]

You may also want to pass on the fish...

I am just kidding about that as Boston has some of the best fish restaurants in the country, among those being the No Name Restaurant

And things that smell fishy! LMAO

Here's a random fact for ya's.

STUG doesn't eat fish.

 

[fethrs]

Why is that Stug? Just curious.

 

[dilligaf]

Here's a random fact for ya's.

STUG doesn't eat fish.

REALLY!?!?!?!

 

[Big Babooba]

There's really a lot to be said for well water!!! Anyone can throw (leak) anything into a reservoir and someone ends up drinking it.

My father was the milk inspector for our city. One of his tasks was to inspect the milk rooms of any farm that supplied milk to the dairies in our city. He shut off quite a few farms over the years because fecal bacteria (from the cows) showed up in the well water used to wash the milk storage tanks and equipment.

 

[stevetheupsguy]

Why is that Stug? Just curious.

Just never quite got into the taste.

REALLY!?!?!?!

Really, truly!

My father was the milk inspector for our city. One of his tasks was to inspect the milk rooms of any farm that supplied milk to the dairies in our city. He shut off quite a few farms over the years because fecal bacteria (from the cows) showed up in the well water used to wash the milk storage tanks and equipment.

Would you like some cream with that coffee?

Here's another factoid for ya's.

STUG doesn't drink coffee.

 

[fethrs]

STUG doesn't drink coffee.[/QUOTE]


ok I'll bite...why no coffee? These are the kind of factoids I like to read, little tidbits about ourselves that people do'nt know..I can't sleep with the tv on and I usually have at least one cat with me.

 

[stevetheupsguy]

STUG doesn't drink coffee.


ok I'll bite...why no coffee? These are the kind of factoids I like to read, little tidbits about ourselves that people do'nt know..I can't sleep with the tv on and I usually have at least one cat with me.

Same as fish, don't like the taste. No cats here, wife's allergic, though she does sleep with a tiger, LOL.

 

[fethrs]

Har har Stug, that was good!

 

[stevetheupsguy]

STUG doesn't drink beer wine or sangria, either. Just don't like em. I should say, anymore, for this one. LOL

 

[dilligaf]

Same as fish, don't like the taste. No cats here, wife's allergic, though she does sleep with a tiger, LOL.

A tiger that doesn't like fish! I feel for your wife!

 

[stevetheupsguy]

A tiger that doesn't like fish! I feel for your wife!

LOL, I guess I should have said, SEAFOOD.

Here's another food fact, LOL.

STUG doesn't eat Ice Cream.