7 Factual Facts
- Nicholas Cage stars in precisely nine mediocre movies each year.
- Your favorite beverage tastes better when consumed through a silly straw.
- Banana Peels kill.
- Punxsutawney Phil shall never perish.
- Childhood is incomplete without making at least one home-made volcano. (using vinegar and baking soda)
- Marsupials > Insects
- Nobody can spell onomatopoeia correctly.
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September 10th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Flyingllamafish
Who or what in the world is Punxutawney Phil?
Yes, and I too made a stupid home-made volcano! ( ninth grade science class) I think I got a C- probably not having enough vinegar or baking soda- aka DUD!
Funny, funny entry-This blog actually made me look up the word onomatopoeia-and I am proud to now have this word as part of my vocabulary! - Not really sure when I can actually throw this out there - into a sentence, without someone responding with a totally bewildered and blank stare- but I’m going to give it a shot!.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Hi FlyingLlamaFish,
I have to ask, what do these words mean-onomatopoeia, punxutawney or marsupials? Care to share?
September 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I may not be able to spell the word that means a word that sounds like the thing it’s describing but I sure as heck know who Punxsutawney Phil is. Sheesh, thought he was as famous as Bill Murray. As for Nicolas Cage starring in nine mediocre movies a year, I think you’re been rather generous with the use of the word mediocre
September 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Man, I wish I could go back and have a decent childhood. Pout. I never got to make a volcano.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
The silly straw fact is so true and I, like writer dad, have an incomplete childhood since I never made a volcano. It’s never too late to make one though
September 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Hahahahaha…I love to laugh…Great post! There is no medical name for boogers. That is my factual contribution of the day. =P
September 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
“Nicholas Cage stars in precisely nine mediocre movies each year.” Really? I knew that I didn’t think very highly of him. His name does equal meritocracy in my mind. Now I know why!
September 10th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Maybe my childhood wasn’t complete either - I never made the volcano. But…I have made it with my kids - loads of fun!! And now they can say their childhood is complete!
September 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Patti, Punxutawney Phil is the name of the Groundhog that predicts the weather each Groundhog Day. Onomatopoeia is quite the word.
Barbara: onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like it is describing. For instance, buzz or meow. Punxutawney Phil is the weather predicting groundhog. Marsupials are basically mammals with pouches, such as kangaroos.
Tara: haha, I may have been a tad bit generous with my phrasing.
Writer Dad: If I had a time machine, I would let you cut to the front of the line.
Marelisa: Good point… it is never to late to make things right.
Tabbie: Thank you! That is one wonderful fact.
Vered: I am glad I could set the record straight.
Lance: They say parents want better for their kids than they had for themselves. I can tell you care about your kids.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Do banana peels kill??
I’d never have imagined… how do they manage to commit this outrageous crime?
September 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Hilarious. How about this fact — We shed our skin every year. We are someone else every year. Yeah! that’s the real change.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I never made a homemade volcano as a child. I guess I never was a child.
Also, I can spell onomatopoeia correctly. See, look. I did it without peeking.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
1. Nicholas Cage stars in precisely nine mediocre movies each year.
Yeah, but The Rock made up for them … ahem …
2. Your favorite beverage tastes better when consumed through a silly straw.
I must be in denial about this one — don’t much do straws.
3. Banana Peels kill.
Loved Scott’s take on this!
4. Punxsutawney Phil shall never perish.
I realized at one point that he must be very, very old, but then I realized, DUH …
5. Childhood is incomplete without making at least one home-made volcano. (using vinegar and baking soda)
Never made a volcano, but I still fill pretty complete having grown up on a farm with real natural phenomenon like tornadoes, floods, and ice storms.
6. Marsupials > Insects
OK …
7. Nobody can spell onomatopoeia correctly.
That’s what spell checker is for!
September 12th, 2008 at 8:20 am
I made a volcano when I was young, but not out of vinegar and baking soda, no, that was to weak for my tastes. I needed something with a bit more power, a little more UMPH behind it, so I ground down 4 boxes of strike anywhere match heads, then ran a fuse from the paper-mache volcano….needless to say, it did erupt quite fiercly.
By erupt I mean completely destroyed itself and by fiercly I mean I found pieces of volcano about 100 feet from where it once stood. Apparently I made the hole in the top too small and the pressure couldn’t get out any faster, needless to say it was more of a bomb than a volcano.